Kya Aap?

Random Post again...

I have always criticized and been criticized for having soft corner for some lame reality shows. But boy o boy 'Sach Ka Samna' (Copied from MOMENT OF TRUTH) and 'Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao' (Copied from I M Celebrity Get me Out of Here) kick some serious ***.

Now I know, everything is scripted...but who cares? we all enjoyed TITAN's Cup. That reminded me the smart movie I watched (and Missed out to write review of it) 99' quite a cheesy flick that can be enjoyed with bunch of pop-corns ( and if you can tolerate Soha Ali Khan) The movie was quite an amalgamation of match fixing, arrival of mobile fone, some street smart people and some really serious gambling. Boman Irani (who otherwise on verge of becoming Anupam Kher), Mahesh Manjarekar (as awesome crazy gangster) and few amazing supporting cast made that movie really enjoyable. There was Cyrus Brocha also in the movie, an otherwise funny Cyrus (watch that guy rocking Week That Wasn't on CNN IBN) was quite lack lustre in the movie....OK so where were we?

Sach Ka Samna (hence forth referred as SKS), Meena Shah a lady in her late 40's confessed about her extra marital affairs and troubled childhood and believe me without any drama. I secretly wish the SKS should have been hosted by Prabhu Chawla. He is one bloody loser. Watch him while interviewing Rakhi Sawant he behaves as he is holding an ice cream cone in his hand...OK so back to SKS, I might be quite insensitive while watching and in fact enjoying while a lady and her family getting restless (uncomfortable and quite embarrassed) over the camera but that is what something they have asked for. Urvashi Dholakia (Kamolika from Kasauti Jindagi Ki) confessed that she enjoys watching naked men, and Bobby Darling is actually bald.

BTW have you observed that people have better display pics for their facebook account than that for orkut (Including me)? I wonder why few married couples keep their 'together photo' for display? In fact few overly loved couples deleted their individual accounts and created a new joint account. Now that's too much of KJO effect.

There were 3 weddings and an engagement in my project in last week. And every invitation came with a punchline.."Aap Shadi Kab Karoge?" People around me are getting engaged\committed\married left right and centre. And why your public holidays comes on weekends? I haven't been to Mumbai for almost 3 months now, and if I do not plan for it before Diwali. I might miss entire Mumbai Monsoon. Now that's something I have been missing for last 4 years now Mumbai Monsoon and Trekking....Trekking...not that I have been a serious trekker but that is something every Mumbaikar (age 17-33) would like to boast about. Self boasting reminded me Vivek Oberoi, Poor chap! he personifies the saying "Dhobi Ka Kutta" now he is neither with Aish nor with Bollywood. Was 'Mission Istanbul' was his last release? Luckily I have not seen it. I have not seen 'Luck' either. Few people think watching HINDI movies in theatre is downmarket and I think I should stop here. This post is getting really lengthy and boring and I got meeting as well...Oh here comes the pop up.

P.S. title 'KYA AAP?' has nothing to do with content of this post. But could not think of anything else.

Rakhi Ka Swayamvar

Well 'Rakhi Ka Swayamvar' finally got over. History says after Seeta she is the only one who arranged her own SWAYAMVAR...way to go Rakhi...what we got next?? Rakhi Ki Bidaai, Rakhi Ki Godh Bharai and even worse ...Rakhi Ka Honeymoon?

Rakhi found her groom, NDTV Imagine finally got some TRPs and I screwed up 3 weeks of my life [9-10 PM on weekdays].

Rakhi selected NRI Businessman from Canada as her would be. The only positive I can see out of this is if she actually marries Elesh she might settle down in Canada. Something that entire India is looking forward.

P.S. The latest news says that Elesh is actually looking forward to settle down in Mumbai :-(

Burger Meets Vada-Paav_Love AajKal reviewed

Love AajKal is a clash between Burger and Vada-Paav. And what we learnt out of movie is at the end of the day no matter what you eat. It's same potato and it's a same paav.
Now let me bring you back to the movie. Imtiaz Ali is one of the smartest director of today's time. The common link between all his previous movies is (Socha na tha, Jab We Met and Love Aajkal) his lead pair is always confused with what they want. Lead pair here is Jai and Meera (Saif and Deepika ) who decide to break up their year long relationship after coming to understand that long distance relationship wont work in their case. Meera decides to pursue her career of art restoration in Delhi and Jai sticks to his London job.
The kahani mein TWIST comes when they figure out how cozy they are with each other even after the break-up. There enter Veer (Rishi Kapoor in yet another lovable role) who brings Vada Paav in their Burgerchhap life. Veer narrates Jai, his 1960's romance with Harleen. The charm, innocence of illogical (or dillogical love). Jai often makes fun of Veer's love story and find it foolish most of the time. Meanwhile both Jai and Meera decide to MOVE ON with their lives and find a new partner respectively.
But things did not go as per PLAN, Jai and Meera still find hard to forget each other. And in fact enjoy more when they re-unite in Delhi. But as they realize that things might get complicated again. Meera decides to tie knots with her colleague (Rahul Khanna). As Meera finds her partner Jai goes on to live his dream of Golden Gate in San Fransisco.
It takes a while for both of them to realize actually they are madly in love with each other and Veer-Harleen's love story help them to understand it. Love AajKal has got glimpses of many movies, Hum Tum, Jab We Met, DDLJ etc etc. But still director able to pull off a light hearted feel good movie.
The movies sends out a message that it's ok to act foolishly and to be illogical in love, It's fine to shed some tears when you are hurt and long distance relationship might work.
It hits to right cords since the movie got it's heart at right place.
Few misses though, Deepika Padukone is a biiiiiiig let down and I just cant stop comparing her with Kareena. Watch out Kareena in similar kind of role in 'Yuvaa', Maan!! that lady got the magic, In this movie whenever someone compliments Meera she says "I know!" she might know that she has got one of the most gorgeous smile but she doesn't know that she just cant act. So whatever we have seen in Om Shanti Om was actually a GHOST of Shantipriya ???
Saif pulls of both the Jai and Veer characters very well. Jai's character was a cake walk for him, we have seen him in such cool dude roles in most of his movies, What surprises is the charm he has added in Veer's character. Rishi Kapoor is slowly becoming a most charismatic character artiste of all time. Pritam hits the right tunes (even though some are INSPIRED ones)
Now if you enjoy chatting with your friends in CCD, you often flirt in chat rooms and if you find calling AAM JANTA as Mango People is 'cool'. You will love this movie. because being an Indian we love Burger and Vada-Paav both....aahun aahun!!!

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"