Sleepless nights...

It happened to me to travel in train that night. I packed my bags tightly so the regular resident of train will not visit my bag , yeah the plump mouse. After 3 days stay, with heavy heart I left my native, Somehow I managed to lie down in my berth. Suddenly I felt something itching my hands...yaaa kiiiiii it was cockroach, whole family halted in the train it seems that too in the compartment I boarded. I could see cockroach of all sizes right from small baby to grand grand pa...I moved away a little from the window side and covered my face and ears fearing it would enter my ears. Everytime I woke up to see if it was sitting over me and playing with its family. The whole journey was horrible. But how could others sleep without bothering these animal planet??!!. Sleepless night came to an end when I reached Bangalore.

10 days later again I had sleepless night but this time not in fear of cockroaches...I was wondering at the facilities IRCTC provides in ac compartments.Only 4 were there and I myself felt like a princess lying with neat blanket, quilt, pillow, screens.... It was so cold in the hot summer that made me feel sleepless and enjoyed chillness. A question raised in my mind when I saw good latrine and water facility compared to sleeper class, cup attached with a chain(irctc's awareness!!!) - people in sleeper class won’t need this basic facility or what? But the good feel I got in sleeper seeing people of all kind, their conversations about native, cinema, job, future, studies were missing here where none spoke with each other.
Though train is filled with healthy looking rats, cockroaches staying with family each compartment is filled with memories of people's sorrow, joy, crying faces leaving their dear ones,students going for higher studies, business people with much hopes, crying baby sound.... train journey is always memorable. Train its koo kuch kuch music with in-built cradle has become part of my life.

Children of heaven

Once I have read the review of an Iranian movie ‘Children of heaven’. Since then I wanted to watch and that recently happened. The movie is all about the affection between two kids Ali and his sister Zahra from a poor family. Ali loses Zahra’s shoes. Knowing the family situation she doesn’t let her parents know about this rather they plan to share Ali’s shoes. She wears the shoes to the school and after her classes are over she runs faster to give it to Ali who is waiting on the way to his school.

When she comes to know that some other girl in her school wears her own shoes she follows her to find out her home. The touching scene is when both brother and sister knows that the other girl is poor they leave the place without asking her about the shoe.

Ali’s school announces a pair of shoes as third prize in a running race and he promises his sister that he would win the shoes. In the race he runs, runs thinking of the hardships Zahra faced with the tattered shoes. This made him run faster and faster. Ali is declared as the winner of the race.

What happens next? What did he tell her sister about the race? In the final scenes of the movie both the kids don’t even utter a word, they have given their wonderful performance with their facial expressions. The movie ends with a final shot showing the blisters on Ali’s feet.

The director has narrated the story with no much dialogue. All characters as very simple and honest, one such scene the little girl gives back the pen to Zahra when she left it on the road, portraying that she dint steal her shoes. This is a perfect movie for children. Mild background music, narrow Iranian streets, the poor family situation in the kids’ eyes and much more are there, everyone should watch this once.