The year that was....

Over the last few years, I’ve made New Year’s resolutions just to ensure that somewhere down the line I’m gonna break it. And it’s been the same set of resolutions like the rest of the world does – to lose weight, to have a healthy diet blah blah blah.

This year I decided to do something different for a change. Something that I had always wanted to do................. something that’s been at the back of my mind insanely for the last 6 to 8 months.................. something that which I act on I’m sure with bring immense satisfaction to me and allow me to be at peace with myself.

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Bajirao Mastani - The movie that could have done much better!

Guess this would be the last post for this year. And how much ever I try; I will not be able to infuse the tiniest bit of positivity in this post.

Last evening my husband I had gone to see the much raved movie – ‘Bajirao Mastani’. After having seen the trailer on bookmyshow website, it looked like a super war epic movie and a great way to end the year. My husband also had the expectations that it would be similar to Bahubali (although I thought it was a little farfetched!)

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I am not sure where to begin! Basically it was a Sanjay Leela Bansali movie and we should have gone with just that in mind.  Expecting him to do any different from his previous movies would leave you feeling massively disappointed like us! (Although I wouldn’t like to include Black into his list of nonsensical movies)

 Sanjay Leela Bansali’s movie has everything that is pleasing to the eye – massive settings, colorful celebrations, heartthrobs of the nation as leads & undying romance between them. Just that leave your brains behind when you go to see his movies and you will come out pleased with all that you saw.

What could have turned out to be a great tribute to the Maratha Peshwa, turned out to be a mockery of his love for his second wife.  I mean, he’s done a great thing in choosing the story – that of Bajirao. There is so much more that can be shown about him, that he fought 39 undefeated battles, the valor in him, his courage, the sheer determination with which he attacked his enemies and returned back undefeated ….. But no! he chose to romanticize the movie leaving behind the fact on what a great warrior Bajirao was! Had he created a totally unrealistic movie with unrealistic characters and the same story line, it would not have been so offending to Bajirao!

Acting per say, Ranveer Singh, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone have done justice to what was expected out of them for the role. But where were their brains when they signed up for the movie which showed no facts. They could have done a little bit of background check on the story before agreeing to act. I mean, now a day’s actors are far from acting just for awards.

And looking at the story that Sanjay Leela Bansali has woven, looks like he did not need a lot of brains to do that as well. All he did was take a little bit of stories from his previous movies and song picturization from Mughal-E-Azam and voila! You get Bajirao Mastani a box office hit!

One apparently doesn’t need to carry his brains to the multiplex to watch this generation’s bollywood movies!

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A modern twist to the ancient Dashavataram

Things were going exactly as Srinivasan had feared, his Mother would come in from India and crush his American way of life under her strong South Indian influence. For a genetic scientist like Vasu, as Srinivasan was called by his friends, the only kind of order was disorder. So consumed he was by his research that the world and it's affairs mattered little to him. When his last girlfriend walked out on him, "Find a girl on planet Srinivasan," she had screamed as she stomped out.

Now Vasu's Mother had taken over the administration of the planet. It irritated him, this milk at night and chywanprash every morning. "Have you been wearing the same pair of Jeans for the past three days?" Mother was beginning her morning interrogation.

Vasu stared at the hot idlis in front of him, the chywanprash to follow and the wardrobe interrogation that had begun. Something snapped in his mind. "Mom I love you and I love that you come all the way from India to take care of me but plesse don't fuss over me! It irritates me! And then I cannot work!"

His Mother did not really care if Vasu was upset, "The idlis are getting cold," was her matter of fact response.

"You don't really care, do you Mom?"

"I care about you Vasu. The work you do is alright. If you don't do it, someone else will do it."