Ain't No Shakespeare

Yeah so I don’t know how to process this honestly. This – the flight – crash – the whole tragedy – urgh! And all I know is writing as a way of emoting so that’s what I am going to do. Even if it is my public blog and not my journal. I don’t know how to deal with it, how to get past it, how not to think about it, how not to be affected by it. The fear, the doom, the depression, the immense pain I feel just by thinking about those in the tragedy. Can’t even imagine what their loved ones might be going through. Can’t imagine what the passengers must have felt in those 6 mins – Panic? Fear? Hope? I don’t know! It breaks my heart thinking about it. How they must have been excited, sitting at the airport. Not a normal day for sure. They are going on vacation, heart filled with excitement. Some were returning home from vacation, their luggage packed with souvenirs, their hearts with memories. Some must have been going for work – their first trip to London maybe. For the crew it was a regu...

I generally do not write movie reviews, but no sooner than I finished watching this movie, this blog kind of wrote itself in my mind. I don’t know why it took me so long to get to this movie. I knew already that it does not have a happy ending. And maybe I wasn’t ready to know that even movies, like life, can end unhappily sometimes. But today, on an impulse I started watching this movie and I got drawn into its magic. Set mainly in the sleepy, lazy life of Kolkata (a city with its own love & magic), it is the story of a madly in love Abhimanyu and a crazy, impulsive, wild Bindu. Don’t worry. I am not going to write a summary of the movie here, you can find it anywhere on google. But I felt I should give some typical, movie review start to ease you into my write up. I didn’t know what I was expecting from the movie. The first 5-10 mins had me really confused about where this story was going. Much like the city it is set it, it was slow, lazy and confusing. But once he began their s...