Bollywud Inflicted !!!....

Hidda mah Dearies !!! :)

“Bollywood inflicted !!”
....Inflicted ?!!
Yes, “Bollywood inflicted with an Epidemic !!”
…Epidemic ?!!
Yes, “Bollywud Inflicted with the Epidemic of a Fever !!”
…Fever ?!!
Yes, “Bollywud Inflicted big Time with the ZHK Fever !!!”
….ZHK Fever ?!!......

Chalo chhodo ye sab confusion. Ye bolo, how r u all ?!!
Oye aisa hai, ki innne saare din se twaade naal gal nai kitti si, te, saanu wadda madda madda, [bura bura ie] lag raa si…..te mai aa gayi apni bak bak de naal, twaade darbaar wich !! :)

Abhi kuchh din hue hum
“Ek tha Tiger,
Ek Tigrina,
dono mil gaye
bani Kahaani !!”….se guzre hain….jahaa ki long lost frnds Big Cat Salman and Cool Kattie Katrina bowled us over with their Chemistry, or so we have to believe !! :)

Of late…we have Hot Shot Kareena in Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Heroine” !! pata hai kya she was hell-bent on making a Different ie Hat Ke Item Number in it called the Hat Ke…oops I mean “Halkat Jawaani”, a better and more oomph than chikni chameli etc etc …..and after all the huffs and puffs, wat we actually see is a complete disaster of an item number…..Zaraa Hat Ke ke chakkar mey ekdum Hateli ho gaili hai !! :))))

Arre koi mohtarama ko samjhao ki Devi ji, you already have a one-up from the rest. Kaise?! Wo aise ki she has the most important requisite and asset in that, that She-Can-Act !!! :) then why this desperation ?? par nahi, maaneingi kahaa……Zaraa Hat Ke kuchh karna hai naa….Itttem number mey bhi…..see !! tch tch…

Aur maalum, Bhandarkar had approached her at the very outset, for Fashion, but Bebo Babes ke paas time nai tha…..
Then again it was she whom he approached for Heroine too, but fir se, she cudnt and the role was offered to Big B Bahu, Ash !! now wen she ‘reported sick’ with pregnancy, Madhur again went beseechingly to Kareena…..aaurr unki praarthna finally sweekar hui aur she agreed to do Heroine !! :)…..now that neither Ashie, nor Kattie dearest can actually Act….Bebo shud rest her fears in peace lekin nai….apne man ki hi kari naa Kareena, kya karein !! :/

Ek aur movie that came was a light romantic [ahem…:))] comedy Shirin Farhad ki toh nikal padi….. which bombed at the box office…..but so what, Farah Khan and Bomman Irani are hardly desperate for a hit movie…they enjoyed this movie as it is….i sometimes wonder though, who or what must have gotten the idea of the Hero being a UGs Salesman !!....kahin ye bhi Zaraa Hat Ke [ZHK] fever epidemic toh nahi !! :)))

Ab yahaa ek baar fir tawajjo chaahungi Kawaateen-o-Hazraat !! ek aur Fully Faltu Fillum hai…. ‘Joker’ !! Jo Jum kar Jokerpanti karne wali hai !!! :)ab ye toh Zaraa Hat Ke fever se bahut severly grasit hai re baba !!....
- Chitrangada Singh !! ab Who ?! mat poochhna….the sexy damsel of Desi Boyz….why was and is she not getting her due in bollywud I fail to understand !! anyways she was asked for this Item Number clled ‘Kafirana’in Joker, by Farah Khan jinke dimaag ki batti jali in a Beauty Parlour where she chanced upon Ms Singh……..despite the fact that she confessed she had never dn anything like that before….bcoz farah wanted it to be Zara Hat Ke……lo bolo !!
-Ab is item number mey outfit kuchh Laavani jaisa hai, but Farah says Laavani toh bahut saari aa rahi hain toh humne ise Zara Hat Ke banaya hai….its a bollywud mix…:))

Now, aur suno…becoz it had Maharashtrian lingo, the lyricist in the aim of making the main sentence Zara Hat Ke as “I want fakht you, I want fakht you, baby I want fakht you”……now now…. ‘Fakht’ meaning ‘just’ you, or only you…..toh….ahem…to save their necks from controversy, they made it “Just” !! phew…. :))

-Achha baat yahi khatm nahi hoti….they again have a Zaraa Hat Ke song…..so they claim ie…..in which in a single song, they have used all of 10 languages to ask the audience to Dance !!! :)))…and that is sung by Daler paaji [:)))] and Sonu Kakkar !!
Toh ye toh hadd hi ho gayi Zaraa Zyaada hi Hat ke….hain jee ?!! :))

Achchha aur pata hai kya, aajkal Sonakshi is air borne !!! haa bhai bahut hawaa mey ud rahi hai with lots of hits lately….what with Dabangg, Rowdy Rathore, and now Joker…..ab in deviji ko koi samjhaaye ki she’s actually a well sort after option to cast as a heroine opposite Veterans or to be Veterans like Akshay, Sallu miya etc….the same way as Jaya aunties [arre Jaya prada baba !! :)))] and Amrita Singhs were cast in the past opposite the likes of Dharam paaji, Shatru Sahab, Vinod Khanna etc !! :)) she has even gone on to say that she is replacing Katrina in her endorsement ventures !! again hadd hai bhai mugaalatein paalney ki !! :)

Ek aur pitcchher aane wali hai…a Zara Hat Ke movie in which Sri is making her Come back with a Bang !! ohho, apni Sridevi !! yes she’s coming in a movie called ‘English-vinglish’ !! where she’s looking super gorgeous and acting even better !! :)
 some mast dialogues too r there eg, an American asks, how will you survive in America, without knowing English? To which a an Indian working at the same counter answers stat…. “the same way as You Survive in India without knowing Hindi !!!” :)….m sure it will have a lot of claps from the audience every once in a while and a feel-gud-feeling for every Indian Housewife too !! :)

Ab last but not the least ek super cute movie to reckon with, is, “Barfi” !! :)
Its gonna show Ranbir in yet another endearing persona. He plays a deaf-mute in the flick and our Piggy Chops, apni Priyanka ie….a grl suffering frm Autism !! ab dekhna kittna jam ke over acting kareingi apni PC…wo kehte hain naa ki Diyaa bujhne ke pehle zor se bhabhaktaa hai !! waise hi !! :)))

Bole toh….oops….sorry, yahaa bole toh to hai hi nahi !! :) yu ki Ranbir Screeeeeamed Shouuuuuted, aaaaarghed, yellllled so much in Rockstar ki sab bole, bas kar !! ab chup !! ekkkdummmChupppp !!...u know naa…Zara Hat Ke !! :)))))
Having said that, he’s gonna mesmerize the audience with his mannerisms, expressions and innocence…giving a slightest tinge of Raj Kapoor’s that x-factor which reached out to the hearts of millions of audiences !! amen :)

Ab yahaa ek aur character hai who’s my personal favourite, and that’s Ileane d’cruz…playing ‘Shruti’- The Narrator !!!!! :) :) :) ….ab what cud be better befitting Fr Shruti than being the Narrator ?!! bolo bhalaa !! :)
aur maze ki baat, for this role…of Shruti ie [:)…can’t help, can I ?! :)))]….who was approached first, was none other than Katrina !!! :) [boy….am I luvin it !! :))]….which she unfortunately refused !! siiigh !! :/

Toh bhaiyaa, itttna saara Zara Hat Ke bolte bolte bolte bolte bhi, all that Bollywud ends up with is lots of…..Golmaals 1,2,3,4…..Don 1,2…Dabangg 1,2…..Jism tak bhi 1,2….Raaz 1,2,3…..Murder 1,2,3……aur toh aur Jannat ko bhi nahi bakshaa1,2…etc etc etc…endless sequels….in the hope of recreating the same magic…….bigger siiiigh !! :/

Anyways I toh is mayanagari ke mayajaal se nikalti hu….penning off with the prayer that Bollywud “Get-Well-Soon” ho jaaye from this epidemic….. asking God to send lots of Paracetamol their way !!! :)

So all of u out there….once again….Gud nite….sleep tight…..take care….see ya soon !! From me here at Page-3 !! :)
-Shruti :)


 

The Magical Being called "Friend"

The Magical Being called “Friend”

I sat at my desk, ready to pen down words…..words about friendship. Why ? Simply because I think I know pretty much what its about, having experienced it first hand.
Yes, I have been lucky to have basked in this singular experience called Friendship, an experience which actually had a lot to do in the very making of Me.

I was in my 4th standard, a bright student, privileged to belong to one of the renowned schools in town. Was as comfortable with life as a 9 yr old could be with quite a lot of  friends to call my own.

Early in the session, I had my first Hospital Admission with the Monster called Asthma striking, and to which I succumbed. Well it was thus a few days when I had to take a leave of absence from school.
On rejoining, the first dreadful thing that confronted me was to cover up the back log and so started hunting for notes.
 It was then that I was informed that while I was away we had a new admission in our class. This nice looking tall slim girl too was unto the same quest, needing notes to cover the syllabus till then.

That was when I met Shree and liked her instantly, hopefully she did too.:) so it was decided that we’d exchange notes. I’ll give my previous notes and she’d lend me those of these last 3-4 days. Another welcome thing was that she had shifted to a house just a few streets from mine.

After school, I went to her house for the same. Strangely enough it was a rare occurance because I was quite an introvert and going to friends’ houses wasn’t a regular practice.
Well it was a very sweet experience, both of us a bit awkward, meeting for the first time but being girls it wasn’t difficult…every girl can vouch for that. :)
More than that it must have been the vibes, that struck a cord between us and thence started my magical experience of having a Friend.

We were unbelievably comfortable with each other. It was the era of No Mobile fones, and the way both our families were, sitting and doing nothing but just chatting away on phone was sheer time waste and neither preferred to do that. So, whatever we met was at school.
We sat together in the same bench, studied together, played together and above all,
bak-bak-bak-bak-bak….emptied our minds on each other, so very casually, it became our second nature,
and the topics were….wait-a-minute…Topics ??....oh, of course there weren’t any topics in particular. :) We just spoke our minds about any and everything under the sun, also, special mention here , about Bollywood movies. Whatever movies we saw, either of us, we’d exchange the story as explicitly as possible. :).

Come to think of it, it is so near impossible to find even a single person in today’s times, when you can just think aloud with no inhibitions and without having to think about
‘wo kya kahegi ?’

The saga went on, I do not remember us ever fighting, though we had our shares of differences in opinion. This bond became a strong force helping us through our innocent lives making all problems seem insignificant in the face of a huge psychological security. This is what I realize now, then, it was something as normal and natural as having our Parents for us.

Even as we were midway our middle school, it was clear which high school we’d go, after 8th, though again it was predecided that she’d persue Maths and me Biology, she for IIT and me for PMT.

Now when I see this era of net and mobile fones connecting people so effectively, utterly shaming 'Distance' which has nearly become a non entity…if only we had these back then.

But these plain waters of peace were wriggled with turbulent waves, with the information that her Papa had decided to put her into DPS – a branch of which was starting its first session then. So we went there on Day-1 of the first batch of 9th std.
To our shock and dismay they had single seating arrangement, wherein we had to sit singly. How I laugh when I remember now, because at that time it was nothing less than the very end of life, not being able to talk to each other except in intervals. :))).

That hell of a day ended finally and we rushed back to our old school HSS X with a Big sigh of relief, never to look back :).

But as we say, Man proposes- God disposes, our happiness was short-lived. It bombed on us that her papa was transferred to Durgapur and sh’d leave after 9th. We sat sad and helpless.

Seemingly within no time, she was gone….just like that. It was impossible to think we’d never be able to see each other or talk to each other…
 If it wasn’t for our families, it wouldn’t have been possible for us to take it all.

Indian postal services came to our rescue, and we started posting Inland Letters to each other. The moment one would get one, the same day one inland wud be posted back. We filled each and every corner of the writable space of the inland and again had a special slot for Bollywood here too :)

Time passed but couldn’t blurr our friendship.

It went on till 12th std, after we which started with our respective chosen Colleges, she into Engineering, and I into Medical….we even shared a couple of snaps, but as is obvious, the letters became less frequent as our lives took a whirlwind change with the metamorphosis into college life.

The letters became still infrequent after our marriages and settling in very different cities…

There was no contact for 6-7 yrs hence, while we were moulding and building our respective worlds…

Me being a medical person with a private setup had a cocooned and self sufficient life going for me, thus had neither the need nor inclination towards the world of www or net and the computers were used only for technical purposes.

One fine day, I got a call from one of my sweet school-mates [no not Shree]….and talking to her after a long span of 18-20 yrs was an exhilarating feeling. She informed me that they had an online school group running, that I should join, so that I can reconnect with my classmates once again.

This event got a sudden spark of hope into me, that I could reconnect with Shree too. That much was enough. I was in the know, the enormity and vastness of the range net had. So as soon as I could, I opened an e-mail account and joined the aforementioned group. Yes I did get to reconnect with childhood friends. But no Shree….oh I wasn’t disappointed at all. If I could reach thus far, I was sure to go further and my hopes only rose by the day, of finding Shree, as I saw the present pictures of friends happily settled in India and abroad with spouses and kids….

Days turned to months that in turn converted to yrs, and then the fateful day arrived when I came very near to finding out the whereabouts of Shree, when this selfsame mutual friend [God bless her] told me she had found a person who was known to one of Shree’s relatives. So she promised me she’d get back to me the next morning and give me the contact address or number on which I would be able to contact her directly.

That night was spent with difficulty. More so because the very next day was Shree’s Birthday !! I was now one hundred percent sure, I’d be able to directly wish her 'Happy Birthday' just like old times.
Oh what a feeling that would be…to talk to her again. Maybe i’d go and meet her wherever she was settled. I hoped she was in India itself. I thought I’d just choke with emotion on hearing her voice and won’t be able to talk atall, maybe crying or maybe laughing in delight…I knew not.

That fateful morning came, and with it came the call of our friend as promised…..
the words from the other end, that hit me hard were,
“Shruti, we are one month late !!”

…….what?? what did I hear ?? what did that mean ?? I asked her again and again, what do you mean ??

She clarified….we had lost her in a road accident just one month back, when she was fatally hit by a bus while crossing the road !!

Shree was no more…..!!
no more ?? how ?? there must’ve been some mistake….it couldn’t be !!….it just couldn’t be…..

And then I was filled with remorse….
if only I had tried harder !!…
if only I hadn’t lost touch !!…..if only….

I remember the words of Kahlil Gibran,
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Who better than me could feel this then…..

What we shared, was an experience unique in itself…
I lost her….but remained, her memories….with me….in me….she was and will always be….in Me….till my last breath……

The only thing that I learnt was….
The Magical Being called a Friend is Rare !!

Frienship is Precious….cherish it…..savour it…help it grow…
…do not take it for granted…..life may not give you a second chance...
….do not let go…..Live it when u have it….
its not worth losing…...............Ever…..

-Shruti

"Bole Bachchan...Bole toh, Bol-Bachan !!" :)

“Bole Bachchan, Bol-Bachchan !!” :)…..

Hiyaa my Sweets, howz u all doing ?!….. :)

Gearing up for the ruthless Monday again I guess !!
...siigh…haa yaar….what to do….Tomorrow never comes but Monday does…every week !! :(((
Chalo koi nai…one bright side is that, once it comes, it has to eventually go….and pave way for the coming weekend !! so don’t fret guys….

Haan toh mai kahaa thi….yes !! wo kya hua ki, this weekend I managed to finally take out time to be theatre borne tagging along with my Phamily !! thank fully, we could procure tickets for this fateful movie ie Bol Bachchan……well, I say ‘thankfully’ here not because I was dyyyyyyying to see a movie of technical excellence or some classiest cinema doing the rounds….how could that be when I had heard all negative about it till then and yes, I had actually made up my mind that this movie was nothing but the tv show Comedy Circus on a larger scale, and would be even more difficult to jhelo for more than 2 full hrs…
…..i say thankfully because my 5 yr old sonny boy with his sis had already reached the ticket window and was Jumping up and down non stop, chanting endlessly….bol bachchan bol bachchan bol bachchan……so if I had so much as uttered the name of any other movie then, it would have been the End of my peace of mind……and true to this, he did dampen his antics a bit only when he heard his father’s voice announcing the name to the boy on the other side of the window…and it was only after this that he left us at peace and ran out to jump about outside……phew….
Though it may seem so, The dilemma wasn’t over yet for us :(( because the only show for which the tickets were available was to be screened at 10.50 pm !!!!!!!!!, the last show fr the day, which would eventually end by the beginning of the other day………. :( but as we weren’t left with any choice, we did take the tickets sure enuf that the kids would be very sleepy just after a few mins and then we would go home, not having to endure the whole farce…..
Okay…so at the fateful time, we entered the hall and to tell u the truth I was scared, entering a hall so late at night expecting an eerie atmosphere inside with a bare minimum humans, which would dwindle progressively…..

That was when I got the first Shock !!.....the hall was nearly full !!!!.....yes and we had to search for our seats with difficulty…..

Chalo bhaiya, ultimately we sat for bol bachchan with the assurance of popcorn and cds if at all it got insufferable midway. The title song began…..and I found myself having eyes only for the Big Bachchan, I hate to call him ‘Senior’ Bachchan :)….his actions his steps…..no doubt he is an Ace…..they all tried imitating those looong english speeded up sentence bits like that of the Amar Akbar Anthony, but none could come any near to the original !! :)

Amitabh Bachchan is a director’s delight, even today his demand hasn’t gone down….why, is it because he is a fine actor?....no the reason is that he Is entirely the director’s baby …..doing to perfection exactly what his director bids….not interfering atall in his job, while labouring hard for his own….e g he had sat for 8 hrs straight for the make up in Paa !!! how many would do that….thats the reason unko kabhi kaam ki kami naa hi hoti hai, naa kabhi hogi….warna ek actor kis kaam ka yadi uske paas koi kaam hi naa ho, hain jee ??!! :)

The movie went on and I started enjoying it. The songs when they came, it was hard not to shout, “ arre koi ise forward kar do bhai !!”…….

Asin !!....my God…..she was so intolerable with her overtly over acting and me-the-Best attitude dripping from her xpressions….well I used that time when she occupied the screen space to catch up my breath….
She does seem to be a lucky mascot for the movies though with her hattrick of Ghajini, Ready and Housefull-2…and now this too !! Bhagwanji ke bhi Khel niraley hai !! :/

Prachi Desai came as a fresh breeze to look at and yes acted ok too in that limited capacity that she had. Hope she gets roles in future which would harness her acting skills.

Ppl that we have sampled in Comedy Circus time and again were there doing their hammig bits as expected…eg Krushna Abhishek, VIP, etc….

The mast spicy part was Archana Pooran Singh as Zohra and Madhumati !!!!!!......her timing was perfect and I even found myself enjoying her shayari and its rendition too…..just luved her. She was actually more Likable and Lookable, than the so called S*** heroines who just took up the precious screen space only to increase the length of the movie with irrelevant song and dance sequences…. :)))

Abhishek Bachchan !!....the Real Abhishek Bachchan…no…mmm…err…the Real Abbas Ali….alias Fake Abhishek Bachchan, who is actually the Real Abhishek Bachchan !! No….i mean ….Abhi mai bolti hai, ki Abhi Abhi Baba, jo Abbas tha, aur jo Abhi bana Jo actually Abhi Baba hi tha…..Bole toh Ye Bol Bachchan se Bhagwan Bachaye, Bachcha Bachchan ke Bol aur Bachchan dono hi apni samajh ke baahar hai Baba...
….kyu maalum,
abhi dekho, Abhi Baba says that he never encashed on his Surname !!! HIS?????........who would care what his surname was, had it not been the real Bachchan surname…..meaning…..it was always He who actually survived due and due only to being lucky enuf to Be a Tag on The “Bachchan” name !!.....

Anyways maze ki baat ye, ki it took a Rohit Shetty, Ajay Devgn and a Rohit Shetty Film to actually bring out some Bol Bachchan from the Bachcha Bachchan and Revive his very Name, which was very nearly gone from everyones mind……
Bole toh, ab kam se kam ‘Abhishek Bachchan’, ye naam is movie ki wajah se kuchh din logo ke zehen mey rahega !! :))

And you know how pathetic and sorry situation it is,…..it took him many weeks to learn this kind of comedy !! hadd hai yaar…..bole toh in janaab ko shaayad comedy circus mey bhi entry nahi milegi !!...siigh….Bhagwan karein he learns from this experience !! :/

Bol Bahchcan was a typical Rohit Shetty movie, his style all over it, and which actually Banked on Ajay Devgn !! :)…..yes, his effortless straight faced comedy and yes again the non sense English sentences did get us in splits more often than not. It was a mindless comedy alright, but if it gets a whole hall laughing out loud, in the middle of the night, kids and adults alike, then I think its worth it. :)

The sorry part here was that for the sake of ethics and paying their respects to the 1970s Golmaal, Rohit got the copyright issue sorted…..but this went against him as it now gave a general picture that it’s a remake of Golmal or inevitably  getting compared to the original one and unfortunately the critics wont find the clean, technically right and by the book comedy here as expected from a remake. Well it wasn’t supposed to be a remake at all…it was a typical Rohit Shetty flick, and only the idea was taken from the original….but chalta hai…. :)

Ajay is very clear in his mind as to the basics…
When asked about song and dance not being his strong points, he said, “you are either comfortable in everything or nothing is comfortable. It’s the way you look at things. Everyday u need to think whether u’ll be able to perform or not…and this is what keeps u going,”

When asked whether he thinks he has finally tapped the nerve of commercial cinema, he says,
“I don’t think so…the day I do, I’ll stop giving flops….we try to figure out what the audience wants. The bottom line is, today the audience pays around 250-300 bucks on a movie ticket and they want to get entertained. They don’t want to be educated on class cinema. Entertainment could be action, romance comedy, anything but it has to be there.”
well…well said haan… :)
Speaking of action, there was ample Rohit Shetty action, with the hero playing frizbee with humans and cars blown up high…. :)

When asked about his take on ppl calling all the movies crossing the 100 cr mark as foolish, he says,
“I think it’s a case of sour grapes. Ppl who cant achieve this benchmark themselves will say this wasn’t the right cinema. You cant wrong the audience. If ur film has done 100 cr business, means atleast 50 cr have watched it. So do they mean all these ppl are foolish ? who are u making the films for then?? If u are making films for the audience you need to give them what they want, else just make movies fr urself and watch alone at home…”
Hmm…baat mey dum toh hai bhai !! :)

Aur pata hai kya when the film ended, it was not a sleepy sloppy audience coming out of the hall…it was a Crisp, Chirpy, Active, Happy and Live audience that came out…….. :)

Toh bhaiya, whole thing is that in this era of movies swarming the place with dirty themes and languages [ I recently read a film in the making called, “Phattu Saala”, now whats this ??], at least this is a movie that u can watch and enjoy comfortably with family and kids…..don’t look for sensibilities, just enjoy :)
….and for those who find it difficult to do so, then my sincere advice is to catch hold of any kid or kids u chance upon around u, take them along and have a watch…they’ll teach u how to enjoy. :)…..

So try it……aur fir mujhe bataana…. :)

Tab tak ke liye aagya dijiye !!

Bye bye-gud nite-see yaa…..till we meet again !! :)

Nin hao !!! :)

Nin Hao !!!!! :)

Bole toh “Hello” !! in Chinese !!! :)….

Shanghai - Made in China !!....ye purana wala tha….
Shanghai - Made in India !!.....ye naya wala tha !!...aur ab
Shanghai - Made in Bollywud !!...ye Page-3 wala hai !! :)

And it’ll be released for ‘public use’ on 8th June !! :)

Now as the name suggests, it’s a ‘League se hatkar’movie !!
….arre bhai, ab India mey Shanghai ki baat hogi toh wo unconventional toh hogi hi naa….nai kyaa !! :)

Yes it actually is a Dibakar Banerjee movie. Dibakar Banerjee, of Khosla ka Ghosla and Love Sex aur Dhokha fame, that got him both Critical and Commercial acclaim, is back in the limelight with this much awaited [much awaited ??!! well I hadn’t heard of it before….] political thriller, having a gritty plot with a definite central idea. The movie will be screened at the IIFA Rocks.

The story revolves around politics and how it impacts common man. Its based on the novel “Z” by Vassilis Vassilikos [kassam se, I am not in the know what that is !! :)]

That’s not all….there are other things to its credit….like the star cast…

Abhay Deol…Wooh !! :)
He plays a No Nonsense, Powerful and Egoistic Tamil IAS officer to Perfection. Ab maze ki baat ye, ki wen Abhay was approached for this role, he says he was Scared !! Scared ??!!....yes, he says, he tried to persuade Dibakar to make his character that of some Punjabi Arya samaji [!!! :)))] that he cud do casually and with ease !! but his request wasn’t granted, and then he took it as a challenge and started looking out for someone who could teach him the accent !! and thus, a writer called Madi taught him the accent….the real one…[wow, that’s gud, at last we’ll see something substantial…more than just’yanna rascala’] :)

The exclusivity of this character is that ppl will be kept guessing whether it is a Positive or a Negative one….we can convincingly see whatever side we want to ie….so the character is a tricky one with many layers in the film !!…..grt !!

Now Abhay shares screen space with none other than Emraan Hashmi !!!!...and if there was some dissatisfaction about him being a no-personality-creature….heres what we have….in the movie he plays a local street goon Joginder Parmar, who’s a Porn film-maker [tch tch….there we go again…] and that too the paan stained teeth on that face of his flash all over the screen….://////

Ab yahaa tak toh theek hai, but the surprising thing is that everyone is raving about his ‘Brilliant’ performance in the flick !!! aur toh aur, they say, that it might turn out to be too intelligent for Emran Hashmi fans who generally come to see him in his usual………
Even Abhay says, “he is an underrated actor like me [:)]… and we haven’t received the success that we deserve…He [Emran ie] has acted brilliantly in the film and if somebody says he has surpassed me, I wont feel bad or jealous !!” hain ??!!….some modesty haan ??!! :)…..

Kalki Koechlin plays Shalini, a college pass-out going through some traumatic phase in her life….and as expected of her, she performs fabulously…

The Bengali  star Prasenjit Chatterjee, son of our yester years’ hero Biswajit who competed with the heroines in… ‘uski lipstick meri lipstick se zyada red kaise ??!!’ :)))…. [ andar ki baat batau, this star son has been divorced twice and his current wife is sm Arpita Pal from 2002 to present !!!…kya pataa iska number kab aayega ?!! :))] anyways he too its said, has acted very well as a social activist Dr Ahemdi….

Interestingly Dibakar has included one Item-Song too…[hmmm…not so league-se-hatkar then haan !!]…that’s “Imported Kamariya !!!!!!!” :)……he says this song holds a lotttt of relevance in the film [achchha !! wo kaise bhalaa ??!!] :)))…..it talks about the close connection between Politics and Bollywud !![haan wo toh hai !!]…..politicians know that Bollywud draws crowd…and as is obvious, they want to be where the crowd is [toh isme kaun si nayi baat hai??!!]…so they call India’s Top-rated [Rated ???!! :)))] actor Tina Ray to the small town to celebrate the new progressive India !!!...????.... “New Progressive India ??!!, by “Imported Kamariya ??!! ye toh too much ho gayaa bhai !!! :)))…

In a nut shell, the movie is a crisp, engaging thriller, with mind blowing performances….
So folks, we have to wait and see if a Brilliant Movie like this is lapped up by the box-office or not….

Shanghai Talks…Shanghai Shocks…and Shanghai Rocks !!!!....:)

….Kitna ??!!!....

ye dekhenge, 8 June ko………

….HuM-LoG !!!! :)…

Abhi ke liye its Gud Nite, Shubh Ratri, Shabba Khair !!! frm Page-3….

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I feel sad…dejected…as I write this.

I need to clarify this at the very outset that I Am Not going to Justify any wrong doing here…..

Imagine us Doctors….we sat there viewing the whole episode, that in the end somehow brought everyone of us Medical professionals, into the witness box….and we were made to feel guilty....all of us…of acts that we may not have done at all….

If I get a Labour [delivery] call now, I’ll rush to the hospital and try to do the best I can for the mother and her baby….and what would I feel if the patient or the attendants ask me,
“ma’am  are u sure u need to get all these investigations done”,
OR
 “are u sure u are doing the right thing not doing a Caesarean on my patient”,
Or
“are u sure u Do need to do a Caesarean ??!!”……………

How will I convince my patient who needs a Hysterectomy, but after having watched smj, is totally uncertain and has lost all faith in a Doctor !! how miserable she’d be…..bcoz after all, a Patient-Doctor relationship is based only and only on Mutual Faith !!.....

I ask myself, “Is it all really worth it ??!!!........every moment, walking a tight-rope ??!!”
Why do I care ??”.....

But ironically, I Do…….

And inspite of everything, I’ll collect myself and try to do whatever best I can so that she leaves my Chamber and Hospital with a smile on her face………….

Smj Has Reach now…..it should use this power very very properly….generalizing anything might do more Harm than Help at times……..

Kahi aisa naa ho, that whatever shreds of Faith are remaining, of a patient on the doctor, go to shambles now……

Kahi aisa naa ho, that now if someone gets a pain-abdomen, due to lack faith, he suffers more of psychological stress than the physical ailment itself….

Kahi aisa naa ho, that because of the negativities, the ppl who are willing to, and are doing good get discouraged….this will be an irreversible blunder…..

Yes, Doctors are the Intelligent Lot…fine…and hence, as he said they can then employ very many ways and means to earn money…..then why don’t they go for easier methods….why do they slog all their lives…..always having to cope up with everyone around…..authorities, patients, staff….yes, even the lower most ones…..and to get what….perennial dissatisfaction from the family for not being able to be there with them as much as they should ??!!.......
…….sochne wali baat hai…..

Zaraa si Gandagi bhi safed chaadar par ujaagar ho jaati hai…..wahin ek pehle se mailey kapde par toh kitna bhi keechad uchhalo, uska kuchh nahi bigadta !!! such is the situation of us in this profession…..

And again I would like to say that because doctors are the more Decent and Read ppl of the lot, they tend to keep mum to maintain the decorum of their personality, not stooping low to place their stand…..and go on with their work as Health Care professionals taking everything in their stride quietly and politely……

How can we justify the increasing abusive behavior and man handling of doctors that’s on a high now…..
And still it is so ridiculous that We are the ones, expected to behave Sanely in a Saintly manner !!....

Now a little bit about Hysterectomy…..

Again, I don’t say that any surgery done when not indicated is right, yet I just want to bring some points in Light here…..

…the biggest culprit is our society and its roodhiwaadi orthodox customs. Most of you will agree that even in our homes, a woman is kept Isolated for those days when she is in her periods….exceptions in metros might be there, but mostly the scenario is such that during those days she’s kept away from Kitchen work and because then the work comes onto the MIL etc, or sometimes on husband, the days are really Broadcast…when everyone in the family and neighbors etc too come to know when and for how many days the woman was menstruating….and that’s not all, every single day that goes beyond 5 days is taken against her every month…..
At long last even if she is having just spotting but her periods last for 7-8 days she is taken to the gynaec….and when asked, “kya takleef hai?”, she says….. “mera mahina bigad gayaa hai !!!!!”……now they want a treatment that she should menstruate the way they want,
… in the quantity that they want,
….and for the duration too that they want !!
.....is this possible???,
 and then anything deviating from their wants is taken as a dreadful disease and the pt is labeled that….“iski bachchaadaani kharaab ho gayi hai”…..
…..and then they ask….is there any permanent solution other than surgery?....
…..when you say No…..thats it….that becomes the last nail on the coffin…..and then the family is bound to get that poor uterus out by hook or by crook……

Now God forbid, if a pt has an erosion, or a small innocent fibroid, the gynaec has to report that…..and the next question that pops up is……will it go completely with medicines??..... the course that it’ll take is not clearcut or predictable…..hence again….they want surgery….

The reproductive age of a woman is going on increasing with Menarche earlier and Menopause much later, periods of amenorrhoea very less because of less no of children , compared to the olden days when most of the time the women were either pregnant or in lactational amenorrhoea…..hence more the number of periods…..and the deviations too….

Life expectancy has been increasing hence is the risk of disease….

Lap Tubectomies….LTTs ie…done in huge numbers in Camps lead to seeding of infections due to poor sterilization, catering to such large amounts at a time….in turn more of intractable PID cases…..

STDs are going on increasing with Polygamous practices….

Level of Threshold from clinicians is lowering due to Demand Of Safe and Permanent treatment options…..

Zaraa sochiye….is it just the doctors responsible for hysterectomies of a whole village ?? we are talking about a major surgery here....it takes no less than God to convince so many ppl with only wrong intention…
…..if only doctors could do that, then the VT programs would have been a grand success too….

So my appeal is…Beware…Before its too late……

There is Good, AND There is Bad !! its neither Only Gud, nor Only Bad….

May Discrimination Power prevail……………………

…..Satyameva jayate…………..

Cricket and Cars ??!! :)

Hiyaa all !!

“What words beget Boys’ undivided attention ??!!”.......

Chalo lets leave that question for a while…..
Pata hai kya…..i was just jumping through the channels with my remote…. When suddenly something Red, Very Rich Red crossed by……I switched back to that channel where it was….and I stuck there.…. :)

As is obvious, it was one movie promo….the frst face that I glanced on was of Sharman Joshi and a Red-Red FERRARI !!!!....yes a real one !! :)
I went on……What was this ?!!....

……onto the Khoj-been about it !!

…and here’s what revealed itself…
The movie is

 “Ferrari ki Sawaari !!”:)

….and before I could think that it was some mediocre comedy, it crashed on me that it was a Vidhu Vinod Chopra Movie !! well well, I was all smiles !! :)
It is directed by Rajesh Mapuskar !! now who’s he ?!!......to rest ur discomfort, he is Rajkumar Hirani’s assistant, and this movie is his brain-child, wherein Sharman is Debuting as the Lead Actor !! :)

Its not some uproarious hahahuhu comedy, but a combo of sentiments, emotions, drama, and situational comedy….
To add to it, Pritam’s Music is Guddam-gud !! :)

The Ferrari shown in it is a Real one, and that too none other than the one owned by Master Blaster, Sachin himself, that he sold/gifted [I know not]….to his entrepreneur friend Jayesh Desai…who in turn wanted it for his niece !!! Niece ??!!!!.....kyaa yaar, aisaa bhi hota hai…hain jee….humko to real Ferrari dekhne ya real mey touch karne ko nai milne ki aur ye janaab, “Niece” ko Gift kar rahe hain !!!!! Waah re Uparwale…Ajab teri Dunia aur Gajab tere Khel !!!!....siiiiigh !!.... :)

Now this remains to be seen whether the Little Master’s gonna be playing a comeo in it or not….becoz the Car is actually playing its Real Life Character of “Sachin Tendulkar’s Ferrari” !!! :)

Ek aur “Aakarshan” hai is movie mey….Vidya Balan !!!!!!.......aur dil thaam ke suniye….she’s doing an ‘Item number’ ….. “Malaa Jau De !!”:)
Word is doing the rounds that it has been shot perfectly too…
Par ek baat bolu…..i have my doubts…..
I saw the song…..and saw the not-so-thin Vidya doing Laawni in a somewhat slow number, replaying all….yes, ALL her overtly coquettish gestures and expressions. Now it remains to be seen whether the ‘Dirt’ will work for her all over again….
And that too when the Ferrari goes on flaunting itself all through the movie… !! :))))

It’s a heart warming story of small guys with their Big dreams…
Aur, ek baat to satya hai, that releasing on 15th June, ….with Sharman, Boman Irani and THE Ferrari…..it sure gonna be a joyride !!...... :)

Coming back to my question,

“What words beget Boys’ undivided attention ??!!.......

Among many things they are, “Cars and Cricket !!!” :)
…..and that’s what this movie is all about !!! :)

So get-set and…vVVVRRRRrrooooooom………….. :)

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Episode-2, “Satyamev Jayate !!”…

Switched on the TV for the second episode, with crossed fingers.
No, I wasn’t in the least on to finding flaws or loop holes….not at all…any attempt at anything society-friendly, was good enough for me.

So, I was plain simple anxious, because I wanted it to go on……
The episode ended….and I was sitting there….with tearfilled eyes….but with a big Smile !!...feeling, only - Relief !!!!..... :)

I wasn’t at all concerned what any other person might think, but had made my own standards that I wished it would fulfill in the subsequent episodes….and it Had in this one…!! :)

To say the least, this Sunday morning hasn’t been generous to me…my son was running 103*F temp….my hubbs, a busy surgeon was about to go to the hospital….and I had some how managed to sit in front of TV at 11 am. Hubby dearest, inspite of being in a great big hurry, sat with me, and the moment we saw the kids in there, about to be instructed, he got up and brought the dull feverish child from the bedroom and placed him gently on my lap so that my son could also see first hand, what was being told. And surprisingly, he understood too….

Just few minutes back I myself had a one-to-one conversation with my kids…..about the issue, and they gladly employed me and their papa as their “Bodyguards” !! :)

At least I am in no risk of forgetting the child helpline no-1098, nor are my Kids !! :)

I was amazed at the ease in which such a difficult thing was explained to the most difficult audience….viz, KIDS !!....

Aamir had done it again….with Finesse, Ease, Conviction and to Perfection !!....not to forget, being Entertaining as well !! :)

He had done the relevant homework, and yet again….
Did have an answer…again having at least something solid that each and everyone in the audience could do…to contribute….

He Is making a Difference….
Social Reforms may not come in a day, But they are Underway with this show….involving each and every person alike…..

Every Genuine effort should be appreciated, however irregular, however incomplete, however small it may seem to some of us…..IF it is headed in the right direction !!...and this Show Sure Is…….
I for one, got another message loud and clear.……if you do believe in something….go ahead with it…..If it has to do any good, It will !!!...

Gradually we had started losing faith in the words “Satyamev Jayate”….which were slowly becoming just words…..
But now I am confident, the Meaning will Not be Lost !!!

-amen