Population density = Mumbai

Most people in Mumbai learn to live in limited spaces inside walls of their homes. Since spaces in homes are limited, most people love to be out of home for long to embrace free air and space be it their offices , malls or streets. That's one reason why an average Mumbai worker reaches home late compared to other cities. It is indeed a deliberate attempt to experience space. But time is lost.

CO2 Emissions

While India plans to reduce Co2 emmissions by adopting green technologies - I was following an autorickshaw on road that was increasing our emissions. One step forward ..two steps back..what is the carbon footprint of an autowallash ?

Charlie is Gay : Kaminey

None of the reviews had even a line about Charlie's sexuality. But I'm convinced that the bad boy avataar of Shahid in Vishal's Kaminey is gay. Maybe Vishal didn't tell Shahid about this. Maybe Charlie's a guy who hasn't figured out his sexuality yet. Maybe it's just Vishal's private angle. But clearly, Charlie has the serious hots for Mikhail in the film. And it's more than male bonding. From the start, they are clearly a couple in the film. Then there's all that rolling around in the rain before Mikhail gets shot. The references to Spiderman. The fact that they want to run away together after they get the money. Charlie's devastation when Mikhail dies. How Charlie reacts in the climax when he sees Mikhail's body in the jeep. And Charlie's final tribute to Mikhail of course. And then there's all that sexy topless guitar strumming.

You only see him with a woman twice in the film, both times are very random. Maybe that's Vishal's way of saying that more people than we realize are bisexual? Or that so many Indian gay men don't acknowledge their sexuality? That would make him Bollywood's first sexy gay bad guy.


Then again, I thought the song Namak Ishq Ka in Omkara was about oral sex

Nagmandala

'Videsh' by Deepa Mehta has intricately woven two domains - The stereotypical migrant punjabi family in Canada and the punjabi adaptation of 'Nagmandala' by Neelam Mansingh Chowdhary. The film is a great tribute to 'The Company' as it brings out the memories of the play's lights, sounds and folk songs as the film unfolds. Nagmandala is important today only because Sonal and then Deepa chose to work on it and carve it into nothing less than a classic.

dawn to dust

The silence of the night is a facade to the abyss of cumulative pains of humanity that seeks the haven of darkness to convince that everything is right. seldom does one see the cracked lives that mend their pasts in the solitary moments before the light dawns and one lays exposed. Reality awakens.

really reel - subtitles

As you get deeply engrossed in reel life ,the real blends into the reels. Watching oneself actively participate in a conversation and then as one draws out from the crowd something plays in your mind ..."indistinct murmur"...."crowd laughing"..."door creeks".."not talking.music playing"..."kids fighting"...."women gigling".......haunt you more than human voices . Echoing the ridicule of a meaningless life ...subtitles are not dependant on the voices of images on screen...voices that are muted one fine day... forever....and yet the .."indistinct murmur" continues...............

dream in between lives

cLose thy eyes. An image flashes. The reel of life stops. A canvas that comes to life in a realm where there's no light. no camera. no action. Frozen experiences..... are dreams that the soul nourishes .Dreams that spring to life when one is neither sleepy nor awake. Dreams that one wants to live.

Life that has been dead

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