sai prasad: Random thoughts on a boring day

sai prasad: Random thoughts on a boring day: A dull afternoon with not much enthusiasm in life . one of those times where everything is both ok and not ok. Age catches up and social st...

Random thoughts on a boring day

A dull afternoon with not much enthusiasm in life . one of those times where everything is both ok and not ok. Age catches up and social status also is a stumbling block  to unleash and be adventerous. No complaints, no problems and no worries. But a very boring, nonproductive mood. This is dangerous and can become a habit , leading to inner chaos.  

What are the words that comes to the mind now and lets see how much vocabulary can be connected to this state of mind and how much sense any of this makes. 

Humility, detachment, vacuum, indolence, helplessness, waiting , proving , questioning, wanting , preview, movie , music , Svs, grusha , monu, tinku, sindhu, preetam, story, infidelity, women, love, unconditional, insecurity , victimized, patterns , Sujatha potay, Paunch , walking ....

The world comes to my mind and all in randomness .  No point and no productivity .. a dull boring day ..  Have no choice but to beat it ..  Get enthu anyways and rock   .. This is to me and not a gyan 

SHAMITABH.. BALKI'S NOT A PIDILI THOUGHT

  

Movies as we all know are of several kinds. Some we like, but they flop at box office. Few we detest but they are called hits. Some work for television, some work in the theaters. Some are ever lasting; many are good in that year. Preferences, tastes, opinions, likes, dislikes, all of these vary and good that, there is so much diversity. No mention here about, general bad and general good, or art versus commercial.

Few movies you want to call friends and tell them don’t miss and few others you want to write reviews and appreciate or express feelings. But just a handful, you really don’t know what to say and write. But they are marvels but of a niche kind and surely not restricted to movie format.  One such movie is SHAMITABH.. I cannot stop wondering at the very thought and idea of the movie. Let me borrow social medium’s favorite phrase OMG....

Here are few points that set me thinking about the movie.... They are right, they are wrong, they are absurd, they are intellectual, and they are funny and may be they are ridiculous. Nonetheless, they are my thoughts..

1)    Balki must have been the most observant, crazy and ardent admirer of Mr Bacchan and especially his voice and modulation among all things. He must have also wondered at the acting skills and sheer presence of Dhanush at the silver screen.  How can any man, whose voice is weak (not standard, bold, unmanly voice) and with not a great height, or impressive physical attributes, or appealing personality, make an impression in the audience.

2)    What happens if the best in some one, say voice and best in someone else, say the confidence and age,  is able to be combined and merged? And with a fictional and futuristic idea, using a rare technological breakthrough?

3)    How does one understand death? Why not lighten the same when its inevitable and make it less painful with just enough philosophising as to be useful for dialogues and not be melodramatic? Contemporise the expression of pain......

4)    What else than the place and field where basic human qualities are put to highest test like greed, jealousy, ego and what not? Like a movie field....

5)    Why not combine all of that to give an inside thought on meaning of life and deal with helplessness, and all compulsions of life processes..

Oops, these and many more subtle aspects are dealt in this movie.  Not rigmarole, not preaching, no messages, but lighter vein, light hearted, comical, yet hits you hard...

Talking about Amitabh is like explaining the meaning of life. Dhanush is another gift of India in entertainment space. Balki can think like fans like me in a more profound manner and also give it a concrete shape called movie is highly appreciable. Ilayaraja music to this movie is like a river sound for a meditation. Akshara makes an impact and she has arrived, and one has to see if she fits in the regular formula movie like her sister.

If you are doing several things in life constantly without being prudent and correct, then watch this movie. AB fans cannot miss. Movie buffs don’t even think. i felt the length could be 20 minutes shorter. Thought of the movie is not PIDDLI SI BAATEIN 

PK .... WATCH ON PRIORITY

This is written not as a review of the movie but scribbling only to plead people to watch this on priority. Suspend all doubts and have the experience of 3 hours of life time. If cinema ought to be giving a rare artistic joy and take us into the world as different from what we live (even in realistic, art, parallel movies) , then PK has surpassed all of these and takes us into the world of subliminal , conscious joy and what not . Pk movie , is subtle , profound, easy, poignant and very intense but not hard hitting. It did bring lots of tears in last 15 minutes for touching on most intense points of human emotions and breaking the stereotypes.

The movie brings the genuine expression of every word expressed in the most positive manner and also laces the negative thoughts  with a renewed perception. I do not think, anyone can even vaguely comment on any of the craft of this film making. They are perfect and impeccable. Performances are most brilliant and Raj kumar Hirani and entire team needs to be saluted with a great sense of gratitude for giving us such a marvelous piece of work which gives us the joy and makes us think to live positive and happy. This has been the trademark of  all Hirani movies .

Most stereotypes are questioned with a deep rooted conviction by film maker and not even a single frame sounds  like a message orientation. Without such careful handling of script and screenplay, there was always a danger to become a comedy movie, though there is enough humour to bring joyous tears.

A profound thought, an in-depth criticism of prevailing and rooted fallacies , a deep philosophy, cutest love story narrated in the best cinematic manner, most entertainment way, can only happen to best cinema made by best craftsmen in the country .

Do not miss for any reason and watch for thousand reasons and hundreds of times. What can we say about aamir khan, anushka, Saurab, pareekshit, shontanu, and all people who helped a hand for this master piece.

Highest marks goes to the idea , conceptualization and narration which are the strong points of all Raj kumar hirani movies . A text book for all film buffs and film makers ..  I am very glad i watched this by switching off the mobile . Watch with the complete family and friends and children for sure. 

THE SOUL STIRRING EXPERIENCE .. NAA BANGARU THALLI

The movie which can inspire, motivate, stir the soul, make you think deeper into the self , give highest moving experience, has great cinematic values and leaves a mark for ever in life, then you have to know the story of that and also why you should watch the same.

If you are requested to watch on a Sunday afternoon,  a message oriented movie which won national awards but not released yet in the theaters , you would only do so,  for the respect to the person who called .  I felt i was doing a bit of sacrifice of hard earned Sunday to Amala ma’am when she invited me to the movie Naa bangaru thalli in Prasad labs, since i have immense respect for the sacrifice she was making too despite being very very busy, i agreed and watched the movie naa bangaru thalli .

Once we surrendered the time, the next thing was to watch it without bias and be conscious of the efforts made by the film makers as its no mean achievement to mortgage the life earned property and make this film which primafacie will never be commercially viable. One would assume like i did that, it was an experimental movie with a good intension and to show to intellectual audiences, film festivals , and to the affected target group of the issue/ problem.. 

All of these ideas in me just vanished and within few minutes of the movie,  i was sucked into the cinematic experience and got totally submerged into the movie.. It was the background score, camera work and anjali patil for the first 5 minutes who did all the magic and i was getting conscious of their individual contributions initially . Later nothing of such independent brilliance was coming to my mind and the entire movie per se was absorbing .

Rajesh touchriver narrative style was very sharp, focused, and he built the liking and vulnerability of the audience for the protagonist played by anjali patil. He then unleashed the terror of sex trafficking in the new dimension. It breaks the intricate emotions like trust, hope and family and throws us into the quagmire of terror surrounding  all of us, of which either, we are unaware of  or we just pretend that nothing of such kinds exist around us as we are caught in our own worlds.

Watching any movie has to stir our sensibilities and make us do the soul searching if it is not entertaining us in any manner at least .  Movie as the medium for all its inherent strength has to engage us deeply to make us realize or remind something of us... We may choose to feebly call it inspiring or motivating. But this movie naa bangaru thalli is more than that. I for one felt guilty that i did not do anything in life to even understand the issue of sex trafficking in the proper light , leave alone not contributing anything .

Siddiqui, anjali are the stars of the movie and the last scene is the most difficult scene which is unimaginably  very well done.  Here Anjali has demonstated milllion expressions in 2 minutes to depict the complexity of the situation and the mind.  Most feelings cannot have only few expressions in life as the reaction time to events can be varied and complex too. Hats off to rajesh and anjali. I will see that scene a million times. The climax song brought out the child in me and i sobbed for long after a very long time. Not many Telugu movies in the last many years have had this effect on me.

What can anyone say about shreya ghosal song.. it was like the sixer of the last ball in the world cup. The song will spin off your soul.   Shantanu moitra, sharreth, and garlapati venkata raghu deserve a big salute for this song too.  An overall fabulous experience of watching the movie and true testimony is that, i am talking about this to everyone i meet. It leaves an ever lasting impression on my mind and soul. I watched it second time in 6 days and the effect is the same.

Truly wonderfully bend and take a bow for Sunitha krishnan for the most wonderful thankless and relentless work being done by her and prajwala in last 30 years in rescuing children and women from sex trafficking . watch this movie if you are a movie buff and watch this movie if you care for humans and if you belong to both the categories then celebrate the festival (  in telugu for fun its called pandaga chesuko)

The movie will hit the screens in October or November. Watch out and do not forget to listen to the song Kanupapa nai sung by shreya ghosal and available on the you tube.  Please please watch ted talks by sunitha krishnan on the you tube .  Be inspired and thank the lady and salute the short lady with the longest agenda of fighting against the slavery of the new kind and worst kind .

NO BODY WANTS TO HURT ANYONE

                      Read this only if you can complete this....

                          ( no body wants to hurt anyone )

                           

 

I am not sure if a stranger can hurt us .. Strangers can inconvenience us or at worst will trouble or not help us out if required . But only the known and the loved ones can hurt us. Isn’t this a very big contradiction that loved ones can hurt us  ? Actually no one hurts us without our own permission.. so says , sister shivani of BK  & Sujatha potay and i completely endorse with them.. But we then get hurt often and that leads to chaos  in life, total negativity and affects all around us and all about us . I thought about the enemy HURT in some detail and what i arrived at,  is useful for me and so sharing in this space. This may benefit you too, not because u did not think before on these or not that u do not know. But reading the known also might help just like writing what i know might help me.

 If a relationship hurts, or someone u think is hurting you, or they say you are hurting them.. and if this happens constantly, then there is something fundamentally wrong.. This needs to be addressed in terms of  A) Honesty in the feelings  2) Trust in the relationship 3) if its not spousal relationship , what is the meaning and purpose of this relationship....  All of these needs time , commitment and basic human respect  to sit and analyse amongst you.  If there is no time, respect  or need to sit down and discuss, there is no need for the relationship to continue either. Pretensions of goodness, false adoption of values,  humoungous self pity will result in the absence of discussions of the matured kind.

                           

                                

Salute those who have the audacity to take the initiative of the break up or wanting a solution rather than respecting the timid, evasive and escapist kinds. I have no qualms in admitting that i was in the later category and i am yet to come to the first catefory.  But i appreciate and respect the loudness in a relationship rather than the hiding subtlety of the emotions .

Silence can be beautiful and most blissful between 2 people but the absence of  vibes of understanding and tolerance of mere existence can be most killing and more painful than the death. I am always remembering the song “ got to believe in magic , tell me how 2 people find each other in a world full of strangers” listen to this and enjoy...  Magic brings 2 people together and how does and why does that magic wane ? Communication is the key ... Verbal and non verbal.  Verbal communication needs openness, guts, willingness and just, simple ice break attitiude ..  Non verbal requires complete honesty, unconditionality, trust..

 This combination of communication will eliminate the hurt. Finally any love , respect  is meant to let the other person live happily and peacfully .. So where is the hurt coming from ? just see inside and let the silence inside speak to you... The hurt is you and you hurt.. correct the self and break all shackles of self imposed walls, ideas , thoughts, values and fundas... I am attempting.. Writing this is sending this to the universe and to people who read and matter and so its the COMMITMENT ...  not a gyan  

The beautiful life has no place for hurt. Know the hurt, address and control, alt delete from the system as soul can't carry hurt as its too heavy