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A Saga of Irony

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                                                                        Irony is always the part & parcel of a career in any industry, specifically the film industry. Here one may be thrashed to drain or  may be flashed to  the spotlight. When it comes to the case of a new comer, his Godmother is CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification). To reach the CBFC, one has to run over many hurdles. Finally  his fate is judged by the board which is accumulated with stereotypes who has no idea about new age cinema. Movies are in fact a medium to convey an idea or a theme . Or on the other side  like slapstick comedy films. Indian film industry is degrading to meager concepts because most of the films released today lie in a rift between the two mentioned above. Experimental films occurs only in a while and that too is only  by a handful of  passionate people who want to make their own space in industry. This is due to the biased decision making of CBFC. The recently released film "DELH

Fait Accompli

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"Fait Accompli" means the thing  that has been done or decided leaving those affected with no option but to accept it. This is synonymous with the prevalent code of our society. Some things has been ciphered to as mandatory for earning goodwill in the society. Who put up the rules for living?  It's none other than we people .But neither the rules are followed properly nor are they broken fully. Everything is a matter of convenience. We always see people blathering about the sacredness of our culture, questioning about the  roots of tradition remnant in you. If the tradition or a culture had never evolved then we would have lived now in a way that dates back to centuries. Everything has to be a part of evolution. If we are so stringently following our tradition, then why are we even using modern living, why are we  using electricity, modern sophisticated equipments or even metal utensils instead of living in the pristine conditions of human life. Life has changed, and so

The Tree of Life - Impressive, yet profound

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                                               The Tree of life by Terrence Malick is a visual treat, a meditation, the pursuit of a life from it's birth in a middle class family in Texas to  the moribund urban life. The protagonist is Jack(younger version of Sean Penn) the eldest son of O'Brien (Brad Pitt). While the story revolves around the Texas family .The plot roots from the visuals that briefly explains the evolution of life.How life evolved from specks and dots .How it rose with time and tried to invade and  predate the other. While the film opens with the scene in which the family receives a bad news as the mother loses her son.The family tries hard to cope with the ill fate it has now got with. The scenes with the evolution of life also tells us every body has his/her box of life in a large space of human existence. The young couple (Brad Pitt & Jessica) is shown in the scene following the evolution visuals .They gradually make up  a family of their own in the gr