New Sense

It was a cold sunday morning and after weeks of planning the day had finally arrived. We were scheduled to shoot our short film that day and I was a part of the cast, what was truly exciting for me was that this was my first experience with movie making. After about 3 years in Theater I was finally going to try something professional with movie making.
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Lately I have been dedicating time to clean up my room, to the delight of my mother. Considering I have a lot of crap unused stuff stored away, I thought its the right time to minimize and put away things I dont use regularly to a proper storage.

A couple of days back I decided to take out all my old college books and move them. The main idea being that I could not find a couple of my old books and thought they are mixed up with those books. Fortunately I found the books I was looking for, but more importantly I found pieces of the past along the way.
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A friend of mine, recently in a conversation remarked “Oh my god, you have become boring!” It came as a little bit of a shock… Not that I consider myself a very cool guy but that someone other than me finally realized it

Well jokes apart, I havent done anything off late that I could be “really” happy about. I have been stuck in a vicious circle of Work and Home for two weeks. Ironically that is exactly how I dont want to spend my days. I always make it a point to make my day worth something more than just getting work done and catching sleep. Like Tyler Durden so wonderfully put it “This is your life and its ending a second at a time…”

I guess its time I turn to that transition phase of getting out of this circle… I remember the last time I was there I picked up photography and acting. That was a whole 2-3 years ago! I want to try something new this time but I cant dive into things as bravely as I could 3 years ago. I hate the feeling of clipped wings…

Ah well, as they say History repeats… lets just wait and watch

Rating:

Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam is one of the nicest surprises I have had all year(in watching movies ie). Firstly I wasnt expecting much from the movie but the promising star cast was looking good. It had Paresh Rawal, Rahul Bose and Kay Kay Menon, three actors whose movies I have truly admired.

The movie is supposedly the remake of a classic Mel Brooks movie “To Be or Not to Be“. This Indian version uses the backdrop of the 93 bomb blasts and produces a hilarious comedy of a bunch of theater artists trying to stop the bad guys.

What I loved about the movie was the brilliantly sketched out characters, who even when saying clinched lines are really funny. The comic twist to Urdu Shayari and on stage improvisation had me running out of breath laughing. I think I was laughing for atleast 80% of the movie!
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I happened to watch Mamma Mia! over the weekend… When I say ‘happened to’, I mean happened to

I was actually planning to go to a play performed by my friend and was catching up with Sidharth, Pramod and Anant at a coffee shop. About 10 min before I had planned to leave, a couple of girls at the coffee shop offered us tickets to the movie. The movie was starting about an hour later and I had just been informed that the tickets of the play was all sold out. So we decided to go watch the movie.

I am a sucker for musicals so I was pretty sure I would enjoy it. The movie was based around the songs of ABBA and were very well put in. I had only heard of “Mamma Mia” and “Dancing Queen” before watching the movie and found the songs were pretty good. I will be adding more ABBA songs to my playlist thanks to the movie.

Meryl Steep’s performance in the movie is nothing short of brilliant, I spent most of the movie simply admiring her acting. The other actors did their job very well and I never felt anything much lacking in the acting department. The singing was mostly good but I have to mention that the emotional song that Pierce Brosnan sings simply left me laughing… It was then when I remembered that this guy was James Bond, and that only fueled the laughter

All in all the movie is fun but ok. If you like light hearted musicals this is probably your kind of movie.