laaga chunri mein daag

Laaga Chunri mein daag...the journey of a woman
movie under Yash Raj banner
cast: rani mukherjee, konkona sen, jaya bachchan, anupam kher, abhishek bachchan and kunal kapoor
the movie is about two sisters based in Benaras...the story of burden and the severe steps that is taken to keep the family intact...the story seen in all hindi movies yet this movie is different.
the movie is about the father wishing he had a son and the daughter is adment on proving him wrong...the story about good friendship and about true love.
i really enjoyed the movie although i wish i had seen more of abhishek bachchan
a must watch movie

Questions

We usually come across the word "best friend" or "true friend" or "close friend"
i never really understood the concept behind these...so i decided to give it a thought
who will be a person whom i refer as my best friend?
given my character, a best friend for me will be a person who knows that i have an incurable trait of lying and can understand when i lie and when i don't...(s)he should be the person with whom i lie the least, and when i lie, the person should never ask me y i did so coz she should understand that i will lie to her only if 1)i dont wish to break a promise i made to someone or 2) i dont wish to hurt her
the person should never ever be possessive about me and should understand that i will have many friends but not someone like her...and whatever happens, i will always confess in her.
If under any circumstance, i dont contact her, she shouldnt be pissed coz she will always be in my mind even if im not physically present and one fine day she will find a stupid mail in her inbox explaining all the stuffs that was happening in my life and expect the same in return....life will be back to normal as if there was no break

The Sacred Chants

I was in Bangalore this weekend when i came across a composition called "the sacred chants"
it was sung by 2 young artists. So hearing the tune of suprabhadam in a youthful voice was a pleasure but it can never compete with the devotion MSS.
The tunes were of the songs that we have heard many times over in temples and other devotional stuffs but the words werent the same...suddenly hearing the words that we learnt long time back brought back beautiful memories
I heard a bhajan about kaali and remembered the words that i was taught when i was 5 or 6....its amazing how you remember anything that is taught in a particular tune but never remember anything for the exams..guess this is why the old gurukulam system was really effective
the shocking part of the whole thing was the fact that this music was done by the local boys- SEVEN
I was sad that this wasnt a big success in Kerala

Mind Games

This topic is a copy of a topic that a friend once wrote
now- mind games is not something i usually indulge in coz i know how things can go out of control and maybe cause serious problems
influential- i am not
innocent - i am
i am no mind reader to map a person's mind and understand his weaknesses and his strengths
i can never play with a person's emotions or other feelings for that matter
i can never lie into the eyes that are piercing into my soul
i maybe a weak human who looks strong to the outer world coz that way no idiot will try to break into my comfort zone
i am an open book that can easily be read
i am an extrovert with shyness...wierd????
lemme explain- i can be pretty comfy with people, get them comfy with me also...make them speak about their worries and tensions
but im shy coz i cant talk first...i can only speak if that person speaks to me and this rule breaks only around my mom ad my hus
even my sis and my dad have to talk to me 1st so that i will speak to them
so---that my mind....do u really think i can play mind games?get into the person's head and understand what he is thinking?get into his emotions and control it?get to know the person so well that u know exactly the answers he will give to your questions and hence have the pre-planned converstation that will take you to the desired action...no, i am a petite person who can never understand myself who how do u expect me to understand others
so- if there is a mind game master out there, please tell me about myself since im sure u must have figured me out by now

writing

writing is something that comes to me naturally, i dont claim to be an expert or for that fact, any good in that art...but once i sit down to write something, i usually try to do justice to that beauty.
i have won some awards for many english writing activities while i was in college, i dont c a great deal in that fact but many others did incl the professors in the inst. coz that college had the best post-grad students in eng(under the university) and i was able to compete and win against them in all the literary stuffs
now, many people have asked me why i can't make a career in that...many of my relatives have often asked me this and now a friend also asked...it got me into serious thinking
what do i write? i rem a friend once advicing me to write about my life and she will publish coz she was sure it would have made a best seller...now that was when i was 17...what about now?
all the stupid poetry that i have written so far are..well...stupid!!!
my life???its not to be made into a book coz im just in my early 20s and havent done anything great
so guys....c'mon give me some new topic to write on and if anyone tells me to take up a profession in writing...my Q will be gimme a topic coz thats what i lack

Movies

I remember having this conversation in college long time back and let me just present the main part of it here
Rem the movies of the late 70s and 80s???this was the time when movies like zanjeer were released...the movie created "the angry young man" character...this was also the time when the youth of India were undergoing various frustrations like unemployment, economic setback and of course the emergency.
So, when "vijay" was introduced to the youth through the movies, the people were able to adapt to it coz this was what they wanted...a guy who would speak up for the society and finally the good wins over the evil
The early 90s and the turn of the millenium saw a change as characters like raj, rohit and rahul were introduced...while raj and rohit mainly had the image of young guys becoming successful in India and abroad through hard-work the "rahul" characters were the people who were ABCDs...this was the youth who were either in US or UK, had more than what they wanted and just had to make things work for them
Iguess Yash Chopra, Karan Johar and many other directors have been able to embed the feelings of the society into the movies

Lucky

Lucky is a person i started admiring from the time i came to know about her.A woman determined to get the work done her way, doesnt care if she has to break all the norms of the society to get what she wants, a woman who always puts her family before anything but the weakness that she has towards her family is her strength.

Refer:Jackie Collins

bangalore friends

it all started with a coincidence....i was called for an interview and my ex-roomie had the last day for applying her degree certificate on sat.
We left on friday evening and stood in kormanagala for sometime since we had no place to stay...then some of our dear friends helped us.We ran to college to get her things done and waited for my call...this wait continued till 5p.m
in the middle i managed to meet a dear friend, go out on lunch with him and also we(my ex-roomie n me) managed to visit our old hostel and give our dear neighbour a cool surprise...the 3 of us later went to church.
after the interview i went to forum and our plan of visiting ISKCON was ruined coz my inteview got over by 7pm....in forum it was nice....I was surrounded by 3 close friends...we went out to a good joint and then for dinner...took a friend near his house and the 3 of us went to my friend's place...the stay was a pleasure and a good memory thanks to this embarrassed clean fanatic.
sunday was supposed to be a lazy day and a day to meet all the people possible but i ended by meeting nobody coz everyone was out of town...so i decided to spend the time my dear friend.we went to the guys' place in the evening and created hell...i dont rem when i slept off but i do rem waking up at 3am coz i was freezing
on mon i had to decide between meeting a friend and helping my roomie but i finally did what i feel my heart said
thanx to all those special 3 days im in heaven...im looking forward to a happy life(after some terrible times) and i surely hope that the sun that has surrounded me with light will never leave me....i will not be in darkeness like before...i rem seeing many fireflies and mistaking it for the sun and finally ending up crying in the darkeness that surrounded me as the fireflies died...i hope this will be a wonderful sun and not another firefly