Dil Bechara, The Fault in Our Stars

• Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line.
• Dil Bechara, The Fault in Our Stars (TFIOS)
• Actually first watched Dil Bechara on Hotstar without subtitles.
• Then watched "The Fault in Our Stars" on Hotstar.
• Then decided to watch "Dil Bechara" again on Hotstar with subtitles to get a more clear view of the movie in case anything got missed out.
• Now I desperately want to watch "The Fault in Our Stars" once more but I guess that wont be happening.
• But I can say when I watched "Dil Bechara" once more I felt even more sad regarding Sushanth Singh Rajput (SSR)
• If I watch it third time I may burst out crying.
• It is too painful.
• Hard to realise that the actor is no more.
• In the movie he portrays a person from a South Indian Christian family.
• The heroine is from Bengali family.
• Since the movie is set in Jamshedpur where people from all over the country would be available.
• It would be having a cosmopolitan culture.
• The movie is very much believable and watchable.
• But when you watch the Fault in our stars you realise that the original is too good.
• SSR makes the movie watchable.
• I guess no actor could have portrayed the character better I felt.
• Both the heroine and the mother and father of heroine have got good roles and acted really nice.
• In TFIOS movie William Dafoe is too good and since he is author and the heroine has read his books for years makes it believable. Also towards the end William makes an entry once more.
• In Dil Bechara movie Saif Ali Khan is a singer but it is not believable character.
• And what was he doing in Paris, France.
• They should have shown that Saif was operating a restaurant.
• But William Dafoe was living as recluse is believable he being a writer.
• But a singer living as recluse is not believable.
• Also one may not get that obsessed for a song left incomplete. 
• {Brief note now on SSR follows}
• Read on Net that this movie was shot in 2018 but then why was there delay in release?
• Maybe there was a "coterie" in Bollywood who did not want to SSR to succeed.
• But SSR should have realised that big screen is not the only avenue.
• There is always OTT and TV. 
• He should have thought that "Drive" was one of the first to get OTT only release.
• Money is not everything. 
• Talent and getting recognised is also important.
• Or since he began from TV he could have returned there.
• Suicide is not solution.
• If SSR did not have work due to lockdown lakhs or crores did not have work or lost their work.
• That does not mean suicide is solution or all will commit suicide.
• But if he was killed than the matter is different.
• But we have to leave to law enforcement authorities and police detectives and trust them in their investigation.
• The truth however hard must come out.
• If SSR was taking medications for depression or getting treatment that must come out.
• General public must not be left in dark.

Ad Astra

• Watched this movie Ad Astra on Hotstar.
• I found this movie too good.
• One has to understand its essence.
• The movie is based on finding intelligent life in the far corners of our Universe.
• But there is no life.
• That is what Tommy Lee Jones says to his son Brad Pitt when he makes his way to Neptune after two decades.
• All that time link with earth is cut off.
• Suddenly there is burst of energy towards earth which proves damaging with lives lost.
• Source of those bursts were found to be near Neptune.
• Thus the mission happens.
• Since Brad Pitt is closely related he is taken off the mission. But somehow he makes his way back to the spaceship.
• And he is the only traveler on the ship.
• Source of bursts are indeed the Tommy Lee Jones ship but it is due to people of the ship who wanted to escape back to earth.
• There is a struggle and Tommy Lee Jones prevails and keeps trying to rectify it.
• Once you realise he is working for decades and has documented different worlds but there is no sign of life anywhere you realise Earth is the only place to support life.
• The hostility of Moon and Mars environment is shown.
• Mars is last outpost of humans in space.
• Also there are inter-nation conflict on the surface of the Moon and there are pirates also.
• Once you realise that humans are the only intelligent life form in space what is the fighting (between humans) for.
• It is meaningless to have conflicts.
• That is the bottomline.

Beard is back

• This blog post is to notify that my beard is back.
• Link 1
• Link 2
• Link 3
• Link 4
• Link 5
• First you may want to read the above posts. All those posts pertain to shaving and hair and so on.
• Since Jan 26, 2020 I had started daily shaving.
• Now on June 29, 2020 it was my last day of shaving.
• I have reverted to pre-Jan 26 position of not shaving which I have been following with partial interjections of shaving since May 2013.
• I had bought blades for the same.
• First I bought Gillette Presto Razor
• I found the above razor lasts for 1 week of daily shaves. Or maximum eight days. After that there is skin irritation and so on.
• Next I bought Gillette Vector Plus
• I found the above razor lasts for 10 days of shave.
• Third I bought Laser Reflex 3
• The above razor lasts for 11 days.
• All the above razors were used for daily shaving and last day was reserved for underarm (armpits) shaving.
• The above (Laser Reflex 3) was bought from Star Market as buy 1 get 1 offer.
• Fourth and final I bought Supermax 3 SMX razor
• This Supermax 3 razor I never got chance to use because I got it exchanged.
• The shop from which I had bough refused to take it back as their policy was exchange within 3 days.
• So I took to another shop and he asked if seven days had passed, I told more than seven days were already gone. But he was kind enough to take it as exchange.
• So I bought other items and he adjusted the razor price in the final bill.
• Now I am back to daily head bath and no shaving and today is fourth day of no shaving.
• What is the reason for the same you may ask?
• I will say I had a pain on right side of nose. It was like mosquito bite or bee sting.
• There was no boil but reddish swelling on the nose right side.
• I was continuing daily shaving.
• Why it happened?
• Maybe the blade exceeded 10 days.
• But my theory is that the Demodex or tiny organisms that live on our faces did not find a place to stay as I was doing daily shaving.
• They needed a place to stay and when we don't shave our entire face is available for them to spread around.
• Our facial hair or beard is like a thick forest for these tiny organisms to spread around and enjoy themselves.
• When we did not give them space they decided to "take revenge" and made a hardened structure in the nose and that was the cause for swelling and pain.
• When I stopped shaving immediately in 1 or two days the pain stopped.
• A small swelling is there now but there is no pain.
• Another reason I had mentioned for daily shaving is that "beard is just one of the earthly possessions which we leave behind when we will die" and hence no need to treasure the beard.
• But what happens that beard grows on by itself.
• If we do not shave or in other words take active action the beard grows on its own.
• So it is a God given gift or feature. And hence we should not shun it.
• We do not know what happens after death, it is a mystery and hence no need to force something like shaving.
• Maybe the soul also grows a beard or keeps growing the beard if there is no rebirth.
• Maybe those who have never kept a beard all their lives will grow one after death when they are unable to use "earth's equipment".
• And hence it is needed to keep an open mind and not force anyone to shave or not shave.

Tik Tok Ban

• I must say that Tik Tok ban is not good for the country.
• This has become the hallmark of BJP Ruled India.
• They just keep banning things.
• It started in 2015 with male cow (bull slaughter) ban in Maharashtra.
• Then Maggi Ban.
• The mother of all bans was old notes ban also called demonetisation.
• Tik Tok Ban is same like this.
• People got chance to be stars in Tik Tok and maybe they were making some money through cash back and all by number of views and so on.
• Now Modi Sarkar has banned it.
• I do not support it.
• I am pained.
• Even more painful is the so called "liberal democracies" are supporting India for this.
• US, Australia, France, Germany, Japan are supporting India or at lest Indian media is projecting image like that and that is painful.
• It is like this a step backwards for 1.4 billion people of India.
• What use is time and progress if we move backwards.
• BJP will not rest until they send India back to stone age.
• And that is the painful story.
  

Malang, Andhadhun

Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line.

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Malang

• This movie was watched on Netflix.
• I liked the movie because of the mystery.
• First you wonder what is happening why is the guy going on killing police officers.
• Then the story is revealed.
• But what strikes is that the heroine is shown to be alive.
• If she is alive are the killings justified.
• She lost the baby during the assault that could be a reason.
• But it is doubtful if she would have survived fall from the bridge.
• And it is doubtful if she can remain hidden from view.
• But the end scene where it shown the hero and heroine are reunited in a room.
• Maybe both are dead.
• Maybe it was the spirit of the heroine which was assisting the hero in the murders.
• Anyway it is better if the imagination is left to the audience.
  

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Andhadhun

• This movie was watched on Netflix.
• Movie is pretty serious like a thriller movie upto the point where the doctor and the assistants decide to help the hero.
• At that time it becomes a "dark comedy".
• Movie is okay for a one time watch.
  

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