u r lucky

walking back from school one day, hop skip and jump. Excuse moi can u please tell me this address. A slip of paper a bag in hand, formal clothes. Why not lets give it a shot.
Walk up to him, inside the building. On the staircase, curiousity? Belief in humanity?
Stand straight, put your water bottle down.
Weird but why rub your crotch against mine? Are u going to be sick? And is that a bile rising in my throat?

Why r u crying? Nothing. You can go.
Home, question... did he remove your clothes, no did he remove his clothes no... Thank god? Its ok dear happens to all women at some point in their lives.. But i am just a girl!
Don’t go to school for a few days.

Does it really happen to all the women in the world? N o sometimes its much worse.
"a guy thrust his thumb in my groin and he had a 2 inch long nail"
"my uncle had just gone thru a divorce, we were alone in the house, he kissed me"
"my tutor would touch me in private places"

but then.... u r lucky u didnt get raped. it happens to all the women at some point in life, some get even some don't.
But it happens. Just like menstruation or menopause.
Just like freak accidents
just like birth and death.
It happens and u r lucky u didn’t get raped...

memories r of 2 kinds, some are like the first rains that not only soak up the parched earth but give a new lease of life, and leave behind greenery freshness and hope
and then there are others like the plastic bag clinging to your leg when u walk through knee high water in Mumbai floods

born
lived
but how?

Smirk

4 months later he called. his voice was heavy the moment she heard the hello and knew he was crying the whole night.he lives approximately 15 mins away from her house but it took him 4 months to get over their last fight to call her up again.
she ignored the sniffle and asked wassup? he was wasting her time so she just asked what had happened. he denied that anything was wrong and apparently had realised his mistake. (wat a load of crap) he had fought with his girlfriend, "she is being non cooperative, we fight all the time i am miserable. she doesnot trust me. my friends laugh at me when they hear that we have been going around for 6 yrs and havent had sex" she consoles.
he wants to meet her, in times like these only she can 'support' him the way he wants, she doesnt want to but she knows she will. old habit/bad habit. she has an off the next day, she leaves the house at the usual hour, after leaving she asks," have they left? yes come fast". same route same elevator, he opens the door before she rings the bell. remove ur shoes go to his room

[she has forgotten how to laugh. she doesnt remember how she laughed or the last time she had laughed till she felt her lungs would burst].

he is good, he presses th right buttons, just a caress could turn her on, make her head spin, make her go weak in her knees, maybe practise makes a person perfect. "you are so much better......" ' pls compare me to all of them pls wat better way than to make me feel like a slut'.

'i had loved u once and i am paying the price i hate you now, u think only u can use me, i can do the same i will destroy u and my SELF and i will resurrect

i loved u, i did and i let u use me and i will and i won't seek revenge because i don't have the guts to do it. because i will only end up hurting myself.
but one day when u will grovel at my feet and ask for the same 'support' i will have a smirk because i can gt rid of my habit but what will u do of ur addiction????????'

satisfied, she moans.

OMKARA / OTHELLO

wow!! mind blowing or rather i'm blown over!! omkara is one of the finest hindi movie released this year and i think it will be for the whole year too what with its competition being kank (for ppl not well versed in bollywood its kabhi alvida na kehna and dhoom 2 and fanaa ). yuck!!

so wats so amazing abt the film.
1. acting- saif ali khan in one of his most verstile and powerful and unbelievably good perfomance takes Iago to new and greater heights. i forgot it was saif ali khan, sharmila tagore's son (i always thot cud never be as good as her). i mean how many of yash chopra's hero have been successful in carrying such a versatile role.

Ajay devagan seems the same like he is in apaharan minus the highlights. His performance is extremely controlled and carries a lot of power. But st the same time he is cold.

Kareena looks excellent sans make up and although the character isn’t convincing she has carried it really well. She looks so vulnerable and child like, she brings out protective feelings in the audince’s heart. Wats with her hair lways on one side?? it distracted me

Kesu firangi alias cassio alias Vivek Oberoi, doesn’t have much to do and quite a wimp.

Konkona sensharma, wat do I say about this lovely lady, beautiful performance, excellent dialogue delivery, looks quite scary when she kills her husband, which by the way is different from the original Othello.

Naseerudding shah his character is supposedly based ona real life don Mr. Bhardwaj met in central jail of XYZ. Small role, insignificant, excellent introduction.

Last but not the least, billo aka bipasha basu? Why d? what d ? how d? I guess u get it. Dialogues and accent perfect; body language zero. She is too sensuous and glamorous for her own good. Common a nautanki wali in UP has to have a bit of crudeness, she cannot have an immaculate crop of hair which she has ironed in a parlour not even at the dhobi…. (bad joke).. I mean she cannot dance her body language is too bold and glamorous and sophisticated.

I was surprised to see Aishwarya Rai bring out cruseness in the kajra re number, but bipasha was a dampner on the whole.

2. VD or Vinay somebody had said, that one can see how much homework a director has done before making the film by the end product. And seriously Vishal Bhardwaj has done tremendous homework. Agreed that the plot, characters, and story existed he just had to adapt, but when one sees omkara one relises adaptation is not an easy job. To put the story in a rural context, and finding the adaptable characters is tough.

The dialogues are bloody well written I don’t know which region the director belongs to but he must have spent quite some time there to get the dialogues right to the T.

Each dialogue has so much depth and mean9ing. Some of the memorable dialogues

Sarat ghodon pe lagayi jaati hai seron pe nahi

Hum agni se bhi gujar jaaye to bhi thage hi kehlayenge sage nahi

Hasi badi mehengi ho gayi is jahan mein

I fell in love with the beginning of the film, the way one after the other each character is introduced, beginning with saif and .. followed by vivek and then jay devgan. Also when u first see ajay u see a calm copmposed guy who gets saved from being shot in his head due to a call made by bhaisaaheb. Its only later when the background score picks up the title track and a fight sequence is picturised on it (what a brilliant intro/fight scene/music/ drums/shots) that we get the strength of the character Omkara.

That introduction was like the peak of my entertainment. It just grows on yo, I was at the edge of my seat wondering.. what next what next. One more thing f everybody feels that the first half of he movie is brilliant and better than the second half, that’s because the first half follows othello’s structure and scenes. Later on it has been tampered with a little bit. Check this link

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/othello/full.html

almost forgot economy of shots. Thanks to vinay mentioning it and vishal using it.

In the beginning, you see ajay devgan sitting at the background, an old lady using a borewell to draw water, in one shot, he gets up from wide the shot becomes mid and ajay starts drawing water, he hands over the vessel to the old lady while saying his dialogue and the music reaches a crescendo and breaks into the title track and the fight begins. Brilliant!!

cinematography!! wat can i say? the action scene that happens int he train has been really well shot. come to think of it in such a crammed up space there r minimal lights (thankfully to make it look real and also there is no space) characters are running shooting people and the camera has to capture them all. and the brilliant shot that stays with me is the one outside the train at the engine; rain pouring, just one bright light rain and saif and ajay on the tracks!! maybe the light symbolises that omi has only a single chance to overcome his jealousy but then too he relies upon his tyagi who is perpetually in darkness/silhouttes. the framing of that shot where the train is slightly off center with tyagi in silhoutte and omi partially visible can be said is don to show his gradual downfall.

Did u know Orson Welles made Othello in 1952? He starred in it and played the main lead. Wish I could see it, hope to get a copy soon. It even won 1 awrd and another nomination.

I guess the master of cinema himself was fascinated by this Shakespearean play, Vishal Bhardwaj isn’t the only one? Say wot??