Wall E-derful !!!!!!

A tale about how a trash-arranging robot finds love and changes how humans look at themselves and Earth, Wall-E is a film surely to be loved by all.

The wide-eyed robot and EVE join hands to bring Life back into the toxic wasteland that is Earth and give us a joyride inside the Axiom starship with all their friends and foes.  

A detailed review would be a dampner to people who have still not seen the film.

It has all the ingridients to light up your day. Go watch it!

"Here's looking at you, kid."

It always feels good to read people's blogs, the nice personal ones, dripping with sense of belonging and attachment, adorably carefree, nonchalant to what the accidental onlooker might think of it and the person behind those thoughts. They just don't care. I especially like the ones which do not indulge in furnishing intimate details from their private lives nor lose their identity in the now highly popular recreation of 'bitching' but exude a debonair charm which I find mighty attractive.


I only wish I could do the same.


But, to open up to the world as if no opinion mattered is like dancing as if no one is watching. And I, for one, cannot dance. I have often had this argument with myself as to why or why not should a blog be personal, a window to the real 'you' unaware of the public perusal and unconcerned of the ensuing interpretations. Every time I have wanted to sit down and write about the world around me, not the world far away in Delhi or Washington where our futures are decided on the basis of might and Machiavellian polity but the one that is in immediate contact with me, I have felt both vacuous and reluctant. And that is why it feels great to read people who discover that iota of magic every now and then in their lives. Not that I envy them to the point that I may gleefully barter their life for mine. Not that I don't always like what I write. May be it's just the quintessential "what if......."- feeling thats lingers with me to see such posts every now and then.


But then, as I often quote these lines by Ogden Nash, who always had something very vital to impress upon his readers through his seemingly humorous and cavalier verses :


" I am just glad as glad can be
That I am not them, that they are not me. "

That is just me.
That is just me.

Ode to Cleopatra

Her bend of nose like birds of prey

Her lips carved out of lust

Her mane the shape of setting sun

Her tresses dark as dusk.

Her secrets dwelled in wells of heart

Her eyes kept all to her.

Her smile concocted enigma

Which none could decipher.

Entranced, enraptured came to her

Men of Blood and Might.

Hearts on fire with a zeal

Desires burning bright.

The Bard could not in wildest dreams

Envision that his Muse

Would this day be robbed of Pride

Her legend made recluse.

Veils of mystery now to yield

The Mistress of the Nile.

A single Fading Coin to make

Beauty stand on trial.

Yet, with every equinox

When beauty is conceived

A smile resplendent with intrigue

I hear Cleopatra breathe.

Photo: google.com

The New Airtel ad

The new AIRTEL ad really moved me. The idea that communication can dissolve boundaries between States and join people has that sort of an effect on me. Always. It gives me goosebumps.

The people behind making this ad really deserve praise. In times when everything from soap bars to sedans are marketed using the attention holding abilities of the unclad female body or star-power of film personalities, the idea of portraying a simple human story woven into the framework of an eternally relevant message is undeniably brave and positively reassuring.

The simple story where two little boys from two sides of a barbed wire fence decide to play football on what is understandably a 'no man's land' (LOC) conveys a simple message, but that which has a universal appeal. There is a certain sense of defiance in the way the two kids cross their borders to engage in a sport, ironic with a blissful disregard for human boundaries, consumed by their juvenile frivolity and characteristic innocence.
A swarm of thoughts flooded my mind on catching the ad for the first time on TV today.
It reminded me of Frost's 'Mending Wall'. It reminded me of the futility of divisions among humans. And how we all are a party to it.


I congratulate the team behind the concept of the ad. AIRTEL has been a leader in the way they market their product in a responsible manner and some of their previous advertisements bear ample testimony to that.

Here's another from their stable that touched me. Long back.




Video: Courtesy: Youtube.com
Logo: Google.com