Besan Ka Halwa

The Theory of Everything The film's no doubt the weakest contender for the best film Oscar. It is a very average biopic and has numerous aberrations from the turn of events of Hawking's life to his body condition and physiognomy post-ALS. More than Hawking i think this film's focused on his first wife's character which has been decently portrayed by Felicity Jones. You get a profound feeling of 'A Beautiful Mind' playing. Eddie Redmayne completely fits the role courtesy his resemblance to hawking. The background music is perhaps the only outstanding feature of it that makes it seem like a fairy tale of some sort. Over all, a mediocre biopic. RATING: 3 / 5 Nightcrawler The film hasn't been nominated for the best film Oscar. Jake Gyllenhaal has been completely ignored by the academy which actually surprises me. As per me this flick's almost at par with the Imitation Game and American Sniper. It is excessively consistent; never loses the pl...

From the Desk of: a Terrorist After years of violence- a life devastated By the sinister intention of harm screaming inside my troubled brain- I now stare in the face of silence. Endless days of shelling innocence And unending nights of ear-splitting noise Made by whizzing bullets And diabolical calls from vicious men Seem to embrace their closure. The inhuman hand that held a weapon capable of proving human mortality Now holds a pen Realizing the inevitability of the same. The ink in the pot Desiccated During all this time due to its futility Has been rejuvenated by hope And spoonful of water. And so I make the most of this moment of sheer bliss. Hello. I am a Terrorist. My name holds the least importance As do the names of others Of my breed. The world around me doesn’t seem much ‘intriguing’. Men women children: Potential targets condensed in flesh and blood- Bear the most important weapon of mine. Fear. The teeny drop ...

Red Earth An Essay on Terrorism Part 2 First and foremost, I wish a very happy new year to all the people of the Earth! Also if you are reading this, let me congratulate you for surviving perhaps the deadliest year of this century. I’ll try to be a little sanguine over here and would like to point out by doing so that the year that just bid us adieu was the year of the terrorists. 2014 witnessed terrorist incidents almost every single day in its calendar. This statement may not have been apt a decade or two ago but in the world of today I may safely say that the world is ‘unsafe’. Least oxymoronish as it sounds. 2014 saw the rise of ISIS, escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Syrian war, daily car bombings in Africa, village raids, ceasefire violations, suicide bombings, abductions, assassinations, aerial attacks et cetera et cetera. The Sri Lankan genocide controversy continued. The dreadful year culminated with the most horrifying act of terrorism of them a...

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...

INTO THE FIFTH DIMENSION Beyond Time and Space…and Imagination The most awaited movie of the year is here! Legendary Director Christopher Nolan delivers another ‘legendary’ film after the huge successful closure to the Dark Knight trilogy in 2012. No wonder his production company is named ‘Legendary’. Interstellar, through its trailers, had built much hype in the past few months. It has something that Nolan’s previous films didn’t have- an outstanding cast line-up; with all lead actors at the peak of their careers: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Cane and Matt Damon. Most of the people have been comparing the look and story of the film with Cuaron’s last year Oscar super-hit ‘Gravity’. Let me first ‘categorically’ say that this film is very very subtle with respect to ‘Gravity’. This project of Nolan’s is the grandest and most wide-ranging than any other science fiction film till date. The film has a lot to offer; it explicitly has three ...