Bikel goriye jay

Amader hariye jaoa kichu katha ghore fire ashe majhe majhe. Ekhon to duto ghor. Tomar r amar. Kichu katha amar ghor ei asroy khunje peyeche, nischoi tumio karor asroy hoyecho. Bikel bela konodin o amar bhalo lageni. Sesh sesh gondho bhese berai ei samay. Amar mone ache tomai hostel e chere asha ei bikel gulo, jokhon eka eka firtam bus e; shei agarpara theke moulali. Tumi roj i bolte ami eka firbo otoduur ta tomar bhalo lage na, ami boltam amar lage. Satyi boltam. Saradin tomar sathe katano sob muhurto bari ferar path e aro ekbar shanti dito amai. Jokhon bari firtam porashuna sob late uthto amar… phone e katha hoto. Tumi ki kore porte boste ami bujhtam na. Hoyto Xavier’s e pora kalin tumi etotai ghire chile amai je anyo kichui gurutto pai ni.

Proti saptaho tomai dekhar apekkhai kat to. Shei chotto tumi. Halka haste, kokhono rag kore chup kore jete. Ami ekhono dekha hole shei bokar moto tomai hasanor chesta kori, shei jemon kortam. Nite pari na, ar jei hok, tomar chokhe jol. Parbo o na. Bhenge jai. Tai hoyto ei dekha na hoya tai bhalo. Tumi paro na nijeke samlate, keno parona jani na. Anyo ekjon ke etotai bhalobaste parle jokhon tahole keno amai dekhle ekhono nijeke sthir rakhte paro na samne asle? Phone e to bolei dao je amar janyo r kichui aboshisto nei.

Eto kichu bujhi tobu nijekei bojha holo na. Hoyto nijer bhalobasha chara anyo sob kichui bujhte pari. AJ bhoy jano kothai? Bochor 20 por nijeke khunje pai na. Tumi bolte beshi duur na bhabte sob samay. Kintu ami je duur er i basinda. Shei duur ei ghure berai. Paltano uchit ki anuchit chilo tao bujhi ni. Swapno chara bnachte aneke hoyto pare. Amar to swapno-I bastab.

Sobai amar dik theke bhebe tomar bishoy e katha bole. Keu tomar jaigai nijeke boshai na ekbar. Tomai dosh deoa khub sohoj, tomai bojha noy!

Bhalobasha khunje peye thako Jodi shetai jeno sob. Koto joner emni emni I sob furiye jai tobu bhalobaste pare na. Tumi Jodi pere thako, tobei jeno ami bhalo thakbo. Amai noy nai ba basle. Hoyto ami chilam bolei bujhte perecho kotota tumi take bhalobasho.

Bikel goriye sandhye neme elo. Ekhon ar ghor theke beronor kono pala nei.

Ek-i sohor ke kivabe chinchi notun kore ami i sudhu jani. Khub chonchol chilo ei sohor ta ek samay. Ekhon koto shanto hoye poreche. Sudhu klanti dekha jai chari dike. Ki kore eto ta palte gelo sohor ta ami bujhte pari na.  Jeno ei sohor ta amar bhetor kei represent kore. Ebhabe to kokhono bhebe dekhini age. Na, sudhu ekta ekaki bikel noy; etka boro time-span e. Proticchobi ebhabeo dekha jai.

Boro hoye jacchi bodhoi. Ei to sedin ekjon bollo ekhon r naki ager moto class e excited hoina, nijer motoi chup chap boshe thaki  (she amar sathe porto bochor dui age). Katha ta shune ektu abak hoyechilam. Evabe ki baire amar change sobar samne eshe uposthit hoyeche? Ektu bhabtei (mane khuub i alpo) dekhlam satyi amar bishaal poriborton hoyeche . Chokhe to porbei, after all ami ek samay generally centre of attraction hoye jetam karon eto beshi katha boltam. Aj katha boroi kom boli, khub i kom.

Godhuli esheche. Sudhu ei samay tai ektu pochondo kori bikel er por. Hoyto pochonder karon holo ei samay ta kkhonosthayi, hariye jai taratari. Na paoa ke khonjar madhye emni emni chotobelai hariye gechilam ajante.

Nijekeo khunjchi. Tumi ashar age theke.

The Man who teaches love

I like analyzing the stupidity of people. Make no mistake, I analyse mine too!

The current trend, which I am observing for last two-three years, is barking at big names, persons who have given their best in their respective fields and achieved love and respect. Now, in this world that we live in, both love and respect are funny concepts! People enjoy stupidity, violence, anarchy.

That is why a “Human-Being” like Salman Khan breaks box office records with films like Dabangg and Bodyguard, as well as enjoys the Bhai-status; whereas a fighter like Shah Rukh Khan is made fun of for whatever he tries.

Yes, there were movies like Om Shanti Om or Rab ne Banadi Jodi(2^nd half) where SRK didn’t do anything noteworthy but there are more than 50 examples where this man has given his best to entertain the audience! I have a question today. Do you know what it takes to get up every morning knowing you are SRK and that you have to live up to a billion expectations of the millions?

You don’t, since you have never given it a thought! You grew up watching KKHH or DDLJ but just as you got the flavour of the false intellectualism, you decided to criticize Bollywood and everything to do with it. Ah! You’ll say, “Hang on! I don’t criticize Amir Khan”. Yes, you don’t, I agree. But there is a subtle difference. Amir Khan has given us movies which belong to the real world. That, my friend becomes easy to appreciate. SRK, on the other hand has given his life to the world of fantasy, a world that does not exist (news! Amir is a failure here). Think of it. Think of the conviction with which he plays the role of a lonely person in love ( jab tak hai jaan) or a music teacher who has lost everything yet he is there to teach you how to love(Mohabbatein).

To fall in love with fantasy, you have to be in fantasy first. A man like Yash Chopra knows how to make a movie and that’s why he is what he is (yes, he lives on). Ask yourself what you seek in a movie.  As for me, I look for the good things, always have and always will. May be that’s why I have had to hear phrases like “tor bhalo laga to… tor to sob kichui bhalo lage”. I’ll tell you what I don’t like. I don’t like people who pretend. I don’t like selfishness. I don’t like superiority complex that so many of my contacts regularly suffer from.

But let me finish this with what I do like.

EVERYTHING CREATIVE.

BOND with the best!

For someone who hasn’t read Ian Fleming, for whom the first Bond film was The World is not Enough (when he was a baccha by all means), for whom Casino Royale was a brilliant film and Quantum of Solace a disaster, the latest instalment has come as nothing less than a powerful surprise!
SKYFALL , ladies and gentlemen, is a movie which never lets you rest for a continuum of two and a half hours. Thrill has a new definition, entertainment has a new mirror, style (well it always had this icon) has a re-invention and James Bond has a new director! Sam Mendes, take a thousand bows! Thank you, Sir for a new hero (new to this HP fan), grown up hero for the grown up me.
We have seen countless good-guy-chasing-the-evil-one scenes but what knocks you out is not when two superfast bikes race each other on rooftops of Turkey but how that chase ends. You’ll know what I mean if you have been a follower of the series for ten years. You know you are in for a treat as Adele gets deep into your head with the soundtrack after one of the best ever opening sequences.
The movie took its time. Well after the nonsense of Quantum of Solace, this is how one expects the Bond franchise to respond! Once Bond was all about sexy girls and sexier gadgets. Then arrived Casino Royale which interchanged sexy and sexier. Now we have Skyfall. Thankfully it’s not about Bond girl or gadget, it’s about Bond, James Bond. It’s about the lady without whom Bond has always been incomplete. It is about the Bond-baddie, the best the best the best Bond Challenger!
Javier Bardem (Silva). One and only! Who can praise his acting? He doesn’t act. He reacts! If one was awed in No Country for Old Men, SKYFALL is right up there. “Want to know what cyanide does to you?”  I may be wrong here but his escape scene to me was a tribute to The Silence of the Lambs by the director and who better than this man could have pulled it off with such ferocity, such calm, such silence.
Daniel Craig. The man knows how to raise the bar! Casino Royale, The Girl with the Dragon tattoo and now, SKYFALL, he is a gift to movie lovers all around. In democracies where people say “It’s a young man’s game”, the answer has been slapped on the screen!( I really hope my last line pisses a lot of idiots and I hope the idiots catch the drift!)
Judy Dench. M. Period.
The movie would never have had this effect if it was not for the background score. Be it a scene when 007 lands on a deserted island or when Silva breaks into MI-6 cyber intelligence Digital Fortress-style or when Bond chases Silva through the tunnels of the “greatest” imperial capital, the music is there- to keep you on the edge, to provide you with your money’s worth! But what shows you the actual genius is when Silva’s helicopter reaches SKYFALL. Watch out, keep your ears open (your eyes anyway will be!)
Finally, the cinematography! If sky ever had to fall, it had to be SKYFALL. If you have watched it already, then do it again and if you haven’t, go to the theatre, look at the sky when you hear “a storm’s coming”. You’ll anyway be glued to the screen henceforth!
I have a new hero to look up to. I am meeting him again for sure. If you haven’t till now, let me quote the most stunning dialogue from the most graceful Bond girl( yes! It of course is always about the lady)
“Take the bloody shot!”