Dada ek good news aahe... review

Well I was lucky to witness the 150th show of this drama ... and must say many more to go... a heart melting capture of brother sister bond .. which touches each nuance of this pure relationship .

An important message conveyed by treating the subject very sensitively yet in an entertaining way..... this could have easily bent towards showing feminism and equal rights and independence of women types ... but very articulately we got to unfold each layer of a bro-sis relationship here and it leaves you with a feeling that if you have such a brother in life then why do you at all need anyone else.  

The sentimental moments that the protagonists share, the standing by each other’s side even when you disapprove the other, the unconditional love and care, were a treat to watch. For women who have never have experienced such a relationship, this could be like a trailer to what it could have been like to have a brother in life.  There are moments that left you teary-eyed just by the emotions that flow between them ... however balanced by moments that made you laugh just by the sheer naivity and humour. In the end you leave the theatre with a smile on your face, with a mindset-changer entertainment, feeling affinity towards the characters.... and feeling loads of love for your sibling.

A must watch together for a brother - sister duo ... cause this will surely rebuild the connect ... and multiply the blessing that god gives one in the form of brother/sister.

..... And sometimes you need to live certain relationships like you want to...only in your fantasies and dreams.... Where each emotion you have ever felt.... You are allowed to express the way you want to.....

.... And here comes the best part - you get to decide how the other will express his feelings.... Exactly like you ever wanted them to.... Like the way you ever dreamt of... Like the longings that you always had being fulfilled....

.... And then there is reality!!! Check.... Check!!!

A hug is all she needed....

She was on the top of the mountain....
The valley opened his arms and called her in his embrace...
She knew her soul was there... She wanted the embrace.... Very badly!
She stood there still...and then felt a breeze...
She realized she has a body.... And did not want to leave her either....

Suddenly she saw him standing at the edge....between her and the valley...
He opened his arms and called her in his embrace...
She knew her soul was there.... She wanted the embrace... Very badly!
She ran into his arms....Tears welled in her eyes....
She realized she has a soul.... And did not want to leave her either...

It was dark!! But she got her peace....

-- VGP

Life's experiences...

Relationships graduate to another level....then to another...then to another level
Wish they never did so....
Wish they remained fresh, innocent, sacred, candid as they were when two people just start to know each other
When not many facets of the other person are known to you...still hidden under a veil... And there is a  sweet desire to uncover each layer to know what lies beneath....
The love with the unknown... That love remains love forever!!!!

-- VGP

Life’s experiences....

The most beautiful thing that can happen to one is selfless give and take of love, care & togetherness... Not physical....but an emotional, spiritual level of oneness.... where two personaities can be poles apart, but understand each other's psychological needs... And where they can give without asking and take without obliging... Just pure understanding of the need of being there for each other!!! Such is the definition of sanctitude!!!


--VGP

Life’s experiences....

You cannot expect anyone to change for you....unless they want to do it for you...

Being completely accepting and Learning to live under the given situation, is the first step towards perseverence...

Once you get yourself to that state.... Right - wrong, fair - unfair, you - me nothing matters...

- VGP

Unspoken Conversations...

Some people feel the need to express themselves very candidly.... Good best  bad ugly... everything has its existence  in being expressed.... I wonder if any relationship in this world between two strangers could be built without one expressing with the other their thoughts and feelings....

And then you meet people in life...People!!!! Each having their own desire to be heard....to be spoken!! But each covered with masks designed by this world... And wired with pre conceived notions and rules.. But still trying to fit in to the needs of each other in the relationship....

Where one is content in not expressing.... And one is just not content with what he gets to express.....

There are times when you have so much to say....so many random tghts running around in the mind.... So many emotions flying around.... Looking  for someone to settle on to...When what you need is pure expression of the whole deal of chaos inside you.... A conversation without judgement.... Without time bounds... without boundaries of the relationship.... Without you needing to edit your thoughts to fit into some already made norms....

And all you get is a person enough to listen to you but with your edited tghts....a person enough you have, but you need to summarize the whole of your storm in just two drops of rain... Coz all you have is a person enough, but with a divided ear for just a couple of moments.... And that is all in the name of  spoken conversation we have in our life...

....and then what we are left with us abundance of Unspoken Conversations.... That are forever sprinting in your mind....emotions talking to your thoughts...and thoughts understanding your emotions.... In the end there's no end...but a whole  lot of unsaid unheard conversations....waiting to someday be meeting someone who they can connect in that different way.... And look upto for being heard.... But these unspoken Conversations again fall for the trap.... They give away a few...allowed to be spoken parts of their life..... And are again left with a mountain load of unspoken Conversations.....

Sukanya's Musings

Sukanya's Musings

Book Review: The Name of this Book is Secret

The unusual name of the book though is secret (pun intended) and a 4-plus rating on Goodreads gave me the confidence to pick up this one. The story starts in an interesting way, where the author keeps warning you page after page to not read the book. At the start it feels exciting and gives a newness to the writing, but I wish I had paid some attention to it. Guess he was trying to play with the human psyche, and knew that people go ahead and do what they are asked to refrain from. Anyways, coming back to the story, after several warnings by the author to not read the book, which you happily choose to ignore, starts the plot wherein again the author tries to keep the thrill alive by not willing to talk much about the characters (though by the end of the book you realize it didn't make much of a difference anyways). He almost gets to a point where frustration creeps in with the constant 'I wish I dint have to tell you this', and 'I still warn you to not continue reading this' disclaimers!! And after so much hullabaloo about the dangerous secret, the reader would definitely expect something concrete and worth calling a secret, but the author fails to live upto his promise of delivering the same. 

What I liked about this book was the concept of 'Symphony of Smells' and the world of synesthestic people which I was exposed to for the first time. I knew this book was for children, but this one is strictly only for them. It gets very predictable as it reaches the end (though the author refuses to write a concluding chapter and wants us to do all the hard work for our own selves).

In fact while reading this book, I wished I had an adolescent daughter/son and also imagined myself narrating this story with all drama to her/him. 

All in all, I feel instead of announcing disclaimers about not reading the book, the author could have been more specific saying that 'If you are above 14 years of age, you read the book at your own risk, and don't blame me for the disappointment'. This way he could have shifted the onus of dissatisfaction on the reader, and this would have saved himself of some critically devastating reviews. 

But you now what, given a chance I do want to read the 4 other books in the pentalogy, somehow i'm still curious and am willing to take the risk of further disappointment. Funny but true!

Book Review: One Amazing Thing

Well, the initial plot seemed quite interesting where a bunch of people get trapped in a crumbling earthquake hit building, and then decide to share 'one amazing thing' or story from their life to divert their fearing selves from the catastrophic end they are ill-fated for.

The book starts well, and without wasting any time gets straight gets to the main point where earthquake strikes. I picked up this book for the 'one amazing thing' stories that the trapped people would be narrating. However, the disappointment starts with the first story itself, and continues to do so in the stories that followed, as I did not find any thing worth admiring in any of them. The stories lack drama, and while one or two of them were really boring, these everyday life stories had nothing in them worth calling amazing.  Also, I hated the fact that the stories were not narrated in the first person voice, and were written as if the writer is saying them. This made it difficult to connect to the characters and their feelings, and thus maybe failed to get across the 'one amazing thing' of their story. Infact, as the book progresses you get more interested in the main story about the survival of the earthquake victims, and the stories of the characters rather seem to be interfering. Also, the abrupt endings of the narrations and then the incomplete end to the book, gets even more frustrating. 

All in all, neither the intensity of their suffering from earthquake moved you, nor the emotions from the stories touched you. This was my first Chitra Divakaruni book, and I hope the next in my 'to-read' list -- 'The Palace of Illusions' does not leave me discontented.