The melancholic hue of sepia and the eerie charm of gray complement the snowy winter's taut solemnity. Faded glory, the subtle beauty of these stark yet tender times.
Author: Kannan Baskar
The water was green
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. Humidity is not something he enjoys, reminds him of their Bangalore days. The needless quarrels that plagued his marital life, then, have largely been subsumed by a bitter resignation. As he ponders pensively at a puddle of water through his window, the daydream is interrupted by a mundane observation. “The water…
The King's speech, Poetry – unasuming & unpretentious
The King's speech is a movie, which has an ambiance that is remotely personal, and yet it manages to paint a story, which is intimate, true, and unpretentious. Firth, possesses the knack, skill, temperament and sensitivity to portray a person in a detached fashion. His performance is imbued with subtle histrionic overtures, which elicit emotions that…
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Unexplored Infinite
Yonder lies path to nowhere. Bliss or sorrow, health or insanity, prosperity or peasanthood, admiration or hatred: it ain't visible. In ignorance lies happiness, in thy naiveté lies beauty. Unexplored infinite, I treasure thee dearly .
After taste of a cinematic metaphor
This post of mine is just a rambling observation, in reaction to the criticism of Mani Ratnam's movie Raavan, and not a movie review. While the movie was one of New York Time’s critic's picks, it suffered at the hands of reviewers in India and elsewhere. Mani Ratnam is an auteur in the truest sense and…