Saturday, December 31, 2005

brave examples

You must have read about this incident, the bodo girl students assaulted by a bunch of nasty haryana police men in a train, leading to a clash between the bodo students association and them. The incident was tragic, as three young guys lost their lives, but i could see it only in heroic lights. Guys gave their lives to protect their girls' honor. One of the killed guy was a friend to the group of girls. Right time to ask yourself, whether you will give your life to protect the honor of a woman. Apart from that think of the magnitude of response. The girls getting attacked, the students association and local people also reacting in such a short time period to stop the train and attack the nasty policemen. One of the reasons helping such strong reaction against the police men would be the human rights violations perpetrated by the security forces in the state, especially the bodo parts for long period of time.
I felt that the incident should have got more media coverage since the attackers were armed police men and according to whatever news i could get, they are still not arrested.The bodoland activists are not that interested in staying in india, they want their independence. But the question is do we want them. I sure do, and i think we do, though we tease them by calling them chinkis. And we can only prove it by showing interest in their issues
When i was doing my graduation, we had these guys from nagaland, manipur and arunachal pradesh in the hostel. I(and most of the guys) used to like those guys, and also had my closest friend lestor, sharing a room with the cool nagaland guy, bishal. So it was like my second room. Occassionally, i used to get negative vibes from these guys, since they like keeping to their group, but i never could think of hating them, since they were basically sweet. The guy called Agoom had this catapult and could hit a moving bird, also he would cook the bird and eat it :). I didn't get a chance to taste it but lestor told me it was good. Also i still keep the dream of going to nagaland or assam once, it must be something good, great mountains, climate and the pretty girls offcourse.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

dead dreams and the comatose ones

That was my thought yesterday. Even composed a hideous poem on that. It would have been a sad thought, but i no longer feel that way about such things. I thought of the simple dreams that gives me joy all the time, and i see them dying in my mind, systematically, instead of getting full filled. I know there are a huge number of them, but the worst part is that the dead are easily forgotten. The movie wayward cloud, kinda touched me in the inside, since it brought back the memories of a dead dream and another one which is on the way to death, in a comma. Dead cannnot be revived but the ones in comma like the second one gets alive in such situations. I came out of the theatre so happy because of that, while the other people were kinda disturbed by the climax scenes.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

wayward cloud


Atmosphere
Acute water shortage. No water to bath or clean yourself. Mineral water costlier than watermelons and so water melons form the mood of the city. The scene showing a bunch of water melons floating down the drainage canal.


The Girl
The quintessential and so lovely oriental girl. Always wearing simple or skimpy clothes. Steals bottles of water from every where and stacks them up in her apartment.
Walks with the watermelon inside her dress like a pregnant woman and later gives birth to the water melon. The scene is a treasure.

The Guy
Makes a living by acting in porno movies. Has a mid movie crisis when his member stops rising to the occasions. Helps the girl in getting her key back, which was lost and found inside a newly tarred road. Falls in love with the girl. Shows us his talents in fishing out the lost mineral water top from a coactorsÂ’ body.



Interactions between the guy and girl.
The girl sitting in a chair, the guy lying down on the floor, a puff of smoke from the boys mouth caresses the girls feet.
The camera showing the leg level of the kitchen. The girl standing on a inverted bucket trying to get the live crabs which are spilled on the floor back to the boiling water. Hilarious. And the guy helps her in the mission.
Keeps staring at each other. Silent interactions.Girl giggling. Uninhibited happiness in each others company.


Tense moments
When the theatre is filled with hundreds of men, and we are seeing the shooting of a hardcore porn movie on the big screen, obviously there is a lot of tension in the air. Hundreds of erections.

Water on the erections
When they continues the shooting with the unconscious woman actor(may be because of thirst) in different poses, with the guy showing his stamina, and with the girl as the witness. The scene leads to the climax which is unexplainable and I am not spoiling it.










Maddest climax and an original movie :)

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Kekexili – The moutain patrol

The movie is about a group of volunteers protecting the endangered tibetan antelopes on the western high deserts of china. The volunteers are not paid, are ill-equiped and are losing to the poachers when the movie starts. We witness the killing of a lone volunteer by the group of poachers. This news brings a reporter from beijing to the place and the rest of the story is told from his perspective. The group has a strong leader, Retai, who commands the respect of the rest of the group. The other members of the group are mostly village guys who have their simple life someone to love them back in the village. The force that’s binding is the love for the tibetan antelopes and the hatred for the poachers. The most moving moment was the scene where they see the carcasses of the antelopes which were killed by the poachers. We feel the emotions in their mind, as they react to it. Its as if a part of their body is dead and that too because they failed in their duty. Another moving scene shows the exhilaration of the group when they manage to push their truck out of the mud in the river, a task which looked impossible.
They tracks down the group of local people who helped the poachers, and carries on to find the poachers. We slowly witness the grant and peaceful high desert turning into a dangerous third group trying to defeat the volunteers, one part is stranded with a broken jeep with no provisions in the snow, another guy takes a wounded volunteer to the hospital and while coming back with supplies, is sucked in by quicksand. The great Ritai marches on with the reporter fellow and is killed by the poachers.
The movie is based on true incidents and they say that one year after the defeat of the volunteer group the government started steps to protect the antelopes. Also some of the remaining volunteers were charged for selling the confiscated skins which they were doing as a last resort when out of money for patrolling.

Monday, December 26, 2005

nice encounters

     she tugged at the side of my tshirt. I got a little irritated and told her not to with my eyes. then she sweetly pinched my cheeks, more than once, and pulled my hair. partly out of resignation and partly out of affection I gave her what she asked for. she touched my head and blessed me, I felt good, as the good bhava in the blessing seeping in me.
     have to say the bunch of hijras that I met in the train, both ways on my vacation trip were sweet, though the pinching was not that sweet as she bruised my face a little in the process.