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Friday, August 21, 2015

Hamari Adhuri Kahaani (2015)



Flowers can do what a million words could probably not accomplish - With their simplistic and aesthetic beauty flowers brighten the darkest corners, bring a smile to the saddest face, enhance the happiest occasion and also bring two hearts together. Vasudha (Vidya Balan) is a single mother and a gifted florist who works for Aarav Ruparel (Emraan Hashmi), a successful hotelier. Aarav is smitten and eventually falls in love with Vasudha who has many an occasion to showcase her flair and prowess with flowers and her dedication to her job. However, there is one hitch that stops Vasudha from grasping what her new life has to offer. Hari (Rajkumar Rao), her husband who had abandoned her just a month after the birth of their child, has not been heard from for five long years. He soon returns a wanted terrorist. Torn between her filial duty and the love of her life, Vasudha must make a tough choice.
Love transcends all barriers and a field of calla lilies helps to eternally unite Vasudha and Aarav .....


The title track from the film



Word for the day :-
miasma - an unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor

Thursday, August 13, 2015

In her Shoes (2005)

Rose and Maggie - are two gorgeous sisters who are poles apart! Rose (Toni Collette), the elder of the two, is a hard-working and successful lawyer. She is involved in an office romance and living a life where she only dreams of the vacations she "plans" to take some day. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) on the other hand doesn't have a job, knows how to party, has no place of her own or a relationship to tie her down. But she dreams of making it big someday.
Down and out of her luck, Maggie decides to shack in with her sister. While Maggie doesn't mind helping herself to Rose's possessions - her immense collection of shoes, jewelry and her pantry for that matter, Maggie crosses all boundaries when she sleeps with Rose's beau. Furious and unable to take anymore Rose throws Maggie out of her house and possibly her life too. Finding herself on the streets Maggie heads out to Florida in search of the maternal grandmother (Shirley Maclaine) that she's only just heard about. 
Depressed with her situation, Rose quits her high-powered job and is looking to slow things down. With no news of her sister, Rose sets out in search of Maggie and is soon knocking her grandmother's door.
An intricately woven tale of relationships ~ of love and forgiveness.
                              "To Sisters"!

Word for the day :-
unctuous - excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

US Naval flight officer, Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his companion Jeremy Stackhouse make a great team behind their fighter jet. However, after 7 years in the navy, Chris is disillusioned with his role and he hands over his resignation to his commanding officer Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman). Left with just two weeks on the aircraft carrier in Bosnia, Chris takes a test run with Jeremy during which time they come across some suspicious activity in a demilitarized zone and they decide to veer off their planned course and collect photographic evidence. En route, their plane is shot down by a couple of missiles. Chris takes off to radio in their position and Jeremy is captured and executed by the Serbs'. So begins Chris's ordeal as he  tries to escape from his ruthless Bosnian-Serb pursuers and survive.  
On the icy mountain slopes in war-torn Bosnia - dodging landmines, snipers and hoping to get across evidence of a possible genocide of the Bosnian population, this action packed war film is a nail-biter all the way through.

Word for the day :-
egregious - outstandingly bad; shocking