These are some of my favourite movies. U guys n girls can share your own perspective about these movies.
Schindler’s List - for amazing narration and excellent performances by Liam Neeson,Ben Kingsley etc.,
The Shawshank Redemption - for it proves the fact that there is always hope in any situation.
Forrest Gump - for Tom Hanks’s amazing acting.
Golden Eye - for Pierce Brosnan(n the bond girl too!)
Jurassic Park - for bringing the dinosaurs to light.
The Matrix - for the script which no one dared to think about.
Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon - for its excellent visuals.
The Lord of the Rings - no words to say it all!
It would be nice to share your favourite movies too!!!!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Me mastering the “raashtriya baasha”
Frankly, i never had a chance to learn hindi…having born in a village at the southern most part of tamilnadu(actually kerala was 2 kms away from my village).. i naturally had lesser chances of getting in touch with hindi. When i did my schooling at hosur, i was asked to pay 90 rupees extra with my monthly fees…so i thought i d better reach a point where “learning hindi” will become affordable…but one way or the other i never got the oppurtunity….and i cudn’t opt for Sanskrit during high school as i dint even know anything beyond the first alphabet in hindi. So i took French!! and at college most of my friends were “non-hindi” types, the reason primarily being these two :
1)I dint dare attempt speaking in hindi to them.
2)They dint understand english(which i spoke)
So, i always had this so called “inferiority complex” bcoz i cannot(read it as “still cannot” ) speak in hindi though i can converse in tamil,telugu,kannada and english. I always make attempts to speak the small phrases i know, firmly believing(i always take things positively..) that my hindi-speaking friends have a tender heart and will pity my ignorance.
And a few days back i was discussing the scene from a movie with my friend,where the hindi pundit makes the student say “ek gaav mae ek kissan reha thatha” and the guy repeats it as “ek gaav mae ek kissan raghu thatha” and promptly gets banged against a pillar for the mistake. I was laughing like hell at the stupidity of the guy in the movie and asked my friend casually, “Doesn’t it mean a farmer is sitting on a cow?” .
My proclaimed-critic-friend Gokul was at first confused(given his hindi credentials) at my remark and then felt amused and started laughing and then enlightened me with the fact that “Gaav” and “Ghai” are different. When this incident was reported to my another “rational” thinking friend BCG,(he doesn’t want his name posted on this blog…so i ll stick to his short name which is Bidhan Chandra Gupta) he first raised his eyebrows to think “is it beneficial for me to laugh at this point?” and then atlast smiled his awesome(read “crooked”) smile…
This was one of the many occasions where my proficiency in hindi was tested…i m still in pursuit of mastering the “raashtriya baasha”.
1)I dint dare attempt speaking in hindi to them.
2)They dint understand english(which i spoke)
So, i always had this so called “inferiority complex” bcoz i cannot(read it as “still cannot” ) speak in hindi though i can converse in tamil,telugu,kannada and english. I always make attempts to speak the small phrases i know, firmly believing(i always take things positively..) that my hindi-speaking friends have a tender heart and will pity my ignorance.
And a few days back i was discussing the scene from a movie with my friend,where the hindi pundit makes the student say “ek gaav mae ek kissan reha thatha” and the guy repeats it as “ek gaav mae ek kissan raghu thatha” and promptly gets banged against a pillar for the mistake. I was laughing like hell at the stupidity of the guy in the movie and asked my friend casually, “Doesn’t it mean a farmer is sitting on a cow?” .
My proclaimed-critic-friend Gokul was at first confused(given his hindi credentials) at my remark and then felt amused and started laughing and then enlightened me with the fact that “Gaav” and “Ghai” are different. When this incident was reported to my another “rational” thinking friend BCG,(he doesn’t want his name posted on this blog…so i ll stick to his short name which is Bidhan Chandra Gupta) he first raised his eyebrows to think “is it beneficial for me to laugh at this point?” and then atlast smiled his awesome(read “crooked”) smile…
This was one of the many occasions where my proficiency in hindi was tested…i m still in pursuit of mastering the “raashtriya baasha”.
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