The Vehicle and the Waistline

Well .. now that everyone try to introspect what your vehicles did to your waistline :D !! LOL !!

So there goes my  new write up titled "The Vehicle and the Waistline"

The Vehicle and the Waistline

 

It’s been a little while I wrote something,

So decided to relate these two entities which has a common nothing

 

I was never skinny, but reasonably fit with a waist 32” size;

Got my first bike which skipped my walking habit pushing me to 34”, I didn’t realize!

 

More than comfort, for my forced single life buying a car was an imperative decision;

Needless to say, my waistline was further pushed to 36” precision;

With the lockdown and the four walls imposed stress eating, keep guessing my current waistline size at your own discretion !!

The Unrequited Love...

Writing a blog after after a really long time.. It's about unrequited love.. When you nurture a love which is one sided and know it's very much wrong you have to hold back to your feelings to your lover.. but nevertheless, you have to hold it back to your ownself.. An amateur try on a Love sonnet..


The Unrequited Love...

 Sometimes life has it's own stake;

Ever I could understand it's take.

Now I would dare to profess my love as mine,

Though i respect my lover's life more pristine

In this selfish world my love could have been wrong,

Love is a feeling where logic could be an unheard bong !!

Keen- is the adjective, I could call my state;

Upkeeping this desire is tantamount to logicless annotate.

May be, I could have been blinded by desire,

All I could confess is that my love is pristine;

Repeatedly i would say this desire is what I destine;

Signing off ... adding that the above broken heart is mine !!

The Unrequited Love...

GeethaGovindham review

GeethaGovindham Movie Review


"When you wholeheartedly want something, the whole of the universe conspires for you get it" - That's a familiar line from the famous Alchemist. That's what GeethaGovindham is all about. A young Vijay Govind and his want for a lady love and how he finally gets her love forms the crux of the story.

The movie opens up as a First person narration by the hero himself to a stranded passerby(Nithya Meon in a cameo) in the wee hours just before the wedding. Vijay Govind (Vijay Devarakonda) is a lecturer in a college and is head over heels Geetha (Rashmika) when he first meets her in a temple. Fortunately he gets to travel with her to Kakinada for his sister's engagement. During the journey in a attempt to ascertain her love, by an ill advice from his drunkard friend he ends up being portrayed as a flirtatious pervert in her eyes. Each attempt to prove his innocence seems futile. How all things falls into place and how the lovers unite at the end forms the rest of the movie.

It's a light hearted rom com and logic can always take a back stand. Even the hero who breaks the window glass and jumps out of a speeding bus comes unhurt with just mud and dirt but no broken legs :P.  Vijay as the handsome lecturer with an innocent demeanor is surely the chocolate boy on screen. The hooting and whistling by the female crowd in the theatre best explains his fandom amongst girls. Rashmika was chirpy as the demanding and dominating lady love was adequate. But my personal favourite was the actor Venela Kishore whose comes as the Bridegroom from UK. Though his character was short-lived, it was sure to add the comic relief in an otherwise usual dragging climax.

"Inkem Inkem kavale"- song was already a hit and the jingles of the same was all through the background score. The comical interludes between the lead pair maintained the pace of the movie from becoming saggy. The director has been clear on his target audience and has added the right ingredients to please them and have succeeded in the process as well.

So grab your pop-corn and enjoy this light breezy entertainer.

Meera - My alter ego !! In search of eternal love !!!

Me & Meera

An ode to a poetess; comparing my current fascination;

Baktha Meera – a mystic lover with eternal passion.

All the while we both know our respective lovers are beyond reach,

But our heart yearns for celestial heights only our minds beseech.

Undue diligence could best describe our fervent zeal,

Keen is Meera’s passion which evidently her songs reveal

As a tantamount to her songs, my write-up is too with undertone

Rhetoric words are just a façade to my deep rooted feelings for my loved one

Undying spirit and perseverance fuel this pursuit which translates as my text

Peak is my happiness when the intended person senses that underlying context

Pity thy Meera !!  We both live and love, though anticipating an assured failure.

If the physicals are for mortals; our feelings are immortal with eternity assure

Again we both pursue our passion despite the multiple times we face accusation

Happiness would be it’s pinnacle on one fine day when we get our respective lover’s attention!!

To a special friend .....

To my smiley friend....
Been a long time since I wrote a blog

All this while many issues had made me slog

But came this person as a God sent solace;

Utmost was the pleasure when we did embrace.

Keeping my feelings for myself, yet they overshoot at many instance.

Around I go, looking out for every opportunistic circumstance;

Replenishes me with boundless joy, this person’s mere thought even at my hard time

Unsure of the inappropriateness, I am deep in thought. Tring !! it’s  a Chime !!

Picking my phone every other time with an expectation,

Primarily to check if there is a new message notification

Immense is the happiness when I really find one – Sigh!!

All I could say “Let the time and this person decide”, with my mind aweigh

However I confront this, my obsession now is nothing short of sky high!!!

Frozen - Movie Review

Frozen Movie Review
As a person who grew up watching fairytales and fantasy movies, I could definitely sense stereotypes could soon be history and modern themes are coming of age. That’s what you would conclude after watching Disney’s “Frozen”. There’s nothing of the typical kind ‘Damsel in distress’ or ‘Prince Charming’. Instead you get to see a whole new perspective of ‘true love’, making it not only a movie for the kids but a wholesome family entertainer.

The King and the Queen of the kingdom of Erindale have two beautiful daughters. The elder Princess Elsa possesses the strange power to freeze anything.  She accidentally freezes her younger sister, Princess Anna while playing. The royal couple sought the help of the trolls (googling out these characters turn out to be supernatural creatures of Scandinavian folklore, variously portrayed as a friendly or mischievous dwarf). The trolls heal Anna also erasing her memory about her sister's powers but warn about Elsa’s mythical powers to her parents as this power could only grow and would show off only when thought about it. Fearing this, the king and queen confine Princess Elsa to the palace and the 2 sisters grow up separately. Years later, the royal couple die in a sea storm and Princess Elsa is chosen to be the next queen.  Princess Anna is extremely happy as she would be seeing her sister after a long time on her coronation.  In her merriment she dances around the kingdom in joy and stumbles upon Prince Hans, twelfth in line to the neighboring kingdom’s throne.

It’s love at first sight and she’s head over heels for him.  Anna and Hans propose their wedding plans but Elsa refuses their marriage. In a heated argument which follows, Elsa’s freezing powers are revealed.  Feeling dejected about her act she leaves the kingdom to the North Mountains. Though dissuaded by others, Princess Anna sets out to search her sister leaving Prince Hans incharge of the kingdom.  On her way, she requests help from Christoff, an ice-trader  who nurses feelings for her but keeps to himself fearing his low working class. The duo together with the snowman, Olaf find Princess Elsa who builds for herself an ice palace and lives there cut off from civilization. Anna fails to persuade Elsa to return to the kingdom and in a fit of rage Elsa accidentally strike Anna’s heart with her freezing charm and it’s learnt from the chief troll, Pappy that Anna could be recovered only by an act of true love.  How is Anna recovered ? What happens to Elsa and Prince Hans? Did Anna find her true love? What happens to the eternal winter in the kingdom left behind by Elsa?  Did Elsa found the way to control her powers ? Did Kristoff expressed his love to the princess? Watch the movie in a theatre for those answers.

I watched the movie in 3D and it was a good experience. The ice palace, the scenes involving the sledging in the snow mountains, the eternal snow in Erindale are a few worthy spectacles. The antics by the snowman Olaf keeps you in entertained. What I personally liked about the movie was the unconventional story line from that of the fairy tales. Added to it the numerous songs/jingles with a vivid animation makes the movie more attractive.

So grab your popcorn and sitback and enjoy “FROZEN” this winter !!

Pizza 2 - The Villa - Movie Review

Pizza 2 - The Villa Review
Movies of a particular ‘genre’ is not a quite common scene in tamil cinema. We mostly we end up in a mixed bag of many resulting in a ‘masala’ movie euphemistically called ‘commercial flicks’. Pizza was one ground breaking effort from this. Taking on this franchise, comes in another movie not essentially a sequel but of the same genre.  As usual I was late to this movie as well so better not to comment on how it all started.

Jebin (Ashok Selvan) is a failed business man. Having found his true passion in writing, he tries to find a publisher for his debut novel. With many failed attempts he decides to publish it on his own selling his bequeathed property. That’s in when he is told about a ‘villa’ in puducherry his father (Nazzar) had left behind by the lawyer. But this particular property has an intrigued past disturbing his father to that extent to even destroy it at one point. Having lost his father in coma, he has no clue about this ‘villa’ and sets out to find out on his own with a pretext of selling it to finance his book publishing.

After seeing the antique villa which houses a lot of paintings by his dead father, he decides to write his second novel from there. Impressed by the ‘villa’ his girlfriend, Aarthi (Sanchita) dissuades him from selling it. In the meantime his debut manuscript fetches him a publisher. Ecstatic about it attributing this success to that of the fortunes of the villa, he plays the Grand Victorian piano only to find an old key inside the piano. The variety of the paintings in the villa seems to make sense to him leading him to a forbidden room in the villa for which the key fits in.

 This opens the ‘pandora box’ kind of events in his life. The paintings in the forbidden room seem to influence his life events. This leads him to look out for the past history about the villa. Why is that all previous owners died of insanity ? What influenced their pre-cognition ? What happens to Jebin and his girlfriend ? Did he sell the property ? What do these painting convey ?  - Watch out the movie for those answers. Mind that you have a final twist in the story,  leaving an evident scope for sequel to follow.

If pizza was more of fiction leaving a lot room for fantasy, Pizza2 offers you a lot of facts. The explanations given have been scientifically backed up. But on the other hand you could obviously manipulate the next course of events to a certain extent killing the suspense at times. With very few characters on screen the screenplay is short and crisp. A few actors from Pizza1 have different roles to play in as well. Invariably as in suspense movies, the background score is spooky enough. The cinematography adds to it with minimal lighting.

Though it’s a fresh and fine attempt on the genre, the conventional dresscode for the writer hero (khadi kurti, bespectacled), too much of effort to explain the prospects of the sequel elongating the climax and a few minor flaws could be avoided. Go for it !! It’s worth watching !!