Oscar Nominations: An injustice

Yesterday, the oscar nominations from India were announced. "Paheli" a movie by Shah Rukh has been selected. Unless the panel (or whoever selected this) is so naive that they cannot discern the best Indian movie to be nominated, we are seeing some real gross injustice going on here.

And which movie has been discriminated against do you think? Well, actually there are two in my opinion. Black and Page3. Black is one of the most sensitive, well crafted and a brilliant movie. For those who do not know the premise, it talks of the struggle of a blind , deaf and dumb girl who finally achieves her goal. And Page3 is another excellent movie that talks about the emptiness in the so called "upper class" .Contrast this with paheli, that has a ghost romancing a woman whose husband has gone to earn more money. Of course, I do not have anything against the story, but a movie is much more than a story. It has to be supported by the cast and I did not see any exceptional performance from the cast. Of course, it talks about love transcending even life but is that all that is needed to get an oscar? Both those movies are far better than Paheli.

Or did the "committee" feel that Sanjay Leela Bhansali (dir of Black) had his chance with Devdas two years back and someone else had to get a "chance". This is typical Indian mentality. Or there may be other reasons for this decision.

All in all, this is a retrogade step taken in a very short sightedness way. This will definetely affect the quality of movies (that is not very good right now) in an adverse way.

Bye.

Back to square one

I really do not like the above expression. It means that after you have done some work (or substantial work sometimes) you come back where you started. That can be really annoying.

It has happened to me now. I have to do a project in a subject. I am searching for a project from the past month. I am still unable to focus on the project due to one reason or the other. Twice I thought I had almost finalized it only to back off at the last moment. This is really buggig me and I have decided to finalize it by next week.