Black Friday

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

After years of making movies that heads on ran into controversies one after the other, Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday finally saw light of the day and also managed to run (successfully at that) for weeks at movie halls across the nation. Got to watch the flick today after weeks of wait and it was well worth the wait to say the least.

For the uninitiated the movie is aptly named(and colored) after the serial blasts that rocked Bombay on 12th March 1993 and takes a 360 degree view of the same. This ain't a movie for the week at heart and definitely not for those who want to take a tour of fairy tale cinema. It's a gory, hard-hitting, haunting and extremely veridical piece of cinema narrated chapter wise.

The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch and yes, they did push the envelope. Right down from mixing scenes across various time spans flawlessly, to using red filter for some hard interrogation scenes, to soul stirring background score by Indian Ocean the movie has it all. Ten minutes in the movie and you'll get why was the censor board had apprehensions about clearing the movie. Unlike Omkara, Black Friday isn't inundated with foul language but has ample usage of the C word and for a change people neither laugh nor whistle every time it is uttered.Apart from some rare exceptions nothing has been toned down to make things less unsettling.

The best part about the movie is that it not preachy or has a happy ending in which people of different religions live happily ever after. It enters the world as it was, peeks for an unbiased look and leaves it as it is. It just puts forwards the hard facts and lets the viewer do the thinking. I appreciate the director's courage for making a film like this which can easily tend to upset anyone (Hindus, Muslims, Govt & Police men alike) and admire his patience for not loosing hope and making it see a release.

Kudos to Black Friday, Tehelka et al

My Rating: 4.5/5
Imdb Rating:9.5/10(312 votes)

Aray rukh ja re bandeh, aray tham ja re bandeh ke kudrat has pare gi.
Aray nenndein hein zakhmi, aray sapne hein bhoke, ke karwat phat pare ge.

Guten Tag !!

Wohnt => Lives

I live in Delhi => ich wohne in Delhi
He lives in Delhi => er wohnt in Delhi

Urs wohnt in Zurich => Urs lives in Zurich

spricht => Speakes, sprechen => Speak, auch => Also

Er spricht auch Deutsch => He also speaks German
Sie spricht auch Deutsch => Sie also speaks German

All drei sprechen Deutsch => All three speak German

aber => but, wo => where, wer => who, welche => which

wer spricht englisch? => who speaks English

sprache => language

welche sprache spricht er? => which language does he speak?

Zombiessssss

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?

That's precisely what's going on in my mind, a fierce battle of countless zombies of sorts..Homegrown and Borrowed,Tiny and Humongous, Emotional and Practical, Good and Evil,Physical and Metaphysical..

Just got back from a short,refreshing and relaxing trip from THE HILLS of Dun valley
and within hours of homecoming i was inundated with stuff i had kinda forgot how to deal with...Isn't it Ironic that I've had a deficiency of sleep during these holidays and there's no visible sign of it coming to an end..

A random but true thought found its way to my mind that I've been in a state of persistent tension and thoughtfulness due to the complexities involved in the lives of people around me..Tension of sorts ranging from Issues with job/work to age old ego(n other) tussles in affairs...Such is the amount of talking/soothing that has gone that I at times feel like a psychologist( at least i like to think like that)

I am wondering how tomorrow would be when few more zombies would begin to battle for a place in my consciousness...

INSOMNIA COURTESY PEOPLE WHO TALK TO ME BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP

Please Note:
No Offense meant for Nears & Dears (AND NOT DEARS OF NEARS or Vice Versa)

Happiness Revisited @ Flow

Flow --> The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sake of doing it.

The Universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly, it is simply indifferent - J.H. Holmes

There is no problem in our desire to escalate goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way.The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want that they cease to derive pleasure from the present.

How many people do you know who enjoy what they are doing, who are reasonably satisfied with their lot, who do not regret the past and look to the future with genuine confidence ?

The roots of the discontent are internal, and each person must untangle them personally, with his or her own power

Ontological Anxiety or Existential Dread
a fear of being, a feeling that there is no meaning to life and that existence is not worth going on with

I Believe

Found it on a piece of paper lost in oblivion

I believe
That no matter how bad your heart is broken,
the world doesn't stop for your grief

I believe
That wer don't have to change friends if we understand that friends do change

I believe
That no matter how good a friend is,
he's going to hurt yo every once in a while and you must forgive him for that

I believe
That you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life

I believe
That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be

I believe
That you can keep going long after you can't