Tea & Dark Chocolate

  Well… yet again, I’ll stand by what I always believed in – never watch a movie based on your favourite book. Barring Godfather and Gone with the wind, there is not a single movie which brings justice to the book. But still, if it is a movie based on your favourite book, it would take immense and senseless will power to not watch it. And that is exactly why I subjected myself to this movie, based on my forever favourite book (so much so that I even once had a blog with the name – Who is John Galt? , and a blogger nickname of Ms Taggart ). For starters, even I am glad that they decided to go with two parts of the movie, only that way could they even try to bring justice to the extremely verbose ~1200 page novel , cast in the smallest font. But then, the point that a movie will never live up to the detail and description that a book will feed to  your imagination turns out to be true in this case. There are couple of good points in the movie – like it being set in 2016, an...

  This is the painting Anna Scott and William Thacker talk about in his house in the movie Notting Hill, the dialogue being exactly this - Anna Scott: I can't believe you have that picture on your wall. William: You like Chagall? Anna Scott: I do. It feels like how being in love should be. Floating through a dark blue sky. William: With a goat playing the violin. Anna Scott: Yes - happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat. Anna also gifts the original of this painting to William towards the end of the movie. In all the times I’ve seen the movie(which is at least 5 times so far), I’ve not noticed anything peculiar about this painting. But the last time I saw it over last weekend, I was intrigued by the painting. There must be something in the painting. I looked up the painting and found the above jpeg. More information about this painting – here . There is indeed something about this painting. Something about yearning. Something about love. Something about w...

Though I did not understand what the whole deal with ‘ Socha Na Tha ’ was, and think that ‘ Jab We Met ’ was a nice movie and that it didn’t blow me away, and that ‘ Love Aaj Kal ’ was a decent movie, I agree that Imtiaz Ali is a good director, there are no doubts in that. And a good dialogue writer too.   So where did he go wrong with Rockstar ? In my honest opinion, what is wrong with the movie is the plot. Its just not present. Or let’s just say, its too weak. So weak that if it were to try to stand on its feet, it would make a big hole in the earth beneath it and fall down. You get the point , right? Heavy, but weak. Its like he planned to fit in all elements into the same story and make one movie out of this all. Well, this had material for atleast two movies – one love story, and one story on how a boy turned into a rock star. Both would’ve sucked big time, but nonetheless, it would’ve been two stories. You get the point again , right?   No? Imagine this - Glimpses ...

  The first time I heard the song ‘ When you say nothing at all ’ by Ronan Keating, I fell in love. With him and with the band that he belonged to, Boyzone (yeah yeah, boy bands and all, I know! :)). But only recently did it occur to me that this is OST for Notting Hill , and that I hadn’t seen the movie at all. And the minute I finished the movie, I knew this made it to the list of Movies-I-Watch-When-I-Need-Comfort and hence one of my most favourite movies. After all , I’m just a girl… standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her… Everytime I listen to this dialogue, tears well up in my eyes, I cry. Every.single.time. I cry for the vulnerable girl standing in front of the boy she loves, asking him to take her back and understand her, love her and care for her. Honest, deep, poignant, vulnerable, slightly desperate for love – this scene is the most defining moment in the entire movie. Anna’s character jumps out of the screen and suddenly feels live, like someone you know...