This evening's 'Total recall' on Times Now covered Guru Dutt, one of my favourites. Boy, that man was talent unlimited and his movies are worth a watch even now - especially, to understand his effective use of light in the days of the 'black & white cinema' to highlight emotions!
What strikes me is that haunting melody, 'Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam.....' of the movie 'Kaagaz ke phool' which was picturised on his love, Waheeda Rehman and sung by his talented wife Gita Dutt! I suppose this is the twist that life encompasses!!
2. India has got talent.
One of the competitors on this reality show on 'Colors' was 'Priyush' who'd choreographed his moves on that superb number 'Tujhe sab hai pata, meri ma......' from the movie 'Taare Zameen Par'. He'd run away from his home in the North East to Bombay to eke out a living through his passion for dance! And the day's episode was used to unite him with his mother - after a lapse of 4 years - with all the attendant tears and smiles!!
I'm fond of this number as these wordings or wordings similar to them in content, were put forth to my mother by me when my parents had packed me off to a boarding school when I was in class VII. The gist of the number encompasses my troubled thoughts of those days. So homesick was I that I used to cry into my pillows after 'lights out' and made sure that no one saw me in my moments of weakness!
3. The latest from the Wikileaks.
Once again goes to prove the double standards that we Indians are famed for following. However, this time the brunt of the effect seems to be on the Communist Party. What the party should do now is to set its archaic dogmas aside and work on realistic issues that are important and relevant to the present day world. In Kerala, the leaks have further intensified the feud between the Achuthanandan and the Pinarayi factions.
And Karat simply seems to be inadequate, in stature, to guide his party out of the storm!
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