Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Controversy's child

Priyanka Chopra, while competing to giggle with Karan over coffee on 'Koffee with Karan', thought that Shahid Kapoor was THE ultimate controversy's child she knows. Ok - we get it - love is blind - check.

However, on listening to her (and her endless giggling), I wondered who would be my pick for the tag - did not take long to figure that one out - it has to be Indira Gandhi - right from being thrown out of Shantiniketan for falling in love with a teacher at the age of 14 right upto her death in 1984 - hers was a life riddled with controversies and shrouded in mystery - she has to be THE controversy's child.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Dhobi ghat

Dhobi ghat - such a mundane name for such a different movie. Mumbai - shastriya sangeet - colors - awkward silences - moments - words - love - sea - photographs - desires - reality - all unrelated to one another - but so beautiful when all put together. The sheer beauty of the art of story telling takes over the fact of a lack of coherence in this one. Random - just like life.