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Of Sweethearts and Arts : Love Tested and Passed
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
One of the lesser known pair Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera could be well placed as a case study of true love. It is said if love and hatred complements each other then it will create true love as a final outcome. Such an outcome did apply to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Both were artists, and had a style of art which was as different as their personality, the Mexican pair were painters of unique sense and sensibilities that revolutionized the world of art.
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Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, in a well-to-do family. His paternal side had roots from the Spanish noble lineage. Since the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City.
Later on he went to Europe and since his early days in Europe from 1907 he spent studying with Eduardo Chicharro in Madrid, Spain, and he soon proceeded to Paris, France. His had a life which revolved around art and artistic places for which France was well known across the world so for a while he made Paris his home away from home and his circle of friends included artists from Montparnasse, like Amedeo Modigliani who painted his portrait in 1914. He was close to people like Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Max Jacob, gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, are all on canvas by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska called “Homage to Friends from Montparnasse”.
After traveling across Europe studying art and culture Rivera finally returned to Mexico in 1921 and took interest in the government sponsored Mexican mural program planned by Vasconcelos. Which after a year paved the way for pioneering the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors, and later that year itself he joined the Mexican Communist Party? Rivera was invited to create murals and frescos for many prestigious organizations within and outside Mexico and other places of international reputation making him an art icon of sorts.
The above distinction earned Rivera a unique place in the history of art and culture which drew a certain amount of liking in Kahlo as she too was present at times in the many opening ceremonies of his creative contributions that was showcased in many place of national importance
During the youthful age of 15, Kahlo met Rivera for the first time at the National Preparatory School as she was a student in that school and Rivera was a teacher there. Not mindful of their age difference and the fact that Rivera was a married man did not hold Kahlo from falling in love with her teacher Rivera and soon she made up her mind that a day will come when she would become his beloved and bear him a child. Although her longing to be with Rivera was just a fantasy at the time, still she would play hard to win his attention and kindle his wife’s jealousy by being a prankster and playing witty.
Of Sweethearts and Arts : Love Tested and Passed 2
Eventually the couple which had an uneven age gap had to part but again destiny would bring them together once gain. By 1928 Frida and Diego again were on a path of chance meeting and, this time it was due to the photographer and revolutionary, Tina Modotti. At that time when Modotti made the two artists reintroduce, it revived the dormant desire in Khalo to be with her beloved Rivera as it now had a better chance since Rivera was no longer married to Lupe. At once, Kahlo and Rivera sensed that they had much in common; pertaining to their work of art and the couple also found that they had a similar thinking about the social reality of their time. At last the couple married on August 21, 1929 when he was 42 and she was 22.
While rivera was an art icon but Kahlo was just known as Rivera’s charming wife and when the couple moved to America in 1930 Kahlo did not get the recognition that was due and was yet to be held in high regards for her artistic merit the way her husband was respected. So this created a deficiency in the relationship between the couple. But all that changed in 1932, when Kahlo experienced a devastating miscarriage. During the process of her recovery, Kahlo, made the fullest use of her extraordinary skill of giving a personal touch and created an a canvass self-portrait titled ‘Miscarriage in Detroit’. This was to be the first of several touching, astounding and, intellectual self-portraits that would propel Kahlo to dizzy heights in the world of art. From then on it was no-stop and she made good progress and was one of the best reknowned in the world of paintings.
It was after a good amount of talks and emotional discussion that the couple decided to return to Mexico in 1935, but again there were internal issues which got bigger by the day and soon it became the biggest problem. Once after arriving in Mexico, Rivera had an affair with Kahlo’s younger sister Christina, and this sliced Kahlo into pieces and every piece of her was subjected to the breach of trust by her husband and sister. Although the couple finally reconciled, Rivera’s affair had created a hate love relationship which also led to a disturbed pattern in their relationship causing both partners to later succumb to infidelity and betrayal.
In 1940 the couple got divorced and since then both had several affairs but in 1950, Kahlo’s health was giving up and it was not so promising to the point that Khalo kept on falling sick frequently and so the pair thought to reason their agony and suffering by reuniting and getting remarried. But call it bad fate or prolonged sickness which caused the sad demise of Frida, in 1954 and Rivera who was by her side.
The love affair of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera was one of true love and forgiveness making a love saga to be remembered by generations to come and was reflective of the couple’s untiring pursuit for artistic excellence and love.
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Tags: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Love Story of Spanish Artists, Of Sweethearts and Arts : Love Tested and Passed
Don 2 - Farhan Akhtar Missed the Trick
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Movie: Don 2
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Year: 2011
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Om Puri, Lara Datta, Florian Likas and Kunal Kapoor
Snapshot of the Story
Thrilling fight scene, smashing car chases, boats blown up in the air with smoke every where and a plot based around robbery inspired from the movie “Ocean 11” and “Mission Impossible” the movie Don 2 tries to re-create the same magic as it created in 2006 with remake of original Don in 1978 starting Amitabh Bachchan. Shahrukh Khan is in the role of flamboyant criminal named “Don”, planning a bank robbery and looking for a safe escape from there.
Movie review and ratings of most awaited movie of 2011 -Don 2
Storyline
Don 2 is an action packed film and pre-release interviews of Farhan Akhtar suggested that one should not watch this movie with expectations apart from action and thrill, but after watching the movie I felt let down and has nothing much that excites the audience apart from random car chasing scenes.
Story of Don 2 revolves around a bank robbery by Don (Shahrukh Khan) and for this he takes help of his friend or should call him enemy Vardhan (Boman Irani) who is in a Malaysian jail and escapes with help from Don. Don (Shahrukh Khan) creates a plan to get out of jail along with Vardhan (Boman Irani) and creates a master plan of bank robbery. Kunal Kapoor plays the role of a hacker that helps them to break into the security system of the bank and is picked for this assignment. Lara Datta plays the role of Don’s girlfriend and proves that the old saying “Beauty with Brain” is actually true.
Om Puri plays the role of Interpol chief and Priyanka Chopra as Roma is an Interpol investigating officer that carries old rivalry with Don (Shahrukh Khan). Movie “Don 2”
entertains you in the first half and has some good action scenes but as soon as the story enters into the second half the story looses its grip with the audience. “Don 2” in the second half is a bit slow and has nothing much to offer other than the predictable robbery and Don’s escape.
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Don 2
Director Farhan Akhtar has written some good Donism for “Don 2” that show he lives Don unlike any one else and expresses this in his personal interview with Farhan Akhtar where he said that the original Don in 1978 was a life changing movie for him.
Final Thoughts
Director Farhan Akhtar has worked well on the script but could not create the movie with the same intensity as one had expected. Shahrukh Khan was good in the movie and was good in action scenes but he was bit boring at times and I am sure his fans would think the same. Priyanka Chopra was good with her share of action scenes and looked natural. Kunal Kapoor fits well for the role of young computer hacker. There is no room for hit music in this movie and looks like Farhan Akhtar missed the trick here. Unfortunately, the producers worked more on the hype than to bring about a movie that excelled the original.
Rating
We give “Don 2” 6 out of 10, “Don 2” was the most awaited movie of 2011 and expectations were high but the audience gets nothing much apart from few good action scenes. The whole second half of the movie was slow and tiring to watch.
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Tags: Boman Irani, Don 2 - Farhan Akhtar Missed the Trick, Farhan Akhtar, Florian Likas, Kunal Kapoor, Lara Datta, Movie reviews and Ratings of Don 2, Om Puri, Priyanka Chopra, Shahrukh Khan
A one Time Watch and Nothing Much - Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Movie: Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Year: 2002
Stars: Uday Chopra, Jimmy Shergill, Tulip Joshi, Bipasha Basu and Shamita Shetty
Snapshot of the Story
“Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi” is a love of Sanjay (Uday Chopara) and a girl Anjali (Tulip Joshi) that are childhood friends. Now they are grown up and Anjali is getting married to a boyfriend Rohit (Jimmy Shergill) but Sanjay loves Anjali and believes that Anjali also loves him. Sanjay joins the wedding arrangement and try all sorts of tricks to avoid Anjali getting married to Rohit.
Movie Reviews and ratings of - Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai
Storyline
Sanjay (Uday Chopra) and Anjali (Tulip Joshi) are childhood friends and share some of the sweet childhood memories. However, both are grown up and live individual lives. Both has their dating partner and are happy with their relationships. Sanjay come to know that Anjali is getting married and his feeling for Anjali comes alive which he was not able to tell her until now. His goal is to break this relationship and stop Anjali getting married Rohit (Jimmy Shergill).
Sanjay is more of a family member to Anjali’s family as he tries to convince everyone that Rohit is not the right guy for Anjali and tries to brainwash everyone into thinking that she will not be happy after marriage.
Sanjay plays all sorts of tricks with Rohit and somehow manages to defame him, but Rohit comes to know the truth and takes this as a challenge. The special appearance of Shamita Shetty in Bachelor Party with item song “Sharara Sharar” was very hot and she sizzled on the dance floor. Story of “Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai” was able to engage the audience with its good pace and the tussle between Rohit and Sanjay was fun to watch.
Unsuccessful in his trick Sanjay did not manage to break Anjali and Rohit’s relationship and decides to leave, but as all Indian romantic movies have a twist in the tale Anjali feels that she loves Sanjay more than Rohit. Her heart beats for Sanjay. Two friends who spent so much time together and could not share their feelings is hard to understand. This makes the plot of the movie a little weak and not credible.
Movie review of Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi hai
“Mere Yaar ki Shaadi Hai” is another Yash Raj Studio movie which focuses on a love story. Tulip Joshi looked gorgeous in her debut film and looked like a promising star. Bipasha Basu as Sanjay girlfriend looked good but director Sanjay Gadhavi missed the trick in casting her and clearly the talent is wasted. Jimmy Shergill did an average job as Rohit.
Final Thoughts
“Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai” is an average movie, however this is the first time when Uday Chopra looked good and proved his acting talent. The only actor who gets the mileage from the movie is Uday Chopara. Very few directors get the chance of directing Yash Raj studio movie and Sanjay Gadhvi did not let them. Sanjay Gadhvi did a superb job and was outstanding with screenplay. Music by Pritam is the soul of the movie, but could not save the sinking boat of “Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai”. Romance in the movie is the tradition of Yash Raj Studio from decades and with “Mere Yaar Ki Saadi Hai” audience expected the same intensity that they were used to but feel let down by this move.
Rating
“Mere Yaar ki Shaadi hai” bags 7 out of 10. Movie fails to score more even been with big star casts because of the somewhat artificialness of the story and fails to deliver what was expected.
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Tags: A one Time Watch and Nothing Much - Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai, Bipasha Basu, Jimmy Shergill, Shamita Shetty, Tulip Joshi, Uday Chopra, Yash Raj Studio
Sportive in Love : Mr & Mrs M2
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
If you are a base player and that too a young one at that, then you are already flirting with the whole of America.
No other game in America is as popular as Baseball, in fact this sport has spun more movies for Hollywood compared to any other sport or profession. As in one movie ‘Fever Pitch’ where it’s all about Baseball Vs romance. But that was not the case with Matt Treanor who did not miss the catch of his love thrown at him from the pitcher who would later become Matt’s beloved wife .
Love live of Matt and Mysty
The Pitcher was none other than Misty May who was the most successful “beach-volley ball” Olympic player America has ever seen in recent times. Although volleyball came only 3rd or fourth in popularity to other American sports, but still beach volley ball being a sandy and sunny event scores over other sports as it has this dual flavor about it being a sporting event plus a picnic outing. Moreover with chicks joining the game it is never just a game with all it’s women player’s in sports bikinis can even give the baywatch girls a run for the money in the sex appeal .
Definitely Beach Volley ball has come a long way from the early days of being a male-only sport to being a babewatch event on the beaches. It is now a serious sports which has made it’s way into the tough domain of International Olympics and certainly it has made it to the hearts of every sportive beach goer in America and around the world where beach sports is a part of popular culture .
It all began on November 2003 at a sports therapy center in Orange, Calif. The flirtatious sport of baseball and the testosterone tempting game of beach volleyball finally got into a match of romance and from there on it progressed to the engagement semi-finals, thus Misty May got engaged to Matt Treanor on January 2004, well in this case both the teams won which got them qualified for the ‘marriage finals’. And the finals at last happened on Nov 2004 and the couple were pronounced husband & wife .
At the time of their marriage Matt was a promising player with Florida martins and was now participating in major league games across America while Misty won the gold for the country in the 2004 Athen Olympics.
So with marriage, came the balancing act for the couple to manage each others sports career and it was always demanding since Matt was busy playing tour matches and Misty was getting ready for the 2004 Athen Olympics.
Their busy life was evident as once Matt who was playing against the Mets in Shea Stadium couldn’t be with wife Misty during the 2008 Bejing Olympics and so Matt had to ask his friend to feed him “the play by play status” of his wife’s critical moments of the game over the cell phone .
But all this celebrity conditioning and busy life did not make the couple naïve to the sense of reality as they were as normal a people as anybody, more so to their friends and relatives. When asked about her life outside volleyball she (Misty) said “Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It’s pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I’m walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it.
So here is cheers ! to M-squared couple for playing the game of life as it comes. Hope their game never ends.
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The Seductive Movie to Watch - Jism
Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Movie: Jism
Director: Amit Saxena
Year: 2003
Stars: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu and Gulshan Grover
Snapshot of the Story
The story of Jism is about Sonia and a double cross murder that she plans with the help of her boy friend to kill her husband. Sonia (Bipasha Basu) is a wife of successful businessman Rohit (Gulshan Grover) who often goes on business trips. Eyeing Rohit’s money Sonia plans a murder. Kabir (John Abraham) comes to Sonia’s life and they start dating, but soon Sonia tells her cruel intention to kill her husband Rohit and the story becomes the fast-paced thriller.
Movie Review of Jism
Storyline
Sonia is the 2nd wife of millionaire Rohit Khanna (Gulshan Grover). Rohit is a businessman and often on the business tours that makes Sonia unsatisfied with their relationship. Sonia decides to kill Rohit to get his money and for this she is looking for an opportunity. She finds her ambition takes shape as she comes across Kabir. Kabir is a poor alcoholic lawyer who does not earn much money, but has ambitions to be rich.
To gain emotional mileage Sonia tells Kabir that she is living with her husband without any emotional bonding and she was in search of true love that she sees in Kabir. Sonia also seduces him and plays the card of lust and attraction. Kabir is completely blown up by this move. Kabir and Sonia start dating and soon get into physical intimacy. Sonia feels that she has complete control over Kabir. Kabir tells Sonia to file divorce against Rohit but by doing this she will not get all the money that she has her eye on.
Sonia plans the murder and asks Kabir to execute it which would look like an accident. After initial hesitation Kabir agrees for this and kills Rohit. This fills the thrill in the story as it progresses towards an investigation leading to Kabir. Fear of getting behind bars in Kabir’s mind, he tells Sonia to run away with money, but this unfold the double cross of Sonia as she refuses and tells Kabir that she does not love him and whatever she did was for the money.
Movie reviews and Ratings of Jism
The extramarital affair was the part of many Bollywood movie and Bipasa Basu got a lot of attention with the bold scenes she did, especially the kissing scene on the beach setting the stage on fire. This was the time when Indian cinema was producing bold movies. Bipasha looked very hot in the movie especially her physical intimacy with John. John did a good job and was looking quite mature as an actor and making the critics frown with his strong performance.
Final Thoughts
Bipasha Basu is the new Bangla name in the list that made amstrong statement with her stunning performance in Bollywood. Bipasha joined the elite league of Kajol, Rani Mukherjee and many more that came from Bangal. John and Bipasha were dating each other from the past three years when the movie was released and one of the reasons both were very much comfortable in the love making scenes. Debutant directors Amit Saxena and Aditya Prakash Singh did a good effort in making it a hit and used the resources well. However, they could not manage to make this movie a big hit and the main reason could be that the story lacks freshness.
Rating
Jism scores 6 out of 10 for its genuine effort and presenting the soul of the story with sincerity otherwise there are many others who utilize this topic and end up making a movie that looks like an adult movie.
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