in mute box - i voice

July is where i stopped.. is it not?? So, I'm picking it up from there. After being annoyed with the over use of the phrase ' mungaaru male' and writing a research proposal for TISS , and giving an entrance exam for FTII , i was still hanging in the air wondering what I am doing not having a proper job!! almost a year after I was done with my masters. I Was still wondering if continuing to study was a good thing to do. It was i had decided... but where would i get through?? The two institutes I had applied for were two very different ones, catering to two very different ambitions of mine. The former dealt with a question that I would ask and think about quite often. The other more of a passion and something that i would love to settle down to do in my life. It was an option between research and direction. At the stage that I was in I saw a lot of differences in the two. I really am not the intellectual kinds, I would rather have a hands on experience with working. It was...

So, I finally start again, after a rather short, long break. Well at least I start again... and what do I start with? well of course!! it's about what i have been doing all this while.. so there i go again.. jibber jabber..... This bit is my introductions to what is coming along...... enjaay maadi!!!

Well! it's getting a little too much for me to take now. The words 'Mungaaru Male' has been used and over used by the Kannada channels. The movie was a super hit, alright, but please!!! can we stop using the same words again and again. Any Kannada news channel that has to report rains have very conveniently switched to use and abuse the two words in reference. None of the TV show host finish his/ her conversation without reference to the rain as mungaaru male. As far as I can remember the word mungaaru male was not so extensively used to report rains earlier. Moreover doesn't mungaaru male mean pre-monsoon rain? even if it is mungaaru male does one/ everyone have to use the words so excessively?? Either ways, I'm tired of it's usage. Aste. :)

The first time I heard ' anisuthide ' on TV I didn't think it was great. But it was better than the others on the chart, a break from all the loud and violent songs. Then I got two songs from a friend, the two popular ones. The title track struck a chord, and I listened to it, time and again, until I could not think of anything but that song. Then I heard ' anuisuthide ' it was good too, so another track on my playlist . Then one day I heard ' araluthiru ', I was bowled over by the lyrics. It said so much, without saying so much more, the tune of course was already registered. So there it was on my playlist the three songs. ' Onde ondu saari ' and ' kunidhu kunidhu baare ' were different so, they found a way into my playlist . Now I had five songs and a new playlist ..... the mungaaru male playlist . Listening to it time and again, the words come out unconsciously whenever I listen to the tune. Now the songs have become more or less...

At world's end........ there it was.. and i was watching it on the first day.... yeahie !! I was as thrilled as that. A friend had warned me..... he had watched it and had not liked it..... but common... it's the pirates... forget anything i was going to watch it for Jack Sparrow. oh! is he good or is he good..... I could not help but to fall in love with him.... all over again...[like it was not enough for the fist two series]. It's sheer pleasure to watch Depp as Jack. The movie starts, and i'm waiting, and waiting, and waiting..... and after what seems like an endless wait packed with some action scenes; I am rewarded.... with one, two, three, four,five........ and many more jacks' hehehe ... ya.... that many..... oh! what a riot. what more.. you get to see some cool tattoos and some flesh too baby...[;)] and some seriously funny Jack.... he's so quirky, and lovable. and ah! his timing........ ( i'm sorry, i can just go on and on) and the rest as...

Swami and friends...... well..... each chapter brings a smile on the face of a reader. I have read this book time and again, and am never tired of reading it.... just another time.

How would the world have been?? Had we humans been less selfish....

Somethings things haunt the soul; and these are the haunting's that make a dream; a dream when fulfilled, will quench the haunt.......

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on- series polygamy- until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate....

Shankar Nag, the name evokes warm memories of Malgudi days in me. I was perhaps too young to understand the fineness of Malgudi days when I first watched it on television, but I remember enjoying it. When in college the series was re-run, and I was completely floored. I could not have imagined Malgudi in any other way. Everything was perfect, the actors, the costumes, the sets, the location, and so was the director. He was a natural. It could not have been made better. What I know of Shankar Nag is what I see of him in his movies, and hear what people say of him. And I realise why he had and still has such a huge fan following or why people still love to remember him. Many a times when a conversation about Shankar Nag comes up, regardless of who it is, the topic of the Kannada film industry comes up too. Everyone, has just one thing to say. “If he was alive, the Kannada film industry would have been in a different place altogether.” I have no doubts about it. Even as an actor, mos...

Who are we to decide? Who are we to argue? We destroy.... We pollute....

The tag line says, 'It takes someone special to give blood.'

Calvin : From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat p145

As I was walking out of the theatre, after watching this movie, I heard someone say ' but it’s not the same as the book'. I felt like telling her, forget the book, forget the story, you have one good and sensible Kannada movie to watch, which is more than enough reason to enjoy the movie as it is. [And how many people would have read the book??] Well! But it was a nice change, to watch a packed audience in the third week of this movie. As for the movie, it’s a great. Forget all the fundoo concepts, it deals with the simplest of issues FEELINGS & EMOTIONS, [not of the love triangle and dhuki stories fame] which none of us are devoid of; and of course the hypocrisy of our society. Be it pre - independence or post independence. The definition of pleasure is different for each person, and is best shown in the film. Be it for Nagamma who longs for Vishwa , a supposed reincarnation of her dead Son to come to her. Or for Rajalakshmi her grand daughter who initially desires ...