i wish..

i wish
i could live my life without any strings

i wish
there were no attachments or boundaries to adhere to

i wish
i was born to travel

i wish
i could be like the wind

i wish
i could fly and be free

i wish
we were all not puppets

i wish
there were no disciplines to follow

i wish.

Long distance relationship

A Long distance relationship is successful only to people who are self content.

Parents and children

I was watching an interview which featured Javed Akhthar and Shabana Azmi on Zoom. And Javed Akhthar said a beautiful quote, which is stuck in my head. "Maa-baap kamaan ki tarah hote hai aur bachche teer ki tarah. Jab tak kamaan teer ko chodta nahi hai, teer apne nishaane pe lagta nahi hai".

So simply said, but great depth.

A lot of families i see don't want to let go of their children, even when their children are actually adults, office-going and worst even married. Parents think that their child is living their unfulfilled dream and hence want to give them everything that they didnt receive in their childhood- shower them with love, pamper them with things, educate them in a best possible way. i don't blame them for their behavior, but they need to realize that their children are not children anymore. a different point of view or an independent step is not betrayal of emotions.

The best about life

The best thing about life is that you never know what would have happened if you had taken a different route.

25 things about me

I was reading some of the posts on Facebook. There were people who had written a list of facts/fiction about themselves. I had never attempted to write anything about myself, because i really don't know if i really do know so many things about myself. Hence this is an on-going attempt to discover 25 things about me. So here i go.

1. I'm scared of darkness and of heights.
2. I love pop corn, pani puri, french fries, trekking.
3. I suck at keeping in touch. But I'm always a phone call away.
4. I used to be so diplomatic that at one point in life that I had forgotten how to tell truth on people's face.
5. I don't cry often but I cry easily. Though it's contradictory, each of them is true.
6. I don't like to complain. And neither appreciate people who do. I don't like a hue and cry about something trivial.
7. I believe that we should be happy and surround ourselves with people who make us happy. There is no point in doing anything if you are not entirely happy about it. There is nothing called "for the sake of others" if you primarily is not happy about it.
8. I enjoy company as much as i enjoy solitude. I feel that sometimes we have to spend time with ourselves, just to be comfortable with the person who we actually are.
9. There is nothing unconditional in life. Everything has terms and conditions attached to it.
10. I get bored of people and things very fast. If there is nothing exciting happening, i lose interest.
11. I don't get bored in places where a lot of people are involved. ie bus-stands, railway station, market. i like observing people.
12. I have found myself wonder what life would look like through eyes of an animal or a bird. How would we all look? Does a cow really get agitated with the colour red?
13. I like the mixed smell of fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, masalas, wet mud when we walk through a market place.
14. I love rain. I love dancing. I love photography. I love nature.
15. My first love is Aladdin. My dream is to go flying with him on the magic carpet.
16. Balloons make me go euphoric. I love biiig round balloons.
17. I am impressed by people who can write or paint. I love those who have blogs, who write and express themselves articulately.
18. Im not good with handling emotions. So try to be far away from it.

Taare Zameen Par

To watch a movie, I always go along with two people- one, the bollywood buff in me, other, the hardcore critic in me. The bollywood buff ends up liking every movie she watches, and the critic finds harsh loopholes in the same. I watched taare zameen par today. The buff in me had moist eyes, goosebumps and was absolutely bowled.. The critic in me, gave a standing ovation. This movie is brilliant. Beyond brilliant. Personally, its the first movie which i thought was near to flawless.

Aamir Kahan has showed his brilliance and competence even as a director. Every shot, every frame, every scene is very well calculated, and importantly very necessary at that point. The screen play is fantastic and the use of colours is marvelous. The child artist Ishaan has also done an outstanding acting and does justice to his role.

The movie is honest, innocent and a very heart felt attempt to translate the director’s thought into something tangible. And this honesty is seen throughout the film.

Very few bollywood movies stir you from within. This is one of them.

This piece of “review” does no justice to the movie. Just go and watch it.

Golden days..

JNC 2004-2007

Bus rides, countless teas at udupi, hanging out at our favorite ADDA at forum, (loo being our first destination!), decking up for parties, photocopying notes, juice at JJ, the very weird uncle at the shop next door, the spicy but expensive chats at gangotree, the pretty but again expensive tops at BLUE, the expressos, the bhel puri, the rolls, the coffee, innumerable frappechinos, the quiche, cribbing about the useless system of attendance and timetable, giving relationship advices to one another like we had some kinda PhD in that!, clicking photos photos and more photos,the mad ads, the etnic days, cramming before exams, window shopping, documentaries, discussing about everybody under the sun except ourselves yet discovering ourselves day after day, Purple Haze, the car park, the fights, the arguements, the Air show, PVR cinemas, Nick Nish, endless strolling at the Landmark, wishing and hoping that we didnt have to attend so many classes, anuya’s home, Brew haha, the loud laughters and the suppressed giggles, the ragging sessions, making up for attendance at the library, crying, laughing, talking, reading…finally THE GRADUATION… everything!!!

i could write a book on everything we did except for the reason we were sent to college- studies! three years at JNC is truly makes me wonder how time swooshed in front of us.. it just feels so recent in past that we were introducing ourselves to the class; now we are discussing what masters to apply. it seems like it was yesterday when i had asked for their phone numbers; now, we are making promises to keep in touch. it seems like it was just yesterday that we were roaming aimlessly around the colege, not knowing where what was. we still roam aimlessly at college, only because we want to assimilate the maximum of JNC before we pass out, and somewhere deep down, not wanting to pass out and freeze these moments for eternity…