Sharon chali Haridwar

Allow me to introduce you to Sharon before I narrate her story.  She is a young girl, who wants to be happy and enjoy her life but always finds herself in a situation where she does not know what to do and what not to. She is happily confused, ever smiling, cooking up hypothetical situations and then planning for them. Overall she is a great girl and a treat to be with.

 

So this time Sharon has a family picnic planned to Haridwar. When I say family it includes her parents, elder sister and her grandmother along with few other families of her father's friend. She always wants to go around places and enjoy herself. But this time she is confused. She wants to go but she does not know if she really wants to go. Her elder sister is not going now and she is left with her cousins, whom she is not very fond off, and her parents. So a trip that she thought would be a great one has suddenly turned into a trap for her. So she decides to give herself a chance by allowing fate decide if she goes or not. Hence she:

• points out 2 fingers to me, and says one she goes and the other she doesn't and asks me to choose one. I pick the one that says she goes and then she says you should have picked the other one.
•  asks me to toss a coin, head she goes and tail she doesn't. It came down as heads, hence I cheated.
• she says it is her trip so only she gets to toss the coin. You know what came, didn't you? 

30 minutes earlier she was convinced that she is going and now she is delightfully confused. She calls up every possible person so that she does not have to go. She calls up one friend in a hope that she can come along, but that does not work out. She calls another friend and she declines as well. Now she  is sure she does not want to go. Well wait, she says but she should go as she is very tired and bored with the daily routine and she needs a break. Another 15 minutes down the line she tells me that most probably she is not going.

Irrespective of the outcome of the situation what I am most concerned about is the uncertainty that we have in our lives. I have been guilty of getting into situations that I do not see a way out. But there are a few things that you just have to do on instinct and there is no logical backing behind that. I am not sure whether Sharon would go or not but what I am sure is that she gives us a perfect example of how our mind follows our heart. I am impressed by the fact that situation is very normal and almost all of us have been in situations such as these but there is no definite answer as to what to do when you are in such a situation. I just follow my heart in such situations, I have been guilty of taking some wrong decisions and also feel proud about the others. But one thing is for sure that I never regret any decision that I took following my heart.  

So if you are Sharon, or you feel that you have been through a similar type of situation my advice is to follow what your heart tells you. I generally like to leave my audience with open questions, so I will leave you to decide whether Sharon should go or not.

Fast and Furious 6

If you have reached this blog searching for a review to the movie so that you can decide whether you should watch the movie or not. I would say that you are wasting your time, read no further , go and watch the movie. It was a movie that had all the familiar faces playing together once again. It was awesome how they emphasize on them being like a family. 

 

If you thought that you have already seen 5 versions of this movie so what else would they have in store for the 6th time, the movie just proves all of that wrong as it comes up with sequences that have not been filmed earlier and which most of us did not even expect. They have military tanks running on the roads crushing cars, they have a set of cars who bring down a big plane and also have a sequence where Toretto drives his car out from the cockpit.

 

If you have not been fortunate enough to watch the earlier versions of this series and you may feel that you might not be able to understand the strings and hence the movie so trust me that is not the case. Even when the movie makes references to version 4 and 5 in the series, you are still able to map things and understand what is going on. The movie has action sequences that are bound to drive you crazy. 

 

 

We have seen that generally the movies that come in sequences run out of steam as they move on but F&F is the only sequence that has improved every time with the later version. Even though most of the stunts that they have shown may not look feasible or practical but still they make you fall in love with this movie.  The star cast of film and the characters that play seem to compliment each other perfectly. I am personally a big fan to Vin Diesel and who could forget Dwayne (The Rock). These two were against each other in the fifth sequence of the movie and this time they are on the same side so you can imagine the fun and destruction that they might have caused. There is sequence in the climax of the movie, when these two giants get together to kill a monster like criminal and you could imagine a wwe tag team move. 

 

I would rate this movie as 9/10 and for me it is a much watch for anyone irrespective if you watched the earlier sequences. I can assure that if you watch this movie, you will go back and make sure you add all the other sequences to your collection or watch list. I will not let out any of the secrets of the film and will let you watch it for yourself and enjoy. I just want to conclude by saying that there is definitely going to another sequence to this movie and that will be starring Jason Statham. I am hopeful now that the next one would be even better.

 



 

Mother's Day - really ?

You may call me rude, ignorant, misbehaved or whatever but I have not wished my mother today for the so called mother's day. I did talk to her over the phone, as I usually do, but it was all normal and nothing to do with the fact that the world is celebrating mother's day. I was even questioned by few of my friends, If I have wished my mother today?

 

I simply fail to understand why we  have started paying so much importance to days such as these, have people before this not loved their mothers? Or mothers could not feel the love and respect of their children without them wishing her formally or publicly? I do not need an occasion to appreciate the love of my mother or any of the family member for that matter, for me every day is a special day and every day I live I owe it to my parents.

 

I am not against celebrating any specific day or against the concept of having special days for our family, I am just against the 'follow the herd' policy that we seem to be working on off late. I say this because I have just learned that, after Christmas, Americans spend more money on Mother's Day than on any other holiday in the year. Do we even know from where the concept of mother's day came, do we know why it was celebrated and the reasons for it. Are we doing it just because others are doing it, do we actually need to celebrate days such as these. I know friends who called their mother's bang on the stroke of midnight to wish her a happy mothers day. I mean, like seriously, are you kidding me. Calling up your mother at midnight to wish her mothers day, that is a little too much for me and I must admit I would never do that.

 

Well having said all of that I still believe that it should be ones own decision if one wants to celebrate the day or not and I am not asking anyone of you to change, I was just a bit surprised to see all the social media flooded with all the mothers day stuff and I thought is it really that big an occasion or are we just doing a bit of show off.

 

P.S. I love my mother as much as anyone of you and she is the most important person in my life.

Acting and Theatre - miss you everyday

"You that choose not by the view, Chance as fair and choose as true. Since this fortune falls to you, Be content and seek no new. If you be well pleased with this And hold your fortune for your bliss,
Turn you where your lady is And claim her with a loving kiss" .... the famous lines from Merchant of Venice were the last lines that I had delivered on a stage and it has been almost a decade and no more acting and theatre for me. I still remember that day, those lines, the entire audience, the judges and some of my colleagues (who were making me laugh). I was very confident that I would make it through the auditions and get selected but as always life had other plans and I was rejected because my accent was not up to the mark.

 

When I walked back home from the auditions, I was very sure that I would come back with lots of practice and re-appear for the auditions and get selected for some other play. But I never knew that would end up being the last stage performance in years for me. To be honest, I have not really been serious about it in the recent years else I might have tried it once again. I still miss it and hope that life would give me one opportunity at one of my passions in life. As they say it is never too late.

 

I met somebody few days back and we were casually talking and somehow the subject moved to something that I used to do in my life that I miss even today. I kept quiet for a while, walked down the memory lane, smiled and replied 'Acting'. Since that day it has been all over me and I seem to miss all that even more. It has been all over me since that day and I just want to go back in time and enjoy and experience all that just for one more time. Memories are all I have and some very good ones indeed. I never wanted to make a career in them but still I wanted to be in touch with theatre, art, stage shows, radio programs, and even those stupid roles that I did when in school.

 

When I was in London, I made sure I visited Shakespeare Globe theatre and thought and even imagined myself on the stage performing on one of his plays. This in itself proves that my passion for acting has not yet died it is just that the professional life and the work pressure that has taken center stage and everything else has just taken a back seat. I wish someday I will still be on the stage.