Wake Up Sid ...

Have started writing this on 2nd October the day I watched Wake Up Sid but some how din't complete it.

So that day Me, Dev and Innocent Devil went to watch Wake Up Sid. Well as most of you might have already seen it so not much to say about it.

It’s nice movie, one time watch types but could have been much better.

The reason I wanted to write about it is the incident that happened while we were watching the film. The film has one or two touching scenes between Ranbir Kapoor and Supriya Pathak who plays his Mom in the movie.

First when Ranbir is at his home all frustrated and shocked knowing that he has failed his exams and his Mom starts saying that how could you fail so he shouts that “What you know about passing and failing when you yourself have never been to school”

Then after a fight with his Dad on that he leaves home.

Then when he is shooting( clicking photos) his next door neighbor and her child he remembers his mother and goes back to meet her. Her mother has a habit of trying to talk to him in English and since she doesn’t know a word of it she generally sounds very funny and weird. So at that time he tells her Mom why you try to talk to me in English when you don’t know it. Then his mother says that its because as she feels that then only she has a chance of becoming his friend and it seriously makes you feel so bad thinking all the time when your parents try to do things which they don’t know how to do but they still try just for the sake of their child. For example like your mother trying to eat in a restaurant with a fork and spoon just not to embarrass you (My mom was the only person in my family who used to eat Dosa so elegantly and easily with fork and spoon and it was we who used to embarrass her by eating with our hand), so this example is more from a TV Advertisement in which the Mom who is around 60 years old sitting in a 5 star hotel looks so confused seeing all the people around her eating with fork and spoon, so on noticing that her son puts his fork and spoon down and starts eating with his hands and signals his mom to start eating, ending her confusion.

Well coming back to the incident that happened. So after this scene made me emotional, wanting to talk to my Mom and in general the atmosphere touchy, the movie continued. After 10-15 minutes of that scene the phone of the person who was sitting behind me ranged and it was his Mom. I just happened to listen to the conversation as he was sitting so close. His Mom was inquiring about his health and whether he has taken his medicines or not but he very abruptly hanged the phone telling her that he was in a meeting and will talk later.

Ok now I am not commenting whether what the guy did was right or wrong but I just felt bad. I don’t know may be I have lied to my Mom a hell lot of times when I was a kid but now I know one person with whom I can be honest is My Mom. Anyways she is “Mother” so no matter how hard you try you can never lie to her, she understands you so well that she will at once catch you lying or will understand the thing without the need to give an excuse or lie.

I don’t have to tell her that I was out with my friends watching a movie she will get it anyway so what’s the need to lie?

Anyways I guess the scene before and the incident that followed made me just little upset with people in general.

The movie again highlights how important it is for people to understand their responsibilities, to value their parents who have sacrificed and tried so much for their children. And of course the fact that friends are always there and forever and if you have any such friend just hold them tightly.

Nevertheless a time pass movie especially watching with two most eligible bachelors :- p.

PS: I might have goofed up with the exact wordings of the dialogue I cited as its been long since I watched it.

Boys do cry......

Well this was my Gtalk status for today and it got few comments from people on my contact list and some of them do wanted to know what happened? why this status?

I really thought a lot about writing this post in a way that I won't have to touch what happened but after thinking a lot the voice within me told me that you need not hide it from your blog.

So , yes I cried today in the morning(ok it wasn't like tears were flowing from my eyes just that my eyes got wet and its not that a rare phenomenon since last year) while sitting in the office bus (I generally sit alone so don't worry I din't embarass myself and generally people hardly notice me :) ) but why ? thats all together a different post. And seeing the urge to write (this happens to be the 6th post and the 4th published post I am writing today. and I skipped my guitar class to write this) I might write that too.

Ok coming to that status. Generally my morning happens this way. Sitting in the bus , when the bus hits the expressway, I close the book I am reading and close my eyes and then start dreaming (I try hard to sleep but due to some apparent reasons I can't, so its generally day dreaming). And then the thoughts I am pondering upon lead to some statement or quote and that becomes my status for the day.

So today as my eyes were wet , a statement which till last few years used to bother me because of my lack of crying, sprang into my mind "Boys don't cry" and immediately another voice rebelled saying "Boys do cry" and a series of incidents flashed into my mind.

Ok one sign that I generally associate with maturity is not being able to shed tears(I mean constant flow of tears from your eyes) and this has disturbed me a lot in past and I somehow accepted it as an ill effect of "getting mature" but ever since my Masi died and tears rolled down my eyes I somehow thought that its not that true.

So coming to the statement and incidents , yes we boys do cry. One of my contact commented that "Yes boys cry ..in loneliness" but I said "Not only then, I have seen people(I mean boys) cry even in front of their friends".

So the incidents that flashed in my mind starts from way back when I was in school. One of my friend who was quite Macho in his attitude cried in front of us on hearing that one of our close friend's father had died. I was sad and I cried too at home but I still remember the image of my that other friend(the macho one) crying while discussing it with us. I know it was indeed a very sad incident but I just couldn't imagine him at that time crying in front of everyone.

The next incident was that of Veeru Dada , who happens to be quite an emotional guy . He cried twice,many times more, but these two were significant. First one was when he cried while talking to one of our friend(girl and she was just friend and married now :) ) and I don't remember why but he told me later that he did and then again when we cancelled a party at his house after he had already arranged everything . Ok it wasn't a childish cry of why you guys cancelled it, it was more out of the circumstances in which it was cancelled. And after that many times in private either just in front of me or our close friends.

Then came an incident when I cried while still being in college, owing to a comment made by one of my friends about me and another friend and when all the involved people came to know that it made me cry , they all cried. :)

Then on the last day of our college , Mr Chocolaty cried and since that was the life-changing day of my life(the day after which my life changed for both good and bad), I couldn't sympathise with him and I just laughed. But had it been one of my normal day I would have cried too.

Next was when Mr NRI cried in the SRS parking lot(forgive me if I goofed up the order), he just got so frustrated with the way everything was going on in his life and he just couldn't hold back his tears. We all hugged him and consoled him.

Another incident was when we went to our village as my grand mother has died (One more of an incident which strengthen my then believe of boys don't cry as tears din't flow) and sitting there while my Dad was talking to my Pishi (Father's sister), I for the first time saw my Dad cry. Again I used to think when I was a kid that My Dad don't cry because he is mature. But that day I saw him cry for his mother.

All these incidents strengthens the fact that boys do cry and its definitely good to cry at times and as Dev says that it helps to clean your eyes too :)

I can see myself and my friends crying on a very emotional occasion, both happy and sad and I don't think anyone of us will try to hold our tears back then. And believe me crying do help a lot :)

PS: I am fine now so no need to worry :)

Something Cheesy - I

I watched Ghajini this weekend...And as most have already seen or at least heard it’s really a nice movie.
And to put it in Mr. Innocent Devil’s word “The way the sequence of action and romance was shown in the movie, makes it stand out from the rest”. Completely agree. The mixture and the way it was mixed were good.
In fact I did not find it that action packed and I will call it more of tragic love story. (Did someone shout Eureka :)...Ya I know that is what it is and I did not observe anything new :) )
There was a very interesting scene when the Girl Kalpana (As-In) says yes to Sanjay's proposal was quite amusing. It goes like this... (I might have forgotten the words)
Kalpana – Maine 1 baje tak socha ki main tumse pyar kyun karun
Phir Maine 2 baje tak socha karne me kya burai hai
Phir maine 3 baje socha chalo try karke hi dekhte hai
I love you.........
He he he he..... you need to see the scene to know what I am talking about. It was like dude is Love so simple :)
The characterisation of the girl is awesome, a real “fall in love when you meet” kind of character.

There is a song in the movie “Kaise mujhe tum mil gae...” When I first heard and saw this song, I thought why a guy is saying “Kaise mujhe tum mil gae” in such a, I won’t say sad or depressing, but a very low sounding way...it got to have been a happy moment or song for him...that’s why I didn’t like this song earlier and even when Mr Dev recommended me this song I did not like it much. But now after seeing the movie I feel it is the most strategically placed song I have seen (May be all the songs are done in that way only but again a Eureka moment for me :) ). The situations and scenes around that song is so perfectly placed that you heart cry out with the hero “Kaise mujhe tum mil gae, kismet pe aae na Yakeen”...So another song to my “He Sings “list. :)

After that I watched “Get Smart”...I HAD to watch it :) :) :)
Well the movie is, as mentioned to me “supposedly comic” and has Khali as one of the characterisation, and “He does not have a small role, he does have a substantial role” :) :) :) :)
I liked it for sure.
And it’s about a Detective who worked as an analyst and always dreamt of becoming a field agent one day and because of some lack of resource situation is provided an opportunity and then embarks on an unintentional funny adventure along with his beautiful partner Agent 99 in quest of the terrorists and nuclear weapons and that’s what makes it such a nice watch. It’s somewhat similar to “Jhony English” ...Pardon me if the description is bit lousy.
In this movie the first encounter of the hero “Max” with agent 99 is quite cheesy.
The heroine is jogging on the street when she collides with the hero. And he starts flirting with her. Then she asks him
Agent 99 - “Are you flirting with me?”
Max – “It depends .....Is it working?”
Agent 99 – “Not at all...”
Max (very calmly) – “Then I am not...”

Now a tough job... Have to name this post...Can’t name it “Kaise mujhe tum miloge”, already named some other post that :)

I think the main reason I started writing this was because of two amusing incidents in both the movies and there have been many such scenes in various movies that amuses me for their cheesy nature..so I will name it as “Something cheesy - I” (Yes I, as there will be many sequels to this :) )