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.

Lost android mobile phone

We all know the pain of losing our beloved mobile devices. We all know someone who has lost their mobile phone on a vacation with all the precious holiday moments and contacts and vital banking information.

If you have a android phone its possible to turn on the silent phone or to locate the culprit or catching hold of your prankster friend when he hides it somewhere hidden from your view as you struggle to find it. :)

Go to the URL: google.com/android/devicemanager

Select the device and ring the phone. If you have sensitive data on the phone you can also erase your phone data remotely to prevent misuse.

You can also try : 'Find My iPhone'

Macintosh internal speaker output volume fix

This is a frequent problem on mac when the internal speakers go mute. This are the solutions I found on the internet which also worked for me many times on different systems on mac platforms.

Scenario 1: 

Its a problem when a switchers gets jammed. It seems to work with headphones but the internal speakers does not give any sound output.  (I am no mac expert so you can search about it on the internet)

1) Open system preferences and go to sound control preference and then select the output tab so that you can see your output options.

Get your headphone audio jack and then gently poke around the back your audio output. 

The aim is to poke a  switch inside jack output which needs to get pressed.

Scenario 2:

Watch the output in the system preferences as it turns from Built-In Speakers grey.

1) In a finder window select/open: Macintosh HD - Library - Preferences - Audio


2) Copy any files in this audio folder onto your desktop to keep as a backup.


3) Delete any files in the audio folder


4) Open the System Preferences - sound control preference and then click a few things to force the computer to generate new uncorrupted plist (or preferences list) files in the folder you just purged.


5) If all goes well and you have sound through a built-in-speaker audio output option delete the "backup" .plist files you copied to the desktop.

Credits: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2767922?start=0&tstart=0

The mobile device technology

The billion years of human evolution according to 'Darwin's theory of evolution' we have now come a long way in the biological evolution process. We have now started to find the answers to our origin for sometime now looking into deep space for answers of our being in the universe. As I speak there is always a individual sitting besides you pressing their mobile qwerty key pads, communicating with another individual wireless on their smart phone or tablets portable devices. Its now possible to communicate through radio waves after humans experiments with fire, wheels and letters through pigeons and horses and 20th century inventions like telegraph, radio and Morse code until Alexander Graham Bell discovered telephone and when we leaped into 21st century the Internet and microprocessors has enabled us to carry our work and to have a  virtual presence on a go connecting to the could servers. This has enabled us to work on collaborative process with like minded individuals crossing borders and overcoming the Geo political limitations.

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We no longer need cables or to carry bulky hand set devices on our shoulders like the At&T bell phone installed in the car but soon Motorola was the company which thought out of the box and changed the game. The same way the optical disk and the USB storage devices or the flash cards added mobility to carry data across computers and networks.Even though there has been a issue of privacy but still the technological advancement has shaped the modern world. Every day our capabilities are increasing. But there lies a concern if all our information becomes open and freely available on the internet what happens when your identity gets stolen. You must have befriended celebrities on social networking websites like twitter or other such web 2.0 sites who impersonate them only to realize later the accounts are fake or some even get scammed. The internet is free and open but there have been instances where people have been in trouble with the law enforcements.

The mobile devices have become a tool which has made average citizens journalists via camera phones and audio recording devices which has act as virtual witness as a evidence in many high profile cases or to avail public services . The mobile devices have become essential gadgets to own what happens to the data when it falls into to wrongs hands or when you lose all the information stored on the mobile device due to the dreaded mobile drop from a height or if it gets stolen and the passwords and the credits card information or the e-wallets gets misused before you realize its stolen. Off course there are security measures and could computing as can act as your backup but you have to go through verification till you restore your digital life with the withdrawal syndromes and short depressing process due to loss of your beloved mobile device for some us have gone through in life when family albums or important document are stored in digital form.

Here lies the question relying of digital platforms as we leap into a world of e-commerce and bio metric information as our passwords to virtual existence of human beings somewhat turning into cyborg like Arnold Schwinger in movie Terminator. Will artificial intelligence become self conscience enough to take over humans into building a world similar to the movie matrix enslaving humans by concealing truth as humans are feed by tubes and virtual information is feed through neurons and nerves to conceal the truth.

May the I-robot are merely a toy till now bu as always we humans will always term the inventors and the theorist as a fiction but we will know soon when these inventors find ways to make fictional devices and thoughts into reality.

Also read: Searching the Aliens our eyes on the sky

Ship of Theseus

After a very long time I saw people silently viewing the movie 'Ship of Theseus' in the theater just like my days in film school and sitting till the end of the credit roll. 

The story of  'Ship of Theseus' by Anand Ghandi tells three stories of a blind photographer, a Jain monk and a stock broker. Its a well shot film which should not be missed at all.

 The concept of replacement of components with new one is well explained at the end of  the movie.

D-Day Review

D-Day is a action packed drama film which is more like playing with India's sentiments loosely based on a true story if go by the end credits based on India's no. 1 wanted criminal and worlds no. 2 most wanted criminal residing in Pakistan with help of ISI.

The story revolves around four RAW agents from India trying to bring back its wanted terrorist Goldman played by Rishi Kapoor to India after following the United States model of locating Osama Bin Laden from Attobad by in flirting a country to get its enemy.

Nassar as Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao gives green signal on Wali Khan's information played by Irrfan Khan a under cover RAW agent that he has spotted Goldman. Risking his family even though when had a choice when his mission was over. What soon follows a chain of events before and after the mission that follows to bring back Goldman.

The movie has well choreographed fight sequences and a well edited song Alvida. The production design and look of Karachi which was all shot in India looks good but if leave in the city you can't ignore noticing its not Karachi. The four agents Irfarn Khan, Arjun Rampal, Huma Qureshi, Aakash Daahiya.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

I recently watched Bhaag Milkha Bhaag last Saturday late night show which was week later due to my busy work schedule. 

The man who trashed by breaking the records and made India proud. Its the story behind his struggle of how he achieved the goals enacted by Farhan Akhtar in 187 minutes movie which at time seemed stretched but well paced and edited with ear pleasing heart pumping soundtrack. The good use of archival footage with CGI (Computer generated imagery) and picture perfect scenes of  Ladkh where Milkha trains with a heavy Tyre to break the world record. 

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a biopic film directed by Rakesh Omprakash Mehera. Offcourse some of the scenes have been dramatized but the movie is a biopic on the great Indian athletic legend from India Milkha Singh or better known as the "Flying Sikh". 

The story is set in backdrop when Milkha Singh has thrashed the international 400 meter athletic record and Panditji (Pandit  Jawaharlal Nehru then Prime Minister of India) announces a friendship match with Pakistan and Milka Singh is chosen as the leader of the Indian contingent at Lahore which was fixed with the Pakistani General. But he refuses to go stating his bitter past during the partition. 

The movie also depicts women falling in love for Milkha. Sonam Kappor as Biro, Meesha Shafi as Perizaad, Rebecca Breeds as Stella are the actors who play love interest on screen. 

Prakshraj plays the the strict army instructor at Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh . Pawan Malhotra and Yograj Singh play Milkha Singh's coach. 

Dalip Tahil plays the iconic character Jawaharlal Nehru on screen.