A staggering raft in Turbulent waters

Coupled with leftist sentiments the modern prodigy,Mrinal Sen has given us one of the most soul searching and thought provoking movies.In the league of Ray and Ghatak,Mrinal Sen is always considered one of the best directors ever.

Mrinal Sen is regarded as one of the pioneers of Parallel cinema in Indian Film Industry.Started with Bhuvan Some, the simplicity of his movie making style reflected. Starring Enigmatic Utpal Dutt and charismatic Suhasini Mulay in the lead role, the movie was a critically acclaimed hit.

With the advent of Naxalite turbulence in Bengal,Sen directed movies like Padatik and Calcutta-76.Those movies wedged the exact plight and mindset of people that time.He made movies with on versatile subjects with each movie used to carry a message,From the famine struck wife of the poor farmer in ‘Akaler Sandhaney’ to ‘Lonely mysterious girl’ of Antareen, sen had portrayed each of his characters in subtle shades.

My favourite of his films would be Mahaprithibi,the movie again based on the Naxalite Movement.It tells the story of a Person who left his family in dire straits during the movement and went to Germany, and what happens after he comes back, aptly played by dynamic Victor Banerjee.

Always tagged with the ideas of Marxism,Surrealism ,Italian Neorealism etc,Sen’s movies seldom have a happy ending or precisely it did not have a definitive finale .

On His 85^th Birthday i pay my tributes and salutations to this great man.

A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes

When I say love stories or romantic movies I have seen a many. From my childhood to now moved by lots starting from Notting Hill to Intermezzo. Starting from Julia Roberts to Ingrid Bergman. Do I really mean it? Do they really define the meaning of love and the passion of longing for each other.

Much not into this genre I kind of stumbled onto a French movie called ‘Girl on the Bridge’ in English by master director Patrice Leconte.The film is made in black and white to magnify the effects and emotions. It’s a story about a knife thrower and his target. How their luck change when they meet each other and how their love cultivates.

About the girl (masterful performance by Vanessa Paradis) who thinks perfect love has always eluded her. Who thinks she is bad at luck of finding a faultless and ideal love.

About a man who is a knife thrower who doesn’t want to get intimate with his target as so could make him weak, who himself is not successful just saves the girl when she tries to jump of the bridge and suicide. The film revolves around these two characters that emote, like, love each other. Their journey towards finding the true love, the true meaning that makes this feeling an oasis in the desert, the accurate connotation that makes long voyages a rather small stroll.

A true film on love, which asks us what is this feeling, what is meant by being together.

As Rogert Ebert said ‘There is nothing like being partners in a knife-throwing act to encourage a man and a woman to focus on their relationship.’

Ek Aur Dalega?

Stick to the decision,believe in your abilities and the things will go well.The Old Cliche was again proved correct by the men in blue.When Viru knew Ishant Sharma is capable of bowling long spell they stuck by him and gave him the chance and boy did he get the wicket of Aussie captain.

India’s win at Perth reflects the team game,grit and determination of the Indian players.Kudos to Jumbo for lifting up the team and giving the memorable present to the fans.As sherry paaji said killing the lion by entering into their own den.Perth has been always the steadfast citadel of Aussies,beating them there is a esplendent effort.

Influx of two fighting attitude laden cricketers also in my view had added to the cause.Sehwag chipping in with some useful runs at the top,taking on the attack on the pace attacks unleashed by aussies and plucking up crucial two wickets of Gilly and Lee.Pathan deservedly got the man of the match bowled well and made useful contribution with bat.

Off the topic As Sunny bhai just said its a good omen as Gary entering into the arena.Lets hope for the best.Lets go for the Champagne and raise our eyes to the Southen Australian city of Adelaide(Remember 2003?) and let me switch the channel to Star sports and put my eyes on the Rod Laver Arena

Talaffuz Janab

Its a finicky feeling when you have some retrospective aura around you with the Heritage and culture you inherit.I had that opportunity to spend one weekend in that charismatic atmosphere.Rather we recreated that mahoul for us.

Two factors contributed this post motivation for me.One is the Sudhir Mishra’s latest flick ‘Khoya Khoya Chaand’.Awesomely planted in the 60’s caressing through the intricacies of film industry.A tale of love and passion.Some resplendent screenplay and cinematography.Kudos Sudhir for rejuvenating the old spirit.Usage of Urdu and pure Hindi punctuated with awesome sets produced an undying aura which will be memorized.

Another is in the series of myself and my roomie Kaushik’s venture of discovering a new eatery every weekend.This time we stumbled upon a perfectly made pure Indian restaurant named ‘Roomali with View’.We grave for speciality and my boy this was the place.With Ghazals of Jagjit Singh,Ghulam Ali and Pankaj Udhas filling the atmosphere with just what the doctor ordered.Food served with Rajasthani,Awadhi and Kashmiri speciality made us being poised and paused while we were having the Daal baati which was well complemented by the Jaamun.

Always had wanted the heritage to be kept alive by travelling through the subtle nuances of life.I felt the weekend was perfectly ordered for me.Just again i thought let me concentrate on my Talaffuz.

The Brain Weapon

Rose to the Golden Fortess,dived into the intricacies of Hills of Darjeeling and Gangtok.My Hero has done it all.Childhood was like digging into his adventures,feeling the intensely gripping stories.I was also transported to the crime scene or used to be the fourth member of the gang.
My tribute to the great master continues in a prolonged exposure.Ray’s creation of Feluda, the Detective has enthralled and has given ecstasy to people of all ages for ages.

Felu a.k.a Prodosh Chandra Mitter Ray’s answer to another master i.e. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Feluda’s adventure was used to be penned down by his nephew ‘Topshe’.The trio part was completed by charismatic,hilarious,mirthful,unparallel and so on LalMohan Ganguly a.k.a Jatayu a crime thriller writer by profession who had the unique tinge of giving some hilarious names to his own stories and whose English was bit squeaky.
Ray had arranged some highly exciting plots and had transported these characters into the scene.Feluda’s wit,Topshe’s presence of mind and Jatayu’s mere presence had solved complex mystries.Some intruiging stories ranging from potrait of Napoleon to Antuique idol of Ganesha.The Major thing which gives the pleasure is the bundle of information that we get while by nosediving into the stories.When Feluda was asked what’s the weapon he carries with himself,it was replied aptly by saying i carry a weapon called ‘Mogojashtro’ (Mogoj=Brain + Ashtro=Weapon).Where we see the cases solved and mysteries getting unrevealed by the sheer intelligence and wit of Feluda not any hard action.
Apt lumintation to the stories were the humorous angle provided in the stories by Jatayu, whose awesome timing of dialogues were amazingly planted.One example being where Jatayu wanted to say telepathic connection but what came out was ‘the telepathetic connection’ which sends reader to laugh rides.
Moriarty was more and less replaced by another icon called Maghanlal Meghraj with whom Feluda had confrontation in few stories.
Lots of Ray’s stories have been translated into English now, so no excuses from the Non-Bengali readers J.May be next post i would tear apart another splendiferous icon named Shonku.

Marewa

Sudden paths charted out.You feel traversing into new corners of introspection.
Marewa by Indian Ocean came to me like that.
I have always been a great fan of this fusion band.I might have heard of Marewa before
but with the headphones stuck to my ears giving me the stereophonic sound
punctuated with the thought of i have to give some demo to my client tommorow
produced a nice reverberating feeling.

A day off my GMAT prep, rather two days off as after yesterday's current off fiasco.
Thought of listening to Indian Ocean once more.Yeah was treated with one of the
best Indian song i have ever heard.

Marewa is song to be categorized 'Euphoric Sufi' tells about some water body whose
water is nirmal.
Mind boggling accoustics and bass.Indian Ocean's another gem after Kandisa,Hille le and Kandisa.Imagination and Versatility has always been their virtue.
Long live Indian Ocean.
time for me to catch me sleep although 'with you' of Linkin Park banging in my head
strewn through my headphones.

Cheers

Gourmet sense

Gourmet eats exactly the way how he is supposed to eat.

I reckon my stay at UK has made me in more colloquial sense

'A foodie'.

A perfect way to eat has to be emphasized.

In UK i saw the all forms of food, the perfect way to eat sumptous food.

Unless we taste a all kinds of food, its difficult to say which is the best and more

precisely to decide what to eat. As William Saffire's points out the difference between

Epicure,Gourmand,Gourmet,Gastronome and Glutton, I would rather prefet myself to

be an epicure who likes to display a thin satisfactory smile.

Well made food gives me a pleasant satisfaction.

I would rather like to incline my apetite for one delicacy and that is Bacon.

How much wherever you give me i never get tired with Bacon.

The egg and bacon salad is my favourite.Later in my blog posts i will come

up with my top-10 favourite dishes including Indian,Chinese,Mughlai and Continental, the major

genres i gulp down.

Here i have become a believer in heavy lunch and grand dinner.I have just stopped liking

the crossover midsized kaam chalau items like Burger and pizza. Bring on the full thing please.

Rice-Daal being old time favourites i speculate can not be taken over by anything.Home food is uncomparable.

I have tried to keep my mind and heart always open, always tried new things be it food or any other thing.

to end with i would again say keep your mind open and belly empty.Let the Gourmet have a good time.

Cheers mate