Movie Critics: Welcome to Sajjanpur

Shyam Benegal is one of the master directors of India who have always carved a name for creating something meaningful, something thought provoking and something that is far more than those nonsense movies that take our 2 and a half hours but at the end of it we feel it was not worth spending that much amount of time.

"Welcome to Sajjanpur" is essentially a comedy movie that laughs loud on the daily life of a village, the superstitions that are still there and in the course it narrates a beautiful story of many lives of a villages intangled someway or the other. The picture of an Indian village is so well portrayed in this movie, a trademark of Mr. Benegal in all his movies and at the same time there are quite a few incidents that actually tell you about the primitive mentality of the Indian villagers which is still there very much. A eunuch cannot stand in elections, a lady is forced to marry a dog only to cure her fate, 2 lovers were hanged to death just because the lady was a widow and the man showed courage to marry her again. Then there was a villian (a proper gunda) who was the previous sarpanch and has enough manpower to scare away the people of the village. The movie does not only allow you to laugh your heart out it also allows you to use your intellect to think about the conditions and relate them with the circumstances that you might have witnessed had you been ever to a village. The movie forces you to think about the future of Indian villages and forces you to believe that development is much more than a Grameen Sadak Pariyojna, setting up of hospitals or providing electricity in all the villages which is not there for 23 hours (people are lucky if they find electricity for an hour a day).

Brilliant performances by Shreyash Talpade, Amrita Rao and Divya Dutta. Ila Arun is already a well established actress who can portray any kind of character in movies. Ravi Kishen came as a surprise package while Rajeshwari Sachdeva stole the show in the particular Letter Reading scene. Kunal Kapoor is good in that short cameo. I wish this talented guy gets some more substantial roles in movies to exploit his talent and show it to the world.

A brilliant comedy which had not vulgarity. Remainded me of those times when Hrishikesh Mukherjee used to make brilliant movies like Chupke Chupke or Golmal which were sarcastic at times, funny on the other times. Last but not the least : Thank You Mr. Benegal for gifting a brilliant comedy sans any cheap dialogues or vulgarly humourous visuals!!!!

Ajeeb daastan hai yeh

Daastan ajeeb hi hote hain, Shuru hokar khatam bhi hote hain,
Kyun inse gaane banate hain,,Kyun sabhi aaj bhi gate hain,
K ajeeb dastan hai yeh, kahan hai shuru kahan hai khatam,
Yeh manjilen hain kaun si, na tum samajh sako aur na hum,
Har koi yahan hai alag alag unki manjil bhi hai alag alag,
Jano bas khud ki manjil ko, pehchano uska har ek pag,
Dusron ki manjilon ko tum kyun yun vyarth samajhne jate ho,
Wo dukhate hain tumhara dil, tum dhang se ro bhi nahi pate ho,
Bin mehnat k kuchh bhi jo mile mol unka samajh nahi pate hain,
Ghar k karele taaze hain par bahar se kharidke hi khate hain.
Banto tum pyaar bas unko jo mahatva tumhara samajhte hain,
Unka kya ho hain mahatvaheen jo khud hi khud se ulajhte hain.
Maine bhi kahin kisi mod pe apno ka dil jaroor dukhaya hai,
Tabhi maine jinhe mana tha apna unse bas gham hi paaya hai.
Waqt waise hi beet ta hai jaise tum jaise use bitate ho,
Durghatna se hai der bhali yeh tum sab bhul kyun jate ho,
Uncha karke sar mango maafi jinka dil tumne dukhaya hai,
Par bas unse hi jinko tumne kisi mod pe apna paaya hai,
Socho tum bhala har insaan ka un sabme tum bhi shamil ho,
Mat karwao ehsaas kisiko unhe khud ehsaas yeh karne do,
Jeewan me jab har ek insan karmon ko samajhta jayega,
Khush hoga achchhe karmo par, galatiyan fir nahi duhrayega.
Na honge wo dastan fir ajeeb, shuru honge par na honge khatam,
Pehchanenge hum sab apno ko, samjhenge manjilon ko tum aur hum.

From the heart of an ardent fan of FasTrack watches!!!

I come across people who aspire to have a Rolex, an Omega or a Mont Blanc. I have known many people who boast having never tried an Indian brand of watches (all that they possess are Swatch (most common), Rado, Foce, Citizen, Police, Tommy Hilfiger, Espirit and many other not able to recall at this moment). I wonder why these people never have a look towards the very Indian watchmaking company TITAN. Somehow I find all the TITAN products very nice and its one of the most liked brand of mine and when people talk about sub brands of it I die for FasTrack watches and eye gears.

This monday I purchased my third FasTrack watch (eventually the third watch after I joined this company). Somehow most of the designs of this particular brand looks very cool and perfect for me. I have an allergy with leather bands so it is automatically out of my preferences. The remaining ones are those watches that come with fibre bands or metal bands. Again while coming down to metal bands most of the watch making companies make those watches that come with a loose fit on your wrist and keeps on rotating throughout the day (Gosh! I get so irritated with it, have such a watch but really don't like to wear it much). And among the fibre straps I already possess 2 FasTracks with such straps.

So going by the marketing fundas if I zero down on the kind of product I was looking for it was a big square dialed watch with metal strap but having a firm fitting on my broad wrists. I looked into the brands of Espirit and Tommy Hilfiger for the first time in search of such a kind of watch but alas my expectations were not met there. So finally I visited World of Titan once again looking for a watch with desired features and found an amazing FasTrack watch waiting for me. :)

Well people who are blindsided by all those big foreign brands do visit a Titan showroom and have a look across all the models of various brands. I guess India has come of an age in manufacturing watches and our watches can withstand competition even globally. But again for that we Indians should have a belief in our products isn't it? Well Titan can keep this certificate of mine as the feedback of a satisfied customer and can offer me a job in branding or advertising profile for their free and good publicity. :-D

I walk ALONE by choice!!!

Whenever I try to remain happy don’t know what problem people have. Well its not right to blame people rather I guess time has come to confront the Almighty regarding this matter. Well dear God what problem do you have? Whenever I see a ray of light why everytime it’s lost even before I can see the path and destination properly? And then there are some so shitty people who do the wrong things, touch the wrong nerves of mine and yet expect to be respected and loved. Damn them. These b****rds are just so self centered. These people prefer to make decisions for others, try to impose them, are so ready to find out the fault in you and the worst part they just forget to look at the dirt in their own collars. May be I am getting too loud and ruthless in taking out the anger.

Then there is an angel. She has been so nice to me and somewhere when I try to do some good to her I unknowingly keep irritating her. She never admits that though. Holy shit what’s going on around me? Why the bloody useless heart of mine does not understand all are not destined to get love in this world???? Too bad for me it seems. Things are getting clumsier. Well why the hell I not understand that enough is enough. I just hate myself for irritating her. Damn me. Had I not tried to provide such vivid explanations nothing would have been wrong. Though I feel I have not committed any mistake but yes I should not have done that also. So that’s it. Its better I keep myself in an indefinite isolation. The alone you are the complete you are because it gets into a habit for a person like me who is the only kid of parents, moreover I do believe firmly having loved somebody if I have not got her in life its better to be alone. At least its better as I won’t be running from this truth that I am alone. So in short life is completely screwed up in all aspects. And this time I choose not to follow any ray of light any more only to loose it again at some point further in life!!!!!!!!