Pyaar Ki Pungi

The song needs some getting use to.
I like it now :)
Nice lyrics



And yes the original ke saath resemblance is quite a bit.

Sometimes Movies Surprise You

I just finished watching Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu....
My friends had told me it was like Jab We Met, except the end was different. And random.
So first things first, I liked it. Yes. It was...Refreshing.

Imran Khan is quite cute :) and very...well subtle I guess. Normal. Average like he's supposed to be. I think he's improved from when I last saw a movie of his. Though his characters always seem to be very similar. :P Oh well.

Now, as for the Jab We Met thing, I guess you could say Kareena Kapoor's character is very similar...But much more toned down, and I like that. More mature I guess, plus the setting is different, so this is more appropriate.

Ok at this point I should probably say something about the plot of this movie. So here's this guy whose always led a structured life, done what his parents asked him to, never been good enough....He doesn't have the guts to speak up and he's very likeable so you feel sorry for him. He's also quite anal. :P
Then comes Rihanna, Kareena Kapoor. She's fun, spunky, chilled out...and not anal. Anyway so they get drunk and get married at a chapel in Las Vegas. Then, comes the "difficult" part, how to break it to her that he wants to anull the marriage. Thankfully he doesn't have to, cause she's thinking the same. :) They fight and all at first, but then they become good friends and help each other out.

Problem is, he falls in love with her, makes an advance, she gets creeped out. Uh-oh. He accuses her of leading him on, and they have a fight. Sad (nice) song follows.
And now by telling you what happens next would reveal how the movie ends :P

Now songs are nice. I like the title song, it has a nice beat and music. Quite catchy. :)
Now 'Auntie Ji' I didn't like at first, I thought what a weird song. But I like how it starts, nice beat. And guitar, drums. Nice music actually. It's catchy. And was quite funny. I like :)

Now there's this one scene I really like in the movie. The one where he puts on her iPod and 'Koi Mil Gaya' from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai starts playing. And suddenly he breaks into an impromptu dance. It's very cute. The scene would probably be my favourite part of the whole movie.
Now, the other scene I really like was at the end- the dinner table one. And spoiler alert for people who haven't watched this movie- Don't read this! :P The scene where he just loses his cool and finally says all that he wants to say. The expression of the kid sitting opposite him is priceless, because the kid goes through pretty much the same deal...And I like how this scene wasn't overtly dramatic. Clean, simple, cut to the point.

Then I like the fact that they still remain friends. And also that he doesn't stop loving her. That clinched the deal for me I think. That there's still hope. That he believes that there's still hope.And no tears, no melodrama, no moping around. Simple, pure, sweet. It was refreshing. The end just won me over :)

And Oh yeah, someone explain to me why the second 'ek' is spelt like 'ekk' :P Numerology issues I guess. :P Bleh. Lol. Dono ko hi kar dete. But then one extra K. :P Or One less wuldn;t have done either. :P Tch tch, Karan Johar....

P.S- I heard this RJ say that Kareena Kapoor looks liek an Auntie in this movie. I disagree :P. She looks awesome :)

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

Today is World Poetry Day.
So I though I's share some of my favorite poems.
I love Robert Frost. I read this one in my English Reader in 6th, and I thought it was...so cool. It made me think. :)


Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. 

Robert Frost

Then there's this one I read in 7th-

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

Robert Frost

And this in 12th-

A ROADSIDE STAND 

The little old house was out with a little new shed 

In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped, 

A roadside stand that too pathetically plead, 

It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread, 

But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports 

The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint. 

The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead, 

Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts 

At having the landscape marred with the artless paint 

Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong 

Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts, 

Or crook-necked golden squash with silver warts, 

Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene. 

You have the money, but if you want to be mean, 

Why keep your money (this crossly), and go along. 

The hurt to the scenery wouldn't be my complaint 

So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid: 

Here far from the city we make our roadside stand 

And ask for some city money to feel in hand 

To try if it will not make our being expand, 

And give us the life of the moving pictures' promise 

That the party in power is said to be keeping from us. 

It is in the news that all these pitiful kin 

Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in 

To live in villages next to the theatre and store 

At the shiny desert with spots of gloom 

That might be people and are but cedar, 

Have no purpose, have no leader, 

Have never made the first move to assemble, 

And so are nothing to make her tremble. 

She can think of places that are not thus 

Without indulging a 'Not for us!”

Life is not so sinister-grave. 

Matter of fact has made them brave. 

He is husband, she is wife. 

She fears not him, they fear not life. 

They know where another light has been 

And more than one to theirs akin, 

But earlier out for bed tonight, 

So lost on me in my surface flight. 

This I saw when waking late, 

Going by at a railroad rate, 

Looking through wreaths of engine smoke 

Far into the lives of other folk. 

Bored.

I'm extremely extremely, verryyy very bored. :| It's not like I don't have stuff to do, because I do. I really do. There's a lotta stuff. But I just don't feel like doing it right now. I wanna go out. :| Blehhh.

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I don't wanna read cause my eyes hurt. :|

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 And I wanna watch some movies...and Grey's, But my eyes hurt :|
ANd this stupid internet sucks. It wastes my time. :P bleh.
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Ok, I'm watching Making The Cut on TLC now. n The Simpsons and Amar Akhbar Anthony before that, helped a bit. :|

And I'm Back

*Sigh* What a day it has been. It's been over a week (a week and two days) into my holidays, and I don't think I've done half the things I want to in this one month. I was just waiting for things to quiet down and get relaxed (after my sister's wedding and relatives in the house and all that) to start off. But now I think I should really get going, there's not much time left. And then the Internship starts. So then, Work, Work, Work after that. :|
Anway so i watched Jodibreakers today. Was kindof a random movie. It could have been soooo much better. It had its moments though. As in there were some scenes that were very good and refreshing. Jokes (in the beginning especially) were too explicit though, so kind of weird to watch with your mom n all :P hehe. Anyway, so it had some really terrible (but somewhat catchy some of them were) songs, and too many songs. It was just too long, had quite a few irrelevant scenes. It could have easily been shorter, and better. Snappier, with slicker editing. And really, some of those songs....why were they even there? Do we really require so many fillers? Just make a short simple movie na.

So. Yeah. That's that. I then went to the Jazz Festival (finally) at Nehru Park. Music in the Park. It's been going on since friday, and friday night I found out. Have been wanting to go since then. Though I think the jazz concert I went to in Ballygunge, Calcutta was better....This was sortof sedate for my taste. I like saxophones, upbeat, loud numbers. :) Anyway, so I came back and had Chaat for dinner (yay!). Mom insisted on dropping and picking me up from Nehru Park because 'Delhi is an unsafe place'. :P
Anyway yeah, so it was fun. Yesterday I'd gone to Khan Market :) Have been there twice now. In the same week. Kal I had Very Berry Ice Tea from CCD. Too sweet :P....And a few days back (wed i think) I'd bought  a book from Bahri Sons- Persepolis. :) It's quite nice :)

SO anyway, I checked my mail after dinner and realised I hadto make the changes that people had asked me to int he article that I'm supposed to be putting up next for The Marketers. So was doing that till now. Research and stuff :P *sigh*
I'm so tired...I feel like I've earned my sleep today. Not like I'll be sleeping any time soon. Naah, no chance :P

l'll start going to the gym from tomorrow. Yay. :D And maybe I should start going everyday instead of every alternate day.
My back hurts because I've been stand straight all day and not hunch and stuff :P. It's difficult. I wonder why I never made this my new year resolution. 

I really watch watch a coupla movies I've missed out on in the last few months like Ek Main Aur Ek Tu (surprisingly my sister liked it), Agneepath, Dirty Picture, Shaitan (ok, that's wayyy earlier than few months back :P), etc.
And I just can't wait for Agent Vinod *fingers crossed*. I've been hearing about it and waiting for it for soo long now. :)

So I'll go now. Watch some tv or something. Will be back with more :)

Promise to be regular with this.
Ciao.
Hasta La Vista (I took Spanish lessons in IIM C)
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Le Coromandel Coast

I was wiki-ing this...no special reason...coromandel comes from Cholamandalam. Here's a poem about the Coromandel coast...


In a room of the palace
Black Mrs. Behemoth
Gave way to wroth
And the wildest malice.
Cried Mrs. Behemoth,
‘Come, come,
Come, court lady, 
Doomed like a moth,
Through palace rooms shady!
The candle flame
Seemed a yellow pompion,
Sharp as a scorpion
Nobody came . . .
Only a bugbear
Air unkind,
That bud furred papoose,
The young spring wind,
Blew out the candle.
Where is it gone?
To flat Coromandel 
Rolling on!


- Dame Edith Sitwell


and there's another by Walter J. Tuner called 'Coromandel' which I can't find :| . It was hard enough to locate the one above....:)
But here's one by Sarojni Naidu which i found instead--->

Coromandel Fishers

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!


No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.


Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea. 

Sarojini Naidu

Anyway, so its pretty surprising that the coromandel coast has featured in literature so much over the years. There's a book by Lear as well. :)

Anyway, so I have to get up early tomorrow, (watchin a movie and all that) so I'll be going now.

Cya :)

IIM Calcutta C'nema Paradiso - Out of Focus (short film competition)