Love is 'Trial and Error'!
Love stories are made of 'give' and 'take'. Only 'give' or 'take' results in tragedies!
Love is gambling. The currency is emotions!
Love contradicts: It is the only BOND that sets one FREE!
Love needs compromises but all it needs to survive is, LOVE!
Love delights. Love traumatises.
Love never disappears, it simply moves on!
Love needs to be expressed!
Love is fragile, handle with care!
Love demands the finite to deliver the infinite!
Love is opportunistic!
Love depresses. But it also the best anti-depressant!
Love is romance, comedy, fun and horror all rolled into one!
But in the end even without love, life is good. With it, it's just beautiful!
Ishan R. Mehta
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Take your shot at immortality. Dream!
Millions of us, lost in the crowd. Surviving, not living. Content, but not happy. Knowing success wouldn’t walk up to us, but still believing that one day, we will be successful. Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Success doesn’t walk up to anyone. We need to run towards it. And what stops us from succeeding? A cynic, who says, dreams don’t come true. What has a cynic ever achieved for himself/herself? Except, more cynicism of course. But Dreaming gives us, mere mortals, a chance at immortality, a chance to achieve greatness and be remembered forever. While cynics only aim to clip our wings, before we even fly. True! Someday, we might come crashing down and get hurt, but we would at least know what it felt like to fly. We would know what it felt like to feel the wind, the sunshine, the hope. And, we would dream again, fly again, higher! So, dream, dream wild, dream big. Take your shot at Immortality!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Review Delhi 6: Message too subtle
Really wanted the title to be ‘’ Message too subtle, if any!’’, but then I didn’t! The message is in fact so subtle in its delivery that most would miss it.
The movie is about a guy, Roshan who comes from the US to India just to fulfill his dying grand-mothers last wish. The fact that even till the end of the movie, the grand-mother does not die is an altogether different story. So Roshan basically lands in this huge cultural melting pot called ‘Delhi’. A place full of colour and people or rather full of colourful people.
The movie’s biggest weakness is its multitude of characters. The entire first half is just dedicated to introduction of various characters. After the first 10 minutes, I told myself that may be now the movie will pick pace. Ditto after the first 60 minutes, but again, the same result. The end of the first half leaves you with a hollow feeling. Even after a good 70 minutes, you don’t know where the movie is heading, what the message is.
The movie though, is a visual delight, old Delhi looks amazingly beautiful. Rakesysh Mehra again delivers on the visual front, the same way he did with Rang De. But the story leaves a lot to be desired. But the music is truly uplifting. If you thought Rahman’s ‘Jai Ho’ was brilliant, Delhi 6’s music will simply blow your mind away.
Also, there are multiple stories running at the same time: Sonam fighting against her father’s wish to settle for an arrange marriage, the Hindu-Muslim tension over the ‘kaala bandar’, a rich landlord’s wife cheating him and many more. Add to this, the love story between Bittu and Roshan and what you get is a plate-full of confusion.
Even Roshan’s transition from an American to a thoroughbred Delhi ka munda is shabbily handled. The fact that Roshan, born and bought up in America just easily merges into the loud society of Delhi is most baffling. Surpirisngly, his character does not encounter any awkwardness and hence the transition that the director wanted to show, that of an American-Indian finding his true self is not effective.
Please enjoy the song Masakalli thoroughly, not because it is a great song, but because it is one of the rare sequences in the movie worth enjoying. When the movie finally ended, I was left with a highly confused and empty feeling. It was as if I had just seen a marathon episode of a daily soap, whose last scene said ‘’ To be continued…’’
P.S: I may be a bit more disappointed because Rang De Basanti is one of my favourite movies. Hence, expected this one to be even better.
The movie is about a guy, Roshan who comes from the US to India just to fulfill his dying grand-mothers last wish. The fact that even till the end of the movie, the grand-mother does not die is an altogether different story. So Roshan basically lands in this huge cultural melting pot called ‘Delhi’. A place full of colour and people or rather full of colourful people.
The movie’s biggest weakness is its multitude of characters. The entire first half is just dedicated to introduction of various characters. After the first 10 minutes, I told myself that may be now the movie will pick pace. Ditto after the first 60 minutes, but again, the same result. The end of the first half leaves you with a hollow feeling. Even after a good 70 minutes, you don’t know where the movie is heading, what the message is.
The movie though, is a visual delight, old Delhi looks amazingly beautiful. Rakesysh Mehra again delivers on the visual front, the same way he did with Rang De. But the story leaves a lot to be desired. But the music is truly uplifting. If you thought Rahman’s ‘Jai Ho’ was brilliant, Delhi 6’s music will simply blow your mind away.
Also, there are multiple stories running at the same time: Sonam fighting against her father’s wish to settle for an arrange marriage, the Hindu-Muslim tension over the ‘kaala bandar’, a rich landlord’s wife cheating him and many more. Add to this, the love story between Bittu and Roshan and what you get is a plate-full of confusion.
Even Roshan’s transition from an American to a thoroughbred Delhi ka munda is shabbily handled. The fact that Roshan, born and bought up in America just easily merges into the loud society of Delhi is most baffling. Surpirisngly, his character does not encounter any awkwardness and hence the transition that the director wanted to show, that of an American-Indian finding his true self is not effective.
Please enjoy the song Masakalli thoroughly, not because it is a great song, but because it is one of the rare sequences in the movie worth enjoying. When the movie finally ended, I was left with a highly confused and empty feeling. It was as if I had just seen a marathon episode of a daily soap, whose last scene said ‘’ To be continued…’’
P.S: I may be a bit more disappointed because Rang De Basanti is one of my favourite movies. Hence, expected this one to be even better.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
A path will emerge…
I know the path today, but there was a day when I didn’t.
I knew my destination, but not the path, which lead to it.
I kept moving, hoping to find a way and one day, I did!
I was surprised as the path emerged out of nowhere- quite literally.
It came from across seven seas, from a place, which I had only read about in books.
Even my dreams couldn’t have imagined of a distance so enormous, but my belief built a smooth highway over it.
Today, I have almost reached my destination.
I am so close, I can almost smell the air there.
But I forgot how I got there coz I just kept working, praying, hoping and of course believing!
I am almost there, but it’s just taking some time.
But I do know, I will get there.
May be the path is a bit hazy again, but I know what to do.
Work, Pray, Hope and Believe!
I knew my destination, but not the path, which lead to it.
I kept moving, hoping to find a way and one day, I did!
I was surprised as the path emerged out of nowhere- quite literally.
It came from across seven seas, from a place, which I had only read about in books.
Even my dreams couldn’t have imagined of a distance so enormous, but my belief built a smooth highway over it.
Today, I have almost reached my destination.
I am so close, I can almost smell the air there.
But I forgot how I got there coz I just kept working, praying, hoping and of course believing!
I am almost there, but it’s just taking some time.
But I do know, I will get there.
May be the path is a bit hazy again, but I know what to do.
Work, Pray, Hope and Believe!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Slumdog slams it!
A film about India, shot in India, featuring Indians! How I wish this could be India's official entry for the Oscars, but for its British director, Danny Boyle!
Slumdog Millionaire deserves all the hype surrounding it. From it's very first scene, in which the slum kids outrun our very own pot-bellied cops inspite of them having motorcycles, the movie manages to capture the rawness of slum-life. Not only that, throughout it's duration, the movie has some terrific scenes, some funny, some moving and striking!
In a strange way, the movie manages to make slums look smelly yet full of life, especially in the scene in which Jamaal jumps from the toilet into a pit full of shit and runs across drenched in....you know what, just to get Amitabh's autograph. No movie has ever manged to capture India's dark underbelly in such a beautiful manner. Kudos to the screenplay writer for making the film look more realistic than Indian films.
The whole journey of Jamaal from the slums to the show is brilliantly thought-off. The beauty of the movie is that Anil Kapoor asks questions, not the actor but the film answers it. The narrative keeps shifting from the show to his childhood, adulthood et all, answering all the questions along the way!
The direction is brilliant, the music is good, but the real star of the movie is not Anil Kapoor or A R Rahman, the real star is Jamaal, the little kid. His acting is as good as anyone's I have seen in recent times. His spontaenity and enthusiasm just get to you. He is a real find, a slumdog who I think really has the potential to be a star worth not million but billion bucks. An actor so good, I wouldnt surrpised if many producers are ready to jump in the pit full of shit just to get his dates.
Slumdog, the movie is brilliant but it is Jamaal, a real-life slum-kid who makes the movie what it is. Hence, 'Slumdog slams it! 'Full stop
P.S: We will miss the Oscar again!
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