Udaan

Movies which have been a slight offbeat from the regular ones, have always captivated the hearts of audience in more than one way. The way movies have started being made in India recently, has changed the visage of Indian Cinema, bringing good news for real movie lovers to experience the real cinema rather than just getting lured towards the regular chick-flicks which costs crores, not-even-guaranteeing to be a box-office hit.

One such recent movie is Udaan, that depicts the dogmatic endurance by a teenager which gradually dissolves into an infiltration of his own dreams and an ambition to become a writer, coerced him to lead a life on his terms. The movie also touch based upon the small kid who is extremely innocent and facing similar challenges as his brother, for whom every heart drops a tear of sympathy. Emotions soared high, and conveyed explicably in some parts - with no words uttered. Intensity of the acting reached a level where dialogs could be heard from the eyes and the body language of the protagonist. The maturity level which one attains through the events that can occur in one’s life cannot be articulated by the age factor. Once attained, it gives clarity of what one wants to make of his life and really needs to cut through all the barriers, as he moves on to live this vision of his life. Though the contemplation of the movie, surely can bring in more words than written in this blog, but I have sure highlighted the reasons for the movie being a – “Must GO for”.

My verdict of the movie is – one of the best made movies, which deserve a huge round of applause for the director, the writer, the cinematographer, and the actors who pulled out the very essence of the movie. In today’s society, the very existence of stubbornness and severity amongst parents in a child’s upbringing, builds in rage and anxiety amongst the teenagers, resulting in the disquiet family atmosphere and that is when drastic steps are adventured. The touchy subject of a parent child relation has been brought out beautifully by the movie makers where each dialog and expression uttered by the protagonist stirred the emotion in one’s heart and ached for him, thereby perfecting the character and doing justice to the role.

**** (4-star)

Review of the book - Right Fit Wrong Shoe by Varsha Dixit

Saturday afternoon, I wondered how I could spend the remaining of the day, with a cancelled plan and no-good-to-see anything in the TV. I had picked up a book from a library nearby named “Right Fit Wrong Shoe” magnetized by the title of it. I tried to read the book, the same night after having worked late, realizing that I made a wrong decision to return the book unread, that day. But luckily flipped some pages of it, today

The book will be loved by an ardent bollywood follower or bollywood lover or may be just a viewer. But more could be associated by people, who sometimes live the light moments of their day-to-day life quoting some of the bollywood pick-up-lines or some catchy songs. Well the songs might range from being an “irritator” having some of the repeating phrases, to some having undiscovered-words-making-no-sense, but stick on to our tongues from nowhere and are just lingering in our mouths, till the end of the day getting strange looks from people around you, initially and getting promoted to angry looks accompanied by words, towards the end of it.

As the characters of the play, begin to unwrap themselves in the story, and the center of the plot being a heartbroken woman, who was “terribly” in love, I got deeper into the book. The best part of it, which distinguishes it from the other chick-flick novels, being the way the characters were revealed. The “hero” was not described as a rich handsome attractive young business man all in one go, but just got pictured as one, as the story took its route. The same was replicated for “Nandini”, the female lead. During the read, just when you start feeling bad or (for more the emotional) shed a tear for the heart broken, you will immediately cast a smile on your face with the famous ol’ bollywood dialogs cited by the characters in the plot comprising of a fourth of the words which were used to write the book. It had all the important highlights of the bollywood, including dialogs from the recent n popular – Jab we met. Even each name of the chapter was an excerpt from a bollywood movie or the name of the bollywood movie itself. The capstone during my read, was the famous pick-up line from the movie – “Maine Pyar Kiya”. The line from the book as it is – “How dare you forget the first tenet of love set by Maine Pyar Kiya? Ek Ladka ladki kabhi doost nahi hotein. Kapkapati raatein, bhadakti aag, dhadakte jism etc., remember”. And the line was uttered during a serious conversation of trying to induce the female protagonist to come out of a broken relationship by a friend. And I personally would buy this line - a friend saying this… J

I just loved the narration of the story and successfully recalling the flashback love-story to the readers, keeping - love, lust, heartbreak, tears, laughs and all other human sentiments in equal proportions with an analogy to the bolly-kind-of-movies and at the same pace throughout the read. Wow! That was almost like picturizing a super-hit movie.

Varsha Dixit has brought in a new style of writing which is simple, yet so enjoyable and entertaining 4 hour read, with mixed emotions flowing through the readers’ mind and keeping the fingers glued to the book except to turn the leaves of it. Though the story might be one of those cliché kinds, but the narration and its “exclusivity” is what one might like. A sure-shot try for our film-makers to get their hands on this story, is my suggestion ;).

Ek safar ki shuruat!!

Sab kuch sametkar ek safar ki shuruat huyi
Lagta tha dar, zindagi meri hogi, kitni nayi

Sab kuch badal jata hai pal bhar main
Palak bas jhapkane der hain

Kadam badhe aankhon mein sapne hazar liye
Bojhal naino se intezaar zindagi ka hum kiye

Raste bante gaye, raahon mein kante bhi aaye
Kuch khushbu lekar, hum chal diye

Kuch bunde chalki badalon se
Khusbu bheegi si aaye baharon mein

Jharoke se haath badhte hi
Chooti hun boondon ki ladi

Waqt tham si jaati hain aisi hi kuch palon mein
Aati hain yaad un hasin lamhon ke

Lavz honton ko sil dete hain
Badhi hui haath vapas le lete hain

Palkein jhuk jaati hain
Dil sambhal jata hain

Sunti hun mein badalon ki garaj
Waqt lag sakta hai, par uge ga wo suraj

Madham si hava behti hui
Khwabon ko fir bunti

Aanchal ko lehrake hawa le gayi
Maine apne aap ko bahon mein le li

Ek sundar hasin sapne ki kaamna se
Jeevan naye sire se sajane hain