my cousin's baby is the cutest baby in the world. an almost-2-year old, green-eyed brit-babbling little daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarling! and he acted like he hadn't seen me forever and i'd only just met him! such an unbelievably sociable baby master uc (cute pet name, eh?) is :o) glad i got to spend time with him before they left for alberta. no clue what he says half the time except for the incessant 'what's this' and 'who's this' which both sound exactly the same uttered through little 2-year-old teeth...heehee. me want one of those!ended up standing in the 'rush' line of the opening gala of the toronto international film festival - my first movie going experience at a big-time film festival and it wasn't a disappointment. my friends had been waiting in line for more than 2 hours when i joined them...the 'rush' applies to what goes on once you're allowed to go in and buy tickets.it was actually an indian movie, and it was cool to see the actors/director whom i actually knew! john abraham and lisa ray both looked stunning in black and white respectively (see pic from last night...not taken by self again). relative newcomers to the indian movie scene, but they did a really good job in the movie (called water) itself. i was surprised at how dressed up people were going to see this thing at the roy thompson hall...sooooooo many women is dresses and shawls and high heeled shoes...men in ties and jackets...i was in my all-day garb, and felt rather under-dressed. but we didn't have tickets anyway, and were standing in the public line to be let in once everyone with tickets had gone in and there was space. even then, i couldn't get over what a big deal these film festival galas are, and how upscale most of the festival going crowd is! i enjoyed it a lot, and i think i'm going to go see a few more. we have tickets for another gala (they are kinda pricey, which is annoying), but it's not the opening night anymore of course, and it's probably going to be a bit silly of a film...dunno whether to dress up for it or not.the movie itself was pretty serious - about widows in india in 1938 and how they were treated very badly. the director was driven out of india because the movie was so controversial (from a religious point of view) and the movie actually took 5 years to produce. i liked it...it succeeded in bringing about many emotions, and for me that's a mark of a good movie. the camera work was awesome. one of my brown, but non-hindi-speaking and non-hindi-movie-watching friends thought the story was very linear, and it was in the sense that not a lot was happening, but it was more a story-telling of what how hindu scriptures treated widows in the old times. finally got my ticket to bangladesh....will be on my way at the end of this month. really can't wait. it's been way too long!need to eat something....
night...not taken by self again). relative newcomers to the indian movie scene, but they did a really good job in the movie (called water) itself. i was surprised at how dressed up people were going to see this thing at the roy thompson hall...sooooooo many women is dresses and shawls and high heeled shoes...men in ties and jackets...i was in my all-day garb, and felt rather under-dressed. but we didn't have tickets anyway, and were standing in the public line to be let in once everyone with tickets had gone in and there was space. even then, i couldn't get over what a big deal these film festival galas are, and how upscale most of the festival going crowd is! i enjoyed it a lot, and i think i'm going to go see a few more. we have tickets for another gala (they are kinda pricey, which is annoying), but it's not the opening night anymore of course, and it's probably going to be a bit silly of a film...dunno whether to dress up for it or not.
the movie itself was pretty serious - about widows in india in 1938 and how they were treated very badly. the director was driven out of india because the movie was so controversial (from a religious point of view) and the movie actually took 5 years to produce. i liked it...it succeeded in bringing about many emotions, and for me that's a mark of a good movie. the camera work was awesome. one of my brown, but non-hindi-speaking and non-hindi-movie-watching friends thought the story was very linear, and it was in the sense that not a lot was happening, but it was more a story-telling of what how hindu scriptures treated widows in the old times.
finally got my ticket to bangladesh....will be on my way at the end of this month. really can't wait. it's been way too long!
need to eat something....
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