Tales from a twisted mind

Anand pondered in silence. He sat brooding on the wooden bench. His eyes remained unfocused, his breath a little higher than usual. He tapped his foot nervously. The lady seated on the opposite bench gave him disapproving looks. For a second, he wondered what was making her upset and was on the point of asking her aloud, when he realised the source of her discomfort. The lady was getting irritated by the constant movement of his leg. Every now and then, she stared at him further, hoping that he would get her point. ‘To hell with her,’ he thought. He had a grave situation to deal with. He had rushed from work to the BSES hospital in Andheri west. The time taken to drive from   his office in Mindspace, Malad to Andheri took around 30 minutes. All that time, his heart was beating furiously. He was on edge. He couldn’t recollect how he whizzed past the people on the street, who were striding along the pathway, enjoying the early morning sunlight and the benefi...

So, the morning of the 12 th of January 2015, I took a leave from work to watch the Golden Globe awards live. This year’s winners were mostly first-timers and a large group of actors were awarded this time. One such significant winner for me was actor Matt Bomer, who won the award for Best Supporting actor in a TV movie or miniseries, for his work in the movie ‘The Normal Heart.’ In this film, he portrays the lead actor’s gay lover, ultimately dying in the movie due to AIDS. I haven’t seen the movie yet (all this information is sourced from Wikipedia) but I read that the movie got rave reviews, especially Bomer being singled out for his performance, culminating in a win for him at the Globes.   This is a consecutive award for an actor playing an HIV-AIDS patient. Last year, Matthew Mcconaughey and Jared Leto swept the acting honours at almost all the award ceremonies. They, too, won for portraying characters battling the dreaded disease.  Af...

Till date, I have written just one post on a movie and that was ‘Waltz with Bashir’ (a masterpiece!) so far. The movie offered a new perspective; one that I hadn’t seen through before.  Closer home, only one man manages to do that for me: Mr. Rajkumar Hirani. We all are well-versed with his scant but valuable filmography. Some die-hard fans (like me) even know the dates of his previous films releases, must have scanned the internet thoroughly for reviews and even must have argued with people who think otherwise. Taking likeness to a new creepy level, there are legions of fans who swear by his movies and would blindly go to watch his movies, without caring what the ‘critics’ have to say. I waited the whole year for the release of ‘PK’. I knew and so did everyone that the movie would again create a mass social hysteria among people like his previous films have done!    With just one line in my mind that the film was a “satire on God and Godmen”, I ...