The last time I saw Paris - Movie Review

This movie is a Elizabeth Taylor's classic; directed by Richard Brooks and written by Epstein.
The hero's character is played by Van Johnson. He acted really well but haven't succeeded in surpassing Taylor.
Taylor is simply superb; She is one of the most versatile actresses in the world cinema.
Her grace, her beauty, her flow of emotions on screen, her love and her everything on screen is great.
This movie depicts the problems arising between a husband and wife and how their life journey continues.
Charles comes back to Paris after the 2nd world war; He meets Helen, he infacts likes Helen's sister, Marion first but eventually falls for Helen when he sees her.
Charles and Helen gets married; Helen enjoys her life with friends and parties and never really succeeds in helping Charles or comforting him with his failures.
Charles joins a news company; He tries to write novels, all his novels are returned back with a note saying that they aren't worthy of publishing.
Disappointment and frustration grows in charles and Helen's indifference adds to his troubles.
He finds solace in their child. Differences grow between them slowly.
Meanwhile one day Helen's family finds that the land gifted by her father to Charles has Oil mines which makes them rich overnight.
Differences grow further and helen starts going out with a handsome tennis player whom her father introduces. Charles goes out with an actress whom he interviews for his news agency.
They both try to escape from each other and one day when Helen goes to their house to meet Charles, he refuses to open the door which forces helen to walk alone in the cold climate to her sister's house and falls sick.
Charles meets Helen the next day and they both express love and affection towards each other and helen finally dies in the hospital.
In the final act, Marion raises Helen's daughter, proving the court that Charles is an aloholic and unfit to raise his child.
Charles comes back to reclaim his child and finally wins over Marion after Marion's husband convinces her.
There have been hundreds of movies made later in Hindi and other regional languages in India based on this story but none matches Taylor's performance and Van Johnson's performance as well.

Taylor is a beauty queen and her grace is unmatched; Its highly unlikely that there's another woman who is so beautiful with loads of acting talent. The movie never has a boring scene and I infact cried for the last 30 mins of the movie. its so beautifully portrayed the love between a father and his child; Husband's remorse at losing his wife; Husband's calming attitude towards a very lively wife and a studious child.
this is a must watch for all those who will be tying the knot or who will be stepping into a relationship soon.

I think this is what happens when people fall in love at first sight; The eventual pull between opposite sexes as per the law of attraction rules and brings them to marriage.
After marriage, the troubles start as the couple fails to understand each other before marriage because of the law of attraction.
Its so difficult to maintain a marriage or a relationship. You have troubles, problems, misunderstandings coming in your way every now and then and you just have to move on and never break the relationship.
It all looks so easy but to be in a relationship and to sustain it is a challenge and its been becoming very difficult in the society due to the growing human's individualities and various lifestyles.

pain and suffering of being alone

I like writing when I am drunk.
The reason being thyeat I come to my natural terms only when I am drunk;
no fear, no embarrassment;
I am drunk today and in my fav PJ Oberai Pub.
As usual the saturday band played the routine songs but this time there were some surprise inclusions and I liked them.
I thought my day would end in gloom but luckily I went to pub and I just love the music and alcohol.
yes, there's nothing worse than being alone; or the feeling of lonelyness;
I know that its a punishment for me to suffer alone for sometime due to all my bad behaviour in the past.
I now understand and realize that's it cruelty on my part to criticize people so much and comment on them.
coz I am part of the "karma" bhumi now I am suffering what is eventually in store for me.
Being away from your loved ones; being alone; the feeling of loneliness;
Though alcohol alleviates your pain for sometime, its only temporary; you would eventually feel your lonelyness the next morning when you come to your senses;
Life is nothing without family, friends, relatives, roommates, neighbours, colleagues.
Its a curse to be alone and to feel the loneliness;
There's nothing much in our hands and its all with God; He shows you the way and he lets you suffer for your guilt so that you can realize and never repeat the same.
I realize now but I have to suffer my consequences for another month;
I know life would be sweet after a month; but who knows whats in store;
you would never know until you come to that point; I hope I don't do any further mistakes and I will be obedient to god's rules and just be happy;

Beauty is EVIL

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Some one told this and that's true.
But I feel Beauty is the cause of all troubles.
Every man raves about women's beauty. 
Beauty leads to desires and that's the primary cause behind most of the failed relationships.
I am right now experiencing the affect of beauty. I didn't realize this till today that Beauty is the Evil.


We go along the road, we see a beautiful girl and we forget ourselves; forget for those couple of seconds why we are walking on the street and where we are going .


Suppose all the girls are the same and we, men don't have the power to identify beautiful women. That means we look at all the girls as the same.
Beautiful women is a distraction; I really don't know how to overcome this.
I go to an interview and the one of the interviewers is a beautiful blonde;
I am running to a hospital to see how my friend is recovering after a sever accident and the nurse there is a beauty.
I go to temple for peace and to pray but those young teenage beauties and middle aged beautiful women coming to the temple are a distraction.
I try to listen carefully to my professors' lectures but those black hair, long legged girls in the front bench would make my life difficult in the classroom.


I talk to receptionists, I call customer care agents, I go to travel desks. Everywhere there are beautiful women and you would of course be not concentrating on what you are supposed to speak and do.


But what is this phenomena?  What's the purpose behind beauty other than destroying the relationships and the world?
why is there something called beauty? Did science really answer this?
I wish we find everyone beautiful or everyone the same, no soft feelings, no deviations, no discrimination and no desires.


Lets pray for an "Everyone is beautiful" world or a "no one is beautiful" world.

Human Beings' version 2.0

If you observe how man/womankind has been evolving (based on history) we can easily see the upgraded version of human beings released generation after generation.
As per Darwin and many other evolution theories, the first version was monkey and then slowly humans evolved.
What I want to find is about the human mind?  Was human mind the same or is it changed now or evolved into something new?
I want to know about the emotions/knowledge of humans then?


Did the generations thousands of years go feel "jealousy", "anger", "pleasure", "love", "pain", "ecstasy" and all other emotions?
If they were too feeling the same then what's the difference between those people and us?
Looks like we are still in the release 1.0.
God is yet to upgrade human beings' release to 2.0 or is he already applying patches (1.1,1.2....) instead of releasing a new version?


The current version is out of date and is corrupt.
Man now wants pleasures, wealth, power and lust.  
Man is created not to enjoy the pleasures, wealth and power but to live with others peacefully and happily (my version).
I feel there is an urgency for version 2.0 as 1.0 is so corrupted that it won't accept an up gradation.


Lets say God has allowed us all to vote for our new version.
Here is my take on the new version of human beings:
1) 2.0 should be of the same color and same sex
2) They shouldn't be capable of perceiving the following emotions:
   Greed, jealousy, lust (for power and wealth)
3) They should be of the same height and same weight during their respective ages
(0-5 yrs:5 kilos, 5-10 yrs:20 kilos, etc etc)
4) They should be able to talk to Gods directly
5) They should be able to perceive others' feelings directly
6) They should be of equal wealth and property allotted as per Gods' rules
7) They all have their goals predefined ( they should be knowing)  and they reach their goals/targets one by one and the final destination is death which will be again decided by gods based on their efficiency.


While I am writing this, I got a feeling somewhere that I am missing the basic meaning of humanity. The features I mentioned suit well for a Robot but not for a human being.
If there is no bad then there is no good; If there are no differences and no inequalities then there is no meaning in living this life. Its all a waste of time and energy.


I wish humans be the same in 2.0 as we are now but with an added touch of generosity and goodness embedded in each soul.


so my take on 2.0 is that they should be similar to us but with more refined good features and that's all.

Sunday Afternoons

Afternoons reflect the sober part of life. 

They are usually calm, sunny with little hot and mild weather.

Everywhere people retire from their work, have lunch and then take a break or a little nap.

Afternoons are so lovely and they are even wonderful if its a Sunday.

I've seen many Sunday Afternoons for so many years, more than a decade and every time I have this soothing feeling.

When I was in Hyderabad, my sunday afternoons were dedicated to Abids old book market where all those old and ancient books were sold cheaply on the platforms. The books range from literature, economics, technology, engg etc but I always go for my fav subject, i.e. english literature.

I bought so many books there; I spent hundreds of my afternoons finding books there.

Every Sunday Afternoon stands apart from the rest. There is peace everywhere.

children and Old people sleep after lunch, others pass the time having little chats. Even teenagers take a break on Sunday Afternoons. 

Typically each afternoon begins at around 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM and ends by 4:30 PM.

When the clock touches 5 PM on a Sunday, the most pleasant part of the week would be gone and everyone will be preparing themselves for the inevitable Monday morning.

One more beautiful sunday afternoon infront of me. Its sunny outside and I am watching one of the best classics, "chashme buddoor". (farooq Sheikh and Deepti naval ). The movie is from 80s and is one of the romantic comedies released during that period.

It really is pleasure and pure bliss to watch a classic on a sunny sunday afternoon.

I wish we get two sunday afternoons every week and also wish that the afternoons extend atleast by 4 more hours each sunday.

What if we can plan our deaths?

Yes this is an interesting subject. Death!!!!
Can we plan our deaths similar to marriages?
it will be so nice if we really can do that.
similar to a marriage ceremony, we can consult the purohit and get a good muhurtam for our deaths.
Then print invitation cards and distribute to all our friends and relatives.
The invitation looks something like this:


" You have seen me born; 've seen me growing; you supported me all through my life.
You supported my family, my children and grandchildren. 
Now please support me on my last day.
After consulting with Astrologers and our family priests I've now decided to die on March 22nd 2034, 6:07 AM, ashadha masam, sukla paksham, ekadasi nakshatram.
Please grace this occassion and part me good bye on my last day in this world. 


With all your blessings,
xxxxxxxxxxx
"


How nice is the above card?


Since you have now announced your D-day, you can plan properly;
Arranging lunch and snacks for the guests, booking a wedding hall but this time that will be for dying and not wedding. Obviously you get more guests to see you as its your last day.
And everyone talks good about you on the final day. 
You will obviously feel satisfied and extremely happy that you are feeding so many people  and hearing lots of good words about you. Who'll talk -ve on your last day?
There is also another advantage, since you plan well in advance, you can plan writing WILL, distributing your wealth; clearing all your debts, loans etc.
All your family members will be prepared for it and hence there won't be much "rona dhona" on the D -Day.


I wish I could plan for my death; well its not in our hands and that's why there is  "what if"

I am drunk

Life is different.
Yes it is but its different from normal when you are drunk.
Yes I am drunk, I love it and for the first time since my return from India I am drunk and I am loving it. I love each sip of my scotch.
My blood likes every atom of ethyl alcohol. Its so cool, it doesn't get digested.
But why is it alcohol gives you this feeling of excitement?
why is it so different every time you taste it?
Why and why?
I now feel exhilarated, I feel over excited, I feel different, I feel that I am in heaven. I feel I have everything with me.
I feel I don't know what I feel???
Its so beautiful, so nice, sweet like a girl's smile.
girls?? again? when did I stop thinking about girls?? never since I was thirteen?
Will I ever stop, never?
I think I would still think and talk about girls on my pyre??? sounds funny but that's true.
God gave me so much of positivity that I long for -vity; that is for the opposite and which is nothing but "girls".


I am posting this but what would people think of me when they read this? Its the same, that I am crazy and mad and that I have a genetic problem.
I too feel the same that in my DNA structure, there is an extra code which always make my actions "hatke".


Ok, now all this blabbering is just nothing, they don't make sense. But these are what we call the output of a program.
The input to my brain is ethyl alcohol and the output is a blog post.
How nice, I can write books and novels and so many if I just drink and drink.
Enough is enough, I should stop this nonsense.
Happy reading and drinking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To all the those Maoist Sympathizers - Go to hell

I don't mind writing tough on someone who are country's gravest internal security threat.
The Maoists.
I don't care what people say and I don't want to listen.
Every one in the country knows that they are doing and how they are destabilizing our nation.
I don't support violence but what to do with those who destroy our public property; who removes rails; who blow away our government buildings; who kill thousands of policemen.
There is no space to Maoism in this new world. If you want to fight for your  people then start a nonviolent movement, join politics or do something where by you can help people.
Its suprising how can media even telecasting someone's views who are supporting Maoists.
Maoists are dead men/women; they don't have patience and attitude. They don't want to help people. They want to loot; They don't do hard work; They spoil all our young children in villages and make them their slaves and followers. And they have dirty minds.
Mr. Chidambaram is good in dealing with them but he should be more strong. They should be eradicated like a bad disease similar to what our ex CM Chandrababu did in AP some time back.
some top leader from their group died last week and media is going frenzy in capturing it. Some politicians are even demanding CID Probe to find out if its a genuine encounter or even a fake.
I feel the Election Commission should de recognize CPI/CPM party as they all have ties with Maoists. Of course in west bengal its quite opposite.
We are millions in number but yes we can't do anything against these atrocities. Except showing solidarity or writing blogs like this.


Our system is in someone's hands some of whom I don't feel even deserves a chance to represent people or to be a leader.


Government can implement simple strategies, something like this:
1) Give a deadline to all the Maoists in the country
2) Get a new bill in the parliament by having separate parliament sessions only to discuss this issue
3) The new bill should have all those articles included in our IPC/constitution which discusses about the rehabilitation facilities for Maoists etc.
4) The plan is to recognize all Maoists as citizens and give them proper identity cards, rehabilitate them, providing education and employment.
5) If Maoists don't accept the deadline and are still ready to fight, then sorry folks you should face the door of death.
6) That's it, as per the law of the land, even if the Maoists are not open to the final lifeline, they should be punished as they pose the greatest danger to our nation.
The punishment should be in phase way. First estimate and target a group either in AP or Orissa. Then give another lifeline after the first phase, otherwise go for the second phase.
By continuing like this we can either bring them in to the society or just remove them from the earth.
Imagine our nation without Maoists. There won't be any fear while travelling in trains, buses, if any of our friends/brothers/relatives are in Police then no fear of abduction.
It definitely looks good.
Lets wait and see what our government does.