My better (?) half with a through intent to finish his one week of leaves before April 2016 managed to stay last whole week at home. He had a lot of backlog.. Of movies I mean... I manage to see most on ff mode as soon as they are on einthusan. The main reason for that being, when movie is finally put on by my better (?) half, I can see it without much concentration or not see it at all and concentrate on more basic issues like cooking, cleaning.. Giving food to the lazy "halvai" warming the sofa and going through never ending chains of movies. But sometimes time passes so much that I forget what the movie was all about. One such movie was dum laga ke haisha.
A fat bride. A thin groom. Educated wife, not that educated groom. In laws, and not sweet sweet life. The reasons for marrying different. But in the end acceptance. Not when the girl is thin and has deepika style makeover or groom who went on to study in Oxford. But of life in general. Of each other. And just a background of a race in which the boy needs to carry his wife on his back and run to finishing line. Needless to say. Fat girl, thin boy win. Not stellar performances but nice. Just real. And thankfully not usual of fat girl losing weight.
I liked it for varied reasons. I don't know anywhere else but in India at least, there is a discrimination( ouch that sounds heavy and serious) or rather a style of wearing designer glasses of various colors. And we tend to see things that way. Even if we say beauty is temporary, still there is fair and lovely n handsome as well. Why is skin color that important. Why aren't we impressed by intelligence and knowledge that the person has. Or fat vs thin. Is being aesthetically beautiful that important... Somewhere this movie tugged all those strings .. And main listening to kumar sanu after such a long time.
Next day "Aligarh". I didn't know such movie existed. But a movie based on real life events. On homosexuality. A taboo issue maybe. But wonderfully made. No melodrama. No typecasting gay people. Court scenes shown but not the usual 15 minute fame performance by a lawyer giving his speech. They could have exploited ashish vidyarthi''s acting prowess that way. But thankfully no. Manoj bajpai is seen snoozing in the court. A real scenario. This was the movie which I almost didn't watch. And I am happy that I did.
My current wish: more time. My 3 national geographic, 1 readers digest and 5 books, 2 coloring books are waiting for me. I guess with India vacation fast approaching... Maybe... Cross fingers...
A fat bride. A thin groom. Educated wife, not that educated groom. In laws, and not sweet sweet life. The reasons for marrying different. But in the end acceptance. Not when the girl is thin and has deepika style makeover or groom who went on to study in Oxford. But of life in general. Of each other. And just a background of a race in which the boy needs to carry his wife on his back and run to finishing line. Needless to say. Fat girl, thin boy win. Not stellar performances but nice. Just real. And thankfully not usual of fat girl losing weight.
I liked it for varied reasons. I don't know anywhere else but in India at least, there is a discrimination( ouch that sounds heavy and serious) or rather a style of wearing designer glasses of various colors. And we tend to see things that way. Even if we say beauty is temporary, still there is fair and lovely n handsome as well. Why is skin color that important. Why aren't we impressed by intelligence and knowledge that the person has. Or fat vs thin. Is being aesthetically beautiful that important... Somewhere this movie tugged all those strings .. And main listening to kumar sanu after such a long time.
Next day "Aligarh". I didn't know such movie existed. But a movie based on real life events. On homosexuality. A taboo issue maybe. But wonderfully made. No melodrama. No typecasting gay people. Court scenes shown but not the usual 15 minute fame performance by a lawyer giving his speech. They could have exploited ashish vidyarthi''s acting prowess that way. But thankfully no. Manoj bajpai is seen snoozing in the court. A real scenario. This was the movie which I almost didn't watch. And I am happy that I did.
My current wish: more time. My 3 national geographic, 1 readers digest and 5 books, 2 coloring books are waiting for me. I guess with India vacation fast approaching... Maybe... Cross fingers...
