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Love Meet Hope (2016)

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A grandfather's love stories enlighten a jaded man and a moonstruck girl about the realities of love.

Bennie Woodell
2 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards »

Cast overview, first billed only:
Amanda Markowitz ... Hope
Bradley Fowler ... Morgan
Edward Asner ... Mr. James
Peter Mackenzie ... Todd
Tim Joyce Tim Joyce ... Junior
Ken Garr Ken Garr ... Tim
Victoria Matlock Victoria Matlock ... Joy
Cassandra Federman Cassandra Federman ... Marie
Eileen Vorbach Eileen Vorbach ... Suzee
Josh Braaten ... Aaron
Carl Petersen ... Davy
Mimi Cozzens ... Mrs. James
David Haverty ... Barry
Rhoda Pell ... Darlene
Nikki McKenzie ... Sharon
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Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

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What a good movie! I rarely watch movies like this but my wife wanted to. So being a fairly smart guy, I said okay. My wife knew what she was doing. This movie is so good. The acting and story did it for me. The actors were so good. Great job in casting. I thought Ed Asner was terrific! He had a lot of good moments and I loved a lot of his character's sage advice. What worked for me in this film is that the lead actors came from a point of truthfulness. I very much enjoyed the performances of both Amanda Markowitz and Bradley Fowler. There was such great chemistry between these two! I surely recommend this movie! You'll enjoy!!

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  • Monopoly / Asiatic American Connection

    To The Continental Americas Published via the 1st Amendment of the American Republic Constitution

    By Morpheus Ashahed El

    First, I Impel the concept of all praise due to the Most High! This Script started off as a Text Message to my Brothers DeyRahEl Ali and Maroc (Moor Cousin) Bey. As I was manifesting this revelation I realized these concepts ought be made public. Peace and Equanimity.

    This is the Message: Peace FAM. Definition of Personal Liberty mentions protection from unfair Monopoly in Trade it is interesting how the Monopoly Board game was based off of what is now called Atlantic City. In Fact though ATLANTIC CITY is / was Absecon Beach prior to the Incorporation of ATLANTIC CITY 1854 Gregorian / Sothic Calendar, this is why you have the Absecon Light House on this Island in North America / Al Morocco called Atlantic City today. If we go back a little further, the word Absecon is a corruption of the Aboriginal American appellation Absegami, therefore Absegami Beach North Amer-ica / Al Morocco. (Note: Absegami High School uses a Moors Head as the Insignia present day (see Infra).

    The Little Island Absegami Beach (ATLANTIC CITY) North America / Al Morocco, modernly is symbolic of all the Quasi National Domiciles claiming Jurisdiction over Moors / Americans Ancestral Estate / National Domicile / North America / Al Morocco. (i.e. the colonial street names of ATLANTIC CITY are inclusive of the 50 States / Quasi National Domiciles Just as in the Monopoly board game).

  • The Federal Reserve Note(s) in reality are lawfully as valuable as the Fiat fake Notes that comes with the Monopoly board Game. Meaning, the F.R.Ns are toilet paper and unconstitutional. (All due respect to the Necessities in Life! Think about it and L.o.l). Try using Monopoly notes outside of the Board Game and you would be considered crazy. It only has value if you are a participant in the function of the board game.

    However, what is not funny is that De Facto operators dont recognize this as a Game, as it is a part of their Ideology, and the Aboriginal Americans suffer from Lack of Knowledge of these Facts. For those who have no knowledge of this Island, trust that everything from Baltic Ave and East of Baltic Ave is a head-ache for parking and under Colonial Operations. You will have to give up some Federal Reserve Notes (Monopoly Money) for comfortable parking of land vessels. In other words, Free Parking is as valuable on the Absegami Beach (Atlantic City) North America, as on the Monopoly board game. The common Traveler will find this True.

    The above area is a portion of the Moors / Americans Ancestral Estate. Is it Logical to fold the Monopoly board and stop playing where it started at? Would we be able to deal with reality then?

  • I think so with a reasoning mind! After all, if you play the game, the objective is for players to move around the game board buying or trading properties, develop-ing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their op-ponents, the ultimate goal being to drive them into bankruptcy (Civiliter Mortuus Status). This concept constitutes Unfair Monopoly of Trade, and for that reason is a Violation of Personal Liberty. Also note the Electric Company is on the Monopoly Board. For the Record this Publication was made tangible by inspiration of studying the

    definition of Personal Liberty and its correlation to protection from Unfair Monopolies, which was intended to be shared with my American Peers Abo-riginal to the Continental Americas , Primitively Domiciling in the Territory of which the Monopoly Game corresponds Absegami Beach, North America (ATLANTIC CITY). See Definition of Personal Liberty Infra for Understanding.

    Personal Liberty- - Freedom from physical and personal restraint; the right to the pursuit of happiness ; freedom to go where one chooses and to pursue such lawful occupations as may seem suitable. In its broad sense Personal Liberty would include freedom from unlawful arrest and restraint from unlawful seizures and searches, from assault and bat-

    tery, from libel and slander, from general warrants of arrest ; from

    unfair monopolies of trade, and from quartering soldiers in time of

    peace; and it would include also the right to Trial by Jury, Liberty of Conscience, The right to travel and emigrate, to bear arms and to pe-tition the government for a redress of grievances! (Lawful Reference;

    John Bouviers Concise Encyclopedia of Law Francis Rawles Third Revi-

    sion Pg. 2576 Definition of Personal Liberty )

    But Personal Liberty in its Stricter sense it includes only freedom to move about as one pleases and to pursue any lawful calling.

    (Reference / Source of Law; Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 142, 24 L. Ed. 77; People v Marx, 99 N.Y. 377, 2 N.E. 29, 52 Am. Rep.34 ; John Bouviers Concise Encyclopedia of Law Francis Rawles Third Revision Pg. 2576 Defi-

    nition of Personal Liberty

    Definition of American as a noun. An Aboriginal or anyone of the Various Copper- Colored Natives found on the Continent by Europeans the Original application of the word! Reference Websters Unabridged Dictionary Page 53 Published 1936 Gregorian/Sothic Calen-dar.

    Example of American one of the Various CopperColored Natives found on the continent by Europeans.

  • With respect to these facts (Word is Bond I hear the drum beats of Aboriginal Moors / Americans playing in my head as I am writing at this point 1:28 a.m. March 25th Gregorian / Sothic Calendar. The sound is so harmonic but I cant de-scribe it. I will just accept it as a message from the creator) .

    Definition of Morel adjective (Old French, French Moreau, from Late Latin Morellus from the Latin word Maurous; Moor, Morello, Murrey.) of a dark color.

    Definition of Morello noun Italian Morello: Any of the culti-vated cherries forming one of the two groups derived from Prunus Cerabus, distinguished by their dark colored skin and juice , from the Amarelles, the coordinate group. See definition of American.

    With respect to the correlation of the Word Moor / Morellos, and Cherries, it gives the im-pression of intellectual evi-dence regarding George Wash-ington chopping down the Cherry Tree, and cor-relates to the Al Moroccan American Flag. (See Taj Tarik Beys Lesson Book 14 on the subject.)

    Moors/Americans are Aboriginal to North, South, and Central America, thus a distinguishing factor needs to be made for the Public Record that Moors / Ameri-cans are not Indians because the geographical fact is that the Continental Americas is not India. India is in Asia, however Moors / Americans Aboriginal to the Continental Ameri-cas, who are aware, recognize self as indigenous or Indu being the etymon of indigenous. On the same note, the Original appellation of what is called India today is really Hindustan, Asia. In reality the Lineal and Collateral Consanguinity of Moors / Americans Aboriginal to the Continental Americas is connected with Hindu-stani, Asia. The Book History of the Moorish Empire in Europe (Published by J.P. Lippincott Company 1909) affirms de Jure History and connection of Moors service in Hindustan Military, and of Moors Teaching and Learning in Hindustan, Asia Kohinoor The Mountain of Light.

    Various Copper-Color

  • Herein, I Honorably Quote Prophet Noble Drew Ali: Come All ye Asiatics of North America and here The Truth About Your

    Nationality [Political Status] and Birthrights [Domicile / Civil Status].

    Definition of Nationality, of which Noble Drew Ali summoned Moors to hear the Truth about because we Moors needed him, as we needed the truth, the Most!

    Nationality. That Quality or character which arises from the fact of a per-sons belonging to a nation or state. Nationality determines the political status of the individual, especially with reference to allegiance; while Domicile determines his Civil Status See Definition of Quasi National Domicile, Municipal Domicile, and National Domicile. Reference Henry Campbell Blacks Law Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Jurisprudence Re-vised 4th Edition.

    Nation An independent body politic. A society of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint ef-forts of their combined strength. Reference: John Bouviers Concise Encyclo-pedia of Law Francis Rawles 3rd Revision.

    In Honor of the Prophet Noble Drew Alis Historical Divine Warning to the Nation(s), Noble Drew Ali made clear that there is no Need for the Application of the 14th and 15th Amendment for the salvation of My People and the Citizens. And yes because the 14th Amendment is apart of the Monopoly so these are a List of reasons Moors / Americans cannot be US Citizens in the Law of Nature.

    1. Moors / Americans are Natural Persons Living Divine Beings.

    2. Corporations are Persons as that word is used in The first Clause of the

  • 14th Amendment. Impartial reference Henry Campbell Blacks Law Diction-ary of Ancient and Modern Jurisprudence Definition of Person.

    3. The 14th Amendment Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United

    States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its ju-risdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    4. For the Fact that Moors / Americans are Aboriginal to the Western Hemi-sphere the Status of M


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What Our Staff Eats on Christmas

What Our Staff Eats on Christmas

[Photographs: J. Kenji López-Alt, Vicky Wasik.]

Christmas traditions are varied ’round these parts. We’re a staff of Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike, so we all have different ways of celebrating the holiday. Some of us spend Christmas feasting on roast lamb and prime rib while others of us dig into enormous platters of Chinese food. We’re a sentimental bunch, so we decided to spend the last weeks of 2019 reminiscing about our favorite Christmas meals and traditions. These are the dishes we eat every year, surrounded by family and friends, as we get ready to ring in a new year.

A Christmas Feast at Congee Village

[Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

I have always used Christmas and Christmas Eve as an excuse to eat a whole lot of Chinese food. In college, I’d go to Congee Village with friends and order everything imaginable. But the past few years, I’ve actually been invited to a true Christmas feast with my sister and her husband’s family, and I barely miss the scallion pancakes. Their family goes completely classic on Christmas, with a big ham, mashed potatoes, barely anything green, and lots of dessert. This year, I will make Stella’s cinnamon buns as a morning treat for everyone. And now that I think about it, maybe I’ll contribute something Chinese to the feast. Time to start researching recipes. —Ariel Kanter, marketing director

A Danish Goose and Rice Pudding Feast

[Photograph: Vicky Wasik]

The Danish half of my Danish/Jewish family runs Christmas, and it’s a huge deal. On Christmas Eve, we always have a roast goose or duck, red cabbage, and tiny potatoes browned with a little bit of sugar (and duck/goose fat!). For dessert, there is always risalamande—a very specifically Danish dessert despite the French-sounding name. It’s a rice pudding with slivered almonds, whipped cream folded in, and served with a warm Maraschino cherry sauce. The day after is where it gets really crazy though: Christmas lunch is a three-course affair with very specific beverage pairings. To start, there’s a fish course of (at least) pickled herring and often smoked salmon and tiny cold shrimp from Greenland. With the fish, you must drink aquavit—the Danes say you have to “let the fish swim.” The second course is meats served with beer—liver pâté, salami, rullepølse, and more—all served on dense Danish rye bread. Finally, there’s usually a cheese course, and by that time, the rules of what you’re drinking have stopped mattering. I personally tend to go with a little more aquavit, a bit more beer, and a long nap. —Daniel Kallick, full stack developer

An Anything-but-Turkey Feast

On Xmas Eve, smoked and pickled fish and latkes. It’s a mashup of my dad’s Swedish roots and New York Jewish appetizing tradition. On Xmas day, it changes annually, but usually some kind of roast bird/pork/beef that absolutely must not be turkey. I’ve done duck, goose, pork racks, and loin and porchetta—stuff like that. —Daniel Gritzer, managing culinary director

A Jewish Christmas Ham and Bûche de Noël Feast

[Photograph: Vicky Wasik]

Before I met my wife more than forty years ago (whoa!), I had never celebrated Christmas at all: no tree, no stockings, no gift exchanges. That’s just how we rolled in my suburban non-observant Jewish home. My dear departed mother-in-law, Hilda, introduced me to Christmas celebrations among German and French Jews in 1978. We used to go over to her apartment and exchange presents taken from under the tree and have ham! (definitely not kosher) and bûche de Noël that she would get from the now-closed Bonte French bakery. The presents were cool (how many pairs of gloves can one person use?), but the ham and the bûche de Noël were awesome. —Ed Levine, founder

An Italian-American-Jewish Christmas Feast

Because I’m Jewish, people assume I skip Christmas entirely or do the traditional thing and eat a feast of Chinese food. But it isn’t so! I grew up with a very close friend whose parents are Italian-American, and because of them, Christmas became one of my very favorite holidays. My friend lived across the bridge from me, in San Francisco, so three days before the holiday, I’d pack a bag of clothes, and move into her house. I needed to move in, you see, because for three days straight we’d cook. There was always a beautiful leg of lamb, an enormous roast filet mignon, and so many other offerings that by the day after Christmas, I could barely move. —Elazar Sontag, assistant editor

A Hotpot and Steamed Fish Feast

My family will use any excuse to eat hotpot. We’re not that big on Christmas, but we’re big on hotpot. Typically our holidays include all the regular hotpot fixings, but we also have a couple of main dishes (as if the hotpot weren’t enough). Usually, there’s a whole steamed fish for good fortune, along with some duck, and my absolute favorite, sautéed ong choy. —Grace Chen, office manager & associate podcast producer

A Cinnamon Bun and Mimosa Feast

[Photograph: Vicky Wasik]

Christmas brunch has been a solid tradition in the Russo household for decades. Growing up, I quickly switched from excited to wake up and open presents to looking forward to sitting down at a table with warm cinnamon buns, mimosas in flutes with a powdered sugar rim, and an egg and sausage casserole. It’s my favorite gift every year, except for the Playstation I got in ’96. —Joel Russo, video producer

A Mother’s Lentil Soup Feast

My mom likes to make lentil soup for lunch on Christmas Day, a low-key and almost austere vegetarian meal to tide you over for the feast ahead. I don’t even like lentil soup that much, but the sentimental connection is profound. Thanks for the soup, Mom. —John Mattia, video editor

A Big Duck Feast

Christmas is an excuse for my fam to cook a nice meal together because we have the day off and no other way to spend it, since everything is closed and it’s cold out. Duck is always in the rotation simply because it’s our favorite protein. I made Daniel’s Duck a l’Orange last year, and the year before my Dad made Peking duck with all the fixings. Seafood is also a requirement for any special occasion dinner with us, but we’re not picky about the type. We just snag whatever looks fresh at the market the day before. We invite Grandma (but no extended relatives), drink some bubbly, and kick back. Christmas might be my chillest fancy meal of the year. —Maggie Lee, UX designer

A Kinda-Puerto Rican Paella Feast

I celebrate Christmas with my in-laws and our Christmas Eve menu always includes a giant vat of aromatic pilaf-style paella with chorizo, mussels, clams, and squid. It’s a tradition passed down from my husband’s grandmother, who grew up in Puerto Rico. My mother-in-law also makes her famous, truly unrivaled Caesar salad, which I cannot seem to replicate at home but would very much like to eat every day for the rest of my life. Come Christmas Day, we’ve been known to make a goose, but this year we’re actually planning a fresh pasta extravaganza. Not bad for a bunch of Jews (and one Catholic). —Niki Achitoff-Gray, editor in chief

A Christmas Ham Family Feast

My mom’s former employer had a holiday tradition of gifting their entire staff with a ham around the holidays, so we’ve been a Christmas ham family for as long as I can remember. She’s retired now, but we’ve largely stuck with the tradition. This year I’m thinking about branching out a bit, maybe Sasha’s koji prime rib? —Paul Cline, president

A Beer-Filled Christmas Feast

I’ve written about what my family eats on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning before, but on Christmas, I typically visit my father’s family and, aside from picking at tenderloin, scalloped potatoes, and Caesar salad, I mostly drink Bud. —Sho Spaeth, staff editor and writer

A Parisian Christmas Feast—With Plenty of Potatoes

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My Christmas eating traditions have changed over the past couple of years since I began tagging along with my wife and her parents on their annual voyage du Noël (not a real term) to Paris, where they eat dinner at the home of their close family friends on Christmas Eve. It was at this Xmas Eve dinner last year where I had the French-Style Brown Butter Potatoes that blew me away, and I developed a recipe upon returning to the States. We’re going back again this year, so, hopefully, our hosts will make the real deal again, and I can see how my version stacks up! —Sasha Marx, senior culinary editor

A Very Sweet Christmas Feast

While I largely sit out Thanksgiving, Christmas is when my family expects me to step into the ring, from the overnight cinnamon rolls that kick off our morning to the gingerbread we nibble all day, and the meringue mushrooms on our Yule log at night. But I’m not the only one working overtime; behind the scenes, my sister-in-law concocts our favorite holiday cocktail (nicknamed “fruit salad,” so we can talk about it freely amongst the staunch teetotaler in our family), and my Dad always makes Kenji’s prime rib and Yorkshire pudding (a practice predating my employment here), and we usually huddle together in the kitchen stealing scraps of both before they make it to the table. —Stella Parks, pastry wizard

A Traditional Polish Christmas Feast

Our Polish Christmas Eve is called Wigilia, where we start the evening with a tradition we call oplatek. Everyone is handed a thin sheet of a wafer to walk around the room with: the idea is that I take a piece of your wafer, and you take a piece of mine, and we exchange good wishes and prosperity for the year to come. Then we have a soup made from Polish Borowik dried mushrooms, tons of pierogi, and in most recent years, a spread of seafood and pasta takeout from our favorite Italian restaurant. —Vicky Wasik, visual director

A Small and Cozy Christmas Feast

Although I’m Muslim, I grew up with a Catholic grandmother. We’ve never done anything super big for Christmas, but we always get together for a dinner of roast lamb served with a hefty side of mashed potatoes. Another tradition that’s come about in recent years is spending Christmas night drinking hot chocolate and watching Christmas movies with my brother. All in all, Christmas is usually a cozy day in for the Maggio family. —Yasmine Maggio, social media intern

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To make this happen, the company is partnering with Ingram Micro, OpenMobile, and Claro. Google plans to distribute the devices through “mobile “food truck”-style stores” in the country.

Google shared the news during its Project Ara Module Developers Conference, where the company plans to spill the future of its mysterious hardware platform for creating modular smartphones.

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Leonine Public Affairs While administrative action dominated the news this week the legislature was very active with bills that had been priorities before the COVID-19 crisis. With legislation addressing the virus underway committees worked diligently to finalize bills that range from the regulation of pesticides to funding higher education to the Global Warming Solutions Act. There was much focus on COVID-19 related legislation as well and the House passed three major funding bills. These included the miscellaneous tax bill, the supplemental budget adjustment bill and the capital bill.

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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today announced the resumption of additional business operations, including outdoor seating at restaurants and bars, hair salons and barber shops and some additional health services. However, Scott also announced that all fairs and festivals for this summer have been canceled. Effective today, May 22, restaurants and bars may reopen for limited outdoor seating, including for the sale and consumption of alcohol.

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Vermont Business Magazine Health Commissioner Mark Levine, MD implored Vermonters to continue the practices necessary to keep germs and the COVID-19 virus from spreading. Noting that though Vermont has been fortunate relative to other states, 54 people have died and almost 1,000 people have tested positive. Dr. Levine specifically cited the need to ensure people at risk of serious illness, including older Vermonters and people with impaired immunity, are not exposed to the virus. Although the data continues to show Vermont is doing well in its efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, we cannot let our guard down. As Vermont reopens and the weather turns toward summer, physical distancing from others, wearing face coverings and handwashing continue to be essential.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Eike Blohm, 38, of South Burlington was charged by criminal complaint in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, with one count of production of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.

Blohm made his initial appearance to answer the complaint in federal court on May 22, 2020. At the hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge John M Conroy ordered Blohm detained pending trial.

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Public Assets Institute Almost 55,000 Vermonters were unemployed in April, and the state’s jobless rate rose to 15.6 percent. The unemployment rate increase since January was the third highest in the country. This is the official rate, which counts people without a job who are actively seeking work. Since the beginning of March, almost 95,000 Vermonters have filed initial claims for unemployment compensation.

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Vermont Business Magazine The holiday weekend is traditionally the start of the hiking season in Vermont. From its rocky summits to its gentle valleys, Vermont is home to hundreds of miles of hiking opportunities. This year, with COVID-19 as a dominant concern, we are asking hikers to take a few extra precautions to both protect public health and protect the public value of our beautiful trails.

More COVID-19 pop-up test sites open for asymptomatic Vermonters

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Health is opening nearly two dozen additional pop-up sites to test people who do not have symptoms of COVID-19 for the virus. The specimen collection sites are located throughout the state. Health officials especially encourage health care workers, first responders, child care providers currently serving essential workers, and people returning to Vermont – such as college students, people who winter out of state and second home owners, to sign up. The sites are organized and led by the department’s local health offices with support from EMS units and the Vermont National Guard.

Vermont’s unemployment rate increases to 15.6 percent in April

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Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Department of Labor reported that the number of unemployed Vermonters increased by nearly 44,000, which pushed the April unemployment rate to 15.6 percent. According to household data, the seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for April increased twelve and five-tenths percentage points from the prior month’s estimate of 3.1 percent. The hardest hit sector was Accommodation & Food Services, which lost 18,400 jobs or 61.3 percent of its workforce. The comparable United States rate in April was 14.7 percent, an increase of ten and three-tenths percentage points from the revised March estimate.

Economic relief and recovery lodging Webinar Friday 3 pm

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Agency of Commerce and Community Development On Wednesday, Governor Scott unveiled a $400 million Economic Recovery Package prominently featuring targeted relief to the lodging industry. The package includes a $250 million loan and grant package – including a set of emergency assistance grants for lodging properties based on helping you meet fixed costs.

VDH COVID-19 Update: Six more cases for 950 total, no deaths

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Once you’ve read these, why not have a go at this week’s inspirational forgiveness task and even click back to the forgiveness therapeutic creative writing exercise that will help you come to terms with forgiving yourself and those that have hurt you.

If you’d like to digitally download any of the above quotes, in a classy elegant blank print, to display around your home or office …

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Clothing that spreads the love with messages of forgiveness … one of our favourites is the children’s quote in this range, ‘Forgive me for being so cute’.

A range of colours are available; see the meaning of your favourite colours on Inspiration by Victoria J.Brown

Don’t forget to see my previous blog post that includes a therapeutic creative writing exercise to help you see how you can become a forgiving person.

Ask yourself: How forgiving are you? Of yourself? Or others?

Forgiveness can feel like a hard thing to do. If someone has hurt you, that hurt can burn away inside of you. But how wonderful would it feel to get rid of that burning inside … well, it is possible … once you learn to forgive and send love instead of anger, you’ll feel as if a weight has been lifted.

The only person you are hurting by holding onto resentment, anger or frustration, is yourself.

Life is too short to be angry with others and yourself. Each day is a fresh start. A new day to focus on your love for others and yourself.

This is easier said than done. Forgiveness can be one of the hardest things to do. Especially if someone you love has hurt you. It doesn’t mean that you let a person back into your life, but it does mean you let it go. Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to let people walk all over you. It’s just a better way of living. Once you learn to forgive you understand the world is a brighter place. You’ll feel like a weight has been lifted. One of the worst things you can do is seek revenge. Whatever you put out into the universe, you’ll receive back. So any anger you are holding onto, this will be reflected back to you in your own life. Forgiveness can be one of the hardest things to do, but one of the most rewarding.

This not only goes for forgiving others but also forgiving yourself …

As always, my mini message to you and why I love inspirational quotes … (I repeat this message on these blogs, as I truly want people to look at the positives in life and focus on the good. By reiterating that here, if it helps at least one person, then this blog is worth it)

I truly hope you get something from my words. When I was at my lowest, I inundated myself with quotes. I even started my own spreadsheet of quotes. I remember updating my spreadsheet while sitting in one of the spare bedrooms of my in-laws’ house, my two-year-old cuddled up to me, while my newborn laid in the crib next to the bed. I remember thinking, I have to stay positive. We have to get through this period of helplessness; lost businesses, family disputes, mental health problems, financial wreckage … it was safe to say, I was so grateful to my in-laws for putting a roof over our heads and food in our mouths, as I’m not sure where we would have ended up. I keep this short, as this part of my life is a novel in itself. But I want you to know, life is full of lessons … it’s up to us to face those challenges, knock down those barriers and keep going. Staying positive is easier said than done when you’re faced with daily struggles, but I trained my brain to only look at the bright side and block out the negative. By doing this, the Universe showed me that I can have all that I dream of and life can be magical, miracles do happen and life can be pretty awesome.

I developed my spreadsheets into daily inspirational quote books. A few years later, when I started my MA in Creative Writing, I totally connected with reflective writing. Hence the reason, I developed therapeutic creative writing exercises on my blog.

Since then, I’ve never given up on inspirational messages. I love them; I wake up to them, I go to sleep with them. I have my own affirmations. I want everyone to know the power of the mind. The power that you have to inspire yourself and others, no matter how much you feel this can’t happen for you. Trust me, from someone who felt the same, it can happen for you. YOU can make it happen. Remember, the Law of Attraction is always working, so if you feel negative things are happening in your world, listen to your thoughts, look for things to be grateful for, look for things to appreciate and watch your world become blessed with miracles and magic.

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This week’s positive word

on our A-Z Inspirational Journey …

X = EX

Yes, I’m using EX instead X in this inspirational blog journey, plus there are so many positive words that can be used for ‘E’ alone, and there are so many words that can be used for EX, that I decided to jazz up this A-Z a little. No this is not a cop-out, I don’t want to start making words up, although, I do actually LOVE making words up. Many authors make words up. The author I admire the most for the best made-up words is Roald Dahl, with words such as Whizzpopper and Trogglehumper (you can see more of Roald Dahl’s fantastic words here).

But I disgress, but it’s little things like this that I get excited about. Yes, I get excited about new words and about Roald Dahl’s books. My girls are at an age where they are loving his stories, so it’s exciting to watch their faces as they discover his fabulous stories.

(If you’re not happy with my use of EX and you are now on a mission to prove me wrong, with as many X positive words that you can possibly find, please go ahead, I’d love to see hear from you with your ideas. In the last A-Z, I used the word Xenodochial you can see that here. Yes, it’s a word and it actually means:

So, let’s talking about the words and let’s dicuss excitement … what is it you’re actually excited about? Anything?

If you ask many people this question, they get stumped. They haven’t got a holiday booked … they haven’t got any nights out planned … because they feel as if they should have something prepared in their lives. Something they can look forward too. Now I’ve asked that question if you’re one of those people now thinking, but I haven’t got anything planned … how boring is my life? I have nothing to be excited about. Think again …

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See, here’s the thing, I think it’s important to be excited about something daily, and if I was only excited about a holiday coming up (which we haven’t got coming up and haven’t booked anywhere, as of yet), I’d be pretty damn miserable with my life. I’d be pretty upset that I was excited about something that was happening six months away. What’s to be excited about in between that? What do you have to be excited about daily or even weekly?

It’s like when people are happy that it’s a Friday and the weekend has arrived. I remember those days, and I swear they were painful. If you’re there now, let’s look at how we can help you get excited about your life again. How Monday mornings can become the new Friday nights …

We live in a society where unhappiness has become accepted. People are unhappy because they don’t have the best job, they are working 9-5 to pay the bills, there’s a constant demand on time and money. We watch over people achieving their dreams and goals and this upsets us, because why can they do it and we can’t.

It’s all about mind set … those who are living the life that you want to live is because they dreamed it, believed it and made it happen. They were excited about their days ahead and were grateful for all that they had. Getting up every morning and complaining will only lead to more complaining, because looking at everything that’s wrong in your life will only lead to more things to complain about, when there is so much to be grateful for and excited about.

When I first watched the secret, I realised why things were going wrong in my life. I wasn’t being grateful at all. Life was hard. A struggle. I manifested more struggling. When I turned this around, when I got excited because a bill had been paid (even excited about the late bill payments) and truly grateful, life started to offer more to me. The more I became excited, then more I had to be excited about. I would be excited about food in the cupboard, a treat at the shops … I love the following quote, it says it all …

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It was hard work being positive when I felt there was little to be positive about. However, once I changed my thoughts around my life started to change. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a robot. Yes, believe me even as a Law of Attraction & NLP Practitioner, I have days were I hit a brick wall and have to really bring that excitement into my life. I’m human … with a busy life of running a household, looking after two kids and a hubby who works away a lot … life can feel as if I’m on the magic roundabout … yes, with the drugs. But I know how to work my thoughts so that the day will go as planned and I will have little or no drama. Yes, we still have the odd drama, such as the boiler breaking down, a leak from the kitchen tap that sprayed like a waterfall … but these are things that happen. I don’t think it’s bad luck. The boiler is 10 years old, we’ve done well to get this far. Plus, I was grateful we just needed 2 main parts replacing not a completely new boiler. The tap needed fixing, so was bound to explode at some point, and was actually rather funny when I ran outside to some workmen, shouting for help like some kind of, ‘Damsel in Distress’ – who did help me, after looking at me like I’d been let out for the day. You see, there’s always a way of looking at the negatives.

We put so much pressure on ourselves that we don’t enjoy the day-to-day living. Once the day-to-day living is enjoyed, life becomes an exciting journey. Remember that feeling as a child? Being excited about the simplest things …

So what am I excited about today? Well, believe it or not, it’s new app!

I have so much I WANT to achieve in life that there’s not enough hours in the day. So if there’s a way I can multi-task and kill two birds with one stone, I will. Usually when I walk Daisy, our gorgeous Cocker Spaniel, I will listen to an audio book from audible. However, because I’ve had so many ideas for my fiction I’ve been on a mssion to get my next book moving. So I’ve searched high and low for an app that I can speak into and it will write out the text for me. I found some that were rubbish … however, I’ve found one called Dragon Dictation. I think it’s brilliant and I used it for the first time today to help with this blog post.

It means I can walk along, talking to myself, without looking crazy (because it looks like I’m on my phone). When I’ve finished dictating, there is a quick and easy way to forward the text to a variety of places. So I simply pressed the email icon and it’s emailed to me. How awesome is that?

Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not word perfect. I was excited to get home and see some of the interpretations. Here’s a few that made me giggle:

this could be something as simple as a daisy daisy (This last bit is me shouting at the dog …) That did make me giggle (little things 🙂 )

yes I’m leaving me with the law of attraction practitioner in Hanapepe who (I have no idea how I’m going to leave myself and is Hanapepe an actual place?)

very exciting because I am now door when I want to listen because I love the skin (I couldn’t work out what on earth I was trying to say here)

But other than the above, most of it was correct.

It’s little things like this that I get excited about, so when the big things happen, I’m ecstatic. This brilliant app, has just allowed me to do two jobs at once. It’s awesome.

If you read my blog posts, you’ll understand being a LAO Practitioner, I’m an avid manifestation and visualisation user. There are things in my life that I’ve manifested by being excited about them before they’ve actually arrived in my life. There are things I’ve seen other people manifest because of believing and feeling that excitement before it arrives.

So this week’s creative writing exercise is, How to Manifest your Dreams through Excitement. It’s best to read through the steps before starting this exercise …

  1. Start by writing down what it is you want.
    • I love using the analogy – ‘wanting a promotion’ … this could relate to moving up the career ladder, setting-up your own business, promoting your life in some way that would benefit you. Maybe you would like to lose weight, be healthier or fitter: Write this down and try to be as specific as you can.

  1. Now you need to take 5-10 minutes out to relax. Breathe deeply … and let’s role-play. (Children find it easier to manifest because they don’t have the barriers or blockages that have built upon us layer by layer over the years …) let the barriers go and believe anything is possible.

  1. Now imagine receiving an email or letter telling you of this new promotion. Imagine you’ve just got your first sale or good review with your new business. Imagine standing on the scales or measuring your body and being the size you aim to be. You’ve reached your goal. The universe has delivered your wishes. It’s yours. How does that feel? Feel and breathe that excitement. No barriers or blockages … It’s yours, how does that feel? At this point, if you would like to, you can open your eyes and write down how you feel. Keep these words for step 5.

  1. Close your eyes again, imagine your dressing for the job. This new promotion, new business or dream of yours may require a new outfit. You maybe imagining yourself slimmer, fitter and healthier. How would you feel if you could fit into that dress that you so desperately want to wear?

If you haven’t an outfit in mind, this is a great manifesting technique. Choose the outfit you would love to wear if you were slimmer … imagine that feeling of wearing that outfit. Imagine that feeling of slipping into that dress, and know what you have to do to get there. This is your chance to take that step towards a happier life. Just feel the excitement of being there, living it and wearing it.

Even if it’s not truly happening around you, believe it is, live your days as if it is and watch your dreams manifest. Feel the excitement. If you’re feeling excited about your goal, you’ll find yourself naturally working towards it. The universe will help you when you give out excitement it will give you more to be excited about.

  1. The last step is to imagine you have received your goal/dream etc. and with the excitement you feel gratitude and appreciation. Be thankful. The words you wrote out earlier regarding your excited feelings, bring them into affirmations. For example: I feel amazing and so grateful for now being the manager of the store … (obviously fill in your dream). Whenever you’re feeling low or flat, you can read these and remember that excitement. Gratitude and appreciation will help you feel excited about things to come.

Now, it’s important to say here, you may do all of the above and you may not receive what you wanted. Firstly go back over your steps and ensure you are feeling the excitement daily. Sometimes our dreams can take days, weeks, months or years … it depends how big the dream is.

You’ll have heard the quote: ‘It takes 20 years to make an overnight success – Eddie Cantor’. If you have vision and a dream, be excited about it before it happens. Bring that excitement into your life. NEVER GIVE UP.

If it’s something that you feel could happen instantly and it doesn’t, and you may think the Law of Attraction isn’t working … well, the Law of Attraction is always working but so are the Angels. So if the Angels know there is something better for you out there, they will point you in the right direction. Keep your eyes open for exciting opportunities.

You may be feeling so frustrated but it’s important to NEVER TO GIVE UP. Be excited that you’re communicating the angels. Many people find this hard because most have to see to believe, but when it comes to the Law of Attraction the key is to believe to see.

Take this week’s creative writing exercise: Do this daily and you will soon be manifesting yourself to an exciting life.

Wishing you love, happiness and fulfilment always

Victoria xx

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  • Made from acrylic with a mirror reflection high gloss finish
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  • Installs 3 to 6 x faster than tiles
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Zenolite plus fire acrylic shower wall panel 2070 x 1000

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Length 1 year
Height 2070mm
Width 1000mm
Depth 4mm
Weight 10.00 Kg
Panel width 1000 mm
Panel thickness 4 mm
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Material Acrylic
Acrylic thickness 4 mm
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GTIN 5055341720228
Manufacturers Product Code ZEPP-40-0020
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Panel style Plain
Design Plain
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Colour Red
Shape Rectangular
Style Contemporary

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This i believe…

Unfortunately for me, I was born without a faith bone in my body!!! If fact be told, most Shirodkars are agnostics and prefer to leave the godly path well alone. This is true more of the men folk in my family: the daughters of Shirodkars still retain a modicum of faith and are “god fearing” and religious, though not fanatically so!! (Thank God!!!)

This men-women difference in the family, itself is an interesting twist of faith! Apparently 4 generations ago, my great-grandfather chose to go on a Kashi yatra (obviously he believed in God) and never returned. People accompanying him on the Yatra came back after 6/8 months, and told my great-grandmother that her husband had succumbed to sickness and passed away enroute. My great-grandmother, shaken up by this twist and turn of life, gazed at the 4 children she was now left to bring up, alone!

Her reaction was to go inside the house (they were land-owners and money lenders)  straight to the Pooja room where all idols of gods were kept; pick up all the idols there, bring them out into the courtyard of the house, and…she threw all the idols into the open well!!! Reportedly, she told the shocked onlookers that if god could not protect her husband, who had gone to pay obeisance to him, she would not worship such a god: and neither would any member of her family!!! Village folks thought this was an immediate emotional outburst and the lady would come around, in due course. But the idols remained immersed in the well and the lady remained firm on her thoughts. Thus ended the faith and “pooja-archana” in the Shirodkar clan.

Her 3 sons and 1 daughter (my paternal grand-father being one of them)  maybe due to their love for their mother, or maybe since they were stricken by the injustice of loosing their father so early, stopped being faithful and religious. They became rationalists and lived their life bereft of faith, away from rituals and temples. This is what they taught and professed to their children. Most accepted this approach, though even in our family there were exceptions; especially the married into the family daughters-in-law. But the approach was tolerant: we will not stop you if you believe, but we will not join you either. This in turn gets passed on generations to generations. Even today I look at my daughter who tends to paraphrase Robert Browning Pippa’s Song “God’s in his heaven/ All’s right with the world” to mean “let God be up there and stay away from me; and I am down here and will live my own life without troubling him”.

Is this right? Is it wrong?? I don’t know. It is hard to believe in coincidence, but it is even harder to believe in anything else.

I totally believe George Carlin ( famous comedian of yore)  “Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”                                            So what is faith and belief?

I grew up as a rabid atheist, keen to debate and tell people of faith how wrong and irrational they were. My credo was ” belief is the death of intelligence” a la Robert Wilson. But through the growing years (and with debatable increased maturity ?) I understood that I know precious little!! So it’s foolish to conclude definitively on such matters. Resultantly, I became quiet and kept my opinions and lack of faith to myself. Atheism ripened into agnosticism. I did not believe;  but I could appreciate others’ faith and belief.  I understood that views and opinions are so divergent that it is foolish to “convince” others. So let everybody believe what they want and practice as they will. A la Mao, “let thousand flowers bloom”. The world is much better off with toleration and mutual respect of each others’ faith !! Or lack of it!!!

Bengalis have a saying ” if you are not a communist when you are young: you do not have a heart; and if you are a communist when you are old: you do not have a head”. Faith, Belief, Trust, Religion : to me, are similar concepts. Head and Heart both pull you in different directions at different points of life, & at different stages of your growth.  And the best part of this conundrum is that : it is a sliding scale!!! Or it could even be compared to a see-saw that swings either way!!! what is left to you, is just enjoy the ride!!!!

Sometimes (Often?) I admire my wife and others who have a core of faith. They intuitively follow Emerson’s dictum “All I have seen teaches me, to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” Believers are lucky, as they have something to believe…to hold on to. During the Annual Pandharpur Yatra ( or Amarnath Yatra or Vaisnodevi Yatra, for that matter)  I see hundreds of thousands of followers who are content to chant the name of their gods and saints. They experience a bliss which eludes me. They have a solid rock to stand on;  while I am perpetually buffeted by the sea of doubt and lack of faith. Belief gives a stability & structure & direction to their lives which I do not experience. Like the proverbial blind men, I need to slowly feel my way forward, perpetually in doubt, whether I  am on the “right” track. But would I exchange this darkness with the light of certainty? No! I would rather like to muddle through, step by step!!

I take solace in the words of Yaan Martel who puts it so well in the Life of Pi  “If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”

Still searching for an answer to that one: vikas

Advait Superstar

Just returned from seeing Secret Superstar starring Zaira Wasim, Meher Vij and the inimitable Aamir Khan.

A simple, straight forward tale, told with  emotional purity that leaves you spell bound. And when you do not know what to compliment more: the brilliant story about pursuing your dreams regardless; the professional acting; the unusual casting; the hum-able tunes; the heart touching lyrics you realize this a Director’s movie whole and soul. And then when you remember that this is debutante director’s first film you realize the real Secret Superstar of this Bollywood outing is none other than Advait Chandan. Way to go, Advait!!!!

When Aamir is associated with a film you obviously know this is going to be something different. And Aamir does not let you down. Here he is producing the film anchored by his personal assistant. But he also plays a major role in the movie. He enacts the quirky music director Shakti Kummarr with such ease and aplomb that you are once again left marveling at the loads of talent this person brings to the screen. He is loud, brash, obnoxious, flirty and difficult. He plays the character so well that whenever Shakti Kummarr is on : the screen is full and out-flowing with Aamir’s presence. And yet, at the same time when little Inshu (little schoolgirl with loads of talent) is on screen you can actually see the greatness of Aamir the actor when he underplays Shakti so much that Inshu can play herself well and steal the scenes!!!! The caricaturist music director and losing popularity singer is played brilliantly by Aamir, as only he can pull off.

The story is simple and straight lined: Inshu is a school girl who is a talented singer. Her mother ( played by Vij to perfection) keeps encouraging her despite facing a very difficult and abusive husband. Inshu is a typical self centered schoolgirl: one knows how to receive affection and love: but not give it back whether it is to her mother, her brother, or to her school friend Chintan. Inshu dreams big: and wants to be a singing superstar. Hidden from her abusive father she posts videos secretly and gets a huge following online. This huge popularity gets her upto the “Glamour Awards” nomination. She does not win the trophy but in losing, she wins the hearts and minds of all and reaffirms her love and connect with her mother.

Director Advait makes a big pitch of the importance of dreams in stitching our lives together and going after the dreams to set a new direction to our future. Inshu dreams about her mother getting out of the abusive relationship and a marriage scarred by domestic violence. She even finds a divorce lawyer who is willing to help. And all this is displayed with humor bubbling over once in awhile. The movie never becomes melodramatic or melancholy. While Inshu and her mother are suffering, there are enough interludes to keep your interest high.  And keep you guessing how it would turn out at the end. The last scene of Inshu’s mother (Vij) reconciling that she cannot compromise the future of he daughter  and son and her walking out on her husband while at the Airport counter to check in, is realistically handled. Again another sign of the Director’s tight script control and story telling finesse.

Even the small side characters leave a deep impression on you. Inshu’s brother Guddu trying to “repair” a broken laptop with brown tape and gum. The Dadi who is still questioning why she was born a girl and why she has been a silent spectator to all the wife beating and abusive behavior. At the end the same Dadi accepts her daughter in law’s right to walk out of the life of her abusive son. The producer of Aamir’s new film: the archetypal Producer who is only interested in bimbos and selfies. The school friend Chintan, who loves Inshu and is ready to encourage and help her do what is right for Inshu’s future: even when the cost involved is letting Inshu fly out of his life. All the side characters play their roles very realistically and you are so drawn into the narrative that you carry these people in your heart and out of the movie frame.

Since the protagonist is singer, there is great scope for music and lyrics to play an important part in driving the narrative forward. And Amit Trivedi’s music as well as Kausar Munir do not disappoint. “Mai kaun hun” is the song which appeals to us all as that  is a search of defining ourselves that we all are onto constantly. “Meri pyari Ammi” can be the anthem for the Secret Superstar movie in toto. It has remarkable lyrics. And is rendered very well. “Nachdi Phira” treads very familiar grounds and even the tune and rendition are pedestrian at best. But another song that sparkles and stands out is ” Sapne re” which sets the tone for the story what weave our lives and aspirations together. Finally we are what our dreams are and if we take the risks and efforts we can make our dreams come true is the positive message propagated by Secret Superstar.

I return again to the real superstar in the movie: Advait Chandan. He has even written the script for this film and the story would touch your heart even if it was not embellished by Aamir Khan or the superb performances of Vij as the mother and Wasim Zaira as Inshu. Advait has brought us a film which proves that the art of clean and simple story telling is still alive and kicking. And as Indians we will always root for good music and want to be reminded of a mother’s love. I will eagerly await the second film of this talented Director.

I left the movie theater feeling bad my mother is no more. Otherwise i would have surely told her once again after watching this film how much I love her.

See the movie to be reminded what a mother’s love feels like: vikas

Saif’s Chef

Once in 2014 there was a Jon Favreau Hollywood film called Chef. Come 2017, our desi director Raja Krishna Menon has attempted what he calls a “not so faithful remake” of the film starring Saif Ali Khan as the Chef. And since it is not so faithful to the original movie, our Bollywood version works quite well.

Many things work well in the film. The chief one being Saif himself. Last few movies of the Nawab have been poor outings to the box office. But Chef is something where you glimpse the old charm of Saif. His boyish charm of Dil Chahata Hai, his regal elan of Parineeta, the arrogance of Kya Kehna, the innocence of KHNH and his youthful exuberance of Salaam Namaste : all the varied avatars are in display, in bits and pieces in Chef. Saif carries the entire movie on his shoulders. And you want the movie to succeed, as you want to continue to see this multi-faceted actor, in his many more roles.

Another reason this movie works is as Indians we are always focused on and fascinated with food. Chef panders to that hubris. Whether it is Chandni Chowk’s Chhole Bhature or the Iddiappams of Kerala or the newly innovated Rotazza (Roti Pizza) :- food plays as important a role in the movie, as it does in every Indian’s life! The angst of a 3 Michelin star Chef when a customer dares to say the food is not as good as it used to be is as genuine as is the love with which Saif cooks and serves pasta for his friend in NY or his wife in Kerala. Our traditional love of food showcased so centrally, resonates well with the viewer, even as it drives the story forward.

Besides food, for us Indians, what matters is family and friends. And the family values and importance of relationships in our lives are subtly emphasized throughout the movie. The father and son relationship of 2 generations of Kalras: Saif with his father and Saif with his son are emotionally brought out. {Is it by chance that the rapprochements between both the generations of Kalras also happen due to food: when Armaan eats the Rotazza invented by his father Roshan after they have had a bitter argument;  and, the life long anger of the senior Kalra dissolves when he eats the Rotazza in Delhi and finally smiles and accepts the journey traveled by Roshan.} The beauty of relationships is also lovingly brought out by Ramkumar Chacha who teaches Roshan to cook or his Bangladeshi assistant who follows him from NY to Kerala. Other examples abound: Roshan’s lady colleague in the hotel in NY and her support of Roshan in his difficult times; Milind Soman’s support of Roshan’s ex wife, Radha; Radha’s own unrequited affection for Roshan being rekindled when he returns to India: all these sub plots underline the importance of relationships in the movie and lovingly reflect the importance of relationships in our Indian ethos.

Chef begins in NY and takes us to Kochi. From Kochi via the food truck we are taken into the lush green and watery backfields of Kerala.  After a brief sojourn in Goa we go right upto Delhi. The story unfolds on the lovely backdrop of changing scenery. The snow of Manhattan, the fishing nets of Kochi, the backwaters of Kerala, the winding roads of Goa, the Golden Temple : all leave a loving mark in your memory. The journey of Rohan Kalra is thus not only mental but a physically remarkable journey: pleasing to the eye as is pleasing to the heart.

Full kudos to the writers Ritesh Shah and Suresh Nair. Their script and characterization is totally real and believable. There is no melodrama. There is no pontification. Situations happen and are shown on an “as it happens” basis. The Kerala unions objecting to the domestic servants cleaning the bus;  entire Milind Soman’s character as the friend of Padmapriya the ex-wife; the drinking and brash driver of the food truck who leaves no opportunity to challenge  and question Saif; the Kerala food sampler who questions why he should accept/eat free food but then loves what he gets; the colleague in NY’s Galli restaurant who frankly tells Roshan she is sad for Roshan losing his job but happy that she got a chance to to take over or even the way Radha the ex-wife role is written: all totally matter of fact and practical: memorable but not over the top – all add to the charm of the movie.

Though the blurbs and publicity call Chef a “comedy” this is not your typical rib tickling fare. There are enough sparkling dialogues which make you chuckle. Yet the movie works because it is a series of normal day-to-day believable situations enacted out by simple and truthful characters. The movie works because the entire story hangs together well and entertains you without being preachy, at any time. The first half is a trifle slow. But you exit the movie hall with a smile: 2 and quarter hours well spent and enjoyed :  watching this delightful caper.

Safe to watch Saif playing Chef : you will not regret your decision : vikas