Movie Review: GHAJINI

So here’s my first movie blog:

GHAJINI

Star cast : Amir Khan, Asin Thottumkal, Jia Khan, Pradeep Rawat
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Music : A.R. Rahman
Genre: Action, Thriller

Waiting for the much hyped movie “GHAJINI” starring Amir Khan, Asin Thottumkal and Jia Khan, is a block-buster hit at box-office. Amir Khan, a perfectionist never disappionts his fans with the expectations they carry to watch his film and this time he gives them his best, a never ever seen before performance.

The movie is about a business tycoon Sanjay Singhania(Amir) chairman of Air-voice telecom company, who returns to India and falls in love with Kalpana(Asin) a model in tele ad-films, under weird circumstances. Sanjay goes out on a business trip and kalpana risks her life by saving few girls from criminals and ruins the plan of Ghajini(Pradeep Rawat), criminal involved in illegal activities. When Sanjay returns, ghajini brutally murder Kalpana infront of him while sanjay gets injured on his head. This leads to mental disorder anterograde amnesia. Sanjay suffers from short term memory. He cannot remember anything beyond 15mins. Sunita (Jia Khan) a medical student, studies the case of Sanjay and tries to unravel his mysteries and past life and helps him take his revenge and kill Ghajini and rest of the tale is how he battles and takes revenge.

VERDICT : After watching the movie my first reaction WOW.. Its Amir movie, so it has to be the best. I would say the best performance i have ever seen till date. With every scene theres so much happening, that you look at ur watch to realize 3hrs have breezed away. The movie is so hard-hitting and complete in itself. The first half of the movie has both shades of comedy, romance and thrill and second half of movie is full of action and suspense that takes ur breathe away for a while. The evil persona of amir hold on to your nerves till the end. The chemistry b/w Amir and asin adds right amount of emotional depth to the screen play. The body work done by amir is awesum and the dedication with which he enacts the role, looks as if hes truly living the role. Amir with deep scars, frame filling physique- a look never seen before. He has projected himself as a hardcore killer, mentally disturbed, gripping each and every breath of the viewer and doing full justice to the role. Jia Khan, an upcoming star impresses with her performance. Music given by A.R Rahman is good. I specially like the soundtracks: Kaise Mujhe, Guzarish and Behka. The cinematography of these songs and over all movie is also great. The action sequences are executed quite brilliantly. A.R Murugadoss has directed the film with an expertise making it different from rest of the action thriller films. An amazing film full of comedy, romance, action, thrill, emotions... Ghajini has got everything. So those who havent watched the film, just leave everything and watch the film..

Rating : 4.0 / 5.0

A Tribute to MARTYRS

We salute to all those officers of NSG, Army and Navy and to those people who lost and risked thier lives during this terror attack. These people came in here as determined Indians and gave us the privilege today of being proud nationals. We all are proud of these people and Jawans who laid down their lives battling terrorists and pay tribute to them. A 2 mins prayer (atleast we can do this) for the ones who've suffered... and for the ones who have been left behind to suffer even more....  

We Salute You!

Jai Hind!

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We are INDIANS

Hello everyone..
I am writing this blog to express grief and sorrow for what happened in Mumbai on 26th November. I was sitting in my hostel room & suddenly around midnight I heard the news of Mumbai blasts and when I saw it on the net I was stunned and traumatized. Every time I watched the video my heart sank. was feeling very low and depressed. by each millisecond the situation was getting worse and worse. death toll was rising every minute intensifying the refrained rage and anger of so many years. just by imagining of those people confronting with this, i quivered with terror. The next three days were very sickening and appalling, watching news, bulletins, and videos saddened me more....



There is a phrase " JO HOTA HAI ACHE KE LIYE HOTA HAI" A wakeup call was needed for the whole nation. I remember a dialogue from Rang De Basanti-"Bahro ko dhamake ki zarurat hoti hai". It’s now or never.

What we see today in the newspapers is the consequence of the terror attack: candlelight vigils, SMSes reflecting the anger at the inept government, people sloganeering, carrying out demonstrations. Twenty thousand people gathered at gateway of India expressing their annoyance and ire in response to the vicious attack. The intensity of the outrage led to the politicians losing their jobs in matter of days. We all have realized that either we follow gandhigiri: forgive and forget or we become the change we want to see. Either we allow the terrorists to molest India time and again or we stand up and take action. A change from “why do I bother attitude” is needed or we have to get use to these assaults. But the question here is how long this wrath going to last? Is this an end or a beginning? Are people going to forget it and wait for another 26/11 to happen? Is our political system going to transform? When are we going to learn from our mistakes?



As the time passes the wounds will heal, this attack will be overlooked and we will move on.. This is what we have been doing for years.. But now we have to stop and look into the matter and find a solution. Politicians have to stop the blame games and anger and hatred need to be channelized in a positive and right direction. The politics is no long a business venture it’s the noble service that require concern and dedication. We dont need their assertions or condolences or sympathies, we demand action. India has seen one of its fiercest terror attacks. Terrorists delivered their message that "ab hum tumhare ghar mein ghuske tumhe marenge". It’s time to show those bastards what we INDIANS are capable of.. and if these politicians can’t do something for the country then they should better resign and sit back in their comfortable couches of their official residence.. The attack has brought us closer and we stand more united than ever, united in love and support to each other. we are neither north indian or south indian neither muslim, hindu, sikh or christian. We are Indians. In this hour of crisis we need to stand together and let the rays of hope live in our heart. "Every cloud has a silver lining"............

Love
gaurav

VERONIKA lives in every one of us

So after a much long await here is my blog about a book i read recently

"VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE" by PAULO COEHLO

Madness: what does it mean? When we say a person is mad? A person who lives in his own world is mad??? OR Madness is incapability to communicate your ideas?? OR???(may be you find answers to them after reading this book or blog)

It’s a story of a 24 year beautiful young girl Veronika living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She works as a librarian by day, and by night carries on like many single women dating men, occasionally sleeping with them, and returning to a single room she rents at a convent. She had everything a girl of her age wanted. The story kicks off when Veronika decides to die because she has done everything in life that makes it worth living. She has been living a monotonous life and always thinking of what others will think about her. She never battled for , never argued over, never fought for anything in life and allowed life to impose every situation on her and she accepted the situation as it is. In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose and in youth she was convinced it was too late to change. She gave up all her desires, left a tempting job offer in a good company and took the job in a library where she earned less but was more secured. Her life was like this because she herself wanted it to be.

On November 11, 1997 she decides to kill herself by taking overdose of sleeping pills. But her failed attempt and unexplainable reasons lands her up in a mental hospital, Vilette. There she was in deep sate of coma for almost three weeks and due to overdose of the pills her heart was irreversibly damaged and she has nearly a week to live.

Vilette is an asylum a place of protection, where one is shielded from danger(rather I should say society). Those who refuse to accept society's rules have two choices: succumb to the majority's perception that they are mad, or struggle against that majority and try to find their own way in the world. For eg. Einstein said we don’t have space or time, just a combination of both or the Beatles who created an different sort of music and dressed like people from other time, Columbus and the list goes on…

But in the asylum she had to fight for every bit of space. She can do everything she wanted to do without thinking of the consequences. She did all those things she never did in her life. She slapped a person, she did things without being true to others expectations. But she was afraid that she might not end up convincing that life is worth living and will cause pointless pain as she was about to die in a week. She had nothing to lose because in her case there was no future or no past involved, the only thing she had was THE PRESENT. In asylum her presence started affecting the life of others & she ends up changing life of three people: Zedka , Maria and Eduard. The first relationship she developed with Zedka who was suffering from chronic depression. Then she met another lady, Maria who was the leader of a group FATERNITY , suffering from panic attacks. And then she meets a schinzophrenia, Eduard with whom she fell in love with.

With in that one week she felt all the emotions which she had never felt with such intensity: love, hatred, fear, curiosity , THE DESIRE TO LIVE. These intense days made her experience and question the whole idea of madness. The young lady had touched a lot of people and made them rethink about their lives. she was ready to live again but it was impossible. Her condition detoriated as the days passed. She realized her grand dream to play piano with heart and soul. when she knew she was left with less than 24 hrs to live she asked Dr. Igor to give her sedative so that she stay awake for the whole day and do all things she wanted to but never did. That day Zedka left the asylum as she was cured, Maria who was cured for a long time, but never wanted to leave Vilette also left on an adventure and Veronika and Eduard ran from that place that night. Veronika knew she was about to die when she realized that every moment of life is very special. She thanked Eduard for giving meaning to her life. Also Dr. Igor Succeeded in his experiment which he started on Veronika: Can you "shock" someone into wanting to live by convincing her that death is imminent? Can you bring an ”awareness of life” with the help of “awareness of death”. Dr. Igor's experiment jump-starts Veronika's new appreciation of the world around her. But the truth was that Veronika never suffered from any heart problem…….

The main focus of the story is on Veronika and her relationships with the other inmates of Villette. . Its some what a depressing book with element of uncertainity,joy, trauma, sadness and worth each penny.All these people Veronika, Zedka, Maria, Eduard ran from their responsibilities, they wanted to find an easiest way: “A SEPARATE REALTIY”. All people goes through difficulties but these people never did and landed themselves in VILETTE. The price they would have paid by dealing with those minor problems would have been far less than they paid for not recognizing them to be theirs. Are we also running from our responsibilities??? Many Veronikas live in everyone of us.. Stop chasing the goals set by others.People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Every moment is precious and special.

So live it laaarrrrggggggeeeeeeee…

So now anyone can define what madness is?????

Love

Gaurav

new BLOG coming up

hiiiii
hws every1? its been quite a long time i have written a blog as was busy wid clg stuff, tests, bla bla bla buutttt i have a grt news for u all..
a new blog cuming up in a week.. and this time i wud try my best to be regular wid my blog writing ;)
so keep visting my blog.
love
gaurav

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.H.I.P. and F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

So here comes my first blog...

Wishing my entire viewer's a belated Friendship Day :)

Does friendship means celebrating friendship day, tying friendship band, giving exquisite gifts, decorating flower baskets, placing number of candles on cakes signifying years of friendship bla bla bla..??? Do people really value friendship in this worldly minded world? Does the friendship day hold its significance or its being like any other day with a special tag given to it? When do we learn to make real frnz? We learn on our own n so do I.. But finding a real friend is not that easy.

There is a saying-"When god felt that he can’t be everywhere, he made frnz".

I never knew when my journey of friendship began?? Met people in school, shared experiences, secretes came closer n became best friends. Navanshee(nav), swati, alpa, simar, lokesh, megha, nikita, shikha, himanshu, ankit & parag my school friends to whom i m very close to & i share a special bond with them. I still remember my school days doing mischiefs, fighting, having gt’s, signing of slam books, bunking classes, flirting, doing masti n all that stuff, etc.. But true friendship is not about all these things it’s about understanding, love, care, affection, being there during thick n thins. Its not how you see but how you feel, its not how you listen but how you understand & not how you let go but how you hold on. These guys made me learn a lot and have always been there to support me n help me. Nav n swati r two persons whom i salute, whenever I was happy, sad, depressed, felt dejected they always stood beside me.

After school, entering into college a bigger world, where your perspective of mind broadens. Away from my dream world, entering d world of practicality. It took me some time to adjust to the new environment n make new frnz. N now after 2 years of my college life I have a gang of 11 frnz that includes sumit,swapnil,vikas,ekansh,tanmay,vinay,rohit,mohit,upa,varun n me. We all became good or I can say best friends. Pulling each other’s leg, playing pool, trip to RDB fort, nytouts before exams, fights, sharing secrets... brings a smile to my face.

Apart from these I also have a BIMAD family comprising of 33 members which includes jaskaran, avneet, varun, payal, yadwinder, ruby, dipika, saurabh, gaurav, upasna, ankita, mehak, nidhi, preety, meenal, kanika, neha, garima, nikhil, vitul, navpreet, harpinder, manish, supreet, DP, megha, ishleen, bhuvan, shaheen, kanav, charvi, rahul and me.

And the frnz i met thru Art Of Living... vibhore the person whom I very obliged to for telling me about the yes plus course. My life took a turn n I began with new journey called life n made new frnz Sonia, anu, jyoti, vaneeta, nitish, divjot, anika, ruchi, mehak, himani , tanu didi, vinay didi, sajan, simrit, vidhi, abhimanyu, amitesh bhaiya, ramnik bhaiya, gaurav, bhanuja, saurabh, rohit.. List is endless n time spent with all of them is very memorable. Everyone has taught me something.

It is safe to say that when God created the world and all the majestic things in it, when he streaked the heavens with radiant colour and the earth with grand mountains and awe-inspiring canyons, when he painted the plains with waving grasses and erected noble forests of towering trees, he outdid it all by creating friends. On this friendship day I remembered all the beautiful moments spent with my frnz, reading slambooks,gong thru albums... as says George Eliot- “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone”. Want to thank all my frnz whu have always been very supportive n stood beside me.
This is just a start... assure you that there is more to come.. So keeping reading my blog n please click on the ads ;)

Love u all.

God bless you. Take care.

Jai Guru Deva :)