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WoW! You enjoyed a lot that means! 🙂 Lovely!

Originally posted by: Anix.Ray

WoW! You enjoyed a lot that means! 🙂 Lovely!

Originally posted by: Padfoot_Prongs

Thanks for recommendations, Sim. Super 30 I have watched. I will go for Gumnami.

Originally posted by: Anix.Ray

WoW! You enjoyed a lot that means! 🙂 Lovely!

Anyways, welcome on the thread. Hope we can revive it back. 😊

Call me that what your heart says... 🗣💚

Originally posted by: Padfoot_Prongs

Hey gals, Happy festival season.

Been a long time. How is it going? Any recent movie or serial? Not reading any book right now.

Happy festivals Mannu!

I watched Super 30 and Mission Mangal. And I watched Pirates of the Caribbean series for the first time (except the 4th one "on stranger tides"). And I'm still trying to find the first few scenes of Daniel Radcliffe's film The Woman in Black.

How's your festive season going?

Originally posted by: Padfoot_Prongs

U read Nirmala. It made me cry buckets so much. I was not much mature at that time so it left me a deep impression. The worse was I kept thinking about the end when the child and her old aunt were left alone. I kept thinking how will they survive.

Nirmala's whole life was so sad, just because of one incident. If the dowry money was not looted she wud have been married to completely different person and a happy life. I also cried for the eldest son. I wish he was the one who wud have been married to nirmala. The accusations and pain he had to go through was heartbreaking. I hated Nirmala's husband for what he put his eldest son through.

I was left crying at many scenes as well. The story was such that every stage of it left an impression. I found it surprising that the author had such forward thinking. For a story that was written in the early 20th century, it says a lot when I can still connect to the story with such ease.

The eldest son was the purest character in the whole story, in my opinion. While in words we only saw how his father was affected by his death, I noticed more how subtly the author showed us the way Nirmala was affected by it.

And at the end I kept wondering when did the story turn so...was it when her husband grew suspicious, or when Nirmala was rejected, or her father killed, wouldn't it have been different if she had at least some support from the sister in law? As I said, every turn of the story gives us a reflection of our society and teaches us something.

I'm glad I read it now. If I were younger, I wouldn't have appreciated the work as much as I do now.

Originally posted by: Feynmann

Oh, no I haven't any and frankly speaking, I've least interest in reading Gandhiji's autobiography. I was reading "Dristi pradip" but due to puja excitement and getting ready for my post-puja conference, my reading got slowed down. Yeah, you read and share how it goes.

Neither do I. But I have decided I need to get better at History and Political science, and thus I was hoping for gaining some knowledge in Indian history from his perspective (I have heard first hand telling of something makes it more interesting). But frankly, I'm starting to wonder if this was such a great idea. The man can't seem to get over the topic of vegetarianism. And you can guess, as a Bengali, just how interesting that topic seems. 😆 I mean, I would have understood if had written a single page...or even a single chapter on the topic of why he became a vegetarian. But nooo...he has to go on and on for chapters about how and why he became a vegetarian. It almost seems as if he is trying to tell himself that it was a good idea.

Currently I'm on chapter 21 and hardly a chapter without the talk of vegetarianism. I don't know if Bengalis can read it without wanting to tear their hairs out!😡

And now I'm going on about it. Gandhi's rubbing off on me.

Tell me about Drishti Pradip.

Originally posted by: Feynmann

Happy Dussera, Mannu. Welcome back. I've watched "Super 30" and "Gumnami" based on Netaji's death mystery in recent times. You guys must watch both of them if you haven't. Gumnami movie, though its been directed by a Bengali director, its been released both in Bengali and Hindi. But the movie mostly contains English dialogues. I just love both these movies.

Super 30 was good. Hrithik's Bihari accent seemed forced sometimes but it was alright, overall.

I want to watch Gumnami. It's running on the theatre near my home here, but with Lakshmi Puja preparations and visiting relatives for Bijaya, I can't find the time. I think I'll just have to wait for Zee Originals to telecast it. I don't think it'll be there on JioCinema...

Originally posted by: Anix.Ray

WoW! You enjoyed a lot that means! 🙂 Lovely!

Hi Ani...Welcome to the thread. Hope you enjoy it here.😊