Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Review of 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood'

Like many people, I too have been a fan of Quentin Tarantino over the years. I went for this movie not having seen any trailers, so didn't know what to expect.

But what a brilliant, brilliant movie. It's like a song that grows slowly on you, and suddenly, you find that you're hooked to this song. That's how he builds this movie towards the end. There's not much of a story, it's more like poetry....visual poetry, told stylishly.

There are two protagonists here. You know who I'm talking about. And I can't say who is better, but I enjoyed watching Leo's vulnerability.  What I also liked was the depiction of that era. Extremely authentic.

Would love to watch this movie again. 3 hours of paisa vasool!

Thursday, August 8, 2019

An idea following Article 370

Now that the Article 370 has been made toothless, and all states and UTs are at par, here's an idea I have:


  • Start an annual process of 'twinning' states. There's already this concept of twinning cities across the world, but they are meaningless
  • In our case, twinning will have meaning. For example:
    • Tourists between the two states will enjoy benefits (discounts, vouchers, etc)
    • Employers taking in associates from the twin state will be incentivized
    • Setting up businesses in each other's state will be incentivized
    • Tax breaks for doing business with each other
    • Any other that you can think of
  • Each year, say on Independence Day, lots are drawn and states/UTs are twinned. So this year J&K is twinned with TN this year and Mizoram the next, for example
  • One way to revive the notion of national integration

Makes sense?

Why Acting?

 I recently did a mentorship program for actors. One of the questions I was asked was 'Why do you want to be an actor?' At first gla...