Jab we met a Rockstar

“Mai to apni favorite hoon,” said each and every girl after listening to Geet on Jab we met. Each one of us, the fairer sex identify with her. This is the magic of Imtiaz Ali on the audience. With his first movie being Socha Na tha in 2005 was not a very big commercial hit but it made its mark. With actors like Abhay Deol and Ayesha Takia seemed to be the best choice. His next film Jab We Met was so fresh that it got him enough name and fame. Not only this, JWM gave a push to the sagging careers of both lovers at that time Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. Kareena received the Filmfare award for the Best actress and she indeed deserved every bit of it. Then came the much awaited Love Aaj Kal starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone with Rishi Kapoor, which again was not a commercial hit but did fairly well at the box office.

Looking at all his movies we can say that he is one of the best interpreters of human psychology, the way he portrays the confusion in during the process of deciding a life partner is worth an applause. All his movies talk about people with confused relationships and the climax is not very predictable. In Socha Na Tha and Jab We Met both Abhay Deol and Kareena Kapoor were already into a relationship when they meet the other character and the story shows how they persuade their family and then finally go against their original decision themselves. The reason for Love Aaj Kal not working despite the storyline was most probably because Meera (deepika’s character in the movie) decides to move out of her marital relationship the very next day for her old boyfriend. Most of the Indian audience was uncomfortable with this decision and people would not want their sons and daughters to follow.

The music of all Ali’s films are good- light hearted and chirpy because the story line is woven around 20 somethings but going by the sales records Jab We Met music has ruled over the other two. In JWM and LAK both he has put in a classical tadka with Ustad Rashid Khan (aaoge jab tum) and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (aaj din chaddheya) resp.

The most striking thing with Ali’s movies are the names – 3 words and a mix of English and Hindi but his next flick which is due in 2011 is named Rockstar starring Ranbir Kapoor and a new girl Nargis. Let’s see how lucky this change proves for him and how confusing yet simple this love story is.

Letter to the LOVE-BIRDS

To : The love-birds,

Subject: to discuss all the harms of Public Display of Affection at public places.

Dear couples,

We are extremely embarrassed to see you all celebrate Valentines-day, when you sit close, make merry, show love we do not like it. In Indian tradition, Radha-Krishana are the example of eternal love who didn’t get married but we do not agree valentine’s day man; for the apparent reason that our country India is a land of sons and daughters but it is not in Indian tradition to celebrate mother’s day -See it’s a western concept.

Guys we do not like to see you cozily in the theatres because when we go to a movie like ‘Hiss’ we would have you also looking at Mallika Sherawat’s award winning performance in the movie and learn more tricks from her instead of wasting time and money in each other like this.

When you hold hands and walk in parks it reminds us of our younger days when we could not hang around because everyone knew us as we were already working for the party and you know stories about our dedication.

Parked cars in parking lots do not seem a viable option; dude- the back seat seems too small to comfort when you are turned on and you have guards peeping inside and disturbing you for mere 10-20 bucks.

We are supporting PETA therefore we do not like seeing you cuddly and mushy in the zoo, most of the visitors being school children and innocent animals ,won’t you like animals to learn love than 69!

Malls- outright No, we want shops in mall to sell so that we can get extortion money and we do not men to get excited and take their women back home as soon as they enter. Please consider the interests of mall owners and sad but true, there are CCTVs all over.

In India we consider Taj Mahal, a marvel in white marble with its minarets and domes clearly speaks of undying love of Shahjehan and Mumtaz you really do not have to teach the firang visitors how they did it…

School and college to gyaan ke mandir hain and we want our students to learn everything in the educational institutes itself so you do not need to hide in the corners of the corridors and help in educating the children because they are the future of our country.

We like creative and interesting people we would have you to try new places like

· Elevators – especially if you have to go higher than the second floor

· Hotel roof tops- no body will even think of it, not even us!

· Fire exits- do not wait for fire to break out, it never does

Yours sincerely,

Youth politicians

(The party people)

An Accident- happened or will happen?

I am a great believer of the Hindu mythology and the theory of karma, past lives and reincarnations. After reading a book by Brian Weiss and following what was mentioned in the book something very strange happened.

Now just to give a little background- I am dating a boy since quite some time now, and he loves me a lot there are no second thoughts about it. And to go a little more behind in time, I always had suicidal tendencies as a child; I never did anything concrete but I made plans innumerable times but here I am hale and hearty and writing. So I always had this fear of losing my loved ones or I used to feel I am going to leave them. I had imagined my parents not surviving a road accident and leaving me or anything at random happens to them and they leave me or in other cases I happen to die at a very early age.

I don’t know and I don’t remember that but as soon as my boyfriend came into my life my fears started to become from bad to worse. We met in school and I know since the day I was sure that I like him I was also sure about the fact that eventually we will not be together. He was very loving and initially I covered up by saying that we are too young to get into a commitment and blah. But with time I realized that I can’t hold back more I did like him a lot and I was insecure that he might end up with someone else so I gave it a try and we started dating. Just when everything was fine this fear encompassed my mind that - I will lose him. There was no base to prove it because everything was going very strong between us and we were going to be in the same school. I kept getting this intuition that he would not be alive very soon and will definitely leave me and of course that will happen in a road accident. One fine day he did have a very bad accident where he managed a narrow escape, I was so sure that it is going to happen that I started to behave weirdly with him not being able to explain what my problem was but he never gave up; he even yelled at me for thinking something so stupid but it was just not possible for me to get out of it. I still feel such things and as I am growing I started getting road accident phobic.

Now when I am reading books on past lives and reincarnations- I don’t know how but it has worked wonders in me. After getting to know the life experiences of so many people and these fears (which I can’t even call a fear because I never showed it in front of somebody) I am sure of what had happened and I feel very light, knowing that I have lost either my loved ones or myself in a road accident and it over. It won’t happen again.

But if you still ask me how would I want to die; I will always say – A Road Accident.