KRITHI

Think it's raining heavily outside and you are in your room all alone listening to the tracks by Rafi, how does that make you feel? I feel relieved. I see a ray of hope somewhere.  And this is exactly the kind of feeling that I have with some of my teachers. Neither have I seen them nor have talked to them for years, but there words still resonates in my mind when I only see, cloudy tomorrow's in front.  'Tuesdays with Morrie 'is one such story about a teacher and a student who reconnects after very long time. Morrie,the teacher, had been diagnosed with a disease called ALS, for which there was no cure. But the thought of death never dissuaded him, rather he was happy that he could make the rest, a little time of his life, the best of his life. And this very different approach towards death made him a celebrity. And eventually, Mitch, Morrie's former student, reconnects with Morrie and starts visiting him regularly.  Morrie was overwhelmed by the presenc

" അഴലിന്റെ ആഴങ്ങളിൽ അവൻ മാഞ്ഞു പോയിട്ട്, നോവിന്റെ തീരങ്ങളിൽ ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് ജീവിക്കാൻ എനിക്ക് പറ്റില്ലച്ചാ ". I was in the bus,after college.It was weekend and I really wanted to watch a film to get out of the zone of Shakespeare and Milton, where I had been for the last one week. And that was exactly when my friend texted me about Senna Hegde's ' Thingalaazhcha Nishchayam', a film that bagged this year's state award for the best story and for the second best film. The title ' Thingalaazcha Nishchayam ' says it all. The film is about an engagement that's going to happen on monday and the incidents going around it. The protagonist ' Suja', who has found a partner herself, is being forced to marry an NRI guy, by her father 'Vijayan'. Vijayan is very much stubborn in getting ' Suja' married with this particular guy,that he selected,as his elder daughter married a guy of her own choice despite his opposition. And it is th

                              When someone asks me about the one who influenced me the most in my life there is only one face which flashes across my mind like a strike of lightning,and that's my father's face. If you ask me why?,I don't really know the answer. He is neither the most successful man I have ever encountered in my life nor had he  done a lot of brave deeds to inspire me. I guess maybe it's because he is the one who taught me that you should have dreams in your life or because he is the one who taught me not to give up. No, my father never gave me those long boring hours of life lessons, but he always showed me how to go on with this journey called Life. I must say that he was a great fighter as he was able to survive in Gulf countries when he was only eighteen and was on his own without knowing anything about their culture, language etc. And he also fought with life pretty well when he lost his one leg in a road accident at his early twenties

സിറ്റിസണ്‍  കെയിന്‍                             പി.കെ. സുരേന്ദ്രന്‍ “In this Art, as in the others, there is, and always will be, whatever has been done already, something new to discover, something new to express, something new to describe “ -- Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction. ഓര്‍സ ണ്‍ വെല്‍സിന്റെ (Orson Wells) ആദ്യ സിനിമയായ ‘സിറ്റിസണ്‍ കെയിനി’നെ (Citizen Cane, 1941) നിരൂപകരും സംവിധായകരും സിനിമയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ മഹത്തായ സിനിമയായി ഇന്നും വാഴ്ത്തുന്നു. സിനിമാട്ടോഗ്രാഫി, എഡിറ്റിംഗ്, സംഗീതം, ആഖ്യാന ഘടന എന്നിവയുടെ കാര്യത്തിൽ അക്കാലത്തെ സിനിമകളിൽ നിന്ന് വളരെ പുതുമയുള്ളതായിരുന്നു ഈ സിനിമ. ഒമ്പത് വിഭാഗങ്ങളില്‍ അക്കാദമി അവാര്‍ഡിന് നോമിനേറ്റ് ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട ഈ സിനിമ ഒറിജിനല്‍ സ്ക്രീന്‍പ്ലേയ്ക്കുള്ള (Herman J. Mankiewicz) അവാര്‍ഡ്‌ കരസ്ഥമാക്കി. വെല്‍സിനെ എക്കാലത്തെയും മികച്ച സംവിധായകനായി കണക്കാക്കുന്നു. പ്രശസ്ത അമേരിക്കന്‍ ചലച്ചിത്ര നിരൂപകയായ പൌളിന്‍ കെയില്‍ (Pauline Kael) "The one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened" എന്നാണ് ഈ