Spring Summer Fall Winter & Spring

A movie of few words, almost literally. The movie is based on a Buddhist monk, the master and his student and how with the passage of different seasons things change with time and the surroundings. The movie doesn't specify the names of the monk or the student. The dialogues are rare and precise. They are enough to convey the message. The movie is shot in a beautiful place where the monk stays on a floating temple with the student. The student grows up from a kid to become a monk himself. The transformation from the student to the monk and how is this achieved is the main theme of the movie. The main attraction of the movie is cinematography and the locals.When its fall it looks beautiful. When its winter the whole lake freezes and its all white with ice everywhere.

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The Shawshank Redemption

The finest of movies ever made. No doubt it still remains on the No 2 position in the iMDB list. You can watch this movie N times and each time you can feel it. Morgan Freeman didn't get an Oscar for this, but this movie is much more then just the Oscars. The narration by Morgan Freeman is as smooth as the movie. It has a pace of its own. You sit down and you will get glued to it. Though the movie is about two hours and twenty minutes in length, you will never feel the time. One of the finest performances by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

When Andy (Tim Robbins) is convicted of murder changes. He comes to The Shawshank Redemption where its a totally different world. It has the usual bullies, the bad guys, and as Red (Morgan Freeman) says everyone is innocent here. Contrary to the prison behavior, Andy remains calm and silent. But deep inside he feels the pain, the anguisand put to prison his lifeh, and the hope to escape some day. There he meets Red. After sometime he gets used to the prison routine. Since he is educated he takes care of the library and later on works for Norton the Prison Warden. All these while he makes an identity of his own for the outside world. No one would have believed that one day he will dig a tunnel from his room and will escape the prison, and he escapes. Everyone including the warden are surprised. He discloses the Warden's unethical practices and exposes him to the outside world. Morgan Freeman still remains there in the prison, and when his term gets over he meets his friend Andy. Andy had saved enough to live a sort of retired life on a beachside.


The movie is all about hope. Hope that never dies.

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Mr & Mrs Iyer

One of the finest of cinemas ever made. Its a milestone. The movie is not about hindu muslim fights, its not about violence, it doesn't revolve around the love between a muslim guy and an Iyer brahmin gal, its not about a bus journey which gets stuck in a curfew. Infact the movie takes each of these elements and makes meaning out of it. It shows you how a plot is developed and narrated. How each character has a role to play in the movie and its not there just for the heck of it. Rahul Bose and Konkana Sen have done a really brilliant job.

Rahul Bose(Raja) is a photographer and Konkana Sen(Meenakshi Iyer) is a Iyer Brahmin housewife. She had to catch a train to Calcutta where her inlaws are supposed to receive her. She has a baby and she boards a bus to catch the train. Raja is also going by the same bus and they meet through a common friend. Since she is traveling alone with her baby Raja gives his word that she will take care of her. The journey starts smoothly. During the journey the driver takes a shortcut and while crossing a river bed gets stuck. The bus is full with different kind of people. An old muslim couple, a few college youngsters, Punjabis, a mother and her mentally challenged son. What follows that night is what changes the course of the movie and the journey. Due to a hindu muslim riot in the near by village a group of hindu's are searching for any muslim people. There is a jew also in the bus and to save himself he points towards the old muslim couple who get killed.Raja would have got killed but Meenakshi saves her. Everyone is in a shocked state. The next morning Raja and Meenakshi take shelter in a nearby place. A police officer helps them out in getting accommodation. All through these events both Meenakshi and Raja come to know each other. They form a strange kind of bond. A bond which can not be defined.Initially Meenakshi didn't know that Raja is a muslim, and when she finds out, she shows a strange kind of behavior towards him. But later on she comes out of this confusion. All through the journey Raja helps her out. They reach Calcutta safely and there Meenakshi introduces Raja to her in laws. He hands over the film roll which contained the pictures of her baby and disappears in the crowd.

Finest Moments
A few of the scenes in the movie are really well shot and well enacted.
When the bus is hijacked and a group of hindus come in search of muslims , this one is done really good.
The next morning when Raja comes out of the bus and takes photographs, the cinematography is really good.
When Raja and Meenakshi are sitting outside that evening and are talking.
When Raja narrates the honeymoon stories to the group of youngsters.
When Raja and Meenakshi were almost going to kiss each other in the train, this one is done really well.
And finally when Raja hands over the film roll and walks away , Meenakshi shows a strange kind of expression on her face, an expression of pain, love, confusion all at the same time.

The movie got a lot of National and International awards. Aparna Sen as best director and Konkana Sen as best actress. I personally think that Rahul Bose should have got best actor or best supporting actor for his role in this movie.

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