When the Moon smiles!

"Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high .." - Wordsworth

Yesterday was a full moon .. my friend and I went to the terrace to
catch some glimpse of it .. to experiment with his new digi-cam. The Moon was truly in all smiles yesterday. After the photos were taken we realised that it was so different through the lenses and through human eyes .. camera can only photograph the beauty in black and white but it cant catch the mystery associated to it .. and beauty along with the mystery becomes so gorgeous .. that's what we call 'maya'.

Indeed, it remided me of "chander hashi bandh bhengechhe .." (when the moon smiles breaking all barriers..)!

We were delighted to see such beauty in the sky .. at the same time my friend was upset that even his pwerful camera could not really catch what he was observing. He took some 20 photos .. and I just uploaded a few of them .. perhaps the best(s) of the lot. :-)

may be you can see this link .. a moon - devotee's creation!

Film that I liked!

"A senior corporate executive with a loving wife at home falls for a colleague in office. But his best-kept secret slips out the day the lovers meet with an accident — she dies, but he survives. Dosar, Rituparno Ghosh’s urbane tale of infidelity and its ramifications on a marital relationship, starts at the crossroads of an uneasy past and a fractured present in the wedded life of his star actors Prosenjit and Konkona Sen Sharma. And all in stark black and white." (Review from The Telegraph)

After a long time I saw a nice refreshing Bengali movie .. which is modern in all senses of the term. The main attraction of the movie is its bicolour nature. It was done purposefully as Ritu felt that "Besides, most of us don’t have the eye to see things in black and white..." The remarkable feet that this movie achieves by this new experiment is it becomes very soothing to the eyes .. and for a change ..

The characters worked excellently in this film .. and unlike other Ritu films like "Antarmahal" and "Chokher Bali" the script of this movie is much better written .. though there are a few loose dialogues and also unnecessary scenes but by and large this movie is good.

And most importantly it throws many open questions to the audiance.

Special mention to Kankona's acting .. very natural!

And last but not the least the very good use of the poem as a central theme of the movie .. this is also an innovative attempt to use a poem (recitation) as the "themesong" and the way it was picturised in three different times.

Cant forget the wonderful similie drawn by Ritu when he first shows Kankona (Kaberi) first watering the plants and that pouring water on her husband's head while helping him to bathe. That was a great picturisation of the "ice getting melted" .. and the wife slowly accpting the husband again in her life, forgiving her for all wrong that he did.

Parambrata has always been my favourite actor and he "acts" rather behaves very naturally infront of the camera. No wonder if this movie gets best cinematography, best actress and best theme.

tribute ..

.. to Gurudev on HIS 145th birthday (which is tomorrow)!

Two not-so-familiar views of a known place