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.

waqt

Ye waqt hi to hai jo na kisi ke liye rukta hai
Or na kisi ke liye jhukta hai
Hum bas khade reh jaate hain
Saal dar saal un taarikhon ko yaad karte hain, unka jashn manate hain
Ek waqt wo bhi tha jab waqt se tez daudte the hum
Ek waqt ye bhi hai jab usse kadam milate hain
Ek waqt wo bhi aayega jab waqt maano thahar saa jayega
Gujarta hua har pal kuch yaad dilaega

Valentines Day Ke Din

It was 14-2-2005 one year- four months after we had actually started dating. Half of the people we knew didn’t even know what was going between us. Since I am a girl I don’t want to be very vocal about my feelings in front of everyone and neither do I want to hide it from him. Owing to all this I decided to give him a surprise.
Before that just a little background about my life- I was 16 then and studying in 11th standard and we were in the same class.
Now back to my surprise, after a lot of brainstorming with myself I got an idea to buy him a feing- shui kind bracelet in steel (I am talking 2005, steel was very much in that time) got it gift wrapped nicely and slipped it in his bag.
After some time I kept waiting for him but no response… waited and waited and finally he did what I least expected him to. Went and gave to the teacher telling somebody must have left it with him by mistake and obviously he did not know who ‘the somebody’ was. The bracelet received all sorts of appreciation and criticism from my classmates no one having the slightest idea about the girl.
By this time there was enough trouble in my nervous system and I was sweating like a pig. Finally, the teacher after a lot of enquiry gave it to one of the students. While she was happily taking it home I went to her and told her that It was me after everyone else had left the class.
Till this day after 6 yrs we remember and cherish that Valentine’s Day when I tried to give him a real surprise but I am very happy that even when he did not know who the girl was he just did not keep the gift with himself. I did not like the whole incident but today when I look back I know I really have got a very loyal and a gem of a person boyfriend

IDIOTS ARE WE?

We are all in awe of ‘3 idiots’ since the day the promos have come out, even before the movie got released we were all singing “Aal is well”, this song brought a strange equality among all sects of the society whether it was the school going kid or the manager of a multinational or the very own house maid’s child; all of us sang aal is well ruining the pronunciation.

The audiences are totally mesmerized by the main protagonist Amir Khan’s performance in the film not to forget Sharman Joshi, R Madhavan, Boman Irani, Kareena Kapoor and last but not the least the Vacuum Cleaner – it has never performed this well before; not even in real life.

The movie no doubt had a social message attached to it when it spoke about student suicides which is indeed a very pressing issue in the current Indian scenario all thanks to Mr K Sibal who is striving from one end to the other to take care of this problem. It also spoke about how it is the pressure of studies and not parents that is forcing them to take such a drastic step.

The education system in India is the best but only on paper, till now the students did feel this but there were no changes seen the movie yet again talks about it in a very open and frank manner. How during every board exam we get to hear it is not only the study but the luck that matters or the basic method of assessing a student’s capability in 3 hours is non justifiable? We have all fallen prey to this monster.

Now we saw the good things about the movie which are numerous people have loved it to the core. Everyone who I met is still going gaga over it except for one my 6 year old cousin who claims there are not enough action scenes to please him and after meeting him I came to terms with the fact that however good a movie is, it is never perfect there is always room for more. The main concept of the film being Rancho’s intelligence and creativity, the fact that he preached that you should absorb from everywhere and do what your heart pleases is it actually true? Think for a minute can this happen in your or my life?

However smart a person may be can he study what he wants in a college; do we have those kinds of provisions? No. if a student regularly stays out of his classes he cannot get the highest marks in the university there will be innumerous attendance crisis with him and God forbid if he tops the blacklist of the principal then the marks will go down the drain. Are you convinced with somebody studying in somebody else’s name so cleanly – it can’t just be carried out this way?

The ragging bit of the movie made us all aware of the true situations in most engineering and medical college and laughed and clapped to see Rancho deal with it but yet again will the senior students not backfire and love him for what he did?

Most of us were aware of the book ‘five point someone’ by Chetan Bhagat which had the same topic as the film as the film makers said it was inspired by the book but there were many other things added to make it get a cinematographical appeal. There were many instances when the scenes of the movie were clearly ripped off the book those who have read the book and liked it will surely agree. It was Chetan Bhagat and not Raju Hirani who deserve the credit and yet we know that audio-visual medium succeeds over any other medium. In a country like ours where reading is confined to a very small part of the society the book did not reach out that much but then it was a social favor that they did to make such a film.

Think about it, however we would have liked the movie or how much ever we love Amir Khan for his acting and brilliance in the film how much of it is actually possible? How many of us have the liberty of choosing what we like over the regular not so cool options which offer sure shot money or how many of us do actually have an option to risk a few years of our life financially and get back to something more lucrative if need be? Or on a lighter note how many gynecologists in this world will be able to deliver a child with a vacuum cleaner? I doubt any, even if she is the better half of an engineer or vice- versa.

happiness- dil se

I kept asking myself
After not getting something I wished for,
Facing many problems,
Struggling hard for everything in life
According to me I got nothing
When I tried,
I used to cry
I saw a dream that night went upset and worried
I had a conversation with God
God: why are you upset?
I : I am cribbing for something I yearned for!
God: what will you do after getting something you yearned for/?
I; will be happy
God: why?
I: I will get what I desired
God : why do you need it
I: I want to be on the top of this world I would be more powerful, if every body would
Look up to me
God: what is it?
I: my greed
God: can I fulfill everyone’s need
I: after a silence, NO!
God: I have enough to fulfill everyone’s need
But not for everyone’s greed
I: but everyone else gets a result why cant I?
God: I want you to be independent, I am proud of what you did
But I want more hardwork!
I: why are you being greedy now?
God: ha ha with a smile you will come to know
I: I thought a miracle will happen this time
How do miracles happen?
God: miracles are the miscalculations
The things which happened but should not have happened
Like people died in a train accident but some were lucky because they could not board in
I: silent
God : I am just a belief ,the supreme power lies in human beings
I: what?
God: HAPPINESS
NATURE has not given everything to anyone but has given one special thing to
Everyone use it to the fullest and make the nature proud of you
I: how to be happy
Never think of people who are above you or below you
Look at yourself and you will always be happy
WAS THE MESSAGE OF GOD