Matru ki Bijli ka Mann is Upset!

I just got back this evening after watching "Matru ki Bijli ka Mandola", a Vishal Bharadwaj movie. An off-beat title for a movie and a teaser quirkier still got me really interested in this one. It also stars my favorite "Karamchand" - Pankaj Kapur and I thought it would be quite a delight to watch. I love watching movies - and well after a good movie I think about it when I get back home - and I definitely bring back at least one of the characters home with me - either for some bashing or for having a one-on-one "Sweets with Srey" kinda rendezvous . However, tonight's not the night and unfortunately with the absence of alcohol I only get to see "Gulaabooo" or that could just be me on the other side of the mirror! I definitely need a drink or two now.

It's got power-pact  performances from the entire cast. Ohh I loved Kapur playing the so very Grey Mandola - Good and Evil at the same time, transitioning smoothly and never for once looking out of place. Bijli seemed an apt name for Anoushka in the movie, however I thought she didn't bring anything new to the table it was all too similar , nothing that we'd not seen.  But what was missing from it all was perhaps some good consistent storytelling. There was sattire , slapstick comedy, over the top dialogues with slangs thrown in at the end of each sentence, I felt as if there was too much of everything... and finally which is why for me it missed its point. It talks of serious issues and I would have liked to feel for the hapless villagers of Mandola but well, I couldn't . It left me confused and disappointed as it could have been so much more! 

Sunday morning: I just heard Rajeev Masand's review this morning, and he seems to have really enjoyed it. So, definitely many have loved this movie and enjoyed it to the fullest. As for me, without my food for thought I head for the Fridge - for the kind that always leaves me happy and satisfied.
 It really almost never disappoints...

“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.” 

― Roger Ebert

Welcome 2013!

Wishing everyone good health ,happiness and the very Best this New Year!


New Year's Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  ~Mark Twain

It's another New Year and time for new beginnings - Resolutions again made to be broken.
Well , I had a resolution last year to start writing a blog - I did, though only 4 posts in the entire year is not exactly a job well done.
So , here goes one of my Resolutions for this year, to be consistent with writing a blog - a little more of Sweet'nSour and hoping it's a little sweeter this year.

A flashback into 2012 - The Husband moves to NJ on a new assignment. Visa troubles spurred an impromptu 2 month trip back home right in time for Durga Pujas. Though the working nights routine was a little overwhelming but a visit back home right in time for the biggest festive season for India was nothing short of extraordinary.  Mahalaya, Durga Puja, Bijoya Sammilani, Lakshmi Puja, Kali Puja, Bhaiphonta , Jagadhhatri Puja - Month long festivities and watching a Kolkata dressed up in its finery after years  will be cherished forever. I am back to Chicago, working and living with roommates. I travel back and forth between CHI and NYC on weekends and holidays and  though my travel carry-on seems to get heavier this winter my pocket feels considerably lighter with these weekend trips. 

Time Check - Current Day,  It's a chilly morning here in Windy City and as I head off to catch the morning train to work I can't help but wonder What would this year be like --- Make and Break, Sweet Love and Heartache, Exciting and Boring, Surprising and Shocking - It's going to have it all I know - A Bollywood Masala!

 As I speculate and wonder about this year and how it's going to turn out , I am reminded of a song sung by Doris Day from one of my childhood favorites -

Que Sera, Sera,

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be.

Lights, Camera Action ----- And it begins!