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

Hi Friends,

How've you been? Did you enjoy 'listening' to my last months blog post? And if you did...then you must be eagerly waiting for this one too! For those who didn't you're not too late either... just click here  and get updated before you get started....and for the rest of you let's begin this month's blog with a bang from the musical classic, The Sound of Music! Words alone can't describe the lyrical beauty, the magic of Julie Andrews voice and her power packed performance as Maria whose journey begins as a postulant but her course of life changes when she is assigned the charge of being the governess to some little brats.

COPY THAT...HOWZZZAT!

What’s original these days? Nothing really...take Bollywood for that matter! LIFTING, COPYING, INSPIRATION,REMAKE,PLAGIARISM or IMITATION (Yes in ALL CAPS) are all the same as far as Hindi films are concerned and yet we feel offended and find it derogatory if our industry is referred to as Bollywood, but we don’t give a damn or even seem to care the least if we are constantly lifting content for films from our Western counterparts...now that’s the limit! Where’s the quality and what’s original these days?? Take our shoddily edited and produced animation films,in terms of quality, storyboard and treatment....can we confidently compare it to an Avatar or a Toy Story? We talk of stars remuneration running into 15-20 crores per film (surely the budget of the film has to be even more!) and yet we we don’t have the budget to think out of the box in terms of originality be it in terms of our story, scripting, treatment and even our production values! Pity! And about the casting the less said the better! I will discuss more about it later in this article. By now you must be wondering where is my rambling in this month’s posting ultimately leading you too....Well let’s get back to the start of start.

ROMANCING WITH FILMS: SONYAA's TOP 20 (Part-I)

Be prepared to fall in love all over again in sweet September....and oh no no...it's not Valentine's Day (you surely don't need a month to celebrate love and romance...do you?) and you don't have to look around to find it....you'll find it here in films that have wowed us time and again...and romances that have led us to create a make-believe world of our own that someday that special someone would find his way to our door....anyway now instead of trying to figure out how it'd happen...let's wait for that magical moment to appear or who knows it's already here but we fail to see it! Anyway...Patience, patience....For now,let's go back to some of those wonderful films whose romances and love stories have simply mesmerized us and set our hearts aflutter... so let's get ready to soak ourselves in the rains of romance!!

HOLLYWOOD FAQ's & TRIVIA

Hello Everybody,

How have you been? And how was the week?? Surely, the recent spate of killings, blasts, the financial meltdown has disturbed us all and the world over….and what more when television channels continue to beam them again and again... you have no respite or an outlet to vent out your anger, frustration, annoyance…then rest assured you can safely rely on me when I mouth Arnie’s dialogue “Trust me!”…Sonyaa’s Random Musing definitely has a great variety and choicest of articles to offer even though I’m just 16 (articles) ….going on 17!!

I was going through some of my collection of film magazines and I came across some interesting events and the 'firsts' in the history of Hollywood and the Oscars which I thought I’d share with you all….so read on and have a lovely evening!!