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A Piano – on my head…

As you stroll down the street whistling and thinking to yourself 'how good life is and how well everything seems to be in place' - KABANG TWANG ! a piano falls on your head and everything goes bollocks again. Reminds me of one of them arcade games where you have to bonk the beavers on the head when they come out of their little burrows - know what i mean ?

This weekend was definitely one of the shittiest and dissapointing weekend of all times for me. If they ever gave out awards for shitty depressed weekends - it should probably be named after me... it was that bad!

*sigh*
I think i read too much into too little and dreamt up a silly little world that gave me a purpose. A motive to fight through a shit load of crap that life generally has to offer.....*sigh* look at me sounding all philosophical and everything. Arrgh! i just wish i could just make her realize how stubborn and stupid she is being for a 'smart person'.... i dont know - maybe i'm being stupid for expecting too much from her.

Anyway - i guess thats all behind me now whether i like it or not.

I was able to catch two screenings out of the many at the Dubai International Film Festival . One being the very well directed and witty 'Raghu Romeo' by Rajat Kapoor. I thought the film was a very humorous account of how the lines between reality and fantasy can get blurred in todays media controlled society. This blurring of lines was very well interwoven with the individual search for love and identity. Whilst Raghu falls in love with Neetaji (on screen character of Maria Gorreti) who does not exist in reality, Sweetie is looking for Raghu's love and attention. The character played by Saurabh Shukla yearns for Sweetie's love and struggles to maintain his identity as a professional killer who is assigned the job of killing Neetaji. All in all - it ends up being quite a cacophony of individual interactions with a touch of intentionally placed song and dance sequences to poke fun and highlight the pop-cultness of the film.

My favorite bit in the film definitely has to be the heart rendering cry that Raghu ( played by Vijay Raaz) lets out at the end. A brilliant actor but not much of a talker - is what i gathered as he stood in front of us along with Rajat Kapoor at the end of the film. I thought there were some really stupid questions that the crowd asked that night - but it takes all sorts i guess.

The second film that i ended up watching the very same evening was a SriLankan film called 'Against the Tide' directed by Sudath Devapriya. A rather lengthy but poigniant film - i thought. I noticed a touch of Satyajit Ray's - Pather Panchali in there. It was probably the fact that both films were based on a rural background and centred themselves around the theme of 'hope' for a father figure to return. Another parallel between the two films was that the choice and pacing of the individual shots further heightened the wait and anxiousness of the viewer much like that of the characters themselves.

I quite enjoyed decoding the subtle and not so subtle metaphors in the film - the butterfly and the jar of 'colored fishes'. The use of the jar of fishes seemed to be quite subtle and only fell into place at the end as a symbol of hope. Very beautifully structured - the film would periodically return to shots of the boy staring at the fishes as he waited for his fathers return. Eventually, after he comes to hear of his fathers ill fated death, he lets the fishes go as he lets go of any hope whatsoever of his return. A lengthy but a worth watch.

Thats it from me now... i wish i could the same about many other things in my life at this point. *sigh*