movies, love stories and a magic called 'communication'

Many of you might not have committed the bravado as yet, but I did, and watched the movie 'Jodhaa Akbar' - a really long movie in terms of running hours, but not that long in terms of boring content. I liked it in parts - some of the songs, Hrithik, Ash, war scenes and the love story weaved underneath.

To tell you the truth, I realized that those days communication was a challenging problem, to the extent of ruining people's lives with the lack of it. Add to that, it seemed like people either did not know how to clearly express or did not care to express and relied heavily on unsaid impressions/emotions. Hmm... a pretty dangerous situation I must say! And one thing I could not understand was that, why did Jodhaa not send a messenger to clarify her stand with her brother? She was a princess, a queen, and could have definitely arranged for one who would search for and deliver the message to her brother. Anyway, the writer had other things in mind ...

In today's world, for example, Jodhaa would have SMS'ed her brother about her uneasiness over the marriage and would have got an instant reply from his brother Sujamal on where he is, how he is doing and what he can do to stop the marriage. It is just amazing to imagine the different modes of communication we have got in today's era, to clarify, to speak out, to reach out and to stay connected all the time! Just like the way I am doing right now, attending my mom-in-law in the hospital, and still able to write few things here and there expressing my thoughts ... imagine the world without reliable letters, radio/cell messages, telephones and above all, the internet. We have made good progress from the sixteenth century, definitely :)

But anyway, coming back to the movie, it was good, my husband and in-laws liked it, so as the e-square screen-5 audience on friday evening who cheered every hindu-muslim saas-bahu confrontations and results, the war scenes were particularly captivating, and being a girl, I liked the way Jodhaa and Akbar's marriage is shown slowly developing into a loving relationship. Good show, and worth the patience for once at least. If you want to read a review and qualified opinion on the movie, you can do so here, it is written by a friend, who incidentally happened to be in the same show as mine.

Enjoy the show, the weekend and the fantastic onset of "Vasant" (spring) season...