Saturday, 24 October 2015
Top 10 Quirky Albert Einstein Quotes, Plus 1 Quirkiest
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Picket 43 : A Movie Review
Imagine an ordinary soldier of Indian Army, alone in a small hut by a wire fence. To add more elements to your imagination: that fence is the Line of Control (LoC) that separates the snow-clad Himalayas into India and Pakistan; that part (or 'picket') of LoC is generally lightly guarded by one soldier each from the two countries, defending their side; that part is called 'Picket 43', by the Indian side; that also happens to be a part where ceasefire violations are looming as a deadly threat over any soldier's fate, who is living a hermit's life there, removed from human company and comforts; Now, this soldier who is defending the Indian territory: he is lives in the Indian hut at the picket 43 with a lone army dog and a transistor radio as companions, waiting with mounting frustrations, for letters from home that might arrive with weekly rations ; he is a south Indian, unmarried, has a ailing mother back at home in Kerala, and he is percieved as weak-willed by his immediate senior officer. And he is posted to this picket after his predecessor was killed and beheaded by militants while guarding the same picket. That is the setting of this beautifully scripted movie Picket 43. If you think that with such a setting, it has to be a gruesome action drama, you can only be less than half right.
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