Tough are the questions in life that don’t come with an answer. Tougher is the question which, simpler you answer, harder it becomes to understand. One such being, “What’s the craze between a guy and his bike? “ Now as the simple answer, “Biking is an attitude and a way of life” wouldn’t suffice, let’s…
Once Only .. Forever
There are several conflicts that afflict the human mind. Perhaps, nothing more enigmatic than a confused relationship. Girls seem to have always had absolute clarity. The confusion was clearly a guy’s thing. Or at least he thought so. Seeing her after all these years, a multitude of feelings erupted that were dormant for a long…
Movie Review – Peepli [Live]
Question: How can you script a movie centered around an issue as sensitive as farmer suicide and as controversial as fake journalism or dirty politics and yet get away with it ? Answer: Peepli-Live. The movie is an intelligent take around the issue of farmer suicide. Mind you, I intentionally chose the word intelligent over…
The Expendables – Movie Review
About: Two things were obvious from the posters of The Expendables that put together in one frame the likes of Stallone, Statham, Jet Li, Lundgren, Couture, Steve Austin, Rourke & Bruce Willis. One, it isn’t going to be a drama/plot driven movie. Two, even going by a per actor quota, there are going to be…
Inception – Movie Review
In the movie ‘Inception‘, Leonardo Di Caprio says, “A single idea from the human mind can build cities”. I say, ‘Christopher Nolan took up a bare idea and built an entire world of overlapping real & surreal for us to get amazed’. The story, written and directed by the master himself, revolves around the idea…
Lil lamb learns his last lesson
His head was severed. As the head rolled on the ground and the light started to fade from the eyes, the sheep couldn’t help recollect every chance his life gave him to become a wolf. He was born unique, just like every other lamb in the world. His dreams and aspirations were unlike any other…
The Absolute Truth
20 feet down under, water crushing my eardrums, the insides of me collapsing under the massive hydraulic pressure… Unable to breathe and unwilling to die, I realized the absolute truth of life.Man has been around for 3,00,000 years now. He has supposedly spent most of it wandering barefoot in jungles. Either hunting or gathering for…
A destiny of choices
I’ve always held on to the belief that every opportunity and crisis in our lives boils down to a couple of choices. And what one chooses to do, maketh him. Put in simple words, our choices shapes our life. And that the problems in one’s life either makes him or breaks him, depending on what…
Shutter Island – Movie Review
The worst thing that can happen to a movie critic is that he cannot explain just how good a movie is without revealing too much of the plot. Martin Scorsese puts one in this exact difficult spot with his latest movie – ‘Shutter Island’.The story kicks off with the mystery of a missing patient from…
Who Moved My Cheese – Book Review
The book is a wonderful compilation of myriad metaphors and parallels. The cheese, Cheese (with a ‘C’), maze, jogging suit & shoes, little people, mice and the incidents are very well thought about and presented. On a high level, the book deals with the various ways in which people respond to an unforeseen and unkind…