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SKYFALL REVIEW


I caught skyfall the latest bond movie at inox today.Now,this must be the first film where james bond is shown more as a sex symbol than the usual gorgeous babes that they parade through the film and yes there are some but i guess you can't take your eyes of daniel craig.


The movie is like the usual bond films but then morphs into a psychological thriller through which emotions and sentiments run amok.The film opens with a fantastic fight,car chase,train chase and ends with bond getting shot and falling to his death,well at least they think he is dead and his obituary is written.You can see lots of people coming and going but the film basically revolves around craig,bardem and dench.

The introduction scene of javier bardem is creepy to say the least and his meeting with bond real fun,what with all that underlying gay overtones to it.Although the film runs for nearly two and a half hours,javier features only in three major scenes and yet seems to be there everywhere with his trail of destruction and manages to steal the show under everyones nose.An actor at work and a purist at that,daniel craig does not stand a chance and elegantly lets javier run with his character.It works and when you see the film in totality it is more a psychological thriller than an action film in the bond sense.

Now sam mendes the director of american beauty and road to peredition fame is at the helm and you sense he is the reason for this film to go this way.Although one is satisfied with the whole film,yet you feel a bit let down for it is not in the usual bond style.but i guess what matters is if the film is good or not.It is good and that is my opinion.


The title skyfall track is sung by adele and she has sung it brilliantly.No wonder she won a handful of grammys earlier this year.


Well i loved the film and i guess most of you will like it to.now i guess we have thuppaki to look forward to this diwali.

The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Kahlil Gibran

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Kahlil Gibran

I spent some time on the beach today morning.The sun was pink like the pinched cheeks of a new born baby.pink like the rouge on an actress's cheek.It hung there on the horizon lazily as if not wanting to wake up and then quickly sobered up and turned red and then white.I left for the pink of the sun a few minutes earlier was now blazing white and i left for not wanting to be burnt pink like the star itself.In those brief moments spent on the shore,i saw a boat leaving the shore for its hunt for fish,i saw dogs frolicking in pure joy,i saw a woman greet the sunrise with a salutation and i also witnessed a man,a son doing the first year rites for his dead mother.life and death,happiness and sadness.so i stood up and brushed the sand away,just as life brushes away the living when the time is up.I stopped to think of the fishermans net hauling in thousands of fishes and wondered in morbidity if a mother fish and her baby fish would be caught together.what will they say to each other and turning my back on life and death on the shore and seas i trudged back home.be well.

Nancy Astor was an American socialite who married into the wealthy English family of Astor. She actually was the first woman to be elected to Parliament, which makes her humiliation all the sweeter. She was invited to 1912 a dinner party located in the Churchill estate , but, unfortunately for her, she became extremely annoyed at a drunk and politically incorrect Winston Churchill. Finally, she exclaimed the following: "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee." Unaffected by her sudden outburst, Churchill moderately and quickly replied with a great comeback:
"Nancy, if you were my wife I'd drink it."

Winston Churchill makes this list again for a third time, proving him to truly be one of the world's wittiest people. Attending a party in London, Churchill once again was drunk and intoxicated. An obviously extremely astute woman from Parliament, like Nancy Astor (the first entry), apparently was irritated by Churchill's mannerisms. When she finally had enough, she came up to him and yelled: "Winston, you're drunk!" He may have been drunk but that apparently didn't affect his cognitive functions as he merely replied:
"You're right Bessie, and you're ugly. But tomorrow morning, I'll be sober."

George Bernard Shaw AKA PUNCH PADMANABHAN

George Bernard Shaw was once approached by a seductive young actress who cooed him in his ear:- 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we got married and had a child with my beauty and your brains?' George Bernard Shaw who was hardly a handsome man replied: 'My dear, that would be wonderful indeed, but what if our child had my beauty and your brains?' The actress w