Saturday, September 21, 2013

The Lunchbox Review

'The Lunch Box' is a film directed by Ritesh Batra which was selected by prestigious Sundance Institute film fund and has won many hearts at the film festivals. 

The film shot by Michel Simmonds around the backdrop of Mumbai which showcases the life of its inhabitants and there struggle in the city. The film also recreates the nostalgia like the use of tapes and tape recorders and the letters as a medium of exchange of communication between Illa and Mr. Sajjan Fernandis. They both fall in love due to an error in the dabba (Tiffin box) food delivery system which leads to delivery at the wrong address instead of her husband. 

The film has actors like Irrfarn Khan a widower working as a accountant in a government office working in the claims department who is about to retire where as Nawaquzidin Siddiqui the new office employee in the claims department and Nimrat Kaur as Ila the house wife and her husband trying to re ignite the romance in the marriage after her daughters birth. 

A a sweet voice of a Illa's neighbour who spices up the screen with witty puns and advices but with seriousness which Ritesh Batra successfully evokes similar to Hitchcock where audiences seem to relate and root for the negative character and many other small moments which can make you laugh out loud. 

The marathi folk songs have been cleverly used with old hindi film songs like Sajjan as background songs with interesting linking of cuts in the editing by John F. Lyons and music by Max Richter and sound design . 

The film at the end teaches you to appreciate small things in life.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Deactivating active facebook sessions remotely

I see most of my friends on social networking sites like Facebook who become the victim of hacking or miscellaneous comments and pranks at times they are humiliating. There are even friends who keep on losing there cellphones at public places due to which they have to open a new account.

Here is a solution to log off the active Facebook sessions on your mobile devices and other computers such as office, public library, educational institutes or cyber cafe securely.

Step 1:
Log into your Facebook account

Step 2:
Click on the settings wheel on the top right of your screen.

or
Update - Triangle

Step3:
Click on the wheel and go to 'Account settings'

Update - Settings



Step 4:
On left side bar click on 'security' tab - click on "Where You're Logged In"

Step 5:
Now you can see the active sessions on the devices. You may choose to end all active sessions or selected sessions with current active user session login.

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Gmail remote sign out

Gmail remote sign out

Now a days we use the internet on go the on our mobile devices and on computers at our work place, educational institutes, public libraries.

G-mail being one of the best free mail service providers with one account which can be connected to other Google products accounts if linked like YouTube, Google maps, Picassa, blogger or even Google plus and many other services Google offers for free. (*T & C apply)

What if you forget to sign out of your account at a public computer or you lose your tablets or cellphone or any other mobile devices.
Worry not.
I have a solution.
Log onto G-mail account.

Browse down to the bottom right of your inbox.

and Click on "Details"

Details

Now a new windows will open with your login ip, browser and location information.


Now click on the grey button "Sign out of all other sessions"

Now we are done.

Hope this helps you to log out of sessions.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Tasher Desh Review

It's not an art cinema or a commercial Bengali film its promises of an experience.

Qaushiq Mukherjee also known as 'Q' is known for directing films 'Gandu'. He is well known for making psychedelic films, which have overdose of visuals style of editing cuts like a fashion film with parallel narrative taking you a trip of music and visuals in a world governed by the characters which takes you on journey.

'Tasher Desh' is a modern take on revolution breaking rules and coming out of the shackles of the society. 'Tasher Desh' in English means 'Country of cards' reminds you Satyajit Rays 'Chess Players' and movies like Dreams by Akira Kurosawa and Takshi Kitnao's way of story telling and narrative structure.

The songs of Rabindranath Tagore with new age music bring life to stretched conversations between the writer and the widower and the relationships between the royal prince and the princess and the queen.

The writer's story is in black and white whereas he characters are in color. Mixed with claustrophobia and open spaces of beaches in the land of cards.

Its Rabindranath Tagore's play retold.

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