RIFLE RANGE BOY

As part of the temples' master plan to encourage more youngsters to throng the temple, a small faction of its young and radical minded committee members introduced a weekly speech session. The speeches to be given by various individuals and professionals (not from the religious fraternity) on their individual perspective of Hinduism or life.It was going on well with various learned speakers (ehm...) took to the rostrum. I only knew that they were some many qualified individuals among the congregation during the introduction before their speech -CEOs, dentists etc. Like I was saying, everything was going well until they had their annual general meeting. A group of elderly people of the community who were the sort of the founding fathers of the temple, (they were there during the inception of temple), voiced out the displeasure over the turn of events. It seems that it was against the tradition ( paramapara ) of conducting talks by theologically challenged individuals in a foreign l...

A simple period drama (set circa 1936 -1939) with minimal of the now often seen pyrotechnics and special effects wizardry commonly associated with Hollywood blockbusters. Anyway it is a British production. It basically illustrates the inferiority complex of the Prince Albert, his poor relationship with his elder brother, Prince Edward who abdicated his throne to marry the twice divorced (who is portrayed in an extremely bad light - cunning, manipulative and possible links with Nazis!), his stammer, his morbid fear of public speaking, his tutorship and friendship of a unqualified Australian unorthodox speech therapist and his success in delivering the all important radio broadcast speech to the British Empire when war with Germany is declared. Overall, it is a good movie with excellent good old fashion acting unlike the newer movies which have no qualms about exposing flesh at the drop of a hat!