It's been so long since anything crawled on my blog. Seems like a big writer's block. Well...so much happened these days, exploring mumbai..visiting new places, meeting new people.
I guess i need to let everyone know of what's happening in life these days. Let's start from somewhere..ok.lemme tell u what i did last week. I went to see the snapshots of the Asian Hot Shots Film Festival held at the Max Mueller Bhawan located at Kala Ghoda. The festival was organized in Berlin earlier this year in January. The organizers are on a world tour with the aim of promoting this festival and showcasing the films made by Asian filmmakers - mostly short films, animations, and documentaries – which ran in the festival’s first edition this year.
I really liked the assortment of films that were on offer at the festival. The concept of each film shown was new and thought provoking. The show started with the short film “Gandhi at the Bat”. The film is a hilarious account of how M.K. Gandhi visited America and played baseball at the Yankee Stadium and even led the New Yorkers to a shock win over the Philadelphians.
Another film that I really liked was “Rewind”. Conceived and directed by Indian filmmaker Atul Taishete, the movie explores the concept of time moving backwards. It forced the audience to imagine how life would be if the effect happens before the cause. Inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Memento (Aamir Khan’s Ghazini is also inspired by Memento), it raised some pertinent, but less explored questions of life moving backwards. As some one said, "How it would make sense if the life cycle was all backwards. You would die first and get death out of the way. Then you live in an old age home with pension. You get your retirement benefits and start working. You work for forty odd years until you are young enough to enjoy retirement. Then you booze and party, then get ready for high school. You become a kid, play, have no worries. You become a little baby, go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating and finish off as an orgasm."
I was left wondering something like this happening to me after watching this film. Can you imagine this happening? Would you like to live your life backwards? Don’t imagine much. The film will be released by PVR Cinemas in April this year at cinemas across India. Although it will appear as a short film in between another English movie. So find out for yourself… :)
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hmmm...well..as u said...unexplored but pertinent questions..i would have loved to see that movie and come to think of it, i would love to live that way also...finishing a life in peace, away from pain..but then wudnt the whole purpose of the concept of "fear of death" be defeated? Wouldn't we start looking for indicators of death long before it comes for us? God must have thot of smthng before giving us the cycle we have...atleast i hope so...:P
BTW....Is "memento" a book?
and i wud have liked to see gandhiji ka movie also..Gandhiji has such a black-and-white image in minds of indians....either some hate him or some idolize him......it may be a good idea to see that movie just to feel that he was also a human being and could make mistakes, as we all do...am i gettng too carried away?:P
@deejay - Am sure u would have liked the movie..everyone did. It was an unusual experiment.
Fear of death? Well..not everyone fears death. Death is just another milestone in our life. And we know the concept only because we are livign the concept..Just imagine if we had been living life backwards..that would hv been our concept we wud hv believed..right? We would have called death as life and orgasm as death. Coz we wud nt hv known the concept we now know.
Yeah..u summed up gandhiji's image - black n white. U want to know more about the movie on gandhiji...just check this out...
http://www.gandhiatthebat.com/
U will be left amazed :P
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