Thanmathra (molecule in Malayalam)

Some movies make you cry. Or there will be those heart wrenching scenes in a few movies that will stay on with you as one of the most cry-able moments. Or there will be those times when you simply want to cry- running away from the hurts/worries/problems that haunt you, so you watch such movies and cry even more. Under the pretext of watching such moving scenes, you cry your heart out.

Some of the scenes (I still remember them!) that made me cry have been:
1. Kamal Hassan parting from Sridevi in the climax (Movie - Sadma)
2. Kamal Hassan having high hopes that Rupini will marry her, and that's why she is calling him to court. Kamal discovers that he is to be the witness to her marriage with somebody else. (Movie - Appu Raja)
3. Naseerudding Shah and Ravi Vaswani singing 'Hum Honge Kamyaab' in the climax (Movie - Jaane bhi do Yaro)
4. Karna's death in Mahabharat (Serial - Mahabharat)
5. Mammootty's speech about his childhood friend Sreenivasan (Movie - Katha Parayumpol)
6. Mohan Lal as an alzhiemers patient towards the climactic scenes (Movie - Thanmathra)

Yes, that's the latest movie that I had watched, and found myself in tears. Though I know there were a lot of reasons for me to be sad about, I was lucky that I got myself a pretext (of this movie) for me to cry then. Superb performances by Mohan Lal and Arjun Lal. The story is not very unpredictable, but the performances are simply out of this world.

Home Sweet Home!

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The End of Internet

Gone are the days when internet used to be exciting. I still remember the days (some 10-12 years ago) when access to internet was so privy. Access to internet had a great snob value. It brought a plethora of information to general public who had access to internet. This 'general public' was not the entire masses, but it still was a superset of all the specialists (information hoarders) that existed earlier.

Since then, proliferation of information started happening at a faster rate. Now we were having almost everything at our fingertips. In just a decade, we have surfed so much in the internet that we are hardly left with anything new or exciting in the internet. (Though there still exists a vast majority of human population who have never accessed internet!) Everything has become so routine now. You have got your favorite sites which you visit so often. And that's it. For explorers, there is hardly anything new to explore now. Surfing internet has become as monotonous as driving on a US interstate highway with cruise-control on.

I believe it ought to sound like an oppotunity to those creative minds who can bring in something new and exciting for the explorers to explore. But the rate at which new things come in has to outpace the rate at which they can be surfed or explored. We need a lot of creativity lest the Internet would just lose its charm, and stay on to become routine & mundane (yet necessary) medium.

Tum Ho To..

Rock On!! A hindi movie with rock music as the background? - or so I thought before the movie got released. I was damn sure that rock music in hindi is a sure shot recipe for disaster. Somehow, they are not made for each other - is what I thought - i.e. before I had seen the movie.

While watching the movie, I realized that rock music just forms the background. On the fore is a story that involves friendship, emotions and passion. Needless to say I liked the movie. And while watching the movie I did like the fast numbers Socha Hai & Sindbad the Sailor. It was only when I started to listen to other songs that I became a real fan of all the slow numbers - Yeh Tumhaari Meri Baatein, Phir Dekhiye and Tum Ho To. Just Can't stop listening to these songs.

One favorite being - Tum Ho To...It is just awesome!