Movie review - Kahaani

I give full marks for this movie.  Very gripping story which keeps up your interest till the last scene.  A nice plot which even entertains your brain.  Vidya Balan plays very well her role of a very pregnant woman who visits Kolkata to search for her husband gone missing since two weeks.  How she takes revenge on those who were the reason behind her husband's death and so many other innocent victims in the Kolkata metro train poisoning is the theme of this story.  The story plays out so well, that at last, it is confusing whether it really happened or not.  That's why this movie is named so aptly as 'kahaani' or 'story'.

"If your path is more difficult, it is because of your high calling"

The more I ruminate on this the more it rings true.  However I would substitute 'difficult' with 'unique'.  

Some well meaning friends used to advise me :  Do not specialise too much in one area, because the more you specialise in one area, the more difficult it is to join the mainstream.   It made sense to me but never really affected my choices.  To begin with mine is a unique subject and jobs cut out for it are indeed rare.  Even the few jobs do not really give one an opportunity for personal growth.  But on the flip side, a lot of my growth depends on how I improve my knowledge, outside of the job area.

And certainly I do feel a very strong invisible pull to my subject.  Right now I do not know perhaps that it is my calling but in the past whenever (more specifically on two occasions) I have tried to switch areas somehow it has not materialised.  And it has not been painful at all!  Thats the awesomeness of it!  Both times I have landed with better opportunities to learn and grow.  That s why I call it 'invisible'.  I certainly don't see it but it does exercise a strong pull.  Its like whenever a child tries to wander off from its nursery, the mother gently but surely makes sure it does not go astray and puts him back in his nursery where it is safe for him and where he can learn a lot.

Movie review - Moonu

The thing that stands etched in my memory about this film is Shruti Hassan's crying face.  I think in every alternate frame, this dame is crying - for something or the other and for no apparent reason whatsoever! Whew!  

The story was okay, certainly an off the beaten track one and based on a 'psychology' subject and could be considered 'trendy' I suppose!  The first part of the movie moves well and both Dhanush and Shruti can pass off as school kids. Prabhu and Bhanupriya seem typical parents of a laid back boy, the mother very protective and the father too strict.  Though they seem affectionate and acquiesce to his every wish, why are they not in the picture when he has a serious problem? 

I would have liked the movie to start on a more positive note instead of Dhanush's funeral.  The anguish of a young widow is portrayed well. Shruti makes a very convincing grieving young widow who is torn in her sorrow.  What makes it all the more unsettling is that Dhanush has been killed in his own apartment, in broad daylight, but there are no signs of a struggle or nothing robbed from the apartment.
The movie flows on briskly, weaving together the past and the present and how finally Shruti finds answers for some very troubling questions.
On the whole, an entertaining watch if you are into serious themes.