At the end of a ghastly year, what a special pleasure to see these talented actors together in this old favourite. We saw it at the Sophia Bhabha Hall. It’s a comforting play, with its sense of family, friendship and loyalty as it spans some 35 years of the nation’s history; and though the actors are themselves older and grayer than when they started out performing this production, we are grateful that it is still around.
Image courtesy Contemporary Indian Art.
…of movies that I haven’t been able to sit through:
Saawariya
Dasvidanya
Himesh’s Karzzz (we waited till the Tandoori Nights song)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (looks much deeper than it is)
There have been other movies that I have been tempted to walk out of: A Wednesday (I kept thinking it might get better, and it kept getting worse); Khuda Kay Liye (I decided it couldn’t get worse, so I might as well see the whole thing). I sat through Ghajini by closing my eyes whenever the violence began. Sat through Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi out of loyalty to Shahrukh Khan for Om Shanti Om and Chak De India.
Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph:
The Taj, we were told over and over again, is an ‘iconic’ building. I think we can say without controversy that Victoria Terminus is much the greater landmark both architecturally and in terms of the number of people who pass through it. It may not be ‘home’ to them, in the way that the Taj clearly was for the many fluent habitués of South Mumbai who filed past the cameras of the English news channels, but more Mumbaikars have taken trains to and from VT than have sampled the hospitality of the Taj. And yet we didn’t have people on television reminiscing about the station and what it meant to them, that storied building that has been the beginning and the end of a billion journeys. Even the details of the killing, the alertness of the public address system operator who had platforms cleared and thus minimized the carnage, trickled out later, as the platform tragedy that had happened was eclipsed by the hotel tragedy that was still ‘breaking news’.
Image of CST (formerly Victoria Terminus) from here.
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
This film is a work of art.
