Ungli - Movie

Review Time Ding ding ding:“Ungli”

Well yes, my first impression of the name of this movie was exactly like yours. “Ungli” what kind of name is that? Hence when my friend asked me to go for it, my first answer was NO. But she is pretty persuasive. So I went. And within 5 mins from the movie started I knew this is going to be Awesome.

The story and screenplay is amazing, hence even though there are so many characters none of them are out focused. I really don’t know what genre this movie should be categorized into.  There is Love, but it’s not a Love Story; there is vengeance and revenge but it’s not an action thriller; there is basic technology not huge, but it’s not and it is a BIG NOT a sci-fi; there is a funny bone but it’s not comedy. The best part of this movie is- it is little bit of everything.

Yes there is Emraan Hashmi- ooooooo and Kangna Ranaut with him –double oooooooooooo and also Randeep Hooda – triple ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. But no, this is not an ooooooooo.... movie. Sorry to bust the bubble, but if you are seeking that kind of fun in this movie you will be very much disappointed. 

There is one, and thankfully only one unnecessary song. (Unnecessary as in relation to the story) But come on how can there be a Bollywood movie without an item number? Yes I am being sarcastic. And the song is manageable.

I personally enjoyed the starting credits. Not great VFX but very good one. And even though there was Randeep Hooda I was woowed by Arunoday Singh. He got Body like Nobody. But again don’t go to watch it only for him. He has shared the screen for a very little while.

The reason this movie will appeal to many is- it has hit nerve point of many people in India. It shared many problems that we face in day-to-day life. Almost everyone one of us is facing one or other problems showed in the movie. The concept is not at all realistic, but the problems faced by the characters are real. And how does innovative Ideas are born tell me? - By impulsive Imagination.  Hence, if you are fan of everything to be shown in a movie should have a base of reality. You better skip it.

The only complaint I have for this movie is it was very short in length. I would have loved it to go on for at least an hour long.  

This one is a must watch - full entertainment plus a wonderful message.

One of the Best Story I have ever Read!!! (Shared)

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

“Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.

Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile.

He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital – the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.

“Who was that man?” he asked.

The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.

“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied.

“I never saw him before in my life.”

“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”

“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.”

Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero…

Generally, in movies, when we say we have a hero, it is because there is a Villain, a vicious villain who eventually gets defeated by someone who ultimately becomes HERO of the movie. Hero in a movie usually gets a gal, dances with her, and does some comic relief too. Footnote- Hero of movie is always, not always then most of the time expected to entertain us. 

But “Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero” is a movie where this cliché will come to an end. This must be the most wonderful, heartwarming and eye opening movie I have ever seen.

I found a movie being the best media ever, to bring in focus the work Dr. Prakash Amte had done or been doing. I have had read about it, even heard stories about it also listened to the interviews (Very Few though) he had given. But they never were that effective as this movie is. That’s why we say Audio-Visual media is the best media ever. 

The work of Dr. Prakash Amte is obviously inspiring but watching it on screen, step by step was marvelous experience. Amazing direction and screenplay by Adv. Samruddhi Porey. Her vision was quite simple- to bring life experience of Dr. Prakash Amte live on big screen. And she had done a terrific job doing so, hence a salute to her. Bringing a life’s journey live on screen is a difficult job. The work Dr. Prakash Amte has done or been doing is gigantic, yet she has managed to select the cream and had nicely did dressing of it on frame after frame.    

There are two scenes which have quite impression on me still (Spoiler Alert, maybe ;) ). When Dr. Amte sees a small tribe’s boy freezing in cold and decides he has no right to be fully clothed when the boy has nothing to cover himself from cold and he literally stripes down to under wears. He still has been living on these clothing in his village and been dressing in simplest clothes possible outside the village. Second one when Baba Amte asked to take his grandchildren (Dr. Prakash Amte’s children) back to Anandvan for further education; Dr. Prakash Amte says he has 360 children (3 of his and rest of the tribes whom Dr. Prakash Amte has been trying to educate) and asked (Not directly) his father to take them all or none at all. Really Heartwarming. 

 

All Nana Patekar’s fan must watch this one for sure; well even if you are not you still must watch this one. He and Sonali Kulkarni have completely given justice to the characters they were portraying. Dr. Prakash Amte himself is very poise and humble person. Seeing Nana being the same, for a change, was treat to eyes, as we have seen him mostly playing an aggressive ones. This one is definitely a remarkable performance of him. The way when we say Gabbar, Amajad Khan comes in our mind, similarly Iron Man -Robert Downey Jr., Batman- Christian Bale, Auro –Amitabh Bachchan, Dinkar Bhosale- Sachin Khedekar. The same way whenever anyone will say Dr. Prakash Baba Amte (in context of a Movie) Nana Patekar will come in our minds. He had given us yet another legendary character which will be remembered for many years from now to be the best character ever played by Nana Patekar.

After watching this movie I felt the life I have been living is worthless. I lived my life for me, what have I done for others? Nothing. But this man and his wife and the people who decided to join his venture, they are living entirely for the tribes’ people, for their improvement and needs. This is the way of living a real life. Living a life to make difference in someone else’s life is not at all an easy task, yet they are doing it religiously. Hence there couldn’t have been a better way to praise him as the sub-title does- “The Real Hero”.

We often fail to live our own life as we complain about things we don’t have, for our broken hearts, for our health problems, targets that we failed to achieve. Many of us do think to do something to give back to this world yet hardly very few actually end up doing so.  But after seeing the work these people are doing and witnessing their journey of starting this work till they reach where they are today, will make you realize how lucky you are for being whoever you are. 

People who goes to watch a movie only for entertaining purposes then this movie is not a piece of cake for their plate. Better skip this one rather than coming out disappointed. But people who want to look towards their lives differently must watch this one. It will help you live your life with gratitude and make you feel to take up some task (May not a huge one as Dr. Prakash Amte’s venture) a little one maybe to try to live a life for use of others.   

 PS: The movie has English Sub-titles, hence not understanding Marathi should not be a barrier for not watching this Movie.

Bidding Adieu To My Best Friend…..

As the title says I am Bidding Adieu to My Best Friend, who came in my life in 2006 as a gift from dad for passing 12^th with good grades. Ok! Let me clear myself for those who didn’t understand; I am talking about my Scooty Pep+. My dad had promised me that he will buy a bike for me if I secured good grades in my 12^th Board exam, which I did. And post my result we (My Dad, Mom and I) went to confirm a bike for me. Many people suggested TVS Scooty Pep+ brand as it was new girly designed bike. The only thing we needed to confirm was a color. I still remember when we went to the TVS showroom; the Pink color was on display as it was the newest color back then. And all three of us instantly fell in Love with her!

                    

Oh! My initial days with my Scooty Pep+ Pink were so awesome; I never drove it, I flew it. The smoothness, the sturdiness it was splendid. And riding the pink one had its own fun as there weren’t many on the road. My friends always use to say that my bike is very easy to recognize because of the color and that’s made her so unique. Then the advertisement came, where Preity Zinta use to promote the Pink Scooty and the tagline was “Pink Se Panga Nahi Lene Ka” (Never cross with Pink).

          

             I remember post the advertisement was a hit, when I drove my Scooty to collage, bunch of guys standing at the gate chanted loudly when I entered – PINK SE PANGA NAHI LENE KA… I was shocked and amused at the same time. But still felt good.  My scooty has given me so many precious moments one of the best of it is dropping off my favorite college teacher – Lakshmi Ma’am at the destined Bus stop. The Pink scooty had become my identity too. People / strangers use to remember me as the pink scooty girl.

      My scooty became my best friend because she has been there with me through all my big / small events. She was there when I received a good news of getting selected for AHA. When I got a job in GOA she was sent there too and I brought her back to Pune when I returned. I can only imagine how this poor gal would have suffered during the long journey, especially the return journey; I brought her back on the Bus’s top. She was there when I lost my grandma and my favorite sister-in-law. I remember crying while driving on her whenever being heartbroken.  And also N numbers of short trips I have taken along with friends.

Many a times I was too lazy to fill up petrol and realizing the same when leaving home the next day. The petrol never seemed enough to reach till the petrol pump; but somehow miraculously my scooty made it to the pump without breaking down. I still don’t know the mystery behind it.   I have ridden her more than her capacity. I drove it way too fast than it was actually capable of. But my scooty never even once had given me any trouble in last 7 years. But since last 3 months it has started giving me little troubles. Shutting down in between, not starting up soon enough, breaks were not working.  I knew she is becoming ill but I was too attached to her to sell her and by a new one.

But these last three months she had become more risky to drive on. When the case has become crucial enough, when the condition came as either I will kill her or maybe she will kill me, I decided to bid Adieu to her. It was with great difficulty I had handed her over to the seller. I walked back with heavy heart. I couldn’t even dare to see her last time while leaving from seller’s place. It felt like I had given away a part of me.  She really meant a lot me and even though now I got a new friend – my new Access 125, with whom I’ll make new great memories, I just want to say I will really miss you my old friend. I hope you give same joy and pleasure and new wonderful memories to the new owner as you have given to me. 

GOOD BYE MY FRIEND!!!

14 short stories worth reading (Shared)

14 short stories worth reading, feeling and sharing with all of you , dear friends .  

 

1. Fall and Rise

Today, when I slipped on the wet tile floor a boy in a wheelchair caught me before I slammed my head on the ground. He said, “Believe it or not, that’s almost exactly how I injured my back 3 years ago .

 

2. A father's advice

Today, my father told me, “Just go for it and give it a try! You don’t have to be a professional to build a successful product. Amateurs started Google and Apple. Professionals built the Titanic

 

3. The power of uniqueness.

Today, I asked my mentor – a very successful business man in his 70’s – what his top 3 tips are for success. He smiled and said, “Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing.

 

4. Looking Back

Today, I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I’m working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define success in her own words, she said, “Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile.

 

5. Try and U shall know

I am blind by birth. When I was 8 years old, I wanted to play baseball. I asked my father- "Dad, can I play baseball?" He said "You'll never know until you try." When I was a teenager, I asked him, - "Dad Can I become a surgeon?". He replied "Son, you'll never know until you try." Today I am a Surgeon, just because I tried!

 

6. GOODNESS & GRATITUDE

Today, after a 72 hour shift at the fire station, a woman ran up to me at the grocery store and gave me a hug. When I tensed up, she realized I didn’t recognize her. She let go with tears of joy in her eyes and the most sincere smile and said, “On 9-11-2001, you carried me out of the World Trade Center.”

 

7. LOVE CONQUERS PAIN

Today, after I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying. And just before he died, he licked the tears off my face.

 

8. A DOOR CLOSES TO OPEN ANOTHER

Today at 7AM, I woke up feeling ill, but decided I needed the money, so I went into work. At 3PM I got laid off. On my drive home I got a flat tire. When I went into the trunk for the spare, it was flat too. A man in a BMW pulled over, gave me a ride, we chatted, and then he offered me a job. I start tomorrow.

 

9. LOOKING BACK

Today, as my father, three brothers, and two sisters stood around my mother’s hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words before she died. She simply said, “I feel so loved right now. We should have gotten together like this more often.”

 

10. AFFECTION

Today, I kissed my dad on the forehead as he passed away in a small hospital bed. About 5 seconds after he passed, I realized it was the first time I had given him a kiss since I was a little boy.

 

11. INNOCENCE

Today, in the cutest voice, my 8-year-old daughter asked me to start recycling. I chuckled and asked, “Why?” She replied, “So you can help me save the planet.” I chuckled again and asked, “And why do you want to save the planet?” “Because that’s where I keep all my stuff,” she said.

 

12. JOY

Today, when I witnessed a 27-year-old breast cancer patient laughing hysterically at her 2-year-old daughter’s antics, I suddenly realized that I need to stop complaining about my life and start celebrating it again.

 

13. KINDNESS

Today, a boy in a wheelchair saw me desperately struggling on crutches with my broken leg and offered to carry my backpack and books for me. He helped me all the way across campus to my class and as he was leaving he said, “I hope you feel better soon.”.

 

14. SHARING

Today, I was traveling in Kenya and I met a refugee from Zimbabwe. He said he hadn’t eaten anything in over 3 days and looked extremely skinny and unhealthy. Then my friend offered him the rest of the sandwich he was eating. The first thing the man said was, “We can share it.”

 

Cheers to life.

Alphabet of Happiness...(Shared)

Alphabet of Happiness...

 

A--Accept
Accept others for who they are and for the choices they've made even if you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions.

 

B--Break Away
Break away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to accomplish with your life.

 

C--Create
Create a family of friends whom you can share your hopes, dreams, sorrows, and happiness with.

 

D--Decide
Decide that you'll be successful and happy come what may, and good things will find you. The roadblocks are only minor obstacles along the way.

 

E--Explore
Explore and experiment. The world has much to offer, and you have much to give. And every time you try something new, you'll learn more about yourself.

 

F--Forgive
Forgive and forget. Grudges only weigh you down and inspire unhappiness and grief. Soar above it, and remember that everyone makes mistakes.

 

G--Grow
Grow up leave the childhood monsters behind. They can no longer hurt you or stand in your way.

 

H--Hope
Hope for the best and never forget that anything is possible as long as you remain dedicated to the task.

 

I--Ignore
Ignore the negative voice inside your head. Focus instead on your goals and remember your accomplishments. Your past success is only a small inkling of what the future holds.

 

J--Journey
Journey to new worlds, new possibilities, by remaining open-minded. Try to learn something new every day, and you'll grow.

 

K--Know
Know that no matter how bad things seem, they'll always get better. The warmth of spring always follows the harshest winter.

L--Love
Let love fill your heart instead of hate. When hate is in your heart, there's room for nothing else, but when love is in your heart, there's room for endless happiness.

 

M--Manage
Manage your time and your expenses wisely, and you'll suffer less stress and worry. Then you'll be able to focus on the important things in life.

 

N--Never
Never ignore the poor, infirm, helpless, weak, or suffering. Offer your assistance when possible, and always your kindness and understanding.

 

O--Open
Open your eyes and take in all the beauty around you. Even during the worst of times, there's still much to be thankful for.

 

P--Play 
Play,never forget to have fun along the way. Success means nothing without happiness.

 

Q--Question 
Ask many questions, because you're here to learn.

 

R--Refuse
Refuse to let worry and stress rule your life, and remember that things always have a way of working out in the end.

 

S--Share 
Share your talent, skills, knowledge, and time with others. Everything that you invest in others will return to you many times over.

 

T--Try 
Try anyway,even when your dreams seem impossible to reach.You'll be amazed by what you can accomplish.

 

U--Use 
Use your gifts to your best ability. Talent that's wasted has no value. Talent that's used will bring unexpected rewards.

 

V--Value 
Value family members and the friends  who've supported and encouraged you, and be there for them as well.

 

W--Work 
Work hard every day to be the best person you can be, but never feel guilty if you fall short of your goals. Every sunrise offers a second chance.

 

X--X-Ray 
Look deep inside like X-Ray in the hearts of those around you and you'll see the goodness and beauty within.

 

Y--Yield 
Yield to commitment. If you stay on track and remain dedicated, you'll find success at the end of the road.

 

Z--Zoom 
Zoom to a happy place when bad memories or sorrow rears its ugly head. Let nothing interfere with your goals. Instead, focus on your abilities, your dreams, and a brighter tomorrow.