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Recently while watching TV, I suddenly hooked on to a channel featuring movie Pinjar . The movie was so serious and heart rendering that left me speechless and shocked. Pinjar or Skeleton as the name suggests is based on the adaptation from the novel written by Amrita Pritam. The movie shows the real plight suffered by the people from both side of the border (India-Pakistan) during partition without being biased. The story catches my eye as I could relate to the plight my family faced during the same time when fearlessly massacre was happening and every family was looking for a way out to of the country to other land; Hindus and Punjabis to India and Muslims to Pakistan. There were many such novels and movies featured that era, the time when ruthlessly females were raped, houses lit on fire, kids butchered and both the sects run into a never ending fight. In this story Urmila Matondkar plays role of Puro and Manoj Bajpai of Rasheed, respectively. Puro's bliss is shatter...

Last night I saw "The Reader" movie which was one of the Oscar nomiated movies this year. This movie is worth nominating for these awards; the plot summary is this way: THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed,...