Swapping Prada's,

for some comfortable footwear. 

3 devils at Mysore Exhibition.

Lighting up a lantern

My extremely talented room-mate, Bhoomi, made this lantern yesterday with butter sheet.

 We carried up to the terrace, lit it up, and watched it float into the starless night.

Love and lessons from the idiot box.

I love(d) movies. I was a Wikipedia page containing information about the upcoming releases, remembering most of the minute details. Every Friday, on the way back from school, I had a habit of checking out the new film posters being put up at PVR. I would check out the clothes the actors would don, the hairstyles, the songs, and the outdoor locations. Now, I have fallen in love with the art of film making.

I cultivated the habit of reading movie reviews (before or) after watching a movie, which has helped me in paying more attention to the dialogues, the development of characters, the setting, the motifs and the most important - the reason why a particular scene is staged in that particular way. What does it tell us about those people on screens, or about their lives?

With the frequently occurring holidays, I watched and re watched a few movies. The first one that I watched was Rachel Getting Married, which I noticed running on the tv, when I was flipping between the channels. It is a beautifully made film on the ongoings during a wedding preparation between a dysfunctional American family. It deals with the family coming to terms with a tragic accident that occurred in the past. The film is evenly paced, giving importance to the friction caused between the family members with the preparations and the events as the background.  My favourite scene was the wedding rehearsal dinner, where we get a glimpse of all the people invited to the wedding through the toasts that they present to the to be wed couple. Later on, I watched Monte Carlo starring Selena Gomez. It contains no fusses. It is predictable, cute and keeps us smiling throughout. I remember the first time I watched it. I was (actually still am!) a huge Selena Gomez fan, and my eyes were literally on her the whole time. When I watched it this time around, I felt like finally saw the movie as a whole, not just Selena Gomez (or her gorgeous hair.) 

Few days later, I re watched Dil Chahta Hain with my room mate. This time it was less about what was on the screen, but more of what we felt when we watched this as kids. We reminisced the early 2000's, the loose clothing, the flip mobile phones, and of course the movie's songs. I watched Lucy, a sort of a creepy but mind blowing sci-fi thriller, that kept me very curious on how the rest of the film was going to be executed, once the set problem is caused. 

These are of course a few of the many I watched in the past few weeks, but I learnt that not everything I watch has to imitate the life that revolves around us. Sometimes, you require a bit of predictability, a spoonful of the past or a gust of the impending tragedy to move your heart. It certainly isn't necessary to pick your favourite type of genre. I enjoy all, maybe some more than others, but I am willing to experiment with more varied genres.

PS: I have already stuck a list titled, 'Movies to watch', on my wall, which already has more than twenty films.