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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Queen..... the Rani who finds her wings !!!!
I saw Queen yesterday. The movie where Kangana Ranaut plays Rani, the main protagonist. The story is of a simple and "GOOD" girl who gets dumped at the altar by her bf of many years..... only to embark on a journey to her pre arranged honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam all by herself, meeting people who are totally different from her, beating thugs in paris, selling golgappas in amsterdam and finding herself in the process.
The character of rani is so beautifully balanced. Though she comes from an orthodox indian background..... where at every juncture in life she is told what to do by her parents or her fiancee or her friends....... she totally accepts the other people she meets on her journey without wanting to change them. Yes she is scandalised on more than one occasion. Be it when she finds her new friend sleeping with lots of men or when she meets the stripper at amsterdam or when she has to share a room with three other men at a hostel. But her journey to discovering independence for herself is beautiful.
Her non judgemental attitude stands out. Be it the waitress who has a child out of wedlock or the stripper in amsterdam who is waiting for a package from her mother from home or her mother in law who thinks she shd join the kitty party. She takes people at face value. People are the same world wide. People from all parts of the world whoever they are..... are scared of lizards..... i think tht is what we need to realise. Color language sex dont really matter. The humor in the movie is totally not lost on the audience infact it is superbly timed and keeps the audience glued..... asking more. The total lack of melodrama and the punju crass makes it more appealing to me. The simplicity of the main protagonist is outstanding..... it makes her more endearing to u.
For me the movie is about finding wings...... every girl needs to find her wings and shd know to fly..... every guy needs it too but girls need it more than them. Because at every juncture in life they are forced to prove themselves and at tht time it helps to know your true potential. Nothing can beat the independence of soaring high and feeling you can do everything and achieve everything.
The movie was also about finding goodness in the seemingly worst situations. The best part of the movie was not making a love equation between the main protagonist and the guys she meets on her journey. She lets them be for what they were. Friends on a journey who share moments of time together and help each other close traumatic chapters of their life and discover themselves..... and then move on with a promise to keep in touch...... you really dont need to marry everybody u come in contact with u no. It was a fresh breath of breather from the other bollywood movies where getting hooked up is soooo necessary.
I personally think every woman shd take a trip like this one atleast once in her life..... without the cocoon of protection from family and relatives. I loved the last scene where she hands back the ring to her fiancee and thanks him. I had a smile for all the 15 kms ride back home. I think i am inspired enuf to go to a trip like that one.
I would give the movie a 10 out of 10...... full paisa wasool.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Forgive yourself....... as you would forgive your neighbours.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Save me........ save yourself !!!!
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Ohh to be young again
Monday, July 29, 2013
Mc Dream Home
Just to clear the air I meant a mixture of Shahrukh Khan, Hritik Roshan, Amir Khan (not the dead singer), Salman Khan, Khalli.......?????? (now where did that come from???...... soft part of the head...... I guess!!!) whatever...... Coming back to the point..... Mc Dream Home!!! Every house I see has a certain feature that I like sometimes it is the living room sometimes the spacious bedroom sometimes the kitchen, sometimes it is the terrace or the view etc only you never find all of them in one single place.
Just like in the case with LOVE........ even if you do find McDreamy and fall in love with him...... he should love you back..... here comes affordability. So the search is on as I scour the streets of my city braving the cold evenings and the dry and hot afternoons. Result I am down with a bad throat infection. Sometimes when I speak I have to look around to make sure that the broken creepy croaky voice is mine and don't even make me start as to when I am laughing..... I sound like the creepiest chudail (witch). I used to look like one now I even sound like one...... Any fancy dress shows coming up???
Coming back to Mc Dream Home........ the construction companies are so sly that what they put up on paper and what they actually give are two different things. The built-up area and the available carpet area differs from what they put up on paper. Most of the under construction apartments that I saw are so tiny that I had to change my mind and go for the ready possession flats. Here I can buy what I see. So much more comfortable!!!!Plus the waiting period of the possession of the flat and the builder's tantrums are something you wont have to endure. Most builders delay possession and charge an escalation plus the amenities mentioned in the brochures are grossly over rated for eg: Landscaped gardens, children play area, Relaxation benches, senior citizens' corner, lawns, open air fitness area and jogging tracks are actually a small little teeny-meeny grassy park with a bench and some winding lanes. Gymnasiums are actually areas in the club house where a little treadmill and exercycle is kept.
The only disadvantage at this point of time is the affordability. Finance is one hell of a competing sector. Since I have posted feelers about my intention to buy a property I have been totally bogged down by brokers selling properties and finance guys offering various schemes so much that my earlier silence loving and never ringing phone does not stop ringing and there usually is somebody waiting on the other line. I have got so confused that I agree to meet somebody and hand over documentation to another..... I negotiate details with one and end up asking no demanding loan features offered from a completely different bank. It is so confusing!!!!
To top it all the brokers have been offering me everything from heritage buildings to pigeon hole homes. Just today I was offered to view a home that was older than me !!!!Most of these flats have an array of single working people or students staying on rent. The reason....... they pay more money and vacate immediately. I recently saw one house where there were four burly unshaven less clothed men lounging in the living room and when I entered more and more men seemed to keep coming out of woodwork....... so many that i completely lost count of them. As I walked around to see the house more and more men came out. All of them looking at you as if you walked into the "never seen a female" male section of Tihar jail with very very HUGE eyes. I immediately was on my toes because the house was dirty and I rejected buying it. All I could think of was : RRRRRRUUNNNNNNNN!!!!
The female students/working professionals on the other hand are better they are really neat and clean but again most properties in the market for resale are not really worth an investment. The smooth talking brokers take the cake. They make the properties on resale seem like it is the next thing after Taj Mahal and the usual all it requires is a fresh coat of paint. What they mean is pull down the walls and the plaster and also re-tile the entire floor and change all the electric fixtures and bathroom fittings and install new woodwork....... THATS ALL!!!
So my basically hunt for McDreamHome is still on but now I am armed with lots of between the lines reading knowledge and clear specific requirements about what I want in my home. So I'm ready....... bring it on!!!!!
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Aiyyyyyyyyyya........... Aiyyyyyooooooo
"It is the most torturous thing that has happened to any Indian since Jalianwala Baug"
"Statutory warning : Smoking is injurious to health".
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
"Its been a good enough life"
It made me dig deeper and by morning I had read all about it including all the stuff other people had to speak about it. I agree with some questions posed by the speaking tree you can read it here and by the Telegraph who analysed the more psychological and sociological aspects of the story.
Anand and Deepa led a quiet life. I'm sure they would not want to be analysed like this or is it that they wanted and maybe people around did not care enough??? They had achieved all that they wanted to in life materially was this why life held no meaning for them??? Were they disillusioned by family ties and friends??? The circumstances of their death and their note in which they say
"We have lived a very eventful and happy life together, We've travelled the world, lived in different countries, made more money than we ever thought possible, and enjoyed spending as much of it as we could on things that brought us joy and satisfaction. We believe in the philosophy that our life belongs to us and only us, and we have the right to choose to die as much as we have the right to live. We leave behind no debts or liabilities.""
Or were they so successful that they wished to control their own deaths as they had their lives??? The fact that they tore up all that they read and threw away all that they saw makes me think that they undoubtedly tried to find meaning in their life and then tore them up because all that they read were nothing but lies and made no sense to them. Eventually they went as they came.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that self realization is the last step in the pyramid of needs. When we reach that we are pretty much old and have lived through so much that though life has a totally new meaning by itself. My Ma for example when I regale her with stories everyday about things that are happening and stuff people do around me..... she just smiles and tells me stuff like this does not even warrant a comment from me........ it is ridiculous. It is just like the stuff I say to my niece when she tells me that she fought with some friend of hers over some real trivial matter. I guess when Maslow suggested his heirarchy of needs he timed self realisation at a time when people's experiences made them handle things differently. In Anand and Deepa's case as with most techies that I have seen........ people get a lot of money and a lot of success by the time they are in their late twenties so then after that they travel the world to get some zing and when that is even over they try to find something new...... they rely on family and friends for support and when they are disillusioned (not IF..... they always are). They take extreme steps. Trying to finding a purpose for life or finding a new meaning for life loses its charm..... Nothing surprises you....... everything seems same...... you are not shocked or excited by anything new....... and all this when you are in your twenties.
Recently a blog of mine found its place in "judges also liked this" not the first not the second or third but it was the first time that somebody thought something of my blog. Just last week my pic took second place in a flower pic challenge. In both cases I was so happy and wanted to share it with somebody and I realized that I had nobody to do it with...... It was just another thing that I would have to file into memory. Was I looking for gratification when I entered these blogs into contests??? I analysed this fact and realized that blogging and taking pics was getting boring and I wanted to feel I was going somewhere so I put it up. My question is if I don't have anybody to share my happiness with who will I share my fears, my anxiety, my troubles and my unhappiness with????
Quoting from the article
"With each success, there is a feeling of loss — loss of time and loss of value-based relationships. This is when guilt pangs work and people get depressed despite their achievements,"
It is this desolation something like Hansel and Gretel lost in the woods trying to make some kind of meaning to their situation. The feeling that maybe nothing better can ever happen. I am an average person and this happened to me just a little while ago. Isn't this happening with everyone else as well???......... isn't it clear why more and more people are folding in the realms of the god men and spiritual leaders or downright declaring themselves as atheists??? Isn't our social structure crumbling??? Are we becoming more and more jealous of each other or un-tolerant of each other that we cant support each other??? Or are we so nuclear today that something or anything that does not happen to just our loved ones does not concern us???
I am not justifying their act just trying to find a reason....... something of a closure. We cant judge them because we don't have their version of the story. Concluding with a saying from OSHO something my friend Dhir put up on his FB status:
"Make your life... Find out why you are feeling bored. Change. It is such a small life. Take risks, be a gambler -- what can you lose? We come with empty hands, we go with empty hands. There is nothing to lose. Just a little time to be playful, to sing a beautiful song, and the time is gone. Each moment is so precious. If you are silent, if you are creative, if you are loving, if you are sensitive to beauty, if you are grateful to this vast universe... There are millions of stars, which are dead -- and you are so small, yet you have the most precious thing in existence... LIFE. And not only life, but the possibility of becoming a consciousness, of becoming enlightened, of coming to a space where death has never entered." - OSHO
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Festivities and what they mean to us
A long weekend for us in India and that too a weekend full of festivities: Rakshabandhan and Independence day.
Rakshabandhan is a celebration of the relationship between a brother and a sister. I don't have any brothers. Since I was little, I remember envying girls with brothers mostly for the gifts that they got on this day from their brothers and also the festivities that they got to be part of. Ma made us sisters, tie the rakhi, the holy thread of protection to God. I have done that for years since, but as I was growing older I also wished that I would have a "mushtanda" for a brother who would protect me and keep all other guys at bay. He would have to be really tall and very dark and evil looking something like Khalli, who would be sinister and of whom guys would get really scared of.
Those days the number of guys who wanted to be my brother grew in numbers, so much that I was really baffled whether I needed protection at all...... all of them were after all my "rakhi brothers". I should have felt safer with soooooo many brothers in tow but I was stupid because soon a month or so after that the brothers would want to become something totally different. "Pehle bhaiyya phir saiyya". The phenomenon of having rakhi brothers lost its meaning and I now needed serious protection from this new clan of never before known to me "rakhi brothers". A problem that I had created by my own self.
The festival is not to blame. The stories attached to the festival of rakshabandhan depict the love between a brother and sister and the sanctity of the relationship where the brother promises love and protection to his sister. It is the opportunists like the so called brothers of mine who have marred it. In future I saw a lot of these rakhi brothers and sisters get married with the happily ever after but the sanctity of the relation was lost to me. I do not believe in having "rakhi brothers" anymore and I still meticulously tie rakhis only to the idols of Gods.
My doctor who is the youngest of five sisters told me one day that she didn't celebrate the festival as she didn't have a brother and her husband didn't have sisters and her daughter did not have a brother. When asked about "rakhi brothers" she says "They all disappeared after I got married."
August 15th is the day when after 200 years of oppression and lakhs and lakhs of known and unknown sacrifices we finally got independent of the British regime. Our grandfathers, great grandfathers and great great grandfathers have borne the brunt and it is after their selfless sacrifices that today we live a life of saying what we want, doing what we want, going where we want, etc etc. We live in a secular, part socialist, part capitalist, democratic nation and to reach here we have striven hard. How many countries in the world can claim to do what we have done in a span of 64 years? Which country of our size and stature can claim to be as liberal as we are? Yet we choose to ignore all of this.
Years ago we made a tryst with destiny and awoke to life and freedom and 64 yrs later what have we made of it: Corruption at every stage, Terrorism, Illiteracy, Poverty, Female infanticide, child marriage, deforestation, pollution, Crime against women and children to name a few. Our grandfathers left us a legacy of freedom what are we going to leave our children?
Patriotism has now found a new meaning...... cricket matches!!! Is that the only time when we feel for our country? Why should our own people find solace in other countries..... why should they feel safer elsewhere other than in their own home???
What do these festivities mean to us??? An extended weekend means holidays, shopping, picnics. Most people I know are planning a holiday someplace or the other. The meaning of festivals is rapidly changing so is the social structure. I think that the whole social structure on which we were so proud of is slowly crumbling and giving way to so called bohemian thinking. We no longer wish to eradicate evils but are learning to live with them. The acceptance that we were so proud of is now taking a whole new meaning and we are learning to live with evils that our society has created.
We need to go back to our roots and uproot things from where they got wrong. Refuse to be held at ransom to evils because it is the easy way out. A revolution is the need for the day. A revolution like the ones our grandfathers brought about......... only this one to eliminate and cleanse the evils from our society.
Since time unknown we have a legacy of compassion and tolerance. We need to weed out the undesirable elements from the society and put them through a correction program rather than eliminating them thereby cleaning the evil and not the doer of the evil. We really need to show more respect for the festivities as they are: like spending a few moments thinking about things that one can make right however meager it may be and refusing to be held at ransom by any evil. I know that one person making a change will not change anything....... but it will. There is always a chain reaction to everything u do and it will come back to you somehow....... remember a few lines
hum akele chale the janibe manzil
log saath aate rahe karvaan banta gaya.....
Why not for a change give a new meaning to these days and do something our country will be proud of??? Why not give a new meaning to these holidays??? Why not contribute in our own small way just a thought, a small action is all that is required with our kind of population can u imagine what can happen if everyone does their own very very minuscule bit of change!!!


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Design Desk: Behind the Book FairOctober 13th, 2014


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All posts tagged "Internet"
How POS Systems Can Change Commerce
The point of sale is the place where a purchase actually takes place and it is the most...
Coordinating the Digital Chaos
Remember Hal, the computer?
Stepping Out from the Shadows of a Giant
It's hard to imagine what we would do after having built an enormous fortune from our project of...
What Professions Actively Use Video Conferencing?
Imagine sitting in your home office, a local café or your dining table, you can even be having...
Don't Get Left Behind in the Digital Revolution
The world is changing, and it's changing faster than at any time in history. History has shown us...
Database Management: the Boring Secret for Successful Businesses
Managing the copious amounts of data at our disposal is one of the defining challenge of our generation....
3D Printing Systems: The extraordinary capabilities of 3D printers
3D Printing Systems are evolving Throughout history, many technologies have gained worldwide attention by providing new possibilities that...
Ways Small Businesses save Money with Video Conferencing
Especially since the economy remains fragile and rather slow to recover, one of the best things businesses can...
5 Reasons Companies are Cashing in on the BitCoin Revolution
Beginning in November of 2013, Shopify took the intriguing first step toward becoming a major e-tailer to accept...
Mobile Internet and how it is Spurring an African Technological Revolution
A decade ago, most African countries were still struggling to rise from years of colonialism and mistakes made...