Another movie, another book

Today, actually yesterday & today, I saw Crossing Over. Nice movie. A bit like the 'Oscar-winning' Crash, but not very similar.

This was about immigration and all things attached. Its quite bad, the situation in the US. I can't begin to imagine the number of illegal immigrants there! From all over the world, people just want to be US Citizens, and they give up almost everything for that. Gosh! and something for a country which doesn't even want you there in the first place.

I must find out more about this and all the laws & of course the loopholes !! The whole 'green card' bit, naturalization etc etc. I don't really have any clue how it works. It see

ms pretty interesting.

The movie was pretty sad. It had families being torn apart. People dying. People getting used just to get an American citizenship! But a nice movie overall. Harrison Ford acts well, and I also liked the girl who played the part of the Bangla Muslim teenager.

And BTW, I started (and almost finished) The White Tiger, as promised! Its a nice book, keeps you quite enthralled. Its narrated by this small town guy from a village near Dhanbad in Bihar. Very well expressed!! Funny too. Lets see how it ends. Will update once its over.

Yay!!! My reading days are back again, and back to stay!!

Next in line is Rohinton Mistry's book, which I bought like 7 months back and read only few chapters.

Update: Finally finished the last bit of the book while sitting in office ;) great book I must say, very different, especially the language used.

The week that was...

It was the usual work week, of course with an off day (due to this terrible throat ache I have). We were all flooded with work, due to some people complaining about all of us leaving early on Thursday! Don't they just have a life?? 

The work was ok, nothing too interesting, but decent. 

I couldn't manage to read any books. I know I should have, but just felt lazy. I have promised myself that I will get down to reading the White Tiger by Arvind Adiga, yes the one that won the Booker Prize! I should start this week, and finish it by next.

I happened to see a couple ofmovies though. 

One was "Barah Aana". Starring Naseruddhin Shah, Vijay Raaz (brilliant) & Arjun Math

ur. It has been directed by this new director called Raja Menon. I must say he has done a brilliant job. It is a simple movie, about simple people but their lives have been portrayed so beautifully. 

It has its dashes of comedy now and then. But overall, it is a great movie, which went quite unnoticed by the masses. I really don't know why!

Also, saw this British comedy, I think it was british from the accent, but never know. "Death at a funeral" Damn funny. Its about the events that take place at a funeral. Quite hillarious. Well made. 

Right now am in the middle of watching "Lord of War" recommended by a friend. It is turning out quite well. Nicholas Cage playing a arms dealer. 

So thats about what I did this week. Hope the coming week has as many names of books as movies :)

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A well written post about something that is so difficult to put in words....

The credit is all yours Neo.. whoever you are... 

20 Stories

 This is the second bok I've read this weekend. I'm so glad I'm back to reading. Such a welcome change from surfing the net all day long. Sometimes I myself wonder how i do it, day after day.

Its a short story book written by the famous Satyajit Ray, and translated by someone called Gopa Majumdar. It has 20 stories, which can be surely guessed from the title itself. 

The stories are different, very different from the one I read the day before. Those were true incidents which I could relate to. These are purely fiction, most being ghost stories. Some were quite amusing. I can imagine Mr. Ray writing these in those days. All stories are based in and around Calcutta, quite obviously. 

I did not like the book as much as I did the previous one but it was nice in its own way. Some were strange and unbelievable. Some, which spoke of how the human mind works, were really nice. 

I wouldn't say its a must read, but its a different experience in itself to read something written by Mr. Ray, who after all was very gifted and versatile. 

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Just spent the afternoon reading this book by Preeti Shenoy ..

It was a refreshing change.. Her writing is so simple, yet it connects to you somewhere. Anyone can relate to the simple stories in the book. They deal with life, love, children, death, humor.. just about anything you may come across in your everyday life. 

It took me about 3 hours to finish the 150 page book, as I put it down just once to eat lunch. I was completely hooked till the last page. I especially liked the part where she describes the period around her father's death. Its really moving. Also, the story in which her son talks to her about death. I really had a lump in my throat at the end of it. 

Brilliant young lady, with such simple, yet interesting things to share.

It was an afternoon well spent & I am back to reading after a gap of nearly a year. 

Just this evening, S bought me a short-stories book by Satyajit Ray. Lets see how this one goes.