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Eklavya - The Royal Guard

The brilliance of this film lies in the simplicity with which the director, Vidhu Vinod Chopra has conveyed the story. A lot is said without using words. It takes a while to realize how simply the story has been told and how small things like the letters Eklavya (Amitabh Bacchan) writes to his son (Saif Ali Khan) (whom he cannot openly communicate with) are used to twist the story. Surely there are times in the movie when you can get impatient if you are expecting the regular hindi masala movie speed and comedy bursts in between. The movie is very subtle and every character has a role to play. Inspector Pannalal (Sanjay Dutt) does provide some comic relief to the overall dramatic and serious story. Also the royal behaviours might seem to be a bit irritable to the logical mind, but one has to go along with the flow on this one.

On the visual side, the locations, set and clothes of all the characters are truly royal and authentically Rajasthani. Overall, worth a watch if someone likes serious movies, it has to be watched with an artsy eye.

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In Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness - Isn't it what drives everything, we work for happiness, we eat to be happy, sleep to be happy, do whatever we do to be happy and yet it eludes us. It is impossible to be happy forever, as Sri Sri says, forget the "forever" and you are happy.

The other day,I saw a passenger read a book and there was a chapter with title - "Your happiness is not selfish" (or something like that). So, there are books to make you feel happy and there are books to tell you that it is OK to feel happy. What is with it?

The question is - What do you really need to be happy? I would rather ask myself what is that makes me unhappy? This is annual review time at work and a few friends of mine called me up to tell me that they got promoted or got a raise and I am really happy for them. But, at the same time my mind goes for a ride thinking what I need to do get the same and that I deserve it as much as anyone else since I too work as hard. But then, what changed here, it is not that anything happened to me, just that my mind devised a new reason to be unhappy. I think that by nature nothing is sad or wrong, but the mind comes up with it's own ways to cause pain.