Eyes shut

Today my thoughts are pensive, deep lived within my soul I gather what was told and lose what was foretold. I close my eyes and type my mind as it wanders through the desert green. My brain phantom’s a larger me not by size but by existence solely unclean. I have become what I was doomed an unreasonable brave soul and yet I am what I believe and still I live confused. How serene this world could be if we all closed our eyes and wandered. For my thoughts are stronger than the sight I see for my words more peaceful than my soul. I am writing this message solely blinded with my fingertips leading my mind, for I have always wanted to explore these territories which lay buried deep in my psyche. I speak for words unspoken, I lay a courageous fight. For I am what I perceive and yet I stay blind. If my husband saw me doing this he would know exactly what was wrong he knows me for who I am, my beauty kindled and spurned. He wishes I’d write a ballad or two, a love saga unsung. But my mind is so untrue to me as it drifts with its own new tune, like a river that inches with each droplet to make a pattern of seas. I wish I could write on forever and ever unstopping as my thoughts unfold but I live a life so demanding were work conceals the soul, for I have to make a future and that baffles my inner core. For I am what I believe and yet I am so bemused…

~ Nobody

Reel Tour of Slumdog Millionaire

I watched this movie the weekend before the Golden Globe and I must say, if it didn’t win I would have been disappointed. My husband and I, along with our parents were glued to two different television screens (one in the dining and one in the master bedroom) & we just enthralled with joy every time we heard the words “…and the award goes to Slumdog Millionaire”. We jumped off the bed and ran to the kitchen to confirm that the other two had heard the same!

A beautiful story line encrypting the theme that love overcomes all circumstances, a fairy tale without castles or princesses. Just love! A story from friendship, to uncertainty, to devotion; from trust, to distrust to faith! It depicts what a pickle life can be and captures the theme of how the best man always and still wins.

I loved the kids, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail who played the youngest Salim and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar the youngest Jamal. I think these two were the true deservers of the awards. They were just amazing and so honest with their characters ! I wish all the three kids a better life in the future knowing that two of the kids (Azharuddin and Rubina Ali – youngest Latika) do live in the slums of Mumbai and as the controversy goes, haven’t been paid the compensation they deserve. But to give director Danny Boyle some credit he has been paying for their elementary and secondary schooling as neither child had been educated before and establishing “a substantial lump sum” payment for college tuition that will be distributed to the young boy and girl “when they complete their studies” as quoted by the director himself.

Our happiest moment though while watching the ceremony was when A.R. Rahman (Rumen as they called him on stage) was awarded the best music score! That to me was India’s biggest victory that night. The only true Indian who won something that night, God bless him and his career. If you haven’t heard the soundtrack Mausam & Escape, you should definitely click on this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOWIH41W4c Beautiful compilation by the Best in this generation!

~ Falak Zaffer