These two nights that passed , I dedicated to discovering the movies that I had never watched but had heard of. I am sure many jaws might drop at the names of the films and many might shot a glance with sheer surprise and utter "How?" 

Well, I say what they always say "It is never too late!!"

So I have declared this week as a Movie Week. I am going to watch movies all these nights. The first movie in the series was Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding. I must have been in school. Wait, let me check when did it release. Yes, that was in 2001, when I was in my tenth standard. I lived in a very small town where we had all the infrastructure that anyone could expect in a city, but we did not have the luxury of watching films in a theatre. Not because there wasn't any. There was one which played older movies, as at that time it was not so quick to get hold of these recent releases. Well, during the casting I was surprised by the name of Randeep Hooda. And boy he looked to cute and hot in teh film. He has copied an NRI's accent so well. I got reminded of his French accent which he has successfully tried in his recent release Main Aur Charles. The movie is engaging. I love Naseeruddin Shah . Who doesn't? He is such a natural actor. In fact all the actors have done their parts pretty well. 

The next one i watched yesterday was Saaransh. I had to see this. It was their in my list since long. I knew that it was Anupam Kher's debut film. Though he is so young in reality , he plays the role of an old man. The make up does support but his youthful face doesn't. But that doesn't come in his way of acting at all. To be able to play any age or any character, that is why we call them actors. So, the story strikes a chord. For me it was too much emotionally charged. No less than six times , I am sure, I cried during the film. And it was not just tears rolling down my cheeks but I think I wanted to cry as  it felt that his grief were mine too. That was a little strange to see myself crying so much. 

As I watched the film on Youtube and the auto play was on, the next film that began playing was Mr. & Mrs. Iyer starring Konkona Sen and Rahul Bose. I like both of them as actors but have to admit Konkona leads if I need to compare both of them together. Mrs Iyer has a perfect Tamil accent. I quite enjoyed listening to her call out her son's name, Santhanam. I can pronounce it well myself. But how do I write it in Tamil pronunciation???

And Today I watched Arth, again a Mahesh Bhatt film as Saaransh. Its songs are quite famous. I knew them but had no inkling that they belonged to this film. I must admit Jagjit Singh has beautifully composed the poems written by Kaifi Azmi.  What I liked about the film is that in the end Shabana Azmi is not dependent on any man. She doesn't need one to carve out her own identity. She is an individual. And ofcourse Raj Kiran plays the role of a sensible man who supports the idea of her being her and not being subservient to a male connection. Made in 1982, the theme is so contemporary . And we are here still struggling with the same questions !!!