Minia's Mundane Musings

Aditi Restuarant The place that used humor to prove a point is now being victimized by the ones in power. Isn't free speech a given in our democracy? Isn't it a given that we in this great democracy of ours can express ourselves freely? If the restaurant is mine then the bills being printed there are mine too and surely I can write what I want on that bill! Why does anyone have the right to vandalize my property over that? Perhaps Mummyji and her precious Baba shall be better served if they directed the angst of their cadres towards the more emergent issues of China having invaded Ladakh....And the fact that the chinese forces are actually laughing in our faces when they parade around on small horses and ponies. How about showing some bravery there? How about being concerned about the fact that it hasn't stopped raining for a week now and slowly but surely Maharashtra is flooding? Or is these issues too trivial? Then maybe we can concentrate on the fact that the two

Strange..... There are so many things that we have adopted and aped from the west. Technology, mannerisms, education, entertainment....... But somehow the trend of the answering machine and voice mails never seems to have caught on. Maybe because of our family structures or the stay at home moms or because "Ramu Kaka" was always around. Even now when I call friends in the west the call automatically gets screened and its to a voice mail box. And even then with a burgeoning telecom industry we still havent caught on to this fad either. Makes me wonder, Is all.........

I dare you to come out of this one without goosebumps and dry eyes! I dare you! What is there to say about the partition that hasn't already been said? Who doesn't know the story of Milkha Singh? I am not surprised that this story was sold to Rakesh Omprakash Mehra for a single rupee, because there is really no story! But what is to watch here is the treatment of the oft told, well known story. You are held captive from the words get set go and it holds you beyond the end credits and the parking lot and the ride home. It is a biopic that has come of age and shall now be a benchmark for the others that shall follow. Mehra gets his groove back after the miserable Delhi-6 and finally we see the same calibre as we did in Aks and Rang De Basanti. I am desperately trying to find the name of the child artiste who played the young Milkha but can't find it, what a stellar performance from that child.Kudos to Mehra for drawing out that. As always Divya Dutta as Milkha's siste

Lootera What a perfect movie for this season! Reminded me of the movies Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Gulzar used to make. The movie is like a slow moving stream of molasses that soaks you as it flows over you. So there are only two reactions you have-- either you thrash about and try to come up for air or you let go and flow along with the sweetness that is the crux of this movie!  Basically what I am  trying to say here is that either you shall love this movie or absolutely hate it! The theater was houseful when the movie began but after the break when all the popcorn had been munched and the sodas had been slurped a lot of people left, so fair warning here! Frankly i like neither Sonakshi nor Ranvir, and the only reason that I felt compelled to watch this movie was coz I absolutely loved Motwane's last endeavor and love stories are a genre that i really enjoy. That having been said Motwane can probably make a rock emote and he draws out the best from his actors here. Like the others