SHREK - Final Chapter

Flash Back:
Before Princess Fiona was rescued by Shrek, her parents were up to make a contract with a magic deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin. The sole purpose of this contract is to break Fiona’s curse. In return, Rumpelstiltskin demanded that he should be named as the successive King of Far, Far Away. But before the king signs the contract, he hears a word from one of his troops-men that Fiona has been rescued. Bitter pill for Rumpelstiltskin.

Now, back to story:
Shrek is now a local celebrity and his family & friends, as well as he himself feels that he isn’t a “real ogre” anymore. Shrek craves to be a real ogre, atleast for a day. Now, Rumpelstiltskin meets Shrek and offers him a day to live like a real ogre, in exchange of a day from Shrek’s childhood. Shrek agrees and signs the contract. Shrek enjoys his day haunting the villagers, but soon a group of witches capture and takes him to Rumpelstiltskin, the king of Far, Far Away. Rumpelstiltskin took away the day on which Shrek was born. As a result, Rumpelstiltskin is the king, an army of witches are his henchmen and ogres are treated as slaves. Now Shrek is an unknown ogre to his love(Fiona) and friends(Donkey, Puss). Shrek escapes from Rumpelstiltskin and rescues Donkey, who was working there as a pack mule. Donkey wonders why an ogre rescues him. Initially donkey feared Shrek, but eventually becomes friendly. Shrek comes to know that the agreement will be made void if he could make up with his true love’s kiss before 24 hours. Oh poor ogre has to find his lady love now. If there is a will, definitely there is a way. On their way they find a secret community of warrior ogres led by Fiona. Shrek also finds Puss in Boots, along with Fiona. Meantime Rumpelstiltskin hired the Pied Piper, who with his magical flute entrances the army of ogres to dance themselves all the way to the castle. Puss and Donkey are able to save Fiona and Shrek from the Pied Piper. By this time, Shrek has partially won Fiona’s heart, and lets her know about his agreement and their kiss will be the quick fix for this problem. Fiona kisses Shrek. But their kiss doesn’t fix the spell, as Fiona was not truly in love with Shrek. Fiona leaves to save her ogre friends. Rumpelstiltskin announces to the kingdom that whoever brings him Shrek will get whatever they want. Shrek turns himself in and in return Rumpelstiltskin frees the ogre army. Shrek is imprisoned along with Fiona. Fiona is deeply moved by Shrek's self-sacrifice. However Puss, Donkey and the ogres arrive and battle Rumpelstiltskin’s forces. Shrek, Fiona & their troop defeats Rumpelstiltskin. But Shrek's 24 hour Aeon is going to end. He is now fading out in thin air. Just before he is totally invisible, Fiona kisses Shrek, truly, wholeheartedly in love with him. This breaks Rumpelstiltskin’s contract. The true timeline is restored with Shrek roaring in his frustration back at the birthday party. Shrek is now back with his lovely wife, babies, friends, and ogre army. It is now party time in swamp, where all the characters are present enjoying their frolic celebrations :) Happy ending :D

P.S
As a whole, story was cool. But it was not so thrilling and magnificent like the first three parts. It was an accustomed 3D effects. But still I enjoyed it thoroughly:)
Most touching part of the story is, before Shrek fades out in thin air, he lets Fiona know about their Love life, three babies (Jak, Harold and cute Felicia) and he hands over a small toy for Felicia to Fiona. I was really melted down seeing this particular scene. Hats-off Dreamworks team, for depicting love and emotions in such a beautiful manner.

P.S.S
Have collected 5 of the Shrek toys - Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss, Shrek with Felicia.
I love the fifth toy (Shrek with Kutty Felicia). Shrek toy says "My Little Women" when I tried pulling out the baby from his hands. It is really stupefying :)


Anju

SHREK - again continued..

King of Far Far Away is now dying. Shrek & Fiona are next in line to be King and Queen of Far Far Away. Shrek felt that an ogre as king is not a great idea. Before dying, king tells Shrek that there is another heir: his nephew, Artie. Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots started their journey to retrieve Artie. As they're sailing away, Fiona lets Shrek know about her pregnancy. This would definitely have been an awesome moment in her life, letting her hubby know that, she is carrying their kid. Shrek got terrific nightmares about his future children. He was a bit annoyed too.

I just wonder, why most of the guys build up fear in nursing and nurturing a little baby?

The trio fetches Artie from his boarding school and while returning back to Far Far Away their ship crashes near an island. Meanwhile, Prince Charming with the help of variety of fairy tale villains invaded the kingdom, captured Fiona and friends. Captain Hook and his pirates were on their way to capture Shrek and kill his friends. However, Artie's Ex-Teacher, Merlin uses his magic to deport them all to Far Far Away. Finally, Artie was made king after Shrek & his troop won over Charming & his men.

Shrek and Fiona returns back to their swamp, becoming the parents of ogre triplets. They lived happily ever after :)

P.S
Shrek-4 in my next blog. I Really Really(in Shrek style) enjoyed the movie. Keep your fingers crossed and await my next blog ;)

P.S.S
For those who already watched Shrek-1:
They will know why it is "Really Really" ;)

For others:
In part-1 Shrek uses this phrase "Really Really" whenever he gets delighted :D


Anju

SHREK - continued..

Shrek-2

Once upon a time, in a kingdom Far Far Away, The King and Queen were blessed with a beautiful baby girl. And throughout the land everyone was happy. Once sun went down they saw that their daughter was cursed with a fearful enchantment that hold each and every night. Desperate they sought the help of Fairy God Mother, who had them lock the young princess away in a tower there to await the kiss of the handsome prince Charming.

Yes, The princess is Fiona. Did Charming succeed winning over Fiona? No, highest room of the tallest tower was already vacated by Fiona and now occupied by a wolf. Then where is Fiona now? Fiona is on her honeymoon with Shrek. Hmmm.. Then the couple returned back to their swamp after the astounding honeymoon. They received an invitation to a royal ball from Fiona's parents to celebrate their marriage. Shrek refused participating in the ball. But Fiona changed Shrek's mind and started their journey to far, far away along with their donkey friend. Fiona's parents, King Harold and Queen Lillian was shocked to see Fiona with an ogre. They expected prince Charming to escort her from the tallest tower. Shrek worries about his love, particularly after finding Fiona's childhood diary and reading that she fancied Prince Charming. In the meantime King Harold is accosted by the Fairy Godmother and Charming, her son. They suggested the King to get ride of the ogre, so that Charming will marry Fiona. So the King sent Shrek and donkey for hunting. It was actually a trap to make Shrek fall into the hands of Puss in boots. But Puss failed to succeed with Shrek and agreed to help Shrek, in joining with his lady love. The Trio advanced to the potion factory of Fairy God mother and to steal a "Happily Ever After" potion. Shrek believes that potion will restore Fiona's love for him. Shrek and Donkey both drink the potion, and Shrek got transformed into a handsome human and donkey turns into a stallion. At the same time Princess in the palace also gets reverted to her old beautiful human form. In order to make the change permanent, Shrek must kiss Fiona by midnight. So Trio returned back to the palace to meet Fiona. But before that, Fiona was mislead and believed Charming was Human form of Shrek. The trio was arrested by the royal guards and thrown into a dungeon. They were rescued by Shrek's friend and gigantic gingerbread man. Shrek rescues Fiona. They could have sustained this human form. But waited the clock to strike midnight, let the potion's effects wear off and they revert to their ogre selves. They loved their ogre's life, where there was love and only love.

To be continued..

P.S
Next Part in my next blog.

P.S.S
Will be watching Shrek-4 this weekend in Sathyam ;)

Anju

Forever After

Folkloric characters like fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, ogres, giants or gnomes, wonderland, dark arts, magic, spell....(list goes on) They are awesome. I love Fairy tales. I still remember my childhood days. My dad used to tell me and my brother bed time stories.I admire the way in which it is narrated.Typically frame by frame scenes will be brought before my eyes as the story goes on. I cherish those moments :) and miss them now :(

Here is the place for my favorite fairy tale.

Once upon a time there was lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of fearful sort, which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by terrible fire breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from the dreadful prison. But none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss. Do you expect a charming prince riding a white horse rescuing her and breaking the curse over her? Come on. It is different kind of fairy tale. So think out of the box. The princess is rescued by the hero of our story on behalf of a prince and ruler of the huge castle of Duloc. On their way to the castle hero falls in love with princess. It is natural to fall when princess is so beautiful. Then what prevents our hero from expressing his love to her? The main roadblock is now revealed. Hero is not a human being. He is an ogre. Is this love an one sided love? Nope. Princess too fancied the ogre. What made the lovely princess to incline towards an ogre? Flash-Back comes here. As mentioned in the beginning of the story, the princess was cursed by a fearful sort of enchantment and locked in the castle by a wicked witch. Can you guess what would be that terrible curse? Ahemm here it is... Curse is "Princess will turn into an ugly ogress once sunsets". Oh poor little princess. Thats why she was locked in the castle waiting for her true love and true love's first kiss to break the curse. Should princess marry the prince of Duloc or our ogre hero? Of course she should marry her true love. True love always succeeds. Princess marries her true love and her true loves first kiss transforms her completely into an ogress. They both lived happily in the swamp with their friends donkey, pussy, dragon, little wooden puppet, gingy, and other little fairy tale creatures. This is the lovely story of SHREK-1.


To be continued..

SHREK-2, SHREK-3 in my next blog..


P.S
Much eagerly awaiting "SHREK-4 FOREVER AFTER"

P.P.S
Started collecting Shrek toys from McDonalds. They are really awesome. Hope I will get all of them ;) Thanks montu, for getting them :D I will also post the photos of my Shrek toys soon.

Anju

Killing Machine gets Death Sentence

"This man has lost the right of getting humanitarian benefit. He should be hanged by the neck until he is dead" said the Judge, 26/11 trial court.
Yep, it is Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only gunman who survived 26/11 massacre.

Serial killer, Kasab's countdown starts. Hope this judgement would definitely wipe off the tears of people who had faced a sorrowful death scene of their beloved ones during the 26/11 havoc.

There arises many questions in my mind. Let me put forward my primary question alone.

"Why man is killing another man? Does he really got any rights to harm others?"

-Anju

Unforgettable pages from my life

Its high time present 12th standard students are to get their board exam results. This brings the Krack-Jack (sweet & sour) memories back.

It was sweet little adolescent age when it is really very hard to digest any sort of failure. I was a kind of nerd, with the ambition of getting into a top ranking college. It is obvious for a person like me to get dejected when the exam result comes out in an unexpected manner. I remember it well. It was when I got my entrance exam results. I scored low in mathematics :( The next scene is simple as you guess. Tears flooded and poured out of my eyes. How people around me reacted then? Of course, they tried consoling me saying "Your score is not that bad. So don't worry". They totally failed in ceasing the stream of tear flowing down my eyes. I was continuously crying for hours like sweepy in popeye show. Then in the next scene, there came my dragon warrior to rescue me from this havoc. He just criticized and cornered me by saying "Your score is not up to the mark". He also added that he scored more than me. What he did was not the real heal for my wound. Then how it was possible for him to heal my pain, break down my sorrows into bits? It is the real magic of cognitive therapy. My dragon warrior is my BIG bro. He is the one who can easily fit in any kind of facial expression into my face.

Any Guesses why "BIG" is alone in caps? ;)

Anju