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.