Sideways (the movie)

I must confess that I am being introduced to masterpieces of cinema only now.I have been watching “Oscar Stuff” for long since my graduation but it seems “Oscar stuff” is just a small bowl.There is an ocean of movies , really amazing movies.I recently got a treasure of critically acclaimed movies from my M.Phil friend , Bhuvaneshwaran.Yesterday I saw a movie as part of our MDes course Story and Narrative.The name of the movie SIDEWAYS.The lead stars in the movie were Paul Giamatti , Thomas Haden Church , Virginia Madsen , Jessica Hecht and Sandra Oh.

It was a simple narration, smoothly flowing.Even the character depiction were simple with few “bumps” in the story where the character’s past unfolded.Like the scene when Miles(Giamatti) comes to know about his ex-wife getting remarried during which he bursts into a Wine Drinking madness.There was another scene when he goes off again and pours a whole bucket of wine into his mouth.This continues throughout the movie but in the last scene during Jack’s wedding when he comes to know about his wife being Pregnant (of current husband) he controls his emotions so well.The audience can feel the emotion.The closest I got to Mile’s feelings was when my ex-girlfriend put her relationship status as committed on orkut during the time when we were breaking-up,well she is “Single” again now.

Another nice aspect of the movie was Mile’s love for writing inspite of not being successful for many years.I am not really a big movie critic so I tend to relate movies to my closest experiences.What struck me was everyone of us really love to do something which we may not really (good at?) or successful at.It becomes an obsession.There are few things which I am obsessed with right now and definitely not successful in it.Also there are few things we are so good at and our eyes show a “sparkle” when we speak about it like in this movie Miles speaks about WINE WINE WINE all the time,but never gives a thought about becoming a Wine taster.I guess everyone of us has such things in life (atleast in career) i.e. One which we may not be good at or successful at but obsessed with it and another one which brings that amazing sparkle in our eyes hardly comparable to any emotions in humans(may be next to the feeling of Love)

IIT loves Sheila ki Jawani ; preferable over Jessica’s

Of all the eventful nights at IIT Bombay Moodi Indigo 2010 one thing was very common. SHEILA . Yes . IIT Junta wanted to see Sheila Ki Jawani .They demanded it from Asha bhosle , Amit Kumar , Amit Trivedi , Kavita Seth , Vidya Balan and even from the Sumo Wrestlers.Thank god , the guys didn’t demand it from the Katatonia.The sad part is NO ONE , Not a Single performer played Sheila Ki Jawani for IIT-B . There was some hope when the singer Kalpana sung the “Munni Badnam huee” in a sufi tone but she also didn’t do the Sheila for us.

See the following video (NOTE that at exactly 00:50 seconds of the video junta were screaming Sheila , Sheila and Rani Mukherjee smartly stops the boring part of the promo for Jessica lal movie and starts playing Dilli song once more).Even the much talked about Rani Vidya smoching stage was also a gimmick to make the audience forget the Jawani of Sheila

Baap Ka Keher

I am forced to write this post after day before yesterday’s nite , the last night of Mood Indigo 2010.The Amit Trivedi set the IIT Bombay crowd on fire but there was one more performance that made the crowd go crazy.It was a band called LiFE from IIT Madras Pune who got the second prize in the Manthra competition(the judges were partial to the IIT Bombay band who were actually booed by the crowd along with another band Dravya which happened to be owned by Indian Idol star Emon from St.Xavier college).The song that caused the explosion in the SAC pavilions was BAAP KA KEHER which they explained to be the inspired by the discovery of a file called WINDOWS RAGA on the Drummer Mukender’s computer which was actually a 20 minute Porn file   . This song is loved by everyone irrespective of their relationship with their dads.