What is film rating? or why bother with one? As far as I understand it is an indicator for the subset of human population that can see the movie, especially useful to understand if a parent can or cannot let their children see some contents, one need not follow the film ratings to take their children to movies, it is their discretionary power on how they choose to raise their children. Please remember the last line before getting unobjective about what I write next because this is purely my personal opinion and you need not worry about doing anything different than what you are responsibly doing already for your wards and children. So, I saw this movie called Barbie a few weeks ago with my 8-year-old daughter and found it extremely wholesome except for a few references to body parts and when I recommended that movie, I was asked if it was age appropriate, in Australia it is rated PG. By the way, the movie was banned in certain countries that do not see gun as a violence but a fundame
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A letter to my friend Manoj
Hey buddy, To me.. it is not a news item to share.. I am shocked beyond saying RIP I firmly believe there should be peace in living and nothing matters after that... I knew you 20 years ago as a smart, reticent class mate.. But the last three years has been very special because I came to know you, Flaws and wounds.. Dreams and aspirations.. Someone who was more human than many.. Very deep and sensitive... Very special to me especially since I am all flaws and sensitive too I could connect with you easily It was you who compliments me after these many years , Of all the very small handful of friends I do have, No one takes a second look at my paintings like you did and found yourself in that, No one from my past friends validated me for my life which is not what I envisioned when young, No one opened up about their life with trust like you did, No one made me look up a word from a dictionary in a very long time, No one told me many things new that I didn't already know , You
Someday..
" But I could never meet you again " "In the garden of memories, in the palace of dreams ,that is where you and I shall meet" "But you know it is not real" "Who is to say which is which " Not my own , the above. My own, the below. If you have met someone and never wanted to be away from them ,yet circumstances made you not meet ever again, you see them in the dreams ,never tangible even in dreams, always elusive that happiness even in dreams. Fortunate are those who take a decision and own it up .Misery is not being poor or unsuccessful, misery is what you bring to yourself when you can not let go off a dream or life that you wished you had pursued. But reality is a matrix, in fact everything in the universe is, nothing is real the next minute, it was a memory, a past but nonetheless true then. I see you in my dreams, who is to say that it is only a dream? You are real there. You told me to blog, you should know I still do, even if it is not regu
On the question of God
The moment you fall in a dreamless sleep, everything goes dark, you would not realise, it was dark unless you wake up and your senses work. If they don't, you might be still sleeping endlessly. But, the universe was apparently functioning without you. You might have a phd in physics, it still happens to you. On the other hand, you wake up and sense the world, do your daily pooja religiously, pray to God for waking you up, appease the God when he might be angry and hope he will bring you wealth, health and happiness. You are deeply religious, align with your stars, offer part of wealth to God in lieu of more, so God also gives only when you give? Few others do the extreme and hurt things that don't align with them. Did he actually ask you to kill, loot and hurt in his name? Most of constructs surrounding religion and God came up to tame the mind for the uninitiated and definitely not for the self actualising. That said, I have been surprised to see double doctorates and mos
Big Boss Season 4 :Happy to have wasted my time on this !!! :) I am seeing this season of Big Boss Tamil S4 from the very week as a very objective, observant and unbiased viewer. I understand that it is just a TV show at the end of the day, but it is also a microcosm of society and life in general, I did not even know half the people in that show since I do not follow Tamil cinema/TV industry to a level of an average Tamil person. My General Knowledge in that area is pretty abysmal. Yet, I became an Aari fan in the course of the show and did not start out as one. My aim is not to belittle others but just to celebrate this human who exhibited the qualities that is very much needed to go through life. Someone think why people are crazy of him, the contestants are not able to comprehend why people love him, and they are not even able to accept that many people love him (more than 50% of the votes were for him at the very least for a fact). If you do want to understand why this might be
Rewriting
I do not do what I want to do at times.Everyone does that! So i started to write this blog more than 10 years ago and life happened to distract me from doing it regularly. I do not "get time" to just type my feelings or observations and I figured no one wants to read another person's thoughts anyway since they dont "get time" too. I still read like before. But just the type of books vary from before. I am reading so many children's books now and figured probably i will write their reviews if at all any wants recommendations for their children. I did not want to write it here again since I figured my life has been rewritten and so has my thoughts.I am going to leave this one alone and probably write it when I get time but start writing often again too. To settle this irony to myself, I have committed to write here, https://curiousaroundme.wordpress.com/ I do not have the savvy to market ,even though i went on to get a business degree from a
Riveting special effects, Is it enough? Spoiler Alert: Don’t read this if you want to but yet to watch this much awaited movie. I generally don’t take effort to review movies because either I see them so late that it is reviewed to death and becomes a fact or I don’t see them at all. I saw Baahubali relatively early, which is after the ticket prize for the first weekend came down to an affordable number. I did have the excitement and anticipation that everyone who saw the part 1 had. It is definitely a movie that you have to watch it in a movie theatre, much like Jurassic part or Avatar. Beautiful background, apt beautiful actors and their paraphernalia, stylish stunt sequences and wonderful imagination, again with respect to special effects. But it definitely did not move me or carry me away. I felt bored at certain points and was thinking of something else in middle of a movie and most important of all I didn’t feel surprised for anything after the