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Summary: With an emotional storyline and captivating performances, Goodbye is one of the best films in recent times for B-Town

Introduction: Family is an integral part of anyone’s life. We all are incomplete without it. Bollywood has been trying to regain its lost glory with a mixed bag of films like ‘Brahmastra,’ ‘Rakshabandhan,’ ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi,’ ‘Vikram Vedha,’ and so on. Fans that have not gotten a chance to see a feel-good yet well-made film in the past few months don’t have to wait anymore. The renowned director Vikas Bahl has brought a riveting family drama film ‘Goodbye.’

Plot: The film’s main plot revolves around the changing dynamics because of family patriarch Harish’s (Amitabh Bachchan) wife Gayatri’s (Neena Gupta) death. Gayatri dies too quickly. Her unexpected death is a huge shocker for Harish and their four adult children. Each one has different ways to cope with their mourning and grief.

Storyline: Harish, the patriarch of the family, who is also the father of their four adult children, becomes a religious person. The spunky and fiery-headed daughter Tara (Rashmika Mandanna) becomes an atheist and starts hating the existence of religious rituals. For her, all these things are just meaningless and waste. She parties hard and lives in the moment. She is at loggerheads with her father Harish.

Karan (Pavail Gulati), who comes home with his American wife Daisy (Elli AvrRam), is a severe workaholic. He is having a business meeting during his mother’s ongoing cremation. While Angad (Sahil Mehta) indulges in stress-eating, on the flip side, Nakul (Abhishek Khan) is an emotionally unreachable person. While, no one in Harish’s family has ever been to a funeral. Due to that, they don’t know the importance of these archaic rituals related to death.

Performances: Special mention to the fact that Rashmika has given a nuanced performance as Tara, who is dealing differently with the loss of her mother. It felt like the role was tailor-made for her. Amitabh Bachchan as Harish, has essayed the character with finesse and perfection.

Other characters like Pavail Gulati as Karan, Sahil Mehta as Angad, and Abhishek Khan as Nakul have also played their roles effortlessly with confidence. But out of them all, Amitabh Bachchan and Rashmika Mandanna, stole the limelight with their stellar and nuanced acting in the film. ‘Goodbye’ has a blend of emotional undertones, a riveting storyline, an impressive star cast, and beautiful moments which make us realize the importance of having a family.

Review: The film has been garnering rave reviews and applause from audiences and critics for brilliantly using black humor as it deals with the after-effects of the shocking death, which shakes the foundation of entire family. In simple words, this Indian reimagination of the classic Hollywood film ‘Death at a Funeral,’ has been a risk that paid off well.

‘Goodbye’ has effectively stirred emotions of love and longing in the audiences and critics. There’s been a superb representation of all the main characters in the film. Exceptional direction and cinematography by Vikas Bahl with flashbacks of Gayatri that appear in the film have earned brownie points.

When Gayatri returns in flashbacks for all the main characters, Harish has nostalgia for their romantic love story. Tara, feels teary-eyed for not returning her mother’s phone calls. Karan sweetly revisits a precious childhood memory and misses his mom at that moment. ‘Goodbye’ with a mix of dark humor and squabbles, which are a part of the bereavement after-effects experienced by the family brought to screens brilliantly by Vikas Bahl, is a tale of moving on and letting go.

By Vrinda Mundara

2022

After having gone through so many upheavals be it personally, professionally or albeit emotionally, being a writer not just in the context of being a bollywood journalist profession wise in this cut throat media world but also a writer that made herself learn every basic thing right from improving her way to write by being a beginner that started with blogs till now learning and evolving constantly enough to make herself better in every thing be it tagging, Wordpress CMS, SEO, Metadata, Linking, and so much more !! 

I’ve realized that my original purpose of becoming a writer was to find my individual voice and have a unique personal identity which i have found.

Now when I collaborate with different writers having unusual writing pallettes , I know deep down that this is a skill that made me a storyteller, poet, shaayara, wordsmith, pluviophile, photographer, blogger, it made me have the zeal to learn basic Urdu, it made me more passionate about my career. 

Suprisingly enough for me, personally, it made me delve into an ocean of so many new exciting things like my obsession and love for Turkish dramas, language, culture alongside my newly found love for Korean and Chinese dramas and also made me realize my love for BTS as well.

Writing is not just limited for me till the realms of Bollywood as it is so much more than just that. Being writer made me reconnect to why i feel being writer is the best gift ever. It was first thing ever that gave a sense of safety, calm and relief to me and also was biggest instrument for me to come out of my introverted shell and made me become who I am today. 

For this, I have to thank my grandpa as it was because of him that I got an inclination towards bollywood, music, movie and the profession of being a bollywood journalist / reporter as well.

Writing made me see the peculiar realities quite earlier itself in life which nowadays youngsters go through a lot and some of things like depression, mental health exhaustion, black hole, numbness, and countless emotions, toxicity, broken friendships, emptiness are something that we all as a writers collective across the globe are doing by representing different chunks of lifelogues into pieces of fictional content for our friends and readers who have gone through a lot but because we are the quillers, things have a diverse way of coming out via our words which is out for all of the people to see.

Finally, I’d like to end it by saying, 

“You may selectively love WRITERS,

You might also freely hate  WRITERS,

But you can’t ever ignore us WRITERS”.

By Vrinda Mundara

Malcolm And Marie is a cinematic masterpiece film helmed by the hit award winning HBO TV series "Euphoria" (2019 - present) creator Sam Levinson. Having said this, the film has an ensemble star cast of the Emmy Award 2020 winner Zendaya and hollywood blockbuster film "Tenet" (2020) fame star John David Washington in leading roles.

Made and filmed within the last year in midst of the global COVID 19 pandemic, Malcolm And Marie is a beautifully written and conceptualized tale black and white monochromatic emotionally power packed saga of a director Malcolm who has a beautiful and badass girlfriend Marie and the situational drama that is beautifully shown in the house where they come back post Malcolm's film premiere night party where in his speech he thanked everyone but forgets thanking his girlfriend Marie which is what starts an extreme paradigmatic parallel of intense love and hate together in balanced proportions throughout the film.

Marie does not digest the fact of her boyfriend Malcolm forgetting to thank her in the speech during his film's premiere as she believes that his film is a huge hit because it was based on her whereas he quickly denies all this. Also in front of his star cast and film industry people he is so amazing, but when in their home, he treats her brashly and takes Marie for granted which also makes her irked with him a lot of times resulting into a real heated discussion in between both of them inside the same house where they both reside throughout the film.Long story short, after a long time, finally watching a film which has been written beautifully with powerful and ace stellar performances by both Zendaya and John David Washington and without a doubt, this film had selected apt Hollywood stars for the roles of both Malcolm and Marie as apart from Zendaya and John no one could have performed it so brilliantly with finesse and nuance.

Emotions can be felt and not just seen where even the sarcastic conversations are so wonderful to see in between both Malcolm and Marie throughout. Over all, this film gives a 1950's vintage Hollywood era of black and white movies feel and undoubtedly one of the most beautifully created and made films in Hollywood till date. 

Bollywood should take notes and cues from such films as well and not just go on creating remakes and re adaptations which a lot of time are not successful enough.

Malcolm and Marie, this film has my heart and is totally worth the while to enjoy because of both Zendaya and John. Sam Levinson after Euphoria series, this film tops my list of exceptionally well written and directed Hollywood film of 2021.

By Vrinda Mundara.

 Based on real life incidents Baby on Netflix is a must watch series which follows the story of two girls i.e. Chiara Altieri (Benedetta Porcaroli) and Ludovica (Alice Pagani)  who go to a very elite school in Rome and later get themselves engaged into prostitution.

  Throughout the first and second season of Baby we see different shades of how much empty and messed up are the elitist youth even if it feels all glitzy and glamorous from the outside to normal people. Rich spoilt elites are also shackled with the false pretenses they have to keep in front of their school friends, family and the elitist society.

Special mention here to the mind blowing acting done by entire star cast which has made this series successful today. But the bonding seen in Baby between characters of Chiara and Ludo is the glue which gives the drama freshness and to audiences along with fans across the globe these both are perfect friendship goals.

With male leads of the series i.e. Niccolo Rossi (Lorenzo Zurzolo), Damiano Younes (Riccardo Mandolini), and Fiore (Guiseppe Maggio) we see that their characters evolve beautifully transitioning from being happy go lucky unemotional being rich spoilt brats (Niccolo and Damiano) and play boyish escort cartel owner (Fiore) to vulnerable guys having emotional upheavals with facing deceptions, revelations, heartbreaks, love triangles, and affairs that make them feel broken and empty in insides.

Later we see them protecting themselves by keeping a strong indifferent façade to show others they are fine but in reality they are not all.

The background setting is basically Chiara and Ludo in an elite school involved in prostitution secretly where Niccolo, Damiano and Fiore’s stories are also connected to the girls and how the elite society tries to stop their freedom and dreams by imposing their way of life on this troubled youth.

Brownie points to Chiara (Benedetta) and Ludo’s (Alice) breath-taking acting coupled with excellent dialogue delivery, on point facial expressions and their on screen bonding and camaraderie with male lead actors in the series is truly remarkable which makes ‘’Baby’’ (2018) an interesting watch in this global corona pandemic era full of quarantine.

Baby is a visual treat for the youth who want to see some freshly brewed realistic content that’s strong enough to spike mystery level and hold their attention span with its inquisitiveness.

Baby is a complete power packed entertainer that portrays the real dark side of elitist world with Chiara and Ludo’s secret lives as prostitutes.

Certainly with this upcoming final season on 16th September 2020, we can only expect it to be a melting pot where emotions, romance, friendships and familial ties come at a breaking point with secret’s out in the open which would have its own consequences as well.

Baby Final season 3 (Finale) comes out on Netflix Italia on the 16th September 2020.

Watch the trailer of the Baby season 3 here :

By Vrinda Mundara.

2020

#28YearsOfSrk !! 

Shah Rukh Khan the undisputed king of bollywood romance right from 1992 till now .. Just your name is enough to give goosebumps and heart fluttering violins in all our hearts. Best example of a non filmy background actor coming to Mumbai with a pocket full of dreams to make it big in Bollywood and today your hardwork, passion for your craft, your exemplary acting and years of…

Since the inception of this show with their season 1, I have been a big and huge fan of Tom Ellis aka Lucifer and Lauren German aka Detective Chloe Decker.The entirely modern perspective and take on God of Hell Lucifer MorningStar being bored from being in Hell and taking a break by trying to settle in LA as a bar owner with his bar Lux along with working as a crime specialist consultant with the L.A.P.D. with Detective Chloe is something so unusual and is an out of the box concept which is being loved by all the fans of the show throughout the entire globe. 

The storyline and actors are just doing 200 percent justice to their respective roles in the show but Tom Ellis and Lauren German are the people without whom this show could not have been what it is today. These both are the heartbeats of the show without which Lucifer would not have any meaning and significance. 

We actually can feel and experience the progression of Lucifer and Chloe's professional colleagues relationship to actually falling in love and being together in a relationship along with the backdrop of never ending crime and mysterious murder cases and other characters which eventually help up in moulding and kind of shaping up the story and plot intricately with all the elements of love, action, suspense, emotions spiced up with a whip of drama is like a breath of fresh air that's really the need of the moment in this quarantine lockdown. 

Without Tom ''Lucifer'' Ellis and Lauren ''Chloe'' German there cannot be any Lucifer and the show will cease to exist. 

Binge watching Lucifer again, I did see the show in a much deeper sense and all i can say is that recently out of all the shows that i've watched till now Lucifer on Netflix is one of the best shows totally as a whole and i loved each and every aspect of the show. 

The cast, crew, storyline, plot, direction, acting, expressions, emotional scenes everything is bang on along with being on point. Also a special mention to the satirical way of showcasing a bit of dark yet witty dramedy humour along with strong dialogue delivery by all the actors and their behind the scenes fun is what makes this show so exceptionally good and one of the best shows in the recent times till date.

#LuciferSeason5 on #NetFlix comes out on the 21st August 2020 and I seriously can't keep my calm for the same. 

From the proud member of the #LuciFam .. 

By Vrinda Mundara.

2020

#LuciferReview 

#ByVrindaMundara 

#Night_tales 

2020 has been a weird year for all of us across the globe as the global pandemic aka ‘’corona virus’’ has plagued the entire world which has its origins in Wuhan which is a small province in China. 

Specially in India, the period of lockdown has meant various meanings for the writers, bloggers, bollywood, media, TV, digital and other industries .. Mostly me being a writer speaking on entire writer community’s behalf has atypical definition of same .Well honestly during this lockdown I experienced many things which are too normal for us writers to feel and go through on a every day basis. 

I wrote stories, poetries, quotes, shayaris, blogs, scribbles, and many forms of writings which were new for me but i did it. I gave myself much needed self time doing things that i love the most and most importantly spending time with my family as well. 

I did heal myself from situations and people coming and going that made it a poisonous cycle for me mentally and emotionally but I finally did let go of such depressing and worthless things in life by realizing that the people i have right now are best no doubt and they’ll be with me forever come what may.

From a writer’s point of view on behalf of my selected closest writer family and bestfriends i agree that its just a saying that moving on is easy but reality is that ‘’We get accustomed to painful absence in life but we can’t ever completely move on in life’’. ‘’Sunshine and hearts are the silver linings hidden in dazed darkness’’.

The most over used cliche i saw on FB, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok were the youngest generation of today that is nibba’s and nibbi’s getting a sugar and adrenaline rush of sorts by posting silliest love quotes, stories and making videos which were promoting many bad things in our youth where kids aged 14-16 years who weren’t even legal were making lip locking, spooning and romantic love videos on tiktok. Me being a writer was very grossed out by watching such slapstick sappy overused love quotes, videos, memes, stories, videos and what not on social media. 

Also nowadays another disgusting trend I've seen is that 18-20 year old kids on FB and instagram change their bio from single to relationship, its complicated and what not along with changing their surnames and status to married and they think these are bigger life problems then the issues that are going on the world. 

It makes me think that if we writers ever change our status or bio it will be from single to khush hu / aatmanirbhar / sakht awaari / bestfriends ka haq hai mujhpe or nothing at all. 

Also another important survival lesson learnt in this new normal called lockdown is that ‘’Friendships come with their pre decided expiry dates and we should enjoy it till it lasts’’. I am sure people reading this right now will agree with me for they might have gone through something quite similar but don’t have courage to speak or write about it in words.

This is what i think and feel about 2020 amidst corona lockdown .. 

By Vrinda Mundara.

I’d like to end this blog by quoting my own shayari which is .. 

‘‘Mere Dil ko tere baato ki aadat si hai, 

Zyada nahi bas tere saath ki chahat si hai’’.

By Vrinda Mundara.

2020

Here’s why Rajendra Singh, the Waterman of India, must stop maligning Sadhguru’s initiatives for our rivers

In the past few years, news of Sadhguru’s rally for rivers campaign has reached out to millions in India, and the campaign is a household name. Soon after, Isha Foundation and Sadhguru launched Cauvery Calling, a campaign focused at planting millions of trees to rejuvenate our rivers and replenish forests.

Another person, who has dedicated years of his life to solving water related problems is Dr…