HUM HI NAVODAYA HO !!!!!

Jawahar Navoday Vidyalaya Mahadevpur, Lohit district, Arunachal Pradesh is part of my life and is part of me. Life would be incomplete  if I  miss to mention Mahadevpur. At that time  the place was not  so beautiful. At that time not more people were educated there. Small shops, few video halls and  few  schools were there. And those places were Centre of Universe  for everyone of us. One   school among those is  Jawahar Navoday Vidyalaya (JNV). I was schooled in the same school. Now I am a man! But, life  as a school boy, they were altogether really great, interesting and  funny too. My school years, like  most of us have, were the best years of my life. Now they are gone and will never come back again. We  cannot   redo the things. Worth of earth altogether cannot bring the same for me.

!! My Batchmates!!

They are my vivid memories. Sometime, I miss my teachers, my  friends, our cooks, office staff and  above all the school. In fact till date my closest friends are the ones I made in hostel. Academically I was sound and  did well till class X. The lowest marks which  I scored was in Class XI.  I  had scored only 04 in Mathematic in half yearly examination.  And in class 12th, it was the worst result of my life.

!!Our Share of Fun!!

I was  less popular among my seniors and  friendly  with my classmates. But to my juniors and I used to crack jokes and made them laugh. Sometimes I used to  help them in their studies. But  I shared all my emotional feelings with classmates. One among them was was Monindra Masia. Many friends are there but I  had  good bondings with Tushar Kumar Jha, Rupam Talukdar, Sudershan G. Bose,  Dimbeswar Das, Ai Thown Gohain, (Our Leonardo Di Caprio) and many more to mention.  Plabita Konwar (now Gogoi) was also very close to me. She was the  tallest girl in the entire school( I guess). She was beautiful, gorgeous and always happy.  She  used to have really good handwriting. The most striking feature about her was_-her braod smile.The most unforgettable persons are my classfriends.  Don’t know if they  miss our friendship or not. The good thing is that We are still in Touch and and still good friends. Don't know if they remember those days or not but I will always and forever!

!!Choti Choti Yaadein !!

I don’t expect them to remember me but I will always. Those friends and their  friendshipare unforgettable for me.Those parties, celebrations, those laughters, funs, jokes, tears and sadness,  worries, joy and pain, jealousy and conspiracy, cheating friends, fooling teachers, all those anger against teachers,  cooking illegally (meat, egg, puri, halwa,  chana, fish in a  glass using wax), going out of  school campus  to watch movies in  video halls,(and sometime  getting   caught red handed -Film  Dilwale is an example) plucking berries in the jungle, going to Namsai, swimming in Noa Dihing River (all activities without  teachers' permission). Watching movies in dinning hall late at night, watching  programmes likeChandraKanta, Shaktimaan, Rangoli, Chitrahaar, Geet Bahar, Miss World Contest besides football and cricket. Stealing eggs from the mess and getting caught by the cookmen(Rupam knows it well; Amarkant Bhaiyya  caught him), celebrating Holi with tooth paste(Colgate), Ujala, Blue Powder(neel), with meat ka Jhol, and even with quadriderm , enjoying flood, fishing, getting  shifted from JNV to Government Higher Secondary School during   flood, taking   double breakfast, taking lunch and dinner without  being in a line saying CBSE ka Maamlaa Hai and our All time  favourite soaps- OK  and Lifebuay... All memorable !!! :( :(

!!Joy of Togetherness !!

Tour (Migration) to Uttar Pradesh (Gorakhpur) with 21 other guys by Train are all vivid and Memorable. And that was my  first Journey by Train !! They cannot be compared with anything on the earth. And  all of a sudden  I realised that I had already spent more than six years in JNV Mahadevpur and  had to leave the  Hostel Life !!. Now, We have our own ways to move. And I know I have to move on. No one will be  guiding me anymore, no teachers, not even those closest friends of mine. No one will come to guide me, to show the way. I loved the way I was and still I love the way I am now! Life seems to get more Complex and Intricate after school days. Sometimes feel like  giving up but NO I will not, as I always  say Such is Life !!!  

!!Finally Out to face the Real World !!

Movie Review: ‘Crossing Bridges’

In the beginning Tashi, protagonist of the film even could not gear up his courage to cross a log bridge to reach his home. 

The film ‘Crossing  Bridges’ revolves round a young man who returns to his village after spending many years in Mumbai at the pretext of taking break from his busy schedule, though reality is something else.

Uncomfortable, less-confident among with his own folks, Tashi in the beginning tries his best to go back to Mumbai as soon as possible and keeps asking his friend, Amit who lives in Mumbai, to help him in this regard.

With the series of event and happenings, Tashi, ultimately, finds his roots in the village where once he belonged.

Thought Tashi gets an opportunity to leave his village and his folks but he decides to remain as one among those villagers helping school children in teaching them what he learnt from his experiences. Few shots with school children have been captured very naturally and beautifully. Finally, Tashi can cross the same log bridge confidently which once he was not curtained of.

In every aspect, ‘Crossing Bridges’ is an excellent movie. Excellent cinematography, excellent music and best among them is an outstanding depiction of beautiful landscape of state’s natural beauty.  Besides nature’s beauty, beautiful Gompa, colourful holy   flags and dances of Buddhism have been excellently captured by the director.

Each and every shot and frame will make you fall in love with the beauty of Arunachal Pradesh and can also used for promotingArunachal Tourism.

Besides the  main  theme and content, ‘Crossing Bridges’ also depicts many sub themes like lost love, fulfilling someone’s wishes, influence of  coming modernity in village as shown  though television and direct to home services,  PCO being  replaces by cell phones, development regarding  Trans-Arunachal Highway.

At the same time the film also depicts how village people are still  could not shed their age old customs and beliefs through a minor character Dorjee.

The only problem with the movie is that sometimes the frames change abruptly from one scene another breaking the rhythm and continuity of the film. But that can easily be ignored.

After watching ‘Crossing  Bridges’ one feels that Arunachal Pradesh can also produce and make films par excellence to other parts of the country.

This 1 hour and 44 minutes film has been produced by Tenzing Norbu Thondok under the direction of Sange Dorejee Thonduk and will be completely paisa wasool if screened in theatres.