Upstream Color (The Movie) : My Thoughts..

Just watched Upstream Color (2013) written, directed and produced by Shane Carruth. It's the most shockingly disturbing science-fiction movie I've watched in a long time! Although not similar to Contagion, something on the same lines about a deadly virus that passes from humans to pigs to orchids.

A thief injects a drug into various people and robs them off their whole money. The victims remember nothing and are left to lead almost wretched lives with no money and an unhealthy body where the parasite keeps growing inside the victims.

Among the lot, two people are attracted to each other and they begin to stay together to support each other. Unknowingly they stumble upon some lines from the novel Walden by Henry David Thoreau and as they pursue it, they finally catch the culprit. 

Although the movie is only 96 minutes long, it's so chillingly slow that it becomes painful and disturbing to watch it. As the plot keeps unfolding, you begin to get disturbed more and more, yet you just don't want to switch off. You stay until the end to find out what is exactly happening on the screen and why is it happening.

It's a must watch but you got to be very patient and stay till the end to actually enjoy it. 

P.S : I thought of giving it up so many times and switching it off mid-way, but I sat through it. And I don't regret it a bit.

3 reviews on request so far!

Hello there! I've been away from here for a long time now, I know. Life has kept me busy. There is so much happening both online and offline that it is next to impossible to manage more than one blog at a time. Added to that the endless hours we all waste on all the social networks out there, makes it even more difficult.
Anyway, now that I have a little time and pretty much nothing better to do, am back to updating this blog.

So far, I have received 3 novels from 3 different authors who write novels in 3 different genres, requesting me to review. I was on cloud nine when I got a mail from an author who is settled in London! Just imagine!

First novel, Once Upon The Tracks Of Mumbai, written by Rishi Vohra who resides in Mumbai. It was his debut novel whose protagonist was an autistic kid who spends most of his time in railway stations and near tracks. Was a sweet love story and I totally enjoyed reviewing it.

I was next contacted by Sangeeta Bhargava from London requesting to review her third novel, After The Storm. I was totally overwhelmed and couldn't believe it. I mean, it wasn't like my blog was so famous or something. So to get that request from an author who is based in London was totally unbelievable.
The novel was wonderful, set in 1941 and later and a love story of an English teacher and an Indian student was very nicely set.

Although, it was Ms.Sangeeta who contacted me first, I received the novel Offside from Kiran Vijayan before I could receive After The Storm! Kiran contacted me after about a week but I received his novel first. It was a debut novel too and was based around football and puppy love. Was a sweet one.

So, these have been the 3 reviews on request so far. Waiting for other authors to send me their novels so that I can have fun reading them and then post a review on my blog! :P

Such a small small world..

"A" and "B" were classmates in college X in city H, but never talked or got in touch. A was good friends with C who was good friends with B who got A and B into contact. A was good at B's mother tongue in a place where it was seldom spoken, so A and B had great time speaking in B's mother tongue and had great many conversations.
After a while, A and B got busier with their own lives and din't stay in touch.

After 2 years...

A shifted to city W, joined another college Y, made new friends.
A became friends with D and E who were classmates even before joining Y. D and E were classmates of F before joining Y. D and E tell F everything about A and no F has never met A but has just seen A's pics on FB. Needless to say, D, E and F are girls.

So, F joins a course in H. And B (remember?) happens to have taken up the same course too. So, F and B become friends and get talking. F happens to mention that she hails from city W and that instantly rings a bell in B's mind and she enquires if she happens to know A. And bingo! F actually knows A, although not literally, but she knows A through her friends D and E.

Such a small small world!!

Needless to say, am "A"! :D

March 2013

Whattay month it has been!

Finished up my 1st Sem exams in February. Started March with a vacation. Went to Saputara, a hill station near Surat, Gujarat with 17 cousins altogether. Later, got myself busy with the management meet Cynosure 2013 organised by our college. And post that, got busy with organizing farewell for our seniors. All in a month’s time.

But, the main highlights of March 2013 would be 2 emails from 2 different authors.
One, from Sangeeta Bhargava from UK, London. The author of “Letters to my Baby” and “The World Beyond” had just published her 3rd novel, After The Storm. And she asked me if I’d be interested in reviewing the novel. Of course, I was and she immediately sent me a copy of her novel.  Which I received on 31st of March, 2013.
Second email was from Kiran Vijayan whose first novel “Offside” had just released. He too asked me the same thing and I immediately agreed. He sent me the novel and although I received his email later, I received his mail first. Got his mail on 27th March, 2013. That’s why the review of his novel was up before that of ATS.
2 author signed copies in a month! Woohoo! Was and am still on cloud 9! 

And March 2013 had also been a good month for blogging because I managed to write as many as 6 posts in the month!

The first post, on 3rd march, was Break up, another post in the category of relationships and thanks to my friend who asked me a wonderful question that got me thinking. “What would you think of a guy who just had a break up without any fight?” was the question. Also, asked the same question to a couple of my other friends and their views have been incorporated in the post too.

Second post, on march 14th, again was under the category of relationships. I will get over you,  which was more of a continuation or a reply to “I miss you, Hell I still love you…!” It’s not true love if it doesn’t hurt..!

Third post, on March 16th, was the first ever Free Giveaway on my blog. Giveaway of 10 BigFlix movie coupons. I still have a few. If you want, do ping me! The coupons are valid upto 30th April, 2013, so hurry!

Fourth post, on 21st March, was again under the category of relationships. This post was kinda cute in itself. Titled Love at first meet  it was about the conversation between a couple who had been made to meet each other by their families. Yeah, arranged marriage. Turned out pretty well.

Fifth post, on March 26th, was again under the category of relationships. Definitions of love by a besotted lover has so many definitions of love. Totally inspired from one of the conversations that I was having with a friend. She asked me about my opinion on love and what I actually thought about love. That conversation resulted in this post. 

And the final post of the month, not under relationships this time, but a review!
The review of the novel Offside by Kiran Vijayan that was sent by the author himself!

That marks the end of March 2013! 

2013 so far..

Ah, things have been terribly busy.. 2013 has been a roller coaster ride so far.. Post graduation studies, exams, so much to do and so little time.. Endless movies, hanging out with friends, college life.. It’s all taking a toll.. Am so dead tired by the time I return home that I rarely get the time to write or even read..

which explains the dearth of posts this year.. There haven’t been many..

the very first post this year was on the topic, that my blog actually is made up of, relationships - a simple post, a conversation between a guy and a girl, a simple non-personal conversation leading to a tuffle between the two.. and how straight forwardness of the guy ends up hurting the girl.. side effects of love

Oh, it’s February already!!
Yeah, could manage only one post in january 

The second and third posts have been on the subject creativity and these are compiled by one of my lecturers.. Convergent and Divergent thinking and Personal barriers to creativity.

Again, returning to my forte, relationships, the continuation of the most successful series on my blog The “Love is cute” series.. a cute and romantic post, Love is cute – 4, about a young and mischevious couple and their cute cute antic talks. No love is complete without a little jealousy.

The last post for February, category relationships, Bitter Sweet conversations. Maintaining long distance relationships is no mean task. No, really. Especially with the girls. They make mountains out of moles, you know. Just an instance where it happens. A third person becomes the subject of conversation which leads to a small disheartening of the girl. But then, all’s well that end’s well!

So, that’s it for now.. january and February 2013!

Adios Amigos!

my own website!

Hello all!
I am visibly and understandably very very very excited!
Finally managed to build my own website. Was tough, had to deal with stupid set-ups which were nothing less than greek and latin to me, but was fun, altogether.
Now, I have a basic website on my own name, i.e., www.jigar-doshi.com and this begins a new journey with loads of new experiences and memories. :)

Do visit, do share, do ask your friends to do the same!
Thanks in advance! :)

Cheers! :)

November 2012

Ah, the November 2012 has been a very productive one altogether.
Wrote 2 articles in the category of relationships, which has been my forte for a while now. Also wrote a movie review. And, here comes the surprise, ventured into 2 new categories. One is politics and the other, creativity. Of-course the topic of creativity is something that is not written by me. But, politics is. And it's fun actually to write on politics.
And to be frank, there are more readers for posts on politics than those in relationships.
Also, blog has been reaching new heights in the rankings of alexa and indiblogger. Have been showing up in the very first page of google searches too :D (I know, I know, am boasting. But, yeah, it's fun to boast every once in a while. More like a ego massage.)

November 3 - Don't know why people fall in love.. I am never falling in love...! - A discussion between 2 friends, a boy and a girl, one ridiculing the stupid things that people do when in love, and other talking about all the good things that happen in life when being in love.

November 17 - I will never ever forgive you...! - A painful, tragic and one-sided conversation of a forlorn lover, talking to his love, who has left him behind and went far far away.

November 21 - The so called free-speech - Ah, so a politician passes away and his followers cause havoc and mayhem and the first post in the category of relationships takes it's birth on my blog.

November 26 - Life of pi - movie review - Ang Lee's beautiful adaptation and handling of intense scenes, beautiful cinematic pleasure and awesome lush creative-visuals, and much more was the movie Life of Pi. A must-watch! :)

November 28 - 32 traits of creative people - the first post in the category of creativity, work compiled and done by one of my lecturers. more information on it's way once or twice a week.

November 29 - An open letter to Prime Minister - An initiative by The viewspaper saw me writing to PM of India and giving certain advises and suggestions in the field of development of India.

So, there ends a beautiful and fruitful month. And begins a new one. Hopefully will come up with posts worth reading and as often as I would love to write and read. :)

Adios!

Myntra

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you and your memories engulf me no matter where I am or what I am doing. Every single thing I do reminds me of you in one or the other way.
Went for shopping and was immediately transported back to the time when we used to go shopping together.. went to a movie and immediately started relating ourselves to the protagonists, just like we used to do with every movie we watched.. went to hotel for dinner and started remembering how we used to eat together in a single plate.. Was driving back home and started thinking about all the times I picked you from your place and dropped you at your place and all the fun we had on roads.. Saw a couple and immediately your picture came in mind and I said to myself, once upon a time we used to hang out together too.. went to bed and immediately checked my cell with a hope that you must have called or left me a text.. I know that's totally stupid of me to do so, especially after so long a time, but.............

though we aren't together anymore, you always accompany me every single place I go..
life..............is a bitch!

read more - I miss you.... Hell, I still love you...!

Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. In India, they use the word 'karma' for lack of any better term. But it's a concept rarely given proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem your past and there by change the future.
- Paulo Coelho.

3000 pageviews!

Well, it seems that I am maintaining good readership on my other blog. Not great, but, good. Touched 1000 pageviews on September 14 and 2000 pageviews on October 16. And yesterday, on November 22, my other blog crossed a total of 3000 pageviews!

And the post which I published yesterday was, "The so called free speech" where for the first time I wrote about politics on my blog. The arrest of Shaheen for a status update on the bandh on the day of the death of Bal T. started a chain of thoughts which I promptly penned down!

Dog's action inspired a chain-of-thoughts :)

Today, I saw a dog chasing a lady dog (bit**) on a main road. The female seem to be running and the male was pursuing and biting as and when he got a chance. The funniest thing was, the female was just playing around. She was running not because she didn't want 'it' but because she derived more pleasure in making him run for 'it' than he getting 'it' easily.
For once, it reminded me of PDA and I felt pity for them that they couldn't get a room.

On second thoughts, I concluded something. I am never pursuing someone. NEVER!
Someone wants me to run back of them, they are bound to be disappointed. Even if I terribly want to be with them, I am not going to force them or pursue them.

Whatever the reason, whether they want me to pursue them just for their 'psychotic pleasure' or they want me to pursue them to show that I really really want them, I don't care. Someone who wants me in their life is never going to make me run back of them.
Or if they say that they will accept me in their lives only when I pursue them, then......... 'Good-bye!'

Seems a silly and passing thought at first, but on the second thoughts, it is actually my basic principle of life. It also is my 'direct message' or an 'open letter' to all those friends who ceased to be my friends just because they expected me to pursue them.

Bon Jour! :) [Have a good day!]

P.S - Did you read my latest post? "Don't know why people fall in love? I'm never following in love...!" If yes and if you liked it, share it with your friends. If no, then what are you waiting for? Go, read now! :)

october 2012 - 5 posts.

It has been a good month for writing so far. have written 3 reviews. 2 movie reviews and one novel review.
also have written one personal post and one post pertaining to relationships.

The 5 posts are:

First, a personal post, where I was answering certain questions regarding blogging such as when, why and how did I start blogging and all. Titled as Interview..

Second, a review of the novel, "Angel Of The Dark" penned by Tilly Bagshawe on the lines of Sidney Sheldon. A gripping tale of murders and investigations and unexpected twists.

Third was the review of a movie. The movie named Bothers which was Telugu adaptation of the Tamil movie Maattraan, starring Surya and Kajal Aggarwal.

Fourth was the post in the category that my blog symbolises, relationships. A fictional post of the history of a woman and why she wasn't an extrovert and why she hated men! Tentatively titled I hate you...!

Fifth was again a movie review. My take of the movie, Student Of The Year starring 3 new comers and directed by Karan Johar.

Read and share on your social networks! ;)

2000 pageviews.

Hello world!
Last I updated this blog on 2nd october on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti and today on 16th october I write again to announce that my wordpress blog, musings of jigar, has just crossed 2000 pageviews!
I would like to remind that on 24th sept I wrote a post to announce that my other blog had reached 1000 pageviews (it took me nearly 2 months for that) and now, in about 22 days, I have got another 1000 pageviews!

Funnily, I've written only 3 posts in the month of October so far, of which 2 posts have been in the reviews category and another post in the personal category.

Okay, enough of my bragging now. Just go visit my blog on wordpress!
Also, share it with your friends and ask them to share with their friends too!! :D

Thanks in advance! ;)

Gandhiji.

Dear fellow, I respect your opinions and I even understand your hatred for the man. May be he had committed some sacrifices that weren't necessary, may be everything he did didn't turn out to be for the betterment of India and may be India would have been a different nation today if not for some of his principles, but you can't deny the fact that he was solely responsible for the independence that we enjoy today.

Whatever it is, I still respect Gandhiji for what he has done for India. Hats off! :)

september 2012

yo, here ends the month of september! whattay wonderful month it had been.
for the first time in my 2 years of blogging, i reached the double figures of posts in a single month. yeah, i posted 10 posts in the month of september alone.
not only that, for the first time, I wrote articles pertaining to all three categories that define my blog viz., relationships,  reviews,  grandma tales., in the same month. 2 reviews, 3 posts on relationships, a grandma tale and a satirical/humorous post and 3 personal/random/unusual musings.

Whenever my dearest relatives need a help, they expect me to leave all my works at once and make their work my biggest priority.
And whenever I need their help, which is very rare, they not only procrastinate it but mostly don't do it at all.
Yet, I got to be good to them, talk to them, call them, text them, smile at them and think highly of them.
Why?
Cos they're fucking family!!

Gosh! What the hell is wrong with this wordpress in India and Telecom Ministry.
It doesn't allow me to edit a published post and gives a "The URL you requested has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom(CHNN). URL = jigardoshi91.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?_wpnonce=a7d552d9e6&"
Bloody! it's a published post already. What is there to block in this post is seriously beyond me!

1000 pageviews!

Phew! What fun the last 2 months have been!
The last post that I wrote on this blog was on 29th July. And have written 11 posts since on my other blog, Musings of Jigar, on wordpress.
Today, my new blog, crossed 1000 pageviews! Yayy, am so elated!
It was great fun to start from the scratch all over again and make my mark - though small like a drop in the ocean, a mark nevertheless - in the blogging world.

Here are the monthly archives on my other blog, September (8) and August (3).

Do visit, read, share, like, tweet, digg, reddit, stumbleupon, addthis etc. Thanks in advance! :D

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