Modern Love Mumbai

 Hello everyone, I am a student of the department of English,M.k.Bhavnagar University. This blog task is assigned by Vaidehi Ma'am. In this blog I will discuss about the episode "Modern Love Mumbai", "Rat-Rani".

 "Modern Love Mumbai".

Basic Information  :-

• Director - Shonali Bose

• Writers - John Belanger, Devika Bhagat, Nilesh Maniyar

• Stars - Fatima Sana Shaikh, Bhupendra Jadawat, Dilip Prabhavalkar

Modern Love Mumbai is an Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy anthology Amazon Prime Video series produced by Pritish Nandy, that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, 2022. Its episodes run from 40 to 45 minutes.Modern Love Mumbai is the Mumbai chapter based on the American anthology series Modern Love.

Lali is a cook, and her husband Lutfi is a security guard, in an upscale apartment in Mumbai, far from their native Kashmir. Long days end with ice cream - one cup, two spoons - until suddenly he dumps her, breaking her heart and shattering her dreams. All he leaves behind is his old bicycle. Then she learns how to live an independent life and she gets all the success and happiness in her life, she solves all the problems of her life.

1. List down the contradictory symbols you observed in the episode “Raat Rani”.

In the episode of "Raat Rani" there is various contradictory symbols like.,

 1). Braking of the Roof(slap) ,which symbolises the breaking of Lali's marriage life.

 2).  Bridge, which symbolises various difficulties of her (Lali) life.

 3).  Lali's Bicycle, which symbolises Lali's strength.

 4).  Lali's Business, which symbolises her success.

2. Which is your favourite symbol from Raat Rani? Why?

There are various symbols in this episode like .,

1). Braking of the Roof(slap) ,which symbolises the  breaking of Lali's marriage life.

 2).  Bridge, which symbolises various difficulties of her  (Lali) life.

 3).  Lali's Bicycle, which symbolises Lali's strength.

 4).  Lali's Business, which symbolises her success.

Among these all symbols, I like this symbol. 

'Lali's Bicycle' ,this is my favourite symbol , because throughout the episode Lali's relation with her Bicycle is very different and attractive. Lali's Bicycle symbolises her strength and it is desplas in this as her supporter. Lali is so much connected with her Bicycle and her Bicycle becomes her supporter in her critical situations and she got all the success with the help of her Bicycle.  

3. Which is your favourite frame from the episode? Why?

My Favourite frame from this episode is this, because in this episode she (Lali) got success to cross the bridge. This frame is all about her success on her mission . 

This frame symbolises her success. During the crossing of bridge she got various difficulties and she also feels impossibllities to cross the bridge with bycicle and she tried to commit suicide but she never does that and she continuously tryes to cross the bridge and she got the success in it. This frame shows her inner feelings like problems and difficult situations which she got in her life. 

When her husband left her  and made her alone she chose to leave life independently instead of ruining her life in waiting for her husband. She faces various difficulties in her independent life but she never gives up and finally she got success in it. 

4. Compare and write a note on all the women characters from Raat Rani.

There are three to four women characters in this episode. In the starting all the women characters live their lives according to their husband. But they faces problems in that life . 

Women characters of this episode is like., Lali and two other women. 

Lali :- Lali is a cook and the female protagonist of this episode. Lutfi is her husband and he is a security guard, in an upscale apartment in Mumbai. Once Lutfi leaves his wife alone. Then Lali learns how to live an independent life.  In her independent life she got various difficulties but in the end she got success in it.

Two other Women :- These Two women are from her workplace. They both also face lots of problems from their husband but they never learn of an independent life. They support  Lali alot in her difficult situations.   

5. “Courage is Contagious” – Give an example for this from the episode.

" Courage is Contagious" means "When one man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.” 

In this episode Lali takes a stand against his husband  and she decides to live life independently. The best example from this episode is Lali and the other two women. 

At the starting Lali got various difficulties and problems to live alone and an independent life but  as time passes she faces the situations and solves all the problems and she learns how to live independent and happy lives. In her independent life's journey, two other women ,where she works as a cook, both support her and help her. The woman is also not happy in her marriage life and she also takes a stand against her husband.

So, we can say that this episode is based on this message that we should not depend on others, we should live our lives independently.

6. Share a picture of yours with a women who is your source of courage. Give a creative title to it.

My sister is my source of courage.

    Title :-  साथी और सारथी 

 

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Prayer Before Birth: Louise MacNeice

 About Louis Macneice :-

Louis Macneice was born in Belfast, Ireland, and lived from 1907 until 1963. Therefore, he would have experienced World War I in his very early years and World War II in his later years. This particular poem was written during the Second World War. It is easy to see the author’s point of view in this poem. He writes from his own perspective as a newborn baby.

Of course, it quickly becomes clear that the baby has knowledge of one who has already lived. Therefore, ‘Prayer Before Birth’ reads like a prayer that an old man wished he could have prayed as a newborn before the world got a hold of him with all of the evil therein. The reader, being fully aware that no such prayer can come from an infant, realize that the author himself is speaking his own thoughts through the infant child. Therefore, the author’s beliefs about evil, war, and the world are revealed.

Summary of the Poem :-

'Prayer Before Birth' is a poem that is relevant still today and grows more powerful as the world becomes a more dangerous place. It is a dramatic monologue but has the pattern of an incantation and the spirit of a prayer.

The speaker is the unborn child inside the mother's womb, thinking of the future as it is about to be born. This unusual perspective gives the poem a highly charged aura which intensifies as the stanzas progress.

Here is a baby who is already fearful, who intuitively knows that the world it is about to enter surely isn't anywhere close to Paradise.

The child pleas for protection and prays that it won't be corrupted once it emerges onto planet earth. This is unsettling reading for any adult, even with only an iota of sensitivity, the potential horrors this little human being faces beggars belief. Yet, the poem is firmly rooted in grim reality.

Louis MacNeice's poem captures the fears and anxieties perfectly because the voice is that of the baby not yet out into the war-torn air. And with each stanza comes the build-up of understanding for the reader - these are also the fears of the adults, the parents and the generations that allowed such an environment to exist in the first place.

Themes :-

Throughout ‘Prayer Before Birth,’ the poet engages with themes of religion and life struggles. This unusual poem, which comes from a very special speaker, engages with these themes in a direct way. Readers are not going to have trouble understanding the speaker’s view on religion and God, as well as life’s struggles. They spend the lines discussing the hard life they have to deal with once they’re born and their hope that God is going to grant them joy throughout it. It’s only through God, they allude, that they can live a good life.

Structure and Form :-

‘Prayer Before Birth’ by Louis MacNeice is an eight-stanza poem that is divided into uneven sets of lines. The first and sixth stanzas have three lines, the second and third have four, the fourth has six, the fifth has seven, and the seventh has ten. The poet chose to write this poem in free verse. This means that the lines do not conform to a specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. But, that doesn’t mean the poem is entirely without rhyme. Even those written in free verse still make use of some examples of structure. For example, the exact rhyme with “me” is repeated twice in stanza six and eight.

Literary Devices :-

MacNeice makes use of several literary devices in ‘Prayer Before Birth.’ These include but are not limited to:

Caesura  occurs when the writer inserts a pause into the middle of a line. It can be done through meter or punctuation. For example, “would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with” in stanza seven.

Epistrophe occurs when lines end with the same word/words. For example, “me” at the ends of all four lines of stanza two. The word “me” ends lines in every stanza, in fact.

Enjambment occurs when the poet cuts off a line before its natural stopping point. For example, the transition between lines one and two of stanza seven and lines one and two of stanza three.

Mood of Poem :-

The mood is contemplative and concerned. Most readers may find some peace in the speaker’s words because there's also a concern as they’re inspired to consider their own life and what a child might experience they brought into it. The innocence of childhood is powerfully contrasted against the darkness of reality.

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