Thoughts

I am reading John Holt's 'Why Children Fail' book and it is very interesting.

I am impressed with the way the emotional maturity is being portrayed in films of late. For instance in YJHD - Kalki's character is shown to have a soft corner for Aditya's and Aditya is shown to be completely oblivious to it. Later when Ranbir comes for her marriage and asks why she did not go with Aditya. She says you noticed and he says everybody except him did and then she just shrugs and says he was never there in that relationship it was just me so I moved on.




 

Deepika

Watched YJHD. It starts out well, falters in the middle and suddenly all the threads make a bow in the last 15 min.

Deepika Padukone is a song, looks nice, is tall and lanky and acts decently well. So does Ranbir Kapoor.

Liked the trailer let's see how her new movie will be

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Summer reading program

 Summer vacation for me meant lazing around reading books morning and afternoon and taking a nice long walk in the evening to get more books from the library and if my mom was in an indulgent mood she would let us get curry puffs fresh from the bakery on our way home. Bliss in short.

Now activity being the main theme the summer vacations have changed too. Come Summer the Husband and I start thinking about which camps to choose for the kids and what activities to pick. Various camps offer various activities tailored per the kids age and their hobbies.

Reading and story telling is one of these activities that has survived the test of time and modernization, in fact it has become the accelerator for more inventions (think ipad, kindle etc). It is a skill that needs to be inculcated in little kids. If one happens to sift through the summer camps you will see that not many of them offer a camp for reading. So it truly is a commendable effort on part of UTBT to be doing a summer reading camp.

Her camp is being held at Treasurehouse in Hyderabad. So if you have little kids and want to teach them the enjoyable skill of reading,  get them to this camp. A great time to be a kid and an even greater time to have somebody putting in such effort into it!

An unexpected "story"

Yes, I am talking about Kahaani, just like everybody else seems to be these days.

The story line is superb and the subject, I don't think has been handled by Bollywood before. If this is the way Bollywood is growing up, it sure is on the right track.

I had heard from a whole bunch of folks that the movie is good, but was not paying attention to what genre the movie belonged to. I just assumed that it is a women oriented movie on a women oriented topic and so dragged my mom to the theater as a companion on a lazy Saturday morning. I couldn't have been more wrong. It basically is a thriller with one of the main protagonists as a woman.

Vidya Bagchi and Satyaki are just incredible. The lead actors are very convincing in the roles that they have played. There are enough clues in the movie to tell you what the suspense is going to be, but not enough time to piece all the things together as there is so much happening and has the audience immersed in it. It was fun to tie all these pieces together after coming out of the theater.

Overall a very enjoyable film,  go see it if you haven't already done so.