Sunday, June 16, 2024

Blue Beetle- English Film (2023)

Blue Beetle film is based on DC comic characters. The main storyline revolves around a scientific innovation of Blue Beetle machine which will make a normal human being capable of super human powers. 

Victoria, the owner of a defence technology company, wants to capture the machine as well as the power of Blue Beetle and use it for their profit. By a coincidence, Jenny, the niece of Victoria, gets hold of the machine. Through Jenny, the scarab reaches a young boy Jaime, who gets the power of the machine by sudden interaction with it. Thus starts the main story of the film; how both of them team up and save the machine from the evil clutches of the current director of the company, is shown in the film. 

The story goes in expected way, there is no surprise element in it. The young hero, his careless and inconfident approach in the beginning, later becoming responsible and matured- we have watched such storyline in numerous films. 

The hero Jaime lives in a joint family with many members, all of them have their own unique characteristics. They all make a happy family in spite of their differences. This quality of Jaime's family is appreciated by the heroine Jenny. 

In the end Jaime defeats the main villain Victoria and the machine bot Carapac, who was helping Victoria. 

Overall, the film is targeted for young audience, who may not have watched other films based on such comic characters. For matured audiences, there is nothing much to watch. It is only an action film with futuristic machines and special effects. 

With lots of best wishes.

Saturday, June 15, 2024

Pachhe Loke Kichhu Bole- A Famous Bengali Poem

'Pachhe Loke Kichhu Bole' is a famous Bengali poem, which all of us have read during our school days. It tells us to be confident in our daily life. We need to have full faith in our decisions, only thus we can act courageously in life. If we keep on thinking about the reaction of other people while taking every step, we can't progress ahead. Many times a person having a good intention or planning to do a good action, gets demotivated by people around him and leaves the task midway. This poem teaches us not to be affected by opinions of others.

And with this poem, I am remembering and paying my respect to the famous poetess Kamini Roy, who wrote this poem along with many other famous poems in Bengali. She was born on 12 October in the year 1864 at Basunda, now in Bangladesh. She was the first honours graduate in British India in the year 1886. Along with writing many poems, she has contributed intensely towards society in many social causes as well as women's rights. She left us on 27 September 1933. 

We are grateful to all such noble souls for inculcating values in our life.

Do read the poem from from any book or by searching the internet, if you have not read it before.

With lots of best wishes for all of you.

Jai Shri Krishna.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

The Vaccine War

The Vaccine War is a film directed by Vivek Agnihotri. It tells the story of the research and invention of Covid Vaccine by India (Bharat). The film is based on a book written by Dr Balram Bhargav. Perhaps that is the reason that this film portrays so much detailed process of laboratory experiments. Thus making the audience aware of the contribution by the scientists of ICMR and NIV towards the great cause. How these two organisations cooperated and ultimately succeeded in discovering the vaccine. The film describes the critical situation faced by the country, the pressure with which the scientists worked all day and night, the sacrifices made by them in order to do the experiments. We as general public were ignorant of many of these happenings as the contribution of scientists were not mentioned in the mainstream media that much. Nana Patekar as the director of ICMR Dr Balram Bhargav and Pallavi Joshi as the head of NIV Dr Priya Abraham has done wonderful work. Along with them, Girija Oak, Saptami Gowda, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Nivedita Bhattacharya and other character artists have done great work. The direction is good and keeps the audience very much engrossed in the happenings of the film. The contribution of the female scientists are shown in many places of the film. The way they balanced their professional work along with household duties generate respect in the minds of the audience for these dedicated souls. We can witness true representation of woman empowerment through these characters. This film is a must watch for all the citizens of the country. 
With lots of best wishes
Jai Shree Krishna.