Seshadri's Musings

More web-series reviews to entertain you during the lockdown 😊😊 !! Stranger Things – I first saw a glimpse of this series about a couple of months back, as it had come out with a new season.   While seeing some scenes, I thought it to be for kids.   When the lockdown happened, I read the reviews of this series again and then decided to see it.   The synopsis is as under… In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to the disappearance of a child, which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise peaceful community. Dark government agencies and seemingly malevolent supernatural forces converge on the town, while a few of the locals begin to understand that there's more going on than meets the eye.  Even though the story is of school kids, some of the kids’ characteristics make you smile throughout the series.   You can also see them grow before your eyes, in each season, as it has been 4...

More web-series reviews to entertain you during the lockdown 😊😊 !! Wild Wild Country – This is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon.   All you want to know about how Rajneesh set up his commune in Oregon and what kind of backlashes he faced.    The series is more about Anand Sheela as she became the face of the commune.   You have the inner team of Rajneesh telling you the entire facts.   It has interviews of both the Rajneesh team as well as the people who were opposed to the commune.   Interesting series where you get to see both sides feeling what they did was the best. You can actually feel the tension between the groups as if it were happening now.     A definite watch for one time since it is a documentary.   According to critics the docum...

More web-series reviews to entertain you during the lockdown 😊😊 !! Dark – This series was introduced to me by Ranga, the son of one my friend-cum-relative in Delhi.   He asked me to see this and thought maybe I will like it.   Thanks Ranga!! The synopsis is as follows… Dark is a German science fiction thriller web television series. Set in the town of Winden, Germany, Dark concerns the aftermath of a child's disappearance which exposes the secrets of, and hidden connections among, four estranged families as they slowly unravel a sinister time travel conspiracy which spans three generations. Throughout the series, Dark explores the existential implications of time and its effects upon human nature. The story begins in 2019, but spreads to include story-lines in 1986 and 1953 via time travel, as certain characters of the show's core families grow aware of the existence of a wormhole in the cave system beneath the local nuclear power plant, which is under the ma...

Continuing from the earlier blog, some more movies reviews… The Best Offer (Italian) – “In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius art-expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Claire Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in restoring and reassembling some odd mechanical parts he finds amongst Claire's belongings, while also giving him advice on how to befriend her and deal with his feelings towards her. Also, a friend of Oldman, Billy Whistler helps him to acquire a secret private collection of master paintings.”   A very nice movie with a humorous twist in the ending.  Perfect Strangers (Italian) – “On a warm summer evening, the loving couple of Rocco, a plastic surgeon, and Eva, a therapist, are expecting their go...

With lockdown in place, the ideal time for this blog 😊😊 !! I first came across a Spanish movie when Amitabh Bachchan’s Badla was released.   I went and saw the movie and I have written about it in an earlier blog (Blog No 68).   After seeing the movie, I got the Spanish version (The Invisible Guest) which was the movie from which Badla was copied.   I say copied, as the entire scenes were simply lifted and portrayed in the Hindi version.  The impact of the Spanish movie was such that I went to www.imdb.com (another topic that I had mentioned about earlier, Blog No 13) and searched for other movies similar to the Invisible Guest.   It gave me a lot of options.   I started seeing those movies. You can see below the names and a brief summary.   I was simple awestruck seeing the range of thriller movies that they had come up with.   I hope whenever you find time, you will be able to see these movies and enjoy them.   The synopsis is ...

I was waiting for writing about this along with other web-series.   But, after having binge-watched this over two days last week, I thought of writing this now itself when it is fresh in my mind.   During my childhood, I had seen the series Bodyline, which was about the bodyline tactics employed by Douglas Jardine of England against the Bradman’s Aussies.   That series was so poignant that it is still etched in my memory.   I was under the impression that no series on cricket will be more absorbing than that.   I am proved wrong with this web-series (8-part series), available in Amazon Prime.   When I first heard about this series, I thought it would be about the Ashes test between England and Australia.   But I thought wrong.   It is a documentary filmed over a period of 18 months by capturing everything that went on the dressing rooms of the team, their discussions, actual matches and other background details.   The synopsis is as u...

When I was in my early-20’s, there was a craze for making pen-friends.    For those who do not know this term, it means you make friends with people by writing out to them and then wait for their reply and then write to them again 😊 .   Yes, yes, I know.   In this age of SMS’s and WhatsApps’, people would be wondering as to how in the world did people have so much free time to do such a thing 😊 and also enjoy it!! During those days, sometime during early 1990’s, the newspaper Observer was launched in Delhi.   During Sundays, it was called the Sunday Observer.   I used to subscribe to that newspaper only on Sundays as they had a column for pen-friends.   The column provided the details like Name, Address and Hobbies of people who wanted to have pen-friendship.   They used to publish this and anyone interested in you can write to you and you can start the pen-friendship with them. I sent in my details and it got published. I did not know t...