Favourite film on a dull day - Wonderful :)

How do you add a film to your favourite list? My definition is if I can watch the film for n times without getting bored, its my favourite. One such film is 12B, a Tamil film.

Saturday was tiring.. I had a very bad pain in my calf muscle. But I had to go to bank and also had a few items on my to do list. When I came back to home, it was already 2 'o clock. So slept for about half an hour and then switched on the TV. I was just browsing through the channels as usual and happened to watch the film 12B.

Suddenly, there was so much energy in me. I felt happy. When I watched the film for the first time, I just remember a scene where Simran, whose husband you assume is no more, gets interested in Shyam, the hero of the film. He drops her home and leaves. She enters the house and switches on the light. But there is no power in the house. So, she lights a candle and places it in the candle stand before the mirror.

She stands before the mirror and becomes aware of her beauty and enjoys it. This scene was just etched in my heart. I was just wondering how a male director can understand the emotions of a lady and capture it on screen so emotionally......

Even now, when I watch the film, my heart beat increases on watching the scene. (I can assure you that its not because of Simran's figure, though I am a fan of her).

That's how films should be made. To just enjoy it every time you watch. And if you happen to watch it on a day you least expect, the excitement builds.

Cheers,

Brindha.

2008 - Hard teacher

When I got married this year, I never thought marriage will bring such a change to my personality.

I am a true Virgo who believes in perfection. I expect everyone to work at my pace and at my quality. I just can't accept any work as completed until I know there is very little to improve. I never accepted ignorance as an excuse for uncompleted work.

Then marriage happened. As it goes, it brought not just two people but two families together. I understood that every person in this world is different and its foolish to expect people to be the same. It was not easy though. With the level of perfection I believed in, and the values that I followed, it was difficult to live with a different set of values and beliefs.

Thankfully, I got an opportunity to be alone for a couple of weeks because of my official work and that is when I had time to look back at the happenings. I had the maturity to easily find where I was going wrong. I just had to appreciate that, the way we live and the values we believe in, are based on how we are brought up.

I understood that "Marriage is two halves making the whole rather than one half trying to make the other half a replica of itself".

Bindhu!!