Hues of soul

Girls Will Be Girls Shuchi Talati A little bossy, rule abiding , bold and beautiful teenager Mira Kishore, who is the first girl head prefect and the topper of an elite boarding school encounters romance and desire for the first time when she comes closer to  a new charming student Srinivas . She boldly explores the unknown territories with the curiosity and inquisitiveness of a smart learner.  Anila, Mira's protective mother, whom Mira can't stand, tries to put breaks to the budding relationship. But Srinivas, with his brilliant emotional intelligence gets closer to Anila and provides Mira the key to understand her mother's as well as her own personality better. Priti Panigrahi smartly and perfectly breathed life into Mira, who held the key of ' No bullshit' as Srinivas puts it. It was a pleasure to watch her. Srinivas was enchantingly played by debutant Kesav Binoy Kiron and Anila by Kani Kusruthi. Though the title looks a little dogmatic, this directo...

Real Self, Ideal Self and Self Love December magically brings forth all those resolutions, that were made in January and conveniently forgotten .Those were blissfully buried deep under the leaf litter of life. When those finally popped up I wonder why did I made such huge hollow promises to myself.  According to a theory of psychology one tend to or strive to bridge the gap between one's real self and ideal self. Ideal self is what you want yourself to be or what you want others to see you as. The real self is what you think you are. I could see all those resolutions were my sincere efforts to bridge the gap between my real and ideal selves!!  I retrospect. Why did I lose ? I pushed my affairs back to attend to myriad tasks. Thinking about the tasks, I wonder who told me to take all the responsibilities on my shoulder? Who asked me to push back my needs? It turned out that none asked me to do such sacrifices. But, I was constantly fed the idea of an ideal woma...