The Calling !

Recently I created a new folder in my laptop. The name is "Dream of my Life".
Well, at least as of today, I feel that the contents would drive me to achieve the dream of my life. Both are assumptions.
One that the contents (current as well as future) would enable me to achieve my dream. And two that the so called dream is my real calling.
I am kind of afraid of assuming.
It's like creating stories in your head.
At times, we just start with some facts, build up assumptions/stories and then conclude/decide to make a reality/possibility take birth in our present that from that point onwards, alters our lives.
One of my Italian Commandante taught me this lesson in life - End of the day, To ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.
But then, we all are victims of desire. We tend to assume unknowingly, like an involuntary reflex action. That's like a shortcut to analyse situations, thoughts and ideas. We all tend to shy away from a deep analysis on everything. Should we do that, even ?
A statistics professor once told me - Analysis, analysis, analysis ..... Paralysis.
Imagine ! Statisitcs ? Professor ? Yeah !
To dive out of a potent paralysis, I decided to go ahead and take the leap.
I have been doing that in life.
I am actually result of various leaps of faith. We can't predict everyhting in life. It's better to act rather than wait for eternity to fall on our head and show a path.
At times, we should just go by the flow. It helps.
It helps in many ways.
Ways like,making you ready for times to come. Ways like,putting you ahead of the curve.
Times can change, and so do people. Curves can be nice, lethal and at times, educating.

Life is taken in two ways ... as per my reading.
One i the short term life. You take care of daily shit.
Two is the long term life. You take care of the real shit.
Both are important. Without one, the other is useless.
This balancing of both terms if the discovery of life,it seems. And we all mortals, in this life, should be doing that.
Your life, your call. My life, my call :-)

So what's my dream? Even if you are not, I am curious to explore and No points for guessing.
I am doing it right now.
Writing, indeed :-)

May be it'd take years. But seems to me that it's my calling.

I am indeed excited to find this exciting :-)

Have fun !
Neo.

Ugly: Movie Review

One who laughs last, laughs the best.
What a movie to close 2014 with !
Ugly, as a movie, is beautiful ... Yes.
But how "you" perceive it, would heavily depend on your definition of "beauty" in cinema.

Plot:
A complicated one, to start with :-)
Shalini ( Tejaswini) is a divorced woman and mother to 8-9 year old girl, Kali. Both of them live with Shalini's 2nd husband, Shaumik (Ronit), who also happens to be a ruthless and experienced cop in Mumbai Police. Shalini's 1st husband (a struggling actor in Mumbai), Rahul (Rahul Bhat) comes to take Kali for a routine break on a random saturday (weekend) as per their child custody agreement. Kali hops in her papa Rahul's car and Rahul drives away from Shalini and Shaumik's home. Kali waits for him in the car when he goes to his film-producer friend Chaitanya (Vineet Singh) to discuss an upcoming movie script. Sometime later, Rahul, alerted by Vineet, realises that Kali is missing from the car. From this point onwards the movie is all about Rahul n Shaumik's hunt for their daughter (Kali). Sadly, this hunt turns real ugly with various look-and-feel-good people jumping in but with ill-intent. And hence, we realise why Anurag chose this name for the flick.

Strengths: Director, Thrilling Script, Twists and Surprises, Dialogues and Acting, Power-performances - especially Vineet (Chaitanya), Rahul and Ronit (Shaumik). This movie is made out of several never-seen faces who actually create magic on screen with their real-in-your-face presence and dialogue deliveries like Inspector Jadhav, Lady ACP, Husband of Surveen Chawla and Aunt of the Kidnapper. Anurag is definitely a master recruiter. Also, don't miss Shakti Kapoor's son Siddhant's papa-like-jig.

Weaknesses: May appear too dark and too real for some people to digest. Contains some gory scenes and dialogues filled with expletives.

Movie is 10 times better than PK (which is streaming parallely in theaters) yet without any backing of promotional efforts. Given another fact that it's an "Only for Adults" movie, I am pretty sure that the only thing that can help this movie receive its due worth is a viral-marketing / word-of-mouth publicity.

Overall: One word - Awesome, One Phrase - Don't miss it !

Stars: 4*

Cheers,
Neo.