TOP 5 POSTS ON SONYAA's RANDOM MUSINGS FOR 2015 [A YEARLY ROUND-UP]

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Welcome to the New Year!Of celebrations, jubilation and resolutions... may the New Year usher in harmony, peace, goodwill, joy, happiness, good health, abundance and love in your lives.

In this month's post,I shall round up the top five posts on Sonyaa's Random Musings that enjoyed immense popularity among the readers in the past year. 

Based on analytic and statistics from 1st January 2015 - 31st December 2015 let us see which posts made it to the coveted list!

Let us the countdown begin...

OCTOBER WATCH-LIST: OF COMEDY, CRIME & SUPERNATURAL...MAKE YOUR PICK!

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How are you? Hope you are doing good? In this month's post I shall be writing about four films that I watched in recent months which I thought you could add to your watch list too! These films of different genres that I am about to write of are here to give you the spook,there's one that would make you sit up and gasp in awe at supernatural events unfolding within the narrative of the film while another might simply make you laugh! So read on and make your pick from these diverse range of films!

This one's not for the faint-hearted or weak-spirited though the film is not even a horror!This film is something that you perhaps may have never watched before on screen for it wreaks out hell, havoc,torture and mayhem from the start to the end.The film in question is the Kelly Reilly and Michael Fassbender starer Eden Lake. A young couple on a weekend romantic getaway confront a gang of violent youngsters only to suffer brutal consequences unleashed on them.

ENTER THE ACTION CLUB: ACTORS IN THEIR 50's++ ROCKING THE BOX OFFICE!

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How are you doing? Hope you enjoyed reading last month's post on digital film making and how the accessibility of technology in today's age and time has made it possible for each of us to become digital film makers in our own right.

Earlier last month I watched Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation and I quite loved the kick-ass action particularly the plane stunt pulled off in the opening sequence of the film. Previously, Ethan Hunt scaled Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol...remember? I wonder what's lined in the next M:I!Air, building... probably now it's time to expect some mind-boggling action taking place in a submarine in the abyss of the ocean or on Mt. Everest! Concept wise, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation was both interesting and intriguing particularly IMF shaking hands with Secret Service and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) meeting the  femme fatale James Bond, Ilsa Faust! Actor Tom Cruise never seems to age...he is our good old Ethan Hunt and still packs a punch in all these decades of film business! Who would say that the actor is in his 50's!

DISCUSSING FILMS, DECIPHERING STORY-STRUCTURES

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How are you doing?It's been a while since I blogged... however besides being missed (just kidding!) I do hope that you are in the spirit of charity as Christmas nears when you in your own little way can help make a difference in Joe's life. For those of you who missed the thread of this conversation that I am referring to,here's the link to the post.

In this month's post I shall be discussing some of the films that I have watched over a period of time and have gradually come to observe that while on the surface of it they may appear to be films of different/ same genres but on the inside if you look closely you'd find that they somewhere share similar story structures and plot-lines.These are those you do not look out for at the first instance especially when you're munching buckets of popcorn and sipping on Colas or perhaps some of you may be deeply engrossed watching the film as a whole.But these are those films that on delving deeper you discover how beautifully they have been 're-adapted' (if I may call it!) in several different ways to give the audiences something new to watch out for and behold!

Remember,I am not talking of remakes here.Once again I re-iterate my point-I am going to discuss three such films in random order in this month's post and share my observations on how two films of different/same genres can share a similar story structure, plot-line and premise but have been re-modelled under different themes,conditions and situations.

DEBATING REAL Vs. UNREAL:'THE MATRIX' & 'HER' DECODED

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Howdy?Hope you're doing fine.This month,I'm back again with yet another post discussing two much loved films of our times...are you ready?So,then let's get set....Go!

More than a decade ago,as a young teenager when I first watched,The Matrix at the end of it all I remembered was the superbly choreographed stylized action sequences in slow motion that left me in awe with cutting-edge technology that I'd never seen before!(Of course,The Terminator and Star Wars was always there...but The Matrix was simply different...it was like a breath of fresh air! It had a novel story idea with a universal ideological appeal which you as a passive audience could decipher for yourself! 

AS THE YEAR GOES BY: EDITOR's CHOICE (ROUND-UP SPECIAL)

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How are you doing?Trust you are doing fine!As this year comes to a close,I thought I'd do something different! For a change,I thought of featuring five popular posts published on Sonyaa's Random Musings this year...you may call it the editor's choice as well! :) This post sums the crux of the best pot-pourri of content we had on our blog in 2013!Newbies on Sonyaa's Random Musings,we welcome you to the family! 

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This month's post would be useful to those who are new to our blog so that at a glance they are acquainted with the content we publish or for those of you who may have missed out some of our earlier posts,here's a chance to catch up or those of our fans who would perhaps like to recommend Sonyaa's Random Musings to family and friends!

MY WATCH-LIST OF FILMS IN 2013-2014

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Howdy? Hope you had a lovely start to the New Year! Incidentally, have you been following the on-going awards season? Golden Globes? Screen Actors Guild? And of course, the results of the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards are awaited! 

I look at this whole awards season as the best time of the year from the film fraternities point of view as their years of hard-work towards their art is just about to pay off! And yes, I have the greatest of respect even for those who don't win, because in my eyes they are winners right from the moment they put forward their film for judgment before the jury with complete faith and conviction about their product.

And for viewers like me and the rest of us, it is time to feast on some of the best films that Hollywood produces all through the year, raise a toast to some fine performances and of course get my watch-list of films updated once again! :)

'LISTENING' TO FILMS (A COMPILATION OF MY FAVOURITE SOUNDTRACKS FROM FILMS, PART I)

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How are you doing? Trust that all's well at your end! Did you enjoy reading our last month's blog post on 'P.S. I Love You'? And I do hope you enjoyed watching it too...I bet you did! :-)

In our this month's blog post I thought I'd do something different...instead of directly recommending films to my readers, I thought I'd give you a bait...I mean another good reason to watch the film (Pssst...for music lovers...this one's for you!)...Confused?? Well if I just plainly started churning out a list of films, you wouldn't go for it rightaway...Would you? After all you have thousands of such list floating on the internet, so I decided to add a twist to those films you may or may not have seen by adding soundtrack/ songs of the film as the second dimension to the film, so that when you watch it the second time,you'd listen!