Choodo Kal ki Baatein

We are obsessed with aiming for the sky, setting goals, achieving them, setting higher ones………….a vicious circle of desire and achievement encloses the mind and leads to a tunnel vision where sight is fixed only at the other end, …..caught in such a web of desire and achievement is the lead character of this movie Chodo Kal ki Batein (CKKB) Aditya Pradhan (AP) played by Sachin Khedakar.  I loved the concept of this movie, although I don’t know whether it has been lifted from somewhere. 

AP is a very successful and hard working professional, who wins a career boosting 20 crore contract for his company on Saturday at the expense of missing his daughter’s Arangetram.  Come Monday, and his dreams will be realized by signing on the contract, but there lies the problem.........Monday is not coming!  His Sunday keeps on repeating and he is the only one who realizes this.  The situation is funny and thought provoking at the same time and then there is this mysterious man wearing dark glasses (Anupam Kher) who keeps appearing in front of AP. 

The message of the movie is very good, although I felt it was a little cliched towards the end.  Nevertheless a movie to be watched by all the hardworking guys n gals…………

Iqbal

Cricket is a passion for us, Indians, and Iqbal, the protagonist of this movie is no different, but there are differences, unlike us, he is deaf and dumb and also he wants to represent India internationally.  Coming from a rural background he faces a lot of hindrances and roadblocks, but love and support of his mother and sister and his own persistence eventually helps him to realize his dream.  Along the way, he also converts a drunkard ex-player into his coach, his cricket hating father into a supporter.  This movie has shown the politics that goes down at the grass root level and how some coaches manipulate those in power to get their ward selected.  Watch it if you have not already, it is sure to lift you up....starring Shreyas Talpade as Iqbal, Nassruddin Shah as Mohit jee (his coach), Shweta Prasad as Khadeeja (Iqbal's sister ~ you are going to love her).  Nagesh Kuknoor is the director.


Watch this song for the feel of this movie 

Scent of a woman

Many a times life seems meaningless and there seems to be no hope, no point in going along with life, no values to stand up for..

this I believe happens when we loose ourselves in the act of living.. most of the time we live for the wrong reasons...

life is beautiful.. there are no words to describe it.. it is as beautiful as the laughter of a baby, as beautiful as the smile of a woman, as beautiful as the blue sky, the green grass, the blue ocean...

Scent of a woman (1992) gives the viewers the sweet smell of life itself. The movie is uplifting and brilliant.

Finest performances from all the actors, Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell and James Rebhorn directed by Martin Brest, won an Oscar (didn't know this).

Watch it here

The pursuit of happyness

You dream big, you want to succeed, but then everything else seems to be conspiring against you, your investment has turned dud, your family life is at a cross road for some time now, you have bills piling up everywhere and wait.....you have got a 5-year-old son too......won't you give up?


................No....never.....because the "you" here is Chris Gardner enacted superbly on screen by Will Smith and his real life son (Jaden Smith) enacts the role of Gardner's son. This is his (Gardner's) real life story.


The movie shows the early part of Gardner's life as a medical equipment salesman
when he was struggling to make both ends meet, and could not even afford a home at one point and ends at the juncture where he gets his first break.


In the end, which is also the climax, both Deekay and Will Smith were trying hard to control their emotions ;-).


So, if you ever feel low on motivation and depressed about things not going your way, this is the movie to watch.


The script is by Steven Conrad and director is Gabrielle Muccino and Will Smith also won an Academy Award nomination for best actor.