Black Friday......brilliant......

till the day before, all i remembered of pawan malhotra was his debut in the early 90's in saeed mirza's salim langde pe mat ro....... his portrayal of salim, trying to find his identity in a total confusing world of good and bad was absolutely mind blowing........

and yesterday i saw black friday........and he steals the show with his performance as Ibrahim Abdul Razak Memon better know as Tiger Memon, most wanted terrorist and the architect of the 1993 bombay bombings........

the movie tells the story of the young terrorists who were manipulated by tiger memon to execute his plans.....and also of the police officials who cracked the case........

Kay Kay Menon is an actor par excellence and his portrayal of DCP Rakesh Maria is simply brilliant............his performance as an IPS officer is as close as it can get to how a real IPS officer would behave (mannerisms)............i can state this with authority as i have a member of IPS fraternity as my immediate family.........

the movie is so hard hitting that it made many people to walk out of the theater during the intermission..........truth hurtsssss.........

last week, parzania and now this........both the movies make you think, think and then think some more...........

a must watch......

p.s. the background score by indian ocean is very impressive and adds an impact to the scenes...........

Traffic Jam....oooops..... Signal

what a waste of time.....even if the duration of the movie is 2hrs, its a total waste............

ranvir shorey and kunal khemu (strictly in that order) are the only saving grace for this dud of a movie..............

wake up mr. bhandarkar...........you are losing your touch.......

p.s. sudhir mishra should stick to what he is best at, direction....................

a disappearing poet of always.....

here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your (in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain

and here's to silent certainly mountains; and to
a disappearing poet of always, snow
and to morning; and to morning's beautiful friend
twilight (and a first dream called ocean) and

let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid
down with ought with because with every brain
which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel (but up
with joy; and up with laughing and drunkenness)

here's to one undiscoverable guess
of whose mad skill each world of blood is made
(whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

- e e cummings

Parzania....

i saw parzania last night ......was left speechless & visibly shaken after the movie (just like everybody else in the theatre)........

all i remember is this quote from Gandhi featured in the movie... "An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind."

this is not a review....its not about the characters, their performance, direction or the movie........this is about the establishment we believe in.......

p.s. the movie is not being screened in Gujrat for obvious reasons......