Review: Namesake

One always listens about the bad effects of holding a credit card. There are some good, too. Since in job, I started getting a lot of calls regarding credit cards. Got a few of them. One of them is Manhattan, best thing about this card is, on every Thursday you get to see movie in INOX at half the price (if you manage to get a partner :).

I was waiting for Namesake since long. The story appealed me. Cross-culture and all that, based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, I liked all that.

So, I desperately wanted to watch this movie. Tried to persuade a lot of people, nobody agreed. Had to watch anyway, so went.

The movie delivered more than I had expected. Not at an art movie at all. Acting wise movie is just superb. Each and every character has done their job with utmost sincerity. May it be Irrfan Khan, whom I like a lot since since 'Haasil' or national award winning actress Tabu. I heard that Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee were about to do this flick, I don't think they could have done a better job apart from some media publicity. Kal Penn from 'Harold & Kumar' pulls off very nicely. As a young boy, stranded between two opposing culture, he has done a great job. Struggle in his mind is well reflected on his face. Scenes of real Kolkata add lots of originality to the movie, someone should show this to Hindi film directors that one does not need to go to Switzerland just to shoot a movie and all that. Well, one more thing, the movie uses lots of Bengali, of course subtitle is provided. But, I understood most of them without reading, thanks to some very good Bengali friends, I made in Kolkata J.

Overall, Namesake is a very beautifully crafted movie. Kudos to Mira Nair for such a nice effort. This poster is also intriguing. Kal Penn is shown coming out of past memory, basic theme of the movie.

My rating: ****

Nice blog in Hindi

These days, we find dearth of anything good written in Hindi, I don't really remember when was the last time I read some really good Hindi literature..

In my college days, I read Vaishali ki 'Nagarvadhu by Acharya Chatursen', thoroughly enjoyed it...Recently bought a book by Dharmveer Bharti named 'Gunahon ka Devta'...very well written. These books had been written well in past. Not much I have seen in contemporary time. May be because people's fascination towards anything English, even they would love to read some stupid Hinglish or worse Hindi written in Roman script (in mobile or SMS)....I don't think our children would be able to read Hindi script though they may be able to talk very well (courtesy to Hindi movies)

Especially people of our generation tend to deny their Hindi connection to show them you know English type...Here is a good effort made by one of my batchmate and dear friend...I think one should have a look at it and appreciate the kind of efforts being put. Apart from quality of work...The sheer hard work of typing in Hindi...I am still trying to figure out how to write in Hindi...:(

Here is the link...http://ojha-uwaach.blogspot.com/
(Anybody knows this name means..Ojha Uwaach..Means Ojha says...from Sanskrit actually)

Back on Blogosphere

After a long tussle with myself to remember all my passwords, I could not remember my password for www.blogspot.com. The email id I used here was sawan@iitk.ac.in which was closed as we left the college. So, not possible to get the password. Ultimately had to write Blog Team, and see they take good response.

I got access to my blogs. Hurray!!!

Hope to make a lot of posts these days...there has been a lot of developments in last one year...:)