Broken Doll House

Kya ek ladki ki tarah rota hai? Broken Doll House, The Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, Maharashtra – India. Installation By: Mridul Kalia Bhatnagar/मृदुल प्रभा

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

tags: मृदुल प्रभा, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2013,KGAF, Mridul Kalia Bhatnagar, The Times of India, The Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

thnks so much for sharing this thought to all of us at KGAF मृदुल प्रभा .. i loved it so much Mridul that i am sharing it this with all my friends here on Facebook, flickr and wordpress blog …

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Doll house is quintessentially a part of every girl’s growing years. Every girl has a doll or collection of dolls. Dolls that make her world so beautiful just as the little girls make our world so beautiful. Every daughter is like a doll and every house is a doll house, full of her laughter.

But that laughter is stifled as atrocities on the girls and women are on the rise. Dead female fetuses, abandoned newborn baby girls, molested infants and school girls, scarred, bruised and raped minor girls … are like broken dolls. We can close our eyes and keep pretending that it does not happen in our world.

One day the loud cries from a big ‘BROKEN DOLL HOUSE’ that is all around us will shatter our world. Unless .. WE change. Change to protect and respect every girl, every woman.

Stand up...for Comedy

The 'MUMMY RISES'....hahahahahaaha.
So it is. I will be performing at the Open Mic Night, THE COMEDY STORE Mumbai, debuting as a STAND UP COMEDIAN. What's wrong with me? Have I gone crazy? Well, actually I have gathered quite an experience performing everyday in front of my kids and the army crowds. Its time to 'stage a performance' for a civilian crowd. Social responsibility you see!!

I invite all my friends to come with onions (just in case they want to throw some). My daughter prefers 'Tomatino' but right now Onions are expensive and I hope to come back with a month's supply. (Hit left and right)

So come in large numbers. 25th Feb... 8.30pm.
(Punjabi friends! Its in English! I know you are all surprised but I had a distinction in English.)
So aa jayio...phatte chakk dene...

Heroine, Halcut Jawani in Lowcut.....

Just got back after watching yet another Madhur Bhandarkar film that has his signature style...that is portraying dark side of various professions. Dark...because that gives ample room for showing sale-able elements like skin, sex, scandals, which he does in style. His babes look gorgeous. Kareena is absolutely wonderful. The Halkat Jawani  in Low-cut blouses is highlighted on the celluloid. Explicit scenes and dialogues, extra-marital relationships, casting couch, prostitutes, lesbianism, red-light area.....there is enough for the camera to zoom into wrong...oops right places. I wondered if I missed seeing an A rating because I had taken the kids along..like many other parents. No I did not.

Is the censor board sleeping? Has the Censor Board turned liberal...or is it a kind of FDI in Bollywood? What is A rating reserved for now? What is adult content by the way?  It is not even U/A????????? I completely object to the rating part of the film. We can't subject children to watch this kind of mature and adult content.

Every damn woman in the film...the mother, actress, secretary, PR, wife.....lights up a cigarette in every frame. Like my younger daughter commented...."Its a very suffocating movie. There is so much smoking in the movie." I had to agree to that remarkably witty observation. Madhur Bhandarkar made up for all the films made during that earlier ban on smoking in films.

Contrary to speculations and guesses drawing parallels with any real time heroine, I felt it is a bit of mish-mash of all heroines of past and present. There is bit of everyone's life. The film is quite believable even though Madhur claims it to be fiction. A good watch. A rather serious film for adults so just don't take kids along. Don't go with parents either. (:---) I am not joking. As it is there isn't much to laugh about in the film.

Arjun Rampal looks haggard and old but its okay if/as he playing Shahrukh Khan kind. That character suits. :P ...........Randeep Hooda as a cricketer is likeable but the show stealer is Ranveer Shourie, as Bangali film-maker Tapan da. Looks like wife Konkona Sen has done lots of 'homework' on him.....

Hey come on...I never discuss the story so go watch the film. Its worth all its 'booby traps.' That trapped the Censor guys as well.  But where were the censoring babes??

Barfi.....Fresh n Sweet!

So here's Barfi for you all. Subtle and Sweet.........sweet enough. Bengali director Anurag Basu has captured 'Bengal' beautifully. Film is set in picturesque Darjeeling and chaotic Calcutta. The most beautiful are those small bits of childhood moments in the 70s and every little detail is captivating. Every frame engages you to smile or to empathize or shed a tear...again a USP of Bengali directors. 

Initially the pace seems a bit slow but then it picks up just as the Darjeeling toy train chugging down those romantic winding tracks. But unlike the toy train you can't get in just about anywhere...you have to stay with every frame to understand the narrative because there are lots of flashbacks. A wonderful script and good performances. Ranbir Kapoor will live up to the RK legacy just like his name. Debutant Ileana is terrific. There is plenty of fun in the second half. Just watch the film..... I am just happy for Barfi is my favorite sweet too.

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PS: Could have been edited in the first half to shorten the length a little bit.

Khul gaya Raaz3...the secret of NaRaaz Bipasha

Raaz3 ki baat kah doo toh, jaane mehfil mein fir kya ho...

khul gaya raaz...the secret. It is the most regressive movie in the progressive times. Dirty secret is covered under ample skin show yet can't save the BUTTS.. Between some lousy kisses Bangali Bipasha does some Black magic which supposedly works on her half sister in the film but could not cast a spell on the audience. Frankly, Bipasha's days are over. With clothes or without clothes. And Mahesh Bhatt is going the RGV way. BUTTS could neither BOO nor WOO the audience.

Touted as the spine-chilling horror film, it is stupidly comical in the opening scenes.Frankly, I don't understand why BUTTS needed to create ghosts with black- magic. The only horror in the film is BIPASHA herself. Bipasha treats Hashmi like a slave and stands inches taller to spin him the way she wants. OMG...... Poor #me...between two dirty sisters.

There is very less to tell in the movie so they keep sealing the lips for some visual 'appeal'. (Appeal to some people to please please stick on for the rest of the film.) They also lock lips when they are scared while the audience desperately want them to say something logical. Hash..specially by Hashmi. O boy, Ram Gopal Verma has some serious competition from the 'Boo' Butt camp... 

Aey Imraan Hashmi, fine buddy we know kissing is your forte but yaar kucch toh aur kar le. At least add some creativity to ....it. Completely stupid movie.....Waste of kisses oops money. Hyped and well-marketed but please avoid unless of course you love watching Bipasha's biceps.

Shirin-Farhad KTNP- HEALTHY LOVE STORY

A review of SFKTNP..

Its a cute romance between two golu-moluz, Farah aunty and Boman uncle. I love going to Cusrow Baug, the Parsi Colony where the movie is set. It is a perfect locale to shoot a Parsi love story. Everything is so real yet so different from the Bombay chaos.

Farah looks bindaas and quite herself. Loud and straight. A little conscious sometimes but vivacious mostly. Boman is Boman...as good as always plus a little cuter as a Parsi 'underworld' salesman. Love happens at any age and when it does...the chemistry and biology matches in an instant. The issues are generally social science and history. Predictably here too the same. But the chemistry between two healthy 40+ people is so good that you don't miss seeing a bare midrif or six-packs. Of course the 'glow in the dark' lingerie makes up to some extent. (Next RGV might create a ghost story with bhootnie in flouroscent negligees.)

The movie has lots of original Parsis playing almost themselves. So acting is good. There is fun and also Parsi fun. Movie is inspirational for 40+ singles waiting to mingle. Most of all it is a very believable love story. Call that predictable if you want. But do watch it once for here's a real woman...no liposuction, no nose jobs (hopefully) and no silicon implants, no made up cleavages. Gutsy Wo(W)man...Farah deserves the applause.

Dekh lo yaar! ITZ A VERY HEALTHY LOVE STORY. You can take the kids along too.

Gan?s of Wasseypur...a re view!!!

Friends, I just watched Gan_s of Wasseypur....(so) much late. The reviews were already out and I believed the 4 star rating. Of course I loved Anurag Kashyap's earlier work so it was an easy trap. Trap...it was! "Kah kar loonga"....they meant it literally.

There was a liberal usage of a certain language and it added to my knowledge and vocabulary. One such word seemed the crux of the movie and was used so frequently that I actually wondered if it was mis-spelt in the poster. Manoj Bajpai looked Bihari Babua but not Muslim. The paradox was his auladen (Progeny), Jayaz and najayaz (legal and illegal).... none of his boys looked good despite his good looks or the looks of the sexy women he laid. Some mutations of the genes some where. So much so one of his sons looked haggard and older than him.

Women????? Were they even required?  Not really. While his eye sore sons had beautiful eye candies  to hang around with, he had a hot bong to show some flesh and some suggestive hot moves. It was sex and sleaze and loads of blood shed. Butchery shots were the highlights and may have appealed to a God knows what kind of people.

Men in the front rows loved it as they cheered every gaali and harkat. The men in the back rows loved it too perhaps but they watched it quietly. The women........??????????????????

Women would run away....whats with that nonsensical hunter gibberish passed as some classic from Trinidad. It seems from Trinibad!!

"Kah Kar Le Lee".....thats what the movie makers claim in print ads. Well I don't know about the audiences but CENSOR KI TOH LE LEE....  It's quite a leap from Delhi Belly and Dirty Picture and will set a DISGUSTING trend in the days to come. It should be classified as something else than an A Film.

Its like emperor's new clothes, everyone is raving about it.......but let me tell you Raja Nangdhadanga hai......!!!

PS: Guys, its tough being a film maker and tougher being an objective critic. Worse if you want to turn a filmmaker too. How could a filmmaker-to-be so damn critical of someone's work? I know I am taking a big risk........:))))))))))))))))