The Unsent Letter

Dear Bambs,

These are the thoughts that cross my mind as you move away to bigger things in life. Like a flock of homesick cranes flying back to their mountain nests, we are all pilgrims on life’s journey. We keep journeying, never arriving. There is always a further bend along the road to negotiate or another road to travel. I guess this uncertainty, is what inspires us when we wake up in the morning.

I read somewhere that there are many goodbyes, we have to say, before we can say our “eternal hello”. All along our journey we have to keep letting go: Of places, people and events. Some doors close, others open. Every transition in life is the closing of one door and the opening of another. But only the ones who are ready to walk through the “opened” door can see the “eternal sunshine”.

I sincerely believe that only few of us are prepared for life’s transitions. We try to cling to what seems an irrevocable part of us. But ultimately we let go, with all the pain going’ into a hiding somewhere in our hearts. Part of us is comfortable with it, but another part resists the inevitable, causing pain.

In an excerpt from the poem “Miles to Go”, Robert Frost says,

The Woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Farewell Dear…..

A Bigger House

Raghu left to UK on Sunday after 2 days of hectic "rolling" around all over the place. Now that he has gone there is a big void at home.

V5 is never the same without Ayhay a.k.a Imaan . Or for that matter even if anyone of the rest are missing. Such is the bond that has developed over the past 18 months. But, I guess somewhere you have to get used to the fact that nothing is permanent but change.

One of the songs by Byrds rings in my head in such a situation.

To everything, turn, turn, turn.
There is a season, turn, turn, turn.
And a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to be born, a time to die.
A time to plant, a time to reap.
A time to kill, a time to heal.
A time to laugh, a time to weep.

Yes, its a season of changing times.....

Being Cyrus

First Punch: Being Cyrus is a offbeat subject and very artistic and may not appeal to the masses.

Those who were fortunate enough to watch Spike Jones' "Being John Malkovich" may find subtle references to the Cyrus movie other than just the movie titles!!

The interesting thing about the movie is how it speaks in subtle meatphors. Several sequences are interconnected at the conclusion to give the audience a "ohh" and "AAHHH" in thier heads. The story uncovers in a very strange way with a few dream sequences interwoven in between. The background music and the story's ambient setting give a haunting feel.

Cyrus(Saif) walks into the Dinshaw household following an Ad to work as an apprentice to Dinshaw Sethna (Naseerudin Shah) in pottery and sculpting. During his stay at the Dinshaws', he develops an intimacy with Katy(Dimple), Dinshaw's wife, who apparently believes that she is married to a loser.

Dinshaw and Farukh(Bomman) are diametrically opposite brothers, who don't feel much for each other. Thier father lives with Farukh in a Parsi locality in Mumbai. While Farokh doesn't treat his father well, Cyrus tries to befriend the old man. This is when the threads in the story begin to connect together and you slowly get a hang of the game in Cyrus' mind.

Being Cyrus is directed by Homi Adjania, and is pretty good for a debut. The movie has some sure elements of Film Noir, and has a lot of quaint mysticism.

The acting of Bomman and the Police Inspector(???) adds a lot of humour(Black) to this much serious movie. Saif is brilliant in portraying Cyrus Mistry, but you might get turned off by a lot of hamming by Dimple.

The movie got a lot of cheer for a couple of dialogues in the theatre. One was when Saif quotes Leo Tolstoy " Every happy family resembles the other, and every unhappy family is unique in its own way" in the background at the dysfunctional family of the Dinshaw's. And the other is "When the game is over, the King and the pawns go into the same box".

The first half of the movie takes you on an enigmatic ride with a major twist setting in the second half. Even though the movie has very strong characters and a conclusion that catches you off guard, I felt the movie falters at the end. Frankly, I came out of the movie "Being Stupid" and hearing a lot of strange voices in my head!!!

Bottomline: It's a movie which won't let you rest in your seat. Being Cyrus is like entering someone's mind (Think Being John Malkovich) and watching his dreams, thoughts, fears and desires. Now you take your own call to watch the movie or not!!!

Brokeback Mountain

I happened to watch a movie called Brokeback Mountain a few days ago..

Spoiler/Warning: Its a high-culture gay cowboy movie...

Wonder why I went 2 watch??....damn the Academy Awards, media hype,harsha-gokul etal....
The first hour of the movie was very dreary..(shorter than the usual screen, fellow watchers more keen on Aus v/s RSA tie, intimate scenes b/n jake n heath didn't help the cause ), but in the end, it turned out to be an excellent movie(read the conversation between jake n heath below).
In an extended opening act that the film later relies on, to deliver the crux of its emotional weight, Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhaal) find work on Brokeback Mountain and meet while shepherding sheep along its photogenic terrain (Rupa kept screaming "wallpapers" all the time). There a romance blossoms and a bond grows between them, though it is forced into the closet once the summer ends and their independent lives shuffle forward (guys made an animated huge sigh of relief in the hall!!).
Marriage and family soil the purity of their relationship although the pull each feels towards the other doesn't dwindle as the years roll by. .. . and ends in a rather anti-climax sorts.....
The last 40 minutes of the movie was worth all the pain of the initial 90 minutes.
There were 2 kinda of audiences that came out of the movie hall.
One group, had the satisfaction of watchin' a good old fashioned love story...(of any 2 ppl!!!) and the other wonderin' "How God..How??", summed up by 2 guy frnds tellin' each other that they have watched their last movie together...:)
As for me Iam a part of both the groups!!!!
This scene alone is worth the admission price...
Ennis Del Mar: I’m gonna tell you this one time, Jack fuckin’ Twist, an’ I ain’t foolin’. What I don’t know - all them things I don’t know - could get you killed if I come to know them. I mean it.Jack Twist: Yeah well try this one, and I’ll say it just once!Ennis Del Mar: Go ahead!Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s built on that! That’s all we got, boy, fuckin’ all. So I hope you know that, even if you don’t never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you’ll kill me for needing somethin’ I don’t hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I’m not you… I can’t make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don’t you? Why don’t you just let me be? It’s because of you that I’m like this! I ain’t got nothing… I ain’t nowhere… Get the fuck off me! I can’t stand being like this no more, Jack.
Jack Twist: God, I wish I knew how to quit you!Ennis Del Mar: Well, why don’t you?

Bottomline: Its not exactly a "cinema" sorta movie....but definitely watchable once...

Ay - Hoi!!!

Trying to post a comment to Viky's blog and a little time off from work has brought me to the world of Blogs, the BLOGOSPHERE.

I feel blog offers you a descent outage to pour out the angst, cheer, disappointments and most of all gives you a chance to try your hand in writing!!!

So, Here I Go........