Holistic Wellness with Rakhi

Category: Entertainment

Entertainment is also a aspect of wellness as it helps in making you feel lighter. This in turn improves your wellness.

  •  Solitaire Game Brings Back Nostalgia While You Develop Concentration

     Solitaire Game Brings Back Nostalgia While You Develop Concentration

    Gaming was a huge part of our life in our childhood days. While technologically advanced games with Virtual Reality and graphics are trending, the effect of old games brings in the rush of nostalgia and belonging to the old good days. In the hectic world of today where mental health issues and therapy have gained household significance, simple games like solitaire seem refreshing. The solitaire.org website is one such solitaire game heaven where one can indulge in a trip to memory lane. And if one gets bored playing the types of solitaire game with cards present, my favorite being the classic one, other games are also available in a great variety with solitaire.org.

    Solitaire game

    My solitaire game experience

    I spent my entire day in the middle of various daily chores browsing the games one by one. One of my friends recommended it as her favorite stress buster activity. And I found the gaming experience as a great stress reliever. Recent days have been so wild and mercurial leaving me with a cluttered mind and irritated mood. But these games, especially Logic Puzzles, demanded the highest level of concentration and hence the most preferable game for concentration. The disconnect technique worked magic with my almost boiling mind. The solitaire gaming exploration started with Classic Solitaire, then pyramid, Tripeaks and Gold. House of Cards and Spades and Ride The Bus-themed card games were also really fun. I enjoyed these games with my cousins. Their favorite is the Mahjong Solitaire games, especially the Egyptian and the Chinese ones. I crossed the maximum levels and this was highly stress relieving. I like the fact that even the hidden object games had stages and many themes.

    Mahajong
    Solitaire game nostalgia

    Match 3 games

    The next was Match3 games like Candy Fiesta and Plushy animals. Battleships Armada became my ultimate best game though I didn’t win any single match from my rival. Hilarious I know, but it’s the truth. The best part is that Solitaire gaming has no advertisements to pop up in the middle and ruin the game as well as the mood. I played for hours non-stop and not a single ad or pop intervened. Providing that proper immersive experience. Last but not least word games like crossword and letter scramble actually helped me to focus my mental faculties.

    Word Games were equally challenging and I enjoyed challenging my family with the Scramble and Wordoku games which totally fits into my search for a game for concentration. I literally forced my younger cousins to play these games to improve their vocabulary and problem-solving skills. Though they also agreed upon the relaxation therapy they had as an after-effect of the Solitaire game.

    Solitaire game - match 3

    Overall Experience 

    Recently I have been facing some stressful situations which conjured up my whole thought process but these games helped to burst that bubble of tension and stress. Meanwhile, aiding my wavering mind. Solitaire Game website is one such rare website that offers a wide range of games that are accessible and easily navigable. Though I would suggest users prefer playing in the landscape mode for a better experience. Likewise my friend’s recommendation, I will recommend Solitaire Games to my kin and kith around. To relieve stress and take some time out for themselves from their busy schedules and lives managing careers and families you could play this game for concentration.  

  • Vaashi – A Problematic Movie Disguised as a Progressive One

    Vaashi – A Problematic Movie Disguised as a Progressive One

    As you all know I have been writing brief movie reviews in my Instagram stories. I used to write about only those movies that I felt should reach the audience. I also had a show in Eight App named ‘Reviews with RJ’ where in I used to review the movies that I watch. Due to time constraints, I am no longer able to do it. Why this long preface? Because I have never wanted to share my reviews in my feed. As I felt that it is not my forte. But last day I watched Vaashi, starring Tovino Thomas and Keerthi Suresh. The movie as such is a simple movie, interesting movie but once we go deeper, we can see numerous problematic sequences.

    Problematic scenes are not rare in Indian movies, especially South Indian ones. But when a movie tries to create an impression that it is giving something solid to society and normalizes some subtle toxic masculinity, there lies the problem as it confuses the audience, especially the young ones. 

    Hence, analyzing such sequences in the movie, Vaashi.

    Vaashi movie

    #SPOILERALERT

    A strong female character who needs protection : Vaashi

    The movie shows a strong female lead Madhavi, who is a lawyer that makes a living on her own terms. When she is snubbed by her senior for no mistake of hers, she doesn’t think twice before relinquishing the position of junior lawyer. The initial sequence shows a scene where the director lays bare the common mentality of prejudice against a female lawyer and a young one at that.

    But soon we see Ebin, the male protagonist waiting to drop her home since she had to stay late. The director has tried hard to show Madhavi as a strong woman who boldly says I know how to go home, I don’t need protection. The next moment when Ebin says he would be taking a different path, we see the cliche heroine who is in need of a hero’s presence and the megalomaniac hero who is at her service.

    Please cut the vegetables

    Another sequence that reveals the movie maker’s or script writer’s inherent patriarchy disguised in feminism is when Madhavi comes back home early so that she could finish cooking before working on her case. Why is it a point that she is the one who should be cooking? This is where the director’s brilliance comes to the picture. Madhavi says “take a shower and cut the vegetables” Feminism you know.

    Dude, feminism doesn’t arise when the man ‘helps’ the woman in the kitchen. It arises when they share the job equally without giving each other a chance to ask for it. Another point where Madhavi is doing the laundry also subtly reveals the inherent patriarchy. Nowhere in Vaashi, we can see a feministic household in the movie. Hence when Madhavi says that “I am a feminist” in the climax at a crucial stage, it sticks out like a sore thumb in Vaashi.

    She should have pleaded more

    There is another scenario when the victim influenced the witness to change the statement to make the case in favor of the perpetrator. The reason cited is that she loved him and didn’t want him to suffer. To add to it, she said that had I pleaded more, he would have acquiesced. This is a statement that the censor board should never have approved. It gives a dangerous message to the young women out there that they should go after the man who sexually exploited them. It also insinuates that it is a favor that he would do by marrying her. How could someone dare to write this sequence in the current scenario?

    Sex is not a promise

    “‘Sex is not a promise’ is equally applicable to both men and women! But why this discrimination towards men” what a problematic and regressive venom spewed on the society! When numerous attempts are made to fight and eradicate the sexual exploitation of women, movies like Vaashi are giving the weapon in the hands of perpetrators so that they could use it against the victims in real life. This scenario arose at a time when a top producer in Kerala is facing a similar allegation from an actress. This is something we cannot ignore or forget.

    Vaashi movie

    By stating that there is no right and wrong and everything is a shade of grey, the movie maker has hit the last nail in the coffin. In short, Vaashi is a movie that is used to reinforce the dogmatic beliefs of the movie maker embellished with a weak attempt at skewed feministic ideas.