Love Aaj Kal
Home and waah! Am having a good time, and that is a revelation. May be since Ketan is not home so i’m the full-time owner of computer, Tv, maggi and stereo and the stuff – this makes my home-coming so successful an ‘outing’. By the way, i’m reading this awesome book called
An Idealistic View of Life
which was published in 1929 but has rocked my ideas about life; but more about it when i finish it. And, btw2, i just watched
Love Aaj Kal
at the single screen Nigar Cinema. They(nigar people) chopped the movie by at least a quarter and the ambience was hot and humid. (Thanks to my commonsense of wearing a pair of socks with floaters that i survived the mosquito attack). Ye main kya bol raha hun – now – the movie : it was entertaining and is going to be a massive hit. I adore Ali(Imtiaz, not Saif) even more and i loved, absolutely loved Deepika in this. Check out the scene when she cries in the end while hanging on ropes. The movie is fantastic. Period. What is important is :
LAK is so very me. It was as if it is our life, my life being enacted on screen. It was so close to us. It was a lesson learnt. It was so real, and i don’t mean only the dialogues. The differnece is that the movie ends with Jia Band blaring the Naagin song full-throttle in celebration of fulfilled wishes.
Moment of Truth …burp…
(Copied these questions from somebody’s blog)
. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
I need a hair-cut
2. How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?
Rs 100
3. Do you label yourself?
No
4. What does your watch look like?
A watch. Round dial, golden frame. Very tacky and old fashioned so hardly wear it.
5. What were you doing at midnight last night?
Reading Gandhi’s biography in train from Aurangabad to Ambala.
6. What’s a word that you say a lot?
Arre
7. Who told you he/she loved you last?
Can’t reveal
8. Last furry thing you touched?
A cushion
9. What was the last thing you said to someone?
“Mummy, main TV der tak dekhunga aur ussi room mei so jaunga”
10. The last song you listened to?
Ahun Ahun
11. Where did you live five years ago?
Here
12. Are you jealous of anyone?
Self-disciplined people. Nobody in particular.
13. Is anyone jealous of you?
Don’t know, chances are slim.
14. Name three things that you have on you at all times.
Clothes, mobile phone and wallet
15. What’s your favourite town/city?
Delhi
16. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
I wrote one for Saumyata but out of laziness couldn’t mail her, so i read it to her three months later.
17. Can you change the oil on a car?
No
18. What is your current desktop picture? Desert
19. When did you start your blog?
Last week of 2007, i think.
20. What country would you like to live in other than your own?
Any country with mountains and snow. So i see myself somewhere in Europe, or may be Tibet or Nepal or Bhutan. In short, don’t know.
Telly
Thanks to the TV we’ve installed at our flat, we’ve been able to keep in touch with all that’s happening on TV.
First, Sach Ka Saamna is not a good show. Not because Rajeev Khandelwal talks about sex and affairs at the drop of hat, as if that’s the only truth of life(when you thought death was the only truth of life). Not because it should not be watched by children. It’s not good because the concept is such bullshit. Making money by revealing one’s personal secrets and selling your privacy on national television is not a good idea. I hated Moment of Truth for exactly this. But i strongly think it should not be forced to shut down. The self-appointed security-guards of Indian culture should realise that to let the show run will be an expression of freedom and not Americanisation. You always have the power button of your TV at your service.
Rakhi ka Swayamwar is equally bankrupt in case of concept. But since the concept is new and Rakhi is a perfect tragedy-queen the show makes for a good watch; and i’m not the least ashamed to admit this. That it has its over-the-top melodramatic scenes shows how (un)serious Rakhi Sawant is about finding her man of dreams.
Iss Jungle se Mujhe Bachao is, thanks to so many reality shows and Fear Factors aired before it, boring.
India’s Got Talent is one show i wait for. Eagerly. And it’s not because of its concept. Not because of Shekhar Kapur either. It’s the sheer quality of talent that unfolds on the stage that puts this show in a league of its own.
aaj exams khatam…. ye feelin alag hi hoti – thi – not anymore. dunno, may be because we hadn’t planned anything special since there’s so much confusion about the psm exam. “Today’s Fortune” on orkut.com is “Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy“. How apt.
Filmfare3 : Kambakkht Ishq
Breaking somebody’s jaw is one thing and breaking one’s own jaw is another thing. A broke my jaw laughing in the laughathon(like last time i did in Dostana). The press may ridicule it and brand it sexist, but for me it was the most suitable thing to do just one week before exams. Akshay was god of expressions and Kareena, my all time favorite, just didn’t let me down either.
The makers could’ve gone easy with some scenes like breaking wind on a girl’s face and the asssearch. But it is gladly pardoned because the movie also had scenes like in the Kodak Theater and underwater scene. Om mangalam mangalam. Bhai!
One of the best movies of the year, definitely. I saw it twice in two days!
Filmfare2 : New York
New York
Another good, sweet(not entirely), boring movie from the Yash Raj stable. In the climax i was praying that all three of them die so that there’d be nobody to mourne over the other’s death and so the movie would end early. The story pathetially lacked any jazz, the performances were as stale as cadavers in the DH and the slow-motion scenes were killers.
This is what happens when stories are written so that a movie could be made instead of movies being made so that a story could be told.
Filmfare1 : Angels and Demons
Angels And Demons
There’s something with English movies(especially novel-turned-movies)which just doesn’t click. May be it’s more got to do with growing up watching bollywood movies than english movies themselves. It’s like when you’re so much in love with rajma-chawal you won’t care for cheese sauce pasta anymore.
A&D was good movie, much much better than Da Vinci Code. May be because this book was many times more dramatic and shocking than Da Vinci. Tom Hanks is a so fitting Robert Langdon, though the Camerlango could’ve been more authoritative. Of course, many facets of the book were not shown, but oh Jesus, i’m tired of complaining…
The movie took me back to my hostel room in RKMA where i had read the book and where i discussed every chapter with Atul maharaj. He being a Sanyasi himself was very interested in this book about Christianity. I hope he could see this movie.
