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 o...

Sometimes one can make an effort to try and understand people but they make it so damn hard! You keep making excuses for their behaviour and keep giving them the benefit of the doubt, but maybe they are just not worth it! So cut them loose! We just have SO many grey cells and I am sure that they are much better utilized with other stuff! We can keep obsessing over why people are doing, what they are doing.... And how can they not do it! But let it be! Maybe they are just not worth it... Or could be that you thought them capable of stuff they have absolutely no potential for, so its ultimately your fault. LET IT GO! let them be at peace and you be at peace too. Remember, all that humans do is directed towards achieving comfort and contentment so let all the barbs go and life is so much better. So in conclusion the only way to avoid a misunderstanding is to make sure that you understand that some people are so not worth it. Whew writing here sometimes puts thin...

Ek Tha Tiger is essentially a romance masquerading as an action flick. Oh the charm of Salman is unmatched! I have never seen him look or perform better. He made my heart skip quite a few beats.:-) He was there in practically every frame of the movie and boy he was so cool. The film is well crafted too. I loved the way there were mini flashbacks telling us about his life.Nice touch Aditya and Kabir , very smart. Not too many dialogues, but whatever were there were again very smart.Fabulous locales for the romance to take root and flourish. And the romance was certainly more palpable than in Mausam-the recent one. I am longing to see it again very soon. This is specially written coz everyone said that i didn't write how the movie was! Watch it! P.S: The music could certainly have been better. Specially as it was coming on the heels of Cocktail .. Hmmm ...maybe they should have let Salman have more of a say in the music. I am sure it would then have been better. Enjoy the wa...

I once read in Linda Goodman's book that people with the sun sign-Aries tend to adopt people rather than befriend them.... Hmmmmm.... many many many years later methinks that I agree. The main problem in this scenario is that the person who gets adopted often doesn't realize that he has been adopted and then ensues a comedy of errors and often a tragedy of high proportions..... All this in because of expectations and no expectations I guess... So I think that it is best to go slow and not help people unless they ask for help, we should just watch people falling into holes and then rush forward only when they cry out aloud( aka Mahi..)     .....Naaah! This is something that I have never done and will never do, I shall always warn the person that there is a pit before they fall in, and if the person feels that my warning just slowed them down, just too bad ya! Saw GOW yesterday and was so impressed, what a movie, too blasting good.... Also am two-thirds don...