PTSD

Caught a glimpse of the TeeVee (the US pronunciation) when I was preparing a brief on the ISID NTD meeting. Just caught a wink of a scene showing an airport. Needless to say, it brought back the PTSD. (for the uninitiated- it is Post traumatic stress disorder). Just mention North statio/Lechmere, I;m ready to throw fits anytime. At the risk of sounding like a gas bag, I’ve to confess this trip has done me to death with regards to air and subway travel. As much as we enjoyed Boston, by the end of the week, we’ve had enough of the subway travel that I began to feel weary and nauseous at the thought of the shuttle bus from Lechmere to North station. Actually the subway is qyuite nice. But the problem was, we were making around 8-10 trips per day in a matter of, may be 12 hours. Now that isn’t so nice.

The same goes for airports. I’ve seen more airports and had more take-offs and landings in a week than I had in my entire short life. Actually when we missed the AI flight and had to stay over in Chicago, I was kind of secretly pleased; variations in barometric pressure 6 times in 24 ours had made my ear sick and me very nauseous on the inbound flight. This time atleast we had a break on the outbound ;-)

May be all this PTSD is gonna last just a few weeks and then I may be back to wishing for more of the fare. Hope that time is a long way off :-)

7 khoon maaf (pardon the 7 murders)

The translation of the title from hindi is mine, pardon me. After seeing the film, there would surely be the 8^th murder, that of the director. I can’t pardon Vishal Bhardwaj for directing this after the wonderful hopes he gave after Ishqiya [Now, that was some movie]. How can you ever destroy all the suspense of a movie with its title. Now that’s dumb. After the 1^st murder, you realize you have to plod through 6 more. In the end, nobody can blame you for baying for the script writer’s bloody blood. Priyanka Chopra is wasted in a role with potential. She did a much better job in ‘Fashion’. None of the male co-leads have enough in the plot to explore their repertoire. Fine actors, Irrfan khan. Nasruddin Shah, all wasted. The fellow playing the narrator, could do more with his face, for that was one of the better scripted roles in the movie. 

Honestly, if there is a Susanna in the society, she deserves mental treatment. The movie at times seems to be trying to evoke sympathy, portraying Susanna as the victim.

If you are asking me why write a review for the film which was released last year…that’s coz Air India forced me to watch this on its flight. This was the only movie in the flight DEL-BLR. The other option of course, was listening to Annu Kapoor and Durga Jasraj, which I was in no mood for.