This week round up

This week has been quite an enthralling week for me as it had Diwali in it. I stayed in Bangalore only and celebrated with my bro and Saugi/Aviral in quite a non Diwali way (cracker and light less). Saw three quite elegant movies this week and as usual these are written below:

1. The motorcycle diaries aka Diarios de motocicleta (2004)
Based on the memoirs of Che Guevara, a bigger than life figure of 20th century. This movie describes his experience of tour de Latin America. Its a against the sin of modesty but i can empathize with Che Guevara fully and i can draw a very interesting parallel. When Che saw the ruins of Incas empire in Peru then he was completely astonished and commented in a very beautiful words "The people who could build this (the magnificent ruins of Peru) had been completely wiped out by Spaniards to build the replica of Spanish colonies in Peru". I experienced the similar sort of feeling when i travelled across the length of India (certainly not the width as we missed the entire eastern part of India and Gujarat/Rajasthan) as a part of Education tour of my college. This tour taught me a lot and i remember quite completely my words with my batch mate Ravi Bhushan sitting in the magnificent campus of Meenakshi Temple, Madurai "What a glorious civilisation ours is and what we are doing to be worthy of her". Worth watching for any adventure loving person. 9 out of 10.

2. The battle of the Bulge (1965)
A movie based on the famous battle of Bulge in the last years of World war 2. A clever German plan to catch Allied powers off the guard. I don't remember any movie based entirely on the all Tank battle. Quite a memorable one. 7 out of 10.

Signing off