The X'S and their impact

You suddenly bump into one of your X after donkeys years ... what do u do pretend and ignore ?

Me I face it with elan ... looked into his eyes and called him out by reminding him my name and of course he pretended that he did not remember !  Voila tungggggg flash back ... he gave the most bravest expression that he did remember... 

Suddenly  for me tungggg ... light bulbs .........realisation strikes ......oyee  wait a minute this is no man .. Cmon after so many years he had to pretend that he didnt know me ! What a  a coward gutless and ball less ass ! ...Not recognisin me was a cover up that I am dead sure ..

But was proud that I could face my past with dignity and enjoyed the evening ..
Well ! his evening  Iam sure he was hiding away after that at very moment !

Echos of a common person

#kamalamillsfire

What a devastating aftermath.. people have died .. families have lost their loved ones .. but the govt and the owners have been playing scape goat out on each other .. The culprits are on  the run .. The  chief minister has had 2  disasters back to back yet the  chief minister has no say .

The illegal structures are right in front of you the media companies are running their businesses there but they haven't run any story which was right there under their nose .

The developer , the owners and the bmc are hand in hand and the nexus is super high..

but unfortunately this will die down too !! 

Shajarur kanta ( porcupine thorn ) byomkesh bakshi in bengali

I am a huge fan of byomkesh bakshi , my attraction for the series is because I kind of like the description I am not a detective but a truth seeker ...

So what's the truth ? and reason behind these murders is what he tries to find out . There have been quite a lot of actors who have played this role .. The latest is
Dhritman chatterjee ..

The actors are all kickass and known .. konkona , indraniel and the plot is gobhir ( thick)
This particular killings was also compared to jack the ripper ... interesting plot and series but the people dying were non entities .. hence it was inconsequential as to why the murders .  It  felt that these were random killings that the killer chose .
It's only when the lady from the theatre  is killed the plot starts thickening and one starts linking the killer to the theatre group.

The ending was a bit lame and average as the killer's motive and way of killing is questionable.

What I could not connect was an old foggy detective and the slow Shakespearian way of dialogue delivery by Dhritman  compared to the earlier byomkeshes .. Would have loved a crisp and more natural dialogue delivery . Ajit was inconsequential too .. had no role or no reason to be there .
Indraniel was fresh and handsome ... I kind of liked the scene of stage performance ...
Konkona is by far a very underrated actress ... but her expressions are becoming monotonous if u watch her movies back to back  one can relate to what I am trying to say ... she needs to reinvent herself for her own sake ..
The make up of byomkesh  in the last scene was uggs !!

Overall average ..  still kept me seeking for truth though the case was closed and resolved ..

Maacher jhol - fish curry ( bengali)

Okay I was keen to  watch this movie from the day I saw the trailer . But unfortunately in bombay it's very difficult to access bengali movie in theatres .

So the moment I found it on Netflix .. voila ... tres bien moi was superrrr happy . So I sat down with a chilled coke and started watching this movie .. MAACHER JHOL.

Mind it though maacher jhol a simple fish curry for the bengali is the most complex ed dish I gave ever come across . Like the french cooking bengali food is less ingredients and more flavour . So its a challenge to get the consistency , flavour and taste of a maacher jhol bang on . Every bengali lobes dhier maacher jhol Bhaat.  Bottom line u want to impress a bengali girl or guy ... GET YOUR JHOL RIGHT

But I was a bit disappointed with the movie ... I thought the story line will also be the same as the jhol .. Unfortunately a big khichudi !  The chef girl , the journalist , stealing of bori and the old buro butler being made to sleep in the common passage.

The first meeting of mother and son after 13 years  was just for seconds ... whoop! !!!  I wanted emotions and deep connect in that scene.... but it was the same gheesa peeta stuff .. about weight and girlfriend period .😌
Why was the hotel girl chef added ? What was her contribution and why was she needed .. stupid and immature .

I thought pauli dham was great .. resilient and matter of fact . The French girl hmmmm ... can't say much about her

Cooking , relationship and bonding go hand in hand .Wanted this movie to have a common thread and knots unfolding like the  fish wrapped in bannana leaf ... slowly and delicately ... its just that there were too many knots to open which could have been done away with ...

Over all the movie was good for plating but somehow a ingredient was missing and hence the taste was half felt on the tongue .

Ritwik .. The aloof rebellious bong man suits u to the T

Bon appetite !

PARTY - govind nihalani 1984

Party by govind nihalani 1984

Just watched it today ... A super cult movie with a star cast that's mind blowing ..

The likes of shafi inamdar , vijaya mehta and so on ....
Difficult to fathom that some of these veteran actors are no more . But their footprints of artistry will remind us about them for decades .. 

The fact that the movie is an eye opener for censor boards and political parties . A major part of the movie talks about the writer/ poet - Amrit who takes off to the jungles to protect the tribal people and their land from govt and the political goons . In the process a mild artist turns into a revolutionary who gets not only murdered but his tongue is cut off as he stands up against the land grabbing politicians.

Whilst there is this man who is fighting against the govt.. An urban group of people in the 4 closed walls debates superficially on issues that they have neither experienced nor touched .

The most amazing part about this movie is the naked truth of life ,

And the fact that the government allowed this movie to see the day light compared to the current situation where the govt gets involved in each and every artistic expression .

In the end would like to like to ponder on what om puri states ...