Iklimler

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is award winning filmmaker from Turkey. He works with small budget and most of the time his relatives and friends act in the film. In Climate or Iklimler (Turkish) He himself play the role of Isa and his real wife plays the role of his wife Bahar. The film follows the climatic changes in their relationships. 

What really impressed me about this film is it's cinematography and editing. Usually the modern realistic films go for handheld camera, and the camera keeps moving which involves the viewer into the story for example L'Enfant. But in this film even though it's very realistic the camera is always on the tripod and static, I think it's the motionlessness of camera which gives authenticity to this film. The director manages to create drama from very boring characters and he could do it only because he must have very good eye for human behavior. 

I usually don't like this kind of slow and minimlistic   cinema, but once in a while comes films like this which I enjoy. 

Gegen Die Wand by Fatih Akin (Germany)

Sometime we need love just to change, not to keep it.

It's story of our fast changing and blurred times. When people are trying to hold on to their traditional ways of life, when they are making the God stronger than ever, when the pursuit of better life also threatens the foundations of our belief system, when having freedom simply means rebelling but not knowing for what? And than some people come in our lives who makes us know what is the meaning of life, they make us responsible, in the classical stories we might have married with them lived with them, but in the complex time of ours can we do that? 

Watch this film to know this. 

I have not written anything on my blog since two years now... shame shame;)

White Honey

मखमल की तरह मैरे जहन मे ऊतर गयी हो तुम,

मैरे अधेरो की कडवाहट को मीठास दी है तूमने।

Orgasm

ऐक छोटा सा पल था, 

मै कूछ समझ सकू ऊस से पहले वो समय की आग मे भसम हो गया। 

जो याद रहा वोह थी तुमाहरी आवाज, 

जो टुटे हुये तारे की तरह कान मे अायी। 

Dhup

घुप झाड दी मैने रेत समझ के,

सूबह गूजार दी मैने शाम समझ के,

अब दीन के अधेरो मे भटकता हूं। 

Saffron

Kashmir produces world’s best saffron. The hills near Pampor are ideal for Saffron. The framers depends completely on the rain so the yield is not much. The Kashmiri saffron costs around Rs.50, 000 per kg. While Iranian and Spanish saffron is much cheaper. As traders can sell Iranian and Spanish saffron as Kashmir saffron they don’t pay much to the farmers so many farmer are shifting from Saffron farming to Apple farming. Kashmiri saffron is culinary treasure of India, people of India should show interest in it the way we show interest in our architectural or musical heritage.