PoV: you fall in love.

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Before we get into the post:

Yes, I've been MIA for two months on this blog, but the past two months, right before my graduation were excruciating to say the least, overlapped events, assignments, dissertation, exams, farewell - everything seemed to be happing in a blur, like life was just happening to you. I didn't want to write when I was not feeling myself. So I took an unannounced two month break and here I am. Fast forward to now, I am now done with my finals and I'm just relaxed, doing things at my own time, reading, getting back to things I left half way, watching shows, exercising basically everything that I didn't do in the past two months that made me feel human. I'm slowly falling back into pattern of slow living, which feels relieving to be honest. 



 "Why do you write?"

" I write because I feel things."




In one of the letters to Theo, Van Gogh wrote "I also have nature, art and poetry and if that isn't enough, what is?" I think that sums up what I felt yesterday.

I went to an Art Gallery and I kept coming back to this one painting (slide 2) The painting of the tragedy queen, Meena Kumari. I'd come across her through a podcast when Sanjay Leela Bhansali spoke of how he briefed his female characters and he briefly spoke of her and then I went down a rabbit hole of reading about Meena Kumari, and this one painting expressed her life well- her eyes depicted sadness, pain ,strength and resilience.




It's like what Todd said in the last season of BoJack Horseman "But isn't the point of art less about what people put into it and more about what people get out of it."

Another painting was from one of my favorite movies "The Lunchbox". It was captioned "can you fall in love with someone you haven't met?"



The movie revolves around two strangers who accidently begin an unlikely correspondence in the bustling city of Bombay. The rest, is just magic. For people who haven't watched it, I have one question. WHY?

This painting made me smile so much and made me wonder, what if Saajan walked past that door and met Ila that day? Is it love if you fall for someone you haven't met? Do the wrong trains take you to the right station?

I like how crossovers over in different art forms can result in a completely different kind of art, it's beautiful.

The last painting was inspired from the movie 'Devdas', to put it simply, this movie is a Bollywood's version of Romeo and Juliet. The movie is directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, so you already know you're in for a treat. The movie is epic love story between Dev (Shahrukh Khan) and Paro (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan). I'll leave it at this. But don't blame me if you ugly cry after watching it.

Devdas


The three hour tour I took left me mesmerized, lost and it made me 'feel', isn't that the point of art?





I have one advice: practice, create and appreciate art, that's the only way to live, love and appreciate life.

*dreams of visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam*

That's all for now.

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