Sach Ka Samna

Prabha tagged me ages back, so I am just responding now. Well I am still the same and it's time to face the truth and nothing but the truth but before that....

Just to give a background of tagging - In the 8 Facts about Yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. [Well that's not totally true, I have very few loyal readers and they know most of the things 'About Me']

Then at the end you tag at least 8 other blogger to keep the fun going. Here are the rules.

RULES:

* Each blogger must post these rules first.
* Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* Blogger that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.*
Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.****

I can be an a'hole: When I say I 'can' for some, already I am. It's a genuine problem I have (not hereditary for sure and even not because of any H1B1 or such alphanumeric virus). But I love to get into people's nerves. I got my own means to be mean sometimes (means will be discussed later in detail.) I try to make a harmless fun\prank\scoop most of the times but sometimes that gets me into soup.
I have long history of such goof-ups where either receiver stopped talking to me or just gave up but I did not. I would love to pen down one such instance but there are too many and are too lengthy as well.
I often think of chucking this habit (Shappath!!). But then I fear of losing my essence, if there is any.

E-Mail Mess Ups: I love to e-mail. I believe e-mailing is one of the best innovations ever and I make sure to use it at least once in a day. No matter what, I generally mail to at least one of my DLs. and Often use it to annoy people. Sometime my job gives me ample time and Internet width to surf around and ghuss in & ghuss out in people's Orkut\Facebook or similar kind of social forums (cmmon, that is what they meant for)
Having said that I definitely hate FORWARDS ...that's as useless as appendix in your body or Tushar Kapoor in movie. It serves no purpose and often end up as painful experience.

Bath-Baap re Baap- Now if you thing above mentioned two are kind of similar things then here is something interesting (???). Bath...I hate it, I am not that unhygienic though I feel washing oneself (that too daily) is kind of boring. But I do take bath on weekdays without fail. And even if I do not I never smell like a pig (I never got Deodorant or perfume as a birthday gift so that proves this.) Bath and Motivation never last long.

Eating alone is disgusting- You can call me a Foodie, but I do have some rules for that. I thing, eating alone is crime. This idea itself make me nervous and if there are times when I HAVE to eat alone I often skip my food(Yes, I know its kind of unhealthy but...)

Cheap is Sweet- 'Stingy' that's what I am. There is a saying in Marathi 'Fukat te Poushtik' (Free is Healthy) So I like free food (So, I generally drive all those treats from the group, and keep on pinging people "Hey! party kab de rahe ho" type), free clothes (I can not quote instances that can assassin my character) cheap people (Rakhi Sawant, Palak, Payal Rohatgi, Rahul Mahajan all are simple cheap and I love them all) cheap reality shows (Rakhi ka Swayamvar, Splitsvilla, Big Boss etc etc) Cheap NEWS channels (Aaj Tak, India TV Star News) A piece of history- we actually had a group of 3 guys in junior college called 'Cheap Boys' and the activities were .....(strictly under non-disclosure agreement). I do agree that quality never comes cheaper, but at the same time quality isn't something we always look for. No wonder I am great fan of all the Chinese products.

Filmy Malaria - I have a chronic Filmy malaria something that has been encrypted in my DNA, came from XX part of chromosome in me (my maternal grandmother is a huge movie buff and great fan of Govinda) nevertheless I have inherited her those traits without any fail. Since childhood I used to wonder "How many people are watching ABC movie at this time?" or "How many people are listening particular song at this time?" or "If not this hero who would have done this role better?" and many such types of stupid questions.
I feel normal people watch movies, I not only watch also talk, write movies...(I mean about the movies) When every kid wants to be a pilot, I wanted to be a film director (well still I do)


DARK Secret - Though I maintain my image as an open book, i do have a DARK secret that will be revealed first time over here. I have a strange affinity towards a darker shades (now u know what I am talking about) even if I re look at my crushlist most of them could have been used as a model for Fair n' Lovely ads (of course for Fn'L before part). Bipasha Basu, Nandita Das are just to name a few.

Creativity- Plagiarism is really harsh word and it hits where it hurts more. So inspiration is something that drives my creativity. I have also read somewhere that the really creativity lies in your skill to hide your inspiration or sources ;-) Having said this I am still very much creative. Koi Shaqq??

This quite sum up what I want to share about Me...

I am going to 'Karthik', 'Mukul', 'Tuhin', 'Ankit' 'Archana'

P.S. The title has been taken from new Star Plus Series "Sach Ka Samna", which has been originally copied from BBC’s Moment of Truth.

Monsoon Waiting

it's 9th July and I am still waiting for proper monsoon here [here-Hyderabad]. I just hope by the time this blog is posted, there is plenty of rain all over India. Today central government declared drought in Madhya Pradesh. That's bad and makes me more worried about coming days. There is Marathi movie releasing soon named "Gabhricha Paus" [the damned rain], which talks about farmer suicides in Vidharbha, lack of sufficient rainfall is one of the reason for such suicides. It hardly rains in Hyderabad during daytime, and even at nights it’s mostly lots of lightning and drizzles. I really pity for school kids here, they hardly get any holiday due to heavy rains. That is what I like about Mumbai rain and makes me more nostalgic. I often sing a song during monsoon season "Meri 2 takiyedi naukari mein, mera lakhon ka sawan jaye!!"

There is nothing rosy and romantic about Mumbai rain in fact it makes city filthier, still I love 'Mumbai Rain'. Mostly it is untimely and creates lots of havoc but the best thing and (what I m missing most) are the monsoon treks and monsoon weekend trips (fondly called as Varsha-sahals). Maharashtra truly blessed with some of bestest forts in the world and equally gifted with the people who know how to enjoy it.

In Hyderabad when you ask for a trip in Rain they often reply (and reject) saying "No yaar, tabhi to barish hogi."

Go for a long drive on Mumbai-Pune Highway in rainy season it’s an awesome view, Rain can make any place beautiful if you don't believe me check out "Sawaan barse tarase dil" song. It has been shot on roads of Mumbai in rain, two lovers dying to meet each other but rain playing spoil spot. But even rain can not stop the true lover "Barkha mein bhi dil pyasa hain, yeh pyar nahi to kya hain?" that's my most favorite song for rain.

I heard that Tansen's singing was so magical that his raags used to make rain but I believe that rain itself is magical. C’mmon, we all start humming our favorite song when we are sitting on our couch with cup of hot tea and there is rain outside. Yes, rain is magic. Alas! The only synonym for rain in English is ‘precipitation’ (Gosh! this language is so incomplete.) Mohd Rafi and Hariharan are the best companions for rain. You can pull out any Rafi-Dev Anand or Rafi-Shammi combo and have best rain of your life. Or rely on Hariharan and rest is assured. Surprisingly he has some of the best rain songs ever "Tu Hi Re", "Nahi Samne- Taal" and "Sawan Barse" , Hariharan you are my Taansen.

Bollywood delivered really good movies on Rain but surprisingly both new Barsaat (Boby Deol featured in both the movies) has nothing related to rain. On the other hand 'Lagaan' brought the killing monsoon wait and agony on silver screen. “Baarish ho na ho, baarish ka intezaar toh hona chahiye” the dialogue from my favorite movie "Thoda sa roomani ho jaye" sum up the spirit of our Indians.

If we are talking about rain, 2 people have to be mentioned. Duckworth and Lewis, you love them, you hate them but you just can’t ignore them. Whenever there is rain in cricket. You will find these 2 guys just around the corner. Rain can be really annoying ask Roger Federer, he has been through 2008 final. It can be devastating ask every Mumbaikar who has been through 26th July. Rain can be real fun; we all enjoyed those paper boats don't we?

But rain should be there. Global Warming, Green House effect or what ever it is. Ultimately we are the one at receiving end. Just wanted to end this post saying

"Bijli ki talwaar nahi,

boondon ke baan chalayo

kale megha kale megha

Pani to barsao"

Curious Case of Akshay Kumar

Now, I hate Aksha kumar (But still I hate Dhoni more). Perhaps I always had this problem with some of overrated successful people. Dhoni, Aditya Chopra and now Akshay Kumar is new addition to the list.

I watched Kambakhht Ishq last weekend, just the way I watched Tasveer 8*10, Chandani Chowk to ..., Tashan, Singh Is King, Welcome, Bhagam Bhaag and the list continues.
To say the least, Akki your movies sux...big time. It used to entertain earlier (Honestly) but now it irritates to the core. There is a scene in Kambakhht Ishq where you fart on Amrita Arora's face...well I felt the same pain throughout the movie.

If you think everything works under the name of 'entertainment', well then sorry Mr. Akshay Kumar, Tashan and Chandani Chowk would have never bumped on box office. I often wonder Do you select your movies without reading a story just the way you reach to 'Thumps Up' CAN in one of ur advertisement without touching your feet to floor?

Kambakhht Ishq is PAIN...Pain watching Kareena is such a disgusting role, Pain looking at the amount of money spent on such a thankless project, looking at Hollywood starts totally lost in bollwood chaos and they might make their opinion about bollywood from such movie and pain while simply looking at Amrita Arora & Aftab Shivdasani (u just can not tolerate few people.)

Akshay plays Viraj [its the same character as he played in Hey Baby] with a difference that he plays a hollywood stuntman here, Kareena plays Simrita (what an awful name) a part time surgeon and a part time model (how weird is that) Aftab (with 75% increase in muscles) plays Akki's baby brother and Amrita (in bare minimum clothes) plays Kareena's overly dependent friend. and then there are over-aged Silvester Stallon and Denis Richards who hop in second half of the movie. By the second half of the movie, if you are awake or alive. You get to see some Hollywood style stunts, romance and dozens of smooches.

Yes, I forgot few minor details. There is a heart shaped pendent with 'watch' in it, set to ring after every hour with "Mangalam Mangalam...the wedding chant" gifted to Kareena by Kirron Kher (one more Punjabi maa role and I will kill that lady). Kareena accidentally forgets that watch in Akki's stomach while operating him (Hence proved that Beautiful girls do not have brain) and after every Hour it starts alarming and making Akki to go crazy (Hence proved that Akki has no brain). The Doctor (Boman Irani in a thankless role) suggests him that this is a time for him to get marries since this is the wedding chant (Hence proved the writer \directors of the movie do not have brain).
After 2 Hr 30 Minutes of torture you came out of movie hall with no brain.

We have enjoyed brainless comedies before, but KI is cheap, Vulgar (even we wont mind that) and grossly exaggerated.
I don't know how to end this post...but Yes, I hate Akshay Kumar.