Besan Ka Halwa

Wrong number…at the Right Place. ‘PK’ is set on the somewhat similar scale as Director Rajkumar Hirani’s previous 3 films. Though ‘3 Idiots’ is considered a modern day classic by the Indian movie-goers, only a few realize that its story and direction were a little more than very good but not outstanding. Its execution and mass appeal made the film and its crew especially its director Hirani ever so popular in the realm of Bollywood. After 5 years, the guy’s back with the same leading man Aamir Khan with ‘ PK’ . With Anushka Sharma (Jaggu), Sanjay Dutt (Bhairon Singh), Sushant Rajput (Sarfaraz), Sourabh Shukla (Tapasvi) and Boman Irani providing their support, PK totally totally belongs to Aamir Khan. He’s the soul of the film and his protruding eyes and huge ears come very close to playing the chief supporting cast. The screenplay is nicely written and populist in nature. Hirani, famous for his small trend-setting expressions that assimilate his films into the audie...

Black Day. An Essay on Terrorism: Part 1. Innocence is a fragile virtue. Perhaps the frailest virtue to be found in mankind. It can never be ‘acquired’ in its totality. It is congenital- this innocence- the most fundamental asset of a newborn. This virtue has forever been epitomized in the placid and harmless faces of children. Innocence for an average human being, it is said, follows a curved graph or a path shaped somewhat like ‘U’ : it begins to recede with age- hits an all time low- and then crawls up slowly till your dying years- but it never recovers its initial ‘wholeness’. However, the brittleness of this emotion is such that even minor acts of belligerence can hugely impact its presence in a child at a very tender age.   16 December 2014 was a black day in the history of not only an area segregated by an I.B. fence called Pakistan but of the whole world as it exists; and of course it is among the most unfortunate senseless terror-inspiring incidents for...