“Two Friends” [Conversations]

One Friend:

How about living a thoughtless day,

forget the nuances and just be away,

no tears, no fears, no smile on face,

no fights, no love and no grimace?

Other Friend:

If no tears and no smile on face,

then the life will be such a disgrace,

thoughts and nuances build us from within,

without them the life won’t just begin.

* * *

One Friend:

For a day let’s not have any friends,

I don’t want someone who just pretends,

no parents, no siblings, just all alone,

do what you want, that should set the tone.

Other Friend:

Life is all about friends, parents and siblings,

in life’s unending space, they are the fillings,

don’t listen to your brain, you are being misled,

without all this, you are simply a living dead.

“Destiny” – [Random Feelings Series]

Sitting in the window,

he was lost in thoughts,

contemplating why and how,

wrong have gone the plots

* * *

A moment ago it felt,

like he figured out all,

a moment of life dealt,

and he saw it all fall

* * *

Study, good job and then,

get married to a girl,

ship was on the way when,

he saw the sails unfurl

* * *

The ship changed its route,

zigzagging South and West,

his throat went Brut,

and left a bitter taste

* * *

He fought against with furor,

trying to alter the path,

with his eyes on the shore,

recalculating the math

* * *

He then thought why not,

go along the flow and check,

what his destiny has got,

and how do its plans bake

* * *

He let the wind take charge,

ship sailed to the shore,

albeit different, but large,

see what fruits the destiny bore.

- – - PBK

“Love Rain” — [Random Feelings Series]

Along the breeze,

came a musky smell,

tingling the inner walls,

ringing the inner bell

* * *

Head turned towards,

eyes searching her curves,

the smell hazed the senses,

was getting to his nerves

* * *

He saw the contours,

of her air blown hairs,

her blurred image,

through his sepia glares

 * * *

The time froze there,

when she came and hugged,

the feeling was ecstatic,

why you need to be drugged?

* * *

He pinched himself,

hard enough to feel the pain,

before he gets drenched,

in the shower of love rain.

- – - PBK

Random…

Heart is a mystery,
Prone to sorcery,
Made of flesh, full of emotions,
Jumps with joy, prey to commotions.

When it falls for someone,
It elevates to a height,
When someone crashes it,
Boils with emotional fight.

It breaks into pieces,
Can be mended to sustain,
But don’t make it a toy,
Take its care and stay sane.

Pope Eyes Retirement

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Mobile Morgue #Flash55

“Mobile Morgue” – Ashu read on a van. As he overtook the van he glanced at the driver. A chill went down his spine. “You can try to maneuver as far as possible, but you cannot escape the life’s ultimate reality” were the expression on driver’s face. The exact thoughts were in Ashu’s mind too.

Ajinkya – Movie Review…

Rating: 6.5/10

“The journey from ego to realization” – This is what the film is all about, to describe it in one sentence.

Anant (Sandip Kulkarni) is born to play basketball. He’s a coach of a basketball team in Nagpur, until the team unbeaten (Ajinkya) till this game, is defeated. His expectation of “We should win every match by at least 25 points” is shattered and as promised to his wife, he quits basketball altogether. He cannot digest the defeat and ahead of sour relationship with his wife Saee (Kadambari Kadam) he decides to get himself transferred. His egotist approach towards game, as well as life, estranges his relation with his wife and drowns him towards denial.

 

The second half of the movie guides him away from his egotist approach and makes him understand and accept his faults and responsibilities. Various small things, that happen with him in this new town and new people, make him realize how wrong was his path towards excellence. Sarika Nilatkar, his ex-assistant coach and a family friend, is pivotal in bringing him close to realization. Various instances are beautifully crafted to outline this journey. The movie, overall, is good to watch and learn.

 

Having said that, the film however keeps you guessing for references (of some scenes) and misses high-points which are necessary to build the story and tempo. The mosaic of flashback and present is delicately woven but their constant and unwarranted occurrences baffle the viewer. There are two songs in the movie “Ajinkya Theme Song” and “Jari majha tujha ha khel” which go very well with the situations. It is good to see that movie is not flooded with songs (as the story doesn’t quite need them to hold) and optimum quantity is assured. The cinematography is crisp and precise. The unnecessary usage of bold lighting is avoided and doesn’t get engaged in shenanigans of awkward angles. A bit better editing could have made the movie bloom more.

Congratulations to the whole team of “Ajinkya” – most of them (barring the actors) are first timers and the effort is very credible. I wish much more success to them in the coming time.

Incendies – Movie Review

Rating: 4.5/5

What IMDB says – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/

(MUST WATCH)

Disturbing, gripping, revealing.

The story starts from societal issue of the protagonist, Nawal Marwan, being a single mother and traverses through various emotions, hardships and stark realities of the world, her world.

The notary officer, for whom Nawal worked for 18 years as a secretary, delivers two envelopes to her kids, the twin brother and sister, after she dies of a stroke. One envelope reads “For your father” and the other reads “For your brother”. The kids are in a shock after they come to know that they have another brother. The boy, having hatred in his heart for their mother, denies doing anything with those envelopes and thinks of moving on with their lives. However the sister is sensitive and thinks of following the trail back to their mother’s past and dig the links as their mother’s last wish. The story starts from here.

The plot is set in an imaginary place named “Daresh”. After being impregnated by her lover and after her family comes to know about this, her brothers kill her lover and almost killed Nawal too. The grandmother somehow pities on her and asks her to deliver the child. The grandmother then asks her to leave the village and move to town, without the kid as she gives away the kid, the village not being safe for Nawal anymore. Nawal moves into city, starts working with University’s radio station, learns French but the desire to find the whereabouts of her child is still burning within her. With the same desire she starts tracking back her child and comes to know that the kid was given to an orphanage in South (a place dreaded to be full with extremists).

She then gets caught for killing a Nationalist politician and spends 15 years in jail. The movie talks about her sufferings while being a single mother, being away from her child, being in jail and being in a society so full with hatred and revenge. Her ordeal in keeping a secret, facing the torture and yet forgive the torturer, a shocking revelation at the end and above all be rational about everything is captured very beautifully in the movie. The movie also shows us what kind of world surrounds us and we have no idea of. See this movie to watch what a woman have to go through in a life in extreme situations and what being a mother means. Not surprised that the movie was nominated for Oscar in 2011 and has won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

April – Fool, Exams and Apocalypse…

April reminds me of “April Fool“. It wasn’t just a day, but people used to make fool of others for the entire month of April. Besides being April Fool’s month, it is used to be a month of examinations in school, even that is April Fool in a sense. You would anticipate a set of questions to come in the question paper and a complete different set of questions would stare at you from down under, as if saying April Fool.

April also reminds me of a “hoax” similar to 21 December 2012. I don’t quite remember the date, but I was in hostel, away from home, just for the preparation of 10th. One fine day, everyone started saying that one XYZ day there is going to be a flood which will submerge the whole world.

One April’s day, the

World threatened to end,

We were just fourteen,

with all the life to spend.

/\/\/\

Staying far away from,

parents and home,

we dreaded the water,

covering the dome.

/\/\/\

We wanted to be ready,

to face the end of the World,

be with parents,

in mother’s lap, and curled.

/\/\/\

But that was not to be,

we were left with pals,

holding each other’s hands,

waiting, when the Earth stalls.

/\/\/\

But it turned out to be,

yet another hoax,

the World chose to continue,

the cat was not out of the box.

* * *

The year was 1999. It sent chills down our spine when we heard of this said apocalypse. We bunked classes, lunches and everything. But are glad that it was just another hoax. It was the biggest “April Fool” anybody would have pulled on such a huge mass

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Written for Month of the Year Writing Challenge – Season 3

Here Is Santa…

It’s Christmas and the world is awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus. Rather the world is awaiting gifts from Santa Claus. Some are lucky to have received the gifts (from the #SecretSantas) while some are questioning “Where is Santa Claus? I haven’t seen him in ages“. While there are some who wish people Merry Christmas, there are others who use lewd comments like “horny Santa Claus” and ”slutty Santa Claus” and feel ‘kewl‘ about it.

Well, I will tell you where Santa Claus is.

He is out there, catering to the needs of REALLY needy kids and people, where he won’t be welcomed just for gifts.

He is cajoling the sad people and trying to pep their moods up.

He is roaming around the battered lives, trying to bring smile back on the faces who had almost given up.

He is in every person who cares for you and brings a positive change in your life.

 

This reminds me of some lines of a song from the movie “Swades“. Where Shah Rukh Khan says,

Ram hi toh ekta mein,

pragati mein Ram hai,

Ram hi toh karuna mein,

shanti mein Ram hai.

(Ram is there in the unity,

Ram is there in progress,

Ram is there in compassion,

Ram is there in peace.)

Ram bass bhakto nahi,

shatru ke bhi chintan mein hai,

dekh tyaj ke paap Raavan,

Ram tere mann mein hai

(Ram is not just in the followers,

but is there in thoughts of enemies too,

Oh Raavan, try discarding the sin,

And you will find Ram in yourself.)

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MERRY CHRISTMAS to YOU ALL.