Thursday, February 24, 2011

Restless !!

Feeling restless. All of a sudden. What is the reason?? Not sure but there could be many reasons building over the period. Sometimes, when you feel helpless in certain situation the anger builds in your mind. This always tries to find a way out.
Anger due to system surrounding you. Anger due to failures. Anger due to unfulfilled desires.
Sometime all of us feel like bitting someone badly. Sometime we feel numb. This is ought to happen. Mind always try to find optimistic side of it. And ( almost ) always he manages too.
It is certainly one of the biggest challenge to find some motivation every time to move ahead.A friend told that swami Vivekananda always endorsed optimism. Haven't read much of him but it would be interesting to find his source to do so. I think spirituality is one of biggest source. But to begin on the path of spirituality is quit a challenge. It needs immense efforts and dedication along with sacrifice. Doesn't look my cup of tea. Who knows if I could manage in future. I am not excited but still would be waiting for that day.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Pinjaraa- A timeless classic

Have seen Marathi classic movie Pinjara on Saturday. For a long time now wanted to watch this movie. Finally the movie was aired on a Marathi channel and I could watch it. Thanx to Z talkies.
The script was just incredible. Probably best among all I have seen ever. The plot and the massage given everything was astonishing truly. The all time legend V. Shantaraam had everything to offer in a legendary art creation.
This was one of the issues always taken my attention. The importance of values and limitations of being a human being. When people develop faith in someone over a period, they just can't except his/her limitations being human.
The movie is about an ideal teacher who is dedicated to serve his village to make it ideal one. The village free of liquor, tamasha anything which can develop into an addiction. When he refuses a tamashaa ( local folk dance from Maharashtra done by women, slightly intimating) the lead lady takes it as a challenge. She sets up her show in adjacent village separated by a river. And she succeeds over the period to woo people from teachers village. People starts bunking special evening school run by teacher to attain tamasha at other village. The teacher, who has adopted bramhachryatw ( decided not to marry and stay away from women) come to know about this and try to get back his people. He even went to the lady to request her to leave the place. But during there few interactions he starts loosing himself over the beauty. Over the period even lady is influenced by the kindness and knowledge of teacher. The teacher tries to hold himself hard but can't stop of losing all the time to her beauty and her bold philosophy of life.
The teacher starts feeling immense guilty over his contact with a women considered characterless. With different series of sequences he runs away with the lady and her group of tamasha's where people from his village considered him being killed. The teacher and lady now deeply involved in each other keep facing conflicts due to absolute different lives and ideologies. Finally time comes when teacher who has lost everything in his life over a woman has left helpless and becomes alcoholic. He in fact keeps getting insulted in the group of tamaasha. And when the lady decides to leave everything for him to start a new life he is being arrested accusing him for the murder of his own ( as everyone in his village thinks that their ideal teacher is being killed).
There he realizes that people from his village did set up a statue of him in his memory and cursing his killer. Now when he faces them with his changed identity where no one can reckon him he realizes what their faith mean for him. He refuses the lady to tell truth about him being the same to anyone, as he is worried that people will loose faith over any good thing in the life. He argues that ideology should prevail over human being. The ideology should be protected even at the expense of human being.
The music composed by Shree Raam Kadam and written by Shree Jagdish Khebudkar is timeless classic. It binds the entire movie. Pinjara means cage. The movie talks about the restrictions (Pinjara) of life over a human being.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Yeh Saali Zindagi

14 th feb The valentines day ended with watching this fabulous movie with friends. Friends includes only boys, I should specify.
The movie was superb. Another fantastic performance by Irfan and another treat by Sudhir Mishra. Something was common between this one and his last best Hazaron Khwaihishey Aisi.
The perspective of a relationship between a man and woman. The way a man can carried away by two beautiful eyes. This indeed reflects a perspective of an individual and I am quit convinced by this one. I have seen this happening, in fact can't deny such own experiences.
The valentines day was just another day. What else can it bring for a single?? I have also received these massages reminding that the great Bhagatsingh and his friends were hanged on same day 14 th feb. This gives a better reason for not celebrating V-day until single, with due respect to the legend.
Don't know how much single valentines day are going to show me Yeh Saali Zindagi !!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Rs 250/- Tea at Hilton Hotel

I was about to get out of my car after parking it in office parking, and suddenly had a call on my cellphone. The call was from Chennai and they had a job offer for me in their Singapore based company. The company name is Tenoile and they are into trading of different goods across the world. Things sounded interesting. It was a Thursday and I was given an appointment with Sr VP of company on Saturday at Hotel Orchids Mumbai, which later on changed to Hotel Hilton very close to previous mentioned one.
I reached Hotel Hilton at 1 PM on next Saturday exactly an hour before the give time. Thus I preferred to wait for next hour in hotel lounge before giving call to gentleman. At exact 2 I have given a call and was asked to wait for next 15 min till he could finish with his lunch.
Now when my stay in the lounge was extended for next 15 min I was asked for some tea or coffee by the beautiful hotel management girls taking care of guests at lounge. After denying initially I have decided to have a small cup of tea. I remember taking even less than half the cup.
When I was striding after 15 min to meet the gentleman a very sweet voice asked me that when am I going to pay the bill for tea?? Bang!! I thought it was complimentary, but there was no question of asking it now. " Ok how much??" I asked, " Just Rs 225/-" Bang Bang !! Oye what was that. For few sips I paid Rs 225 and how could I get back Rs 25/- from beautiful lady. That was a TIP.

But now that lady was no more looking beautiful and voice was no more sweet.........................!!!