Kelzang Wangmo

Siya is a sad and disturbing movie but this is a haunting reality! The ending couldn't get more real and this is the truth of justice. No matter how much one says that truth will conquer someday and justice shall be served, but at what cost. Siya loses all her close confidants including her parents in this pursuit of justice and one ends up wondering if such justice is worth it. I am left with questions as to how can this system of power, authority and inequality ever be balanced? Lastly, the characters played by the new faces are applaudable in successfully portraying real emotions!

I have been meaning to watch this movie for some time now, but I somehow forgot about it until it was mentioned in my MBA class recently. So here I am watching this move after almost 7 years since its first release. Overall, it is a good movie with interesting lessons for people in business and those planning to be entrepreneurs. The movie showcases the hard reality of consumerism, business ethics, manipulation, and results of rigidity to change in the current modern world. In the first half of the film, I rooted for Ray Kroc and Mc Donald brothers, but I didn't expect myself to be in turmoil in the second half as to whether I should feel happy for Ray's success or feel let down like Mc Donald brothers. Nonetheless, in the end, I was happy that brothers achieved their dreaming of earning USD$1 million as they got around USD$2.7 million (although its much lesser compared to Mc Donalds' current revenue in billions). But I was more saddened to learn, from the end credits, that they never got the royalty payments for their idea and system. So, the moral - be more open to change as it is evidently inevitable. Sometimes, you don't agree or want unethical and selfish people to win or succeed, but they still do because they are more driven than the rest!

It was an emotionally satisfying movie about life and the choices we make! It makes one wonder how and if pursuing dreams (of course, mostly societal enforced) give you the real happiness or we fail to identify the real happiness we have in pursuance of the so-called dreams! This movie will always be close to my heart as it touched my father to the core (he usually doesn't like watching movies but cried his heart out for this one) as it in a way highlighted about the karmic connections between one another and reincarnation. The movie made him think about his long departed parents and he has now become an animal lover, especially dogs, in the neighborhoods as he believes that they could have been his parents in the previous lives. Plus, for a cast of actors, most of whom were facing cameras for the first time did a great job! The music soothes the heart and Little Pem Zam is one of the best highlights of the movie!

Ramayan basically describes the life history of a righteous King. But Ram, who was righteous and selfless for his people, may not have been so considerate of his wife's feelings! The times have not changed much since women are still expected to be self-sacrificing, selfless, nurturer, caregiver and householder! This books tries to capture how Sita must have felt in all the different phases of her life and, unlike the goddess-like Sita, she is portrayed as a human being who has feelings, emotions and needs of her own. I am just left to wonder how did Sita really feel with all the agniparikshas in her life.

This series kept me glued and engrossed in it till the end. The show depicted a sad reality of how people become manipulated to benefit certain politicians' agenda. I liked the acting of Abhishek Bannerjee as Vishal Tyagi. His character is negative till the end, but towards the end, we come to understand how and why he became like that! It didn't justify his actions but it was just sad and felt right in its own ways.

The 4th episode was a sad reality which shows that not all cases get solved although culprits are caught. But it is a good documentation of how police solve cases and we also get to understand what motivates the accused to act out these crimes, sometimes well-planned and sometimes accidental. I also enjoyed how the personal lives of the police-in-charge were portrayed to showcase their own family struggles while trying to solve these crimes.