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Netflix's Purple Heart is a romcom with music that will leave tears rolling down your cheeks!
I watched Netflix’s Purple Hearts over a weekend in August this year. The tagline of the film is ‘Brought together by circumstance. Bound by a marriage of convenience.’
This doesn’t sound like the kind of film that can become one’s favourite film of the year, but it did become mine. I even raved about it in my newsletter after watching it.
I hadn’t seen the two new leads in the film before on television or cinema. When I go back to my Letterboxd website, I see my notes under the film, “Loved it. The characters are interesting. The music is great. Evokes emotions.”
And I have given it all five stars.
Aspiring singer/songwriter Cassie marries a marine named Luke to get military benefits. It’s one of those movies with a fake marriage/marriage of convenience trope. However, what makes it refreshing is that the female protagonist (Cassie) is a singer and the male protagonist (Luke) becomes her muse.
As they experience the stages of getting to know each other and falling in love and then getting into trouble for their fraudulent marriage, we see the rise of Cassie as a singer. She is deeply inspired by her personal experiences, which inform her songwriting and manage to touch hearts. Her songs go viral. Any creative person will love this aspect of the storyline.
Since the movie is a romance, a happy ending is guaranteed. But even so, as I watched the film, I found tears rolling down my cheek for some scenes and I loved the songs. I located them on the Spotify music app after the movie was over and kept listening to them for a few days.
‘Come back home’ by Sofia Carson checks all the right boxes in my book. The slightly raspy voice of the singer is rather sexy and sounds straight from the heart. The cover of the classic ‘Sweet Caroline’ is also a part of this album. ‘I hate the way’ is another great number.
I recommend this movie to all romantics, creative folk, poets and music lovers. One of the earliest movies that I remember enjoying as a child was ‘Flash dance’ since it was a musical and had danced in it. I guess
‘Purple Hearts’ appeals to music lovers, too, similarly, although it isn’t a dance movie. To me, it was a reminder of my carefree childhood when I used to watch movies with good music in them.
Image source: Netflix, edited on CanvaPro
Aishwariya Laxmi is a writer, editor, blogger, and poet living in suburban Chennai, India. She blogs on https://aishwariyalaxmi.com/ and has a newsletter at https://ash.fambase.com/. Her poems and flash fiction have read more...
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Children should be taught to aspire to be successful, but success doesn't have to mean an IIT admission only!
Imagine studying for 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 whole years for the JEE exam only to find out that there’s only a very, very slim chance of getting into an IIT. It is a fact widely acknowledged that the IIT-JEE is one of the toughest exams not just in India but in the whole world. Apart from IITs, the NITs and IIITs of India also accept the JEE scores for admission. There are said to be a total of 23 IITs, 31 NITs and 25 IIITs across the country.
Now, let’s first get a few facts about the IITs right. First, according to the NIRF rankings of 2023, only 17 IITs rank in the top 50 engineering colleges of India and only a few (around 5) IITs are in the list of the world’s top 100 engineering colleges. Second, the dropout rate of IIT-qualifying students stands at least at 20%, with reasons being cited ranging from academic pressure and unmanageable workload to caste discrimination and high levels of competition within the IIT.
So, it’s quite clear that the journey of making it through IIT is as challenging as the journey of getting into an IIT. Third and most important of all, the acceptance rate or the odds of getting into an IIT are below 3% which is a lot lower than the acceptance rate of highly and very highly ranked US universities. Four, getting into an IIT of one’s choice doesn’t mean one will also get into a branch of one’s preference at that IIT.
Dr Nalini Parthasarathi, 79, based in Puducherry has dedicated 30 years of her life caring for people suffering from hemophilia.
It is amazing when a person turns personal adversity into a calling, and extends empathy to make a significant impact in the lives of other people. This has been the life’s journey of Dr Nalini Parthasarathi.
April 17 is World Hemophilia Day. Dr Nalini Parthasarathi, 79, based in Puducherry has dedicated 30 years of her life caring for people suffering from hemophilia. She was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2023.
Hemophilia is a condition where one or more clotting factor is absent leading to bleeding. Severe cases can be life-threatening.
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