LANDSCAPE OF CROP AND CLOUDS

Taken Enroute Grand Canyon from Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

FOUNTAIN AT NIGHT

A beautiful old fountain taken at night. At Bay Harbor, Maine, USA.

LOITERING

Loitering at a beach, was her, while I captured her just a bit. Taken at Captiva Islands, Beach, Florida USA.

LAPSE OF THOUGHT

Lapse of a thought so momentary,
It aint deliberate just involuntary
Dropped sanity for a beauty
to witness her brutality
In words she entices
Just to kill by looks
In faith she rejoices
to betray all books
She hit me hard i aint gonna say
She just touched so sweetly in a way
That the lapse aint momentary
It's for a lifetime though involuntary

TRAGIC REPORT

After all the tragedy,
Life is back to normal
The father who took his son to morning walks
Now walks alone and rarely talks
The mother who sang lullabies to make her child sleep
Wanders lonely giving a pat on empty bosom
Showering tears of pain too deep
Brother, who held his siblings hand every time
Now does it as if it’s an act of mime
Sister, who was happy feeding parents,
Now cooks for them but with laments
For they have lost their eyes
And she, her laugh and has just cries
While on the first anniversary
The newspaper reports
‘Life is back to normal’,
Making the pain merely formal

LULLABY SCENE

Giving a pat on her child's back
she stands in the moon light
she renders a lullaby to get him a nap
that made the dull night so bright
Singing the solo in such a voice
that makes surroundings rejoice

She is not a nightingale
She is a night angel
She has come to give her baby some sleep
With a tune that takes him into frills too deep
I ask myself whether I ever got such a chance
As I see great beauty in life's this little nuance

There came a bee to perturb him
she swayed it away with her touch on that tiny nose
So that nothing can disturb him
and now I too remember that I got this lullaby dose
as he is my brother
and yes, she is my mother.

WISH AND LIVE FOR

Just a lifetime's dance, a little romance
A chance to admire your every nuance
This is what I wish and live for

Just a tender kiss, even a moment's bliss
Hugging you in my arms to say 'yes miss'
This is what I wish and live for

Just a lot more to say and lot long to stay
In this way and sway in songs of gay which say
This is what I wish and live for.

SOLDIER AND HIS DAD

The valiant soldier's valor has gone in vain
the pious priest's prayer has left him pain
For, the priest has lost his only child
That's the soldier who fought in the wild

He went into the forest to fight the foes
Took it as his duty and had no woes
While his dad kept himself locked in the church
The prayer of his dad "do not leave my son in lurch"

He fought with each foe in sight
For he did not want to lose the fight
He just brought to death as many as he could
And never gave it up which as a soldier, he should

Then came a bullet which struck his chest
But he still stood tall to see the end
Of the man, who is making him rest
He shot him and said "Goodbye friend"

The news came to the priest
From the army men "We lost our brother"
The patriot then rose from the priest who said
"Never mourn on the death of a soldier
Because it questions the courage of the master"

ABOUT MANY

Few have done something substantial
And many live for the sake of it
Few have truly achieved their potential
And many try for the sake of it
World is a mess, under a lot of stress
As cloth is under a hot press
Many still strive and just thrive
To fulfill their wants, the world has gave
Want of money, want of gold
Earning these, they just get old
And freeze one day in the cold

CITY LIGHTS (1931) - ENGLISH

Comically the most hilarious and dramatically the most moving film. 

How many times, one may see it we all shall fall in love with love, honesty. simplicity and sincerity again. A man's quest to keep a girl whom he just likes happy, to give her some light is just so delightful a journey. His interactions with a drunkard, a very funny boxing match, a flower girl's love are so well interlaced that never for a moment is a laugh lost or a smile broken. Yet it ends with the eyes left moist. 

A great movie and an emphatic achievement in films. 

The style is Slapstick, where each scene is just so comical. Each time he meets the flower girl, she welcomes him hilariously, each time he is away from her, he does something extremely funny. The romance is just filled with expression of eyes and it is so very subtle. I must say the whole movie is like a poem with sublime lyrical beauty. It's very fluid as the scenes just flow.  I surrender myself to the genius as Charlie Chaplin and to a great movie as City Lights. Please please please see it as this movie would still stand the test time of time and I am pretty sure, it would still be loved a 100 years later. 

It's flawless and 5/5 from a little movie buff. I loved this greatest Romantic Comedy ever. I think who all have seen it, shall surely love it. Silence is a great language coz few things are beautiful when expressed silently

TWILIGHT AT DAYTONA

The colors of Twilight just before Sunrise at Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.

SUNRISE

Sunrise At Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. One of the most beautiful sunrises of my life. 

FLYING FROM SUN

Taken At Siesta Keys Beach, Florida, USA. The seagull is flying off.

ABSTRACT

Taken At Acadia National Park, USA. It's a stem of a plant whose leaves have fallen.

BUSINESSMAN (2012) - TELUGU

All men cannot be fooled some times, but some men can be fooled all the time.

Telugu audience seems to be falling in the group of those who can be fooled all the time.

Its a mess of a film in reality and the only saving grace are dialogues that are though overboard at times, are delivered well by Mahesh Babu. But this movie fall short in many ways and is still a big hit. Songs are a waste of time. 'Sir Osthara' a rage song now in Andhra Pradesh just shows the taste of cheap audience. I would have loved the song if it was filmed on maids and beggars praising the hero, than a beach song as shown in film with heroine. I wanted to kill the director for most ridiculous use of 'For a few dollars more' music for heroine. Killing of a prisoner in jail itself in Kabaddi MAtch, getting in touch with each and every MP just like that. Doing things at will and beating up any number of people without being hurt. All this is mere crap. Most ridiculous flashback and a reason for one to become DON.

Now, having said all that what I liked is the way Mahesh Babu told his lines, and his reaction was just what was required for that very scene. It was a reaction that was there with envy  and a gusto that is a rarity yet in a Garbage that is Telugu Film Industry. Few things are good and many things bad. If not for Mahesh Babu, mostly it was a reject for everything. I can see this man as the one who is learning to understand the director and even though its most silliest is trying to bring life into scenes. 

Its an average watch and never even as good, yet I liked the way Mahesh delivered his dialogues. All rest was silly. I dont recommend it, if you are looking for a story. Just 2/5.

సందడి చేస్తున్నవి నా మనసులో

దొరకని వలపుల పలకరింపులు, 

దొరికిన చనవుల కేరింతలు 

సందడి చేస్తున్నవి నా మనసులో

ఝరుల పరవళ్ళు అలల నురగళ్ళు,

శరత్ వెన్నెలలూ వసంతపు కోయిలలూ 

సందడి చేస్తున్నవి నా మనసులో

తుమ్మెదల ఆటలూ తూనీగల పాటలూ, 

ఊరు బయట దోబూచులాడిన సయ్యాటలూ 

సందడి చేస్తున్నవి నా మనసులో

నీ కుసుమాల కనురెప్ప తలుపులు,

నీ మధుర అధరాల పిలుపులు 

సందడి చేస్తున్నవి నా మనసులో

నీ దర్శనమే నా ప్రేమకు నిదర్శనమని 

కొమ్మలలోని గువ్వలూ, కొలనులోని చేపలూ 
సందడి చేస్తున్నవి నా మనసులో

V FOR VENDETTA

Shall we seek violence
To redeem our lost peace,
The last visage to seek vengeance
To build back a place of verity
With a vision not visualized by any visionary
Seek devices or vices to fight
And vividly we shall with valor win,
Violins shall then voice in unison
The valor of each martyr
Verity shall be embraced by all
Veils could not bring peace
Violation and violence shall thus prevail
It claimed vendetta from all silent and non-violent
The rebellion is now honored with "victory"

My small tribute to one of my favorite movies.

I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

A night when our eyes met,
The souls did unite then
For long we held each other
And never did we want to part

After a year of unison,
Occurred a pain so unforeseen
It made me give up my only passion
"My wife" she was, till that scene

I wished she left me 
I didn't want to see tears from those eyes 
And hear screams from that voice
My leg was amputated and I cant walk, 
Now I am also castrated

I wish she didn't come to see me paralyzed
Yet she came to fall on my knees 
To burst into tears and to amplify my fears

In a mellowed melancholy voice whispered,
"I will take care of you" hearing this I trembled
I felt the jump of the lump in the throat
And my heart was to heavens afloat

That was the best thing I ever heard
and tied in my wheelchair I just pass
Each moment seeing her say
The same line over and over again,
"Having her" lets me forget all the pain

VIKARABAD TRIP

A short trip to a barren place called Vikarabad in Andhra Pradesh.
Please click on photo to view the album.

RED CRAB

Red Crab taken at Appakonda Beach, Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

NEVER SHALL WE PART

Those slender arms I wish,
Shall hold me one day
Those fruity lips I hope,
Shall gift me a lifetime kiss
Those tranquil looks I want,
To bind me to death
In such dreams, I do breathe,
You are living so beneath
My soul has been craven thus far
By a love that's serene as yours,
Hold me in your eyes and breath
We shall never part even by death

WHEN HEART WOULD SINK

Into sleep, you may slip

And in dreams, you may think

That why didn’t I, in a flip

Steal a glance and signal a wink

But I wish, you do not squander

Chance this good with just winks,

Coz when your heart would sink

I am the only one it would think

MY FIRST BIRTHDAY THOUGHTS

Popcorn and Mom corn, I am your baby corn

It has been a year since I was born

Gave you guys a big smile when I first cried

And from then on many things I tried

There are still many up my sleeve

That is to talk and have a run

While you chase me and have fun

Putting everything in mouth, sand to clay

Many games together, we shall play

So mom and pop, as I turn one

Beware of me, coz I am your son

SINGING MY SONG

Blazing is the sun at a place

Gazing is the moon at another night

At noon while sun burns the face

At peace, the moon shall be at night

 

Waked in shine, towards sun's shrine

Merrily merrily, as I was in prime

At night, I met some on the way

And each time, I let them have their say

 

Some men were yawning as they spoke

Some were at peace and some were broke

Yet I walked amidst their joy and wrath

Singing my song all along the path

PAAN SINGH TOMAR (2012) - HINDI

Made as a competently good biopic, the acting is well top notch is worth a watch just for Irfan Khan.

I have not heard of this man, till I knew of this movie, its good to know of such sportsman and sad to know the tragedy. The fate of the country is such that a national champion is forgotten but a dacoit is made news easily. This is an ironic story and is told really very well. Dialogues are written extremely well. The dialect is just great, It brings out rawness to character and a flavor of its own to the whole script. 

The cinematography is done well, and the director sure has an eye for detail the way he has shown a few things, like a steeplechase race, dacoit's backdrop and the feuds in villages. Mind you this is a biopic and has to be handled in way to tell a real life character, there is no much added drama, at few places, it might have fallen bland too of course life is not so very interesting all times either. But all are pu together effectively to bring out a story that has a heart. We may not be in favor of Paan Singh by the end for what he has done, but fir sure he shall live on in the minds long after the movie is over.

Watch it for Dialect/Dialogues and yes for Irfan Khan who may be sweeping many best actor awards for reprising this role and living it in a way thats so tough to do in terms of controlling emotions and thus exhibiting them at rare times.

Liked it and I recommend such biopics be watched to know India and its diversity in a better way too. 

My rating is 4/5 for a movie that has been dared to be made and executed really well.

THE ILLUSIONIST (2006) - ENGLISH

The lighting scheme and art direction are just top of the world in this film. The cinematography is apt and so are other departments but the way the light is used has to be well appreciated.

It's a period film on an illusionist and his love story and is brought out compellingly as any good writer director does. But what's interesting is the point of view. All the while when we presume that it's based on what the illusionist percieves, it's also what people around him think. Acting by Edward Norton as Illusionist is worth a mention. This is a great story interlaced with a good screenplay combined with fine acting and setup exquisitely beautiful. So we have a winner as a film aficionados and I loved this for all this.

The climax where he brings back his own past, did mesmerize me just as it did to all the audience withing the film. Yes, he performs shows and shows illusions, some are just unbelievable. It is engrossing for sure but has a few lapses with long scenes like the one where the illusionist is grilled. 

All said and done, I recommend this movie for those who want a fantasy film that has mysticism embedded just to enthrall us to a very good amount of time. I will got with 4/5 for this one.

ASHTA CHAMMA (2010) - TELUGU

A story of namesakes, build with lies and ends somewhat seriously.

Its funny in many places, and characterization is good specifically of Anand. Based on Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", the movie is well adapted to the nativity of Telugu people. Comedy is what the genre of film is, but dramatic is it's ending, which may be debated over. But till a good point, the film goes well. 

Acting is good for a rare time in Telugu Film, where all actors have done well. This appreciation would go to Director, Mohan Indraganti who has extracted good acting from novice actors. All said and above, he must also be appreciated for the writing of dialogues. Also, To Srinivas Avasarala who has improvised in many places, especially the way he calls out others names. 

Life is simple if taken simply, but can be chaotic because of self obessions, Mahesh, famed actor Mahesh Babu is an obsession for Lavanya and so is his name, the film revolves just about that idea. 

It ain't as engaging or too very engrossing but yet a good fun watch, which may bring laughter back. I did watch it alone and was laughing for most of the time. Thanks for giving us a little treat in a place, where films are rotten with undue comedy. 

A 3/5 and I say, it's a good movie.

THE DESCENDANTS (2011) - ENGLISH

Written with humour, this is surely wicked fun and is just good.

The laughs come out naturally at times, even though there is a tragic meaning to it. Infidelity and death have been blended with humour. More or less I was hooked and at times just waiting to laugh again. The title, the outlook and the trailer were serious, but it took me by surprise when I went through the first 15 minutes of it. 

Was not able to comprehend a few scenes in first place, like George Clooney running just to find out who that man was, he could have gone in car and found out too but even his desperation was shown well. It wasn't at all serious but it was not funny either. The movie had to balance between tears and smiles and it just did well. 

Written well by Kaui Hert Hemmings and directed superbly by Alexander Payne, this story brought out the psychology of a middle aged man, who is going through a crisis. It's at times tough even to empathize, as it is a weird scenario that he has been in. All the director does is puts up an effective screenplay and shows us only important scenes. 

George Clooney does a god job and so did others. I am happy to have seen this.

My Rating is 3/5. Its good for sure, but I can't say it's a must watch.

EMPTY BENCH

En Route Taken near Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. The focus is on leaf while bench is empty.

BENCH, DRENCHED IN FALL

En Route Frost Place, New Hampshire, USA. This bench was drenched in leave of the FALL