Sway Your Body To The Rhythm...

The Great Olympics has come to an end and now it's time to wait longingly till the London Olymics in 2012. It was really a great show where people from all the corners of the world participated and India can be proud to have bagged 3 individual medals in this Beijing Olympics. Whenever Olympics happens, the event i look forward to is the Gymnastics. I will even say that that's the most beautiful event in sports. The twisting, jumping, and swaying can only be found with Gymnastics. This time also i didnt' miss to watch the gymnastic events. This time i really loved watching rhythmic group all around event in which Russia bagged the gold, China silver and Belarus with bronze. I came to know from the media that Belarus were the people who had bagged the top points in the qualifying rounds but luck was with the Russians in the finals.

The thing i wonder when i see a gymnastic event is that how do the girls do it with this much perfection in each step and in each formation. They use their props so effectively and their timing is so perfect that it even excels the circus lads who practices a lifetime in the ring. I was astonished about the music the Israel team performed in this Olympics in the rhythmic group round. You know what ? They performed to the rhythm of Dhoom thana from Om Shanti Om. That was a real surprise for me, other countries using an indian movie song for such a big event like the Olympics, Shahrukh, u really rock!!!!

Every event carries with it the joys and sorrows. This time, Russian girls really deserved the gold but i think Belarus deserved the silver than China. I don't know why it happened the other way. Might be the judges were wearing microlenses and who am i to judge those folks, lol....So i just want to say, win or lose, what each team performed was really magnificently extraordinary and thus every member of all the teams really deserve a standing ovation for the effort and dedication they had put into their event.

Oh Julie, How Fortunate You are.....

Everyone will be wondering whatever has happened to me to be writing about such an old movie, that too back from 1975, but at least am a bit peaceful at heart because it's about the super-duper hit of those times, ya, i am talking about none other than the then-too-cute Laxmi starrer, JULIE. Actually, this movie had been aired many times on TV, but i never really bothered about watching a love story, that too something that carries the same cute girl falls in love with the cute guy+parents raising hell+she getting pregnant+he leaving the scene kind of movie. To tell the truth, that's what i'd thought about this movie previously but not now. It's kind of a charming movie showing the agonies faced by an 18-year-old in those times and rarely even now. Julie is the central character and Laxmi has done real justice to the character. She portrays the fantasies of an adolescent.

What i really loved about the movie was something that was very unlikely to happen in orthodox families like that of the Bhatacharya's. They accept the girl to their family in the end even though the girl has already suffered a lifetime's miseries by having to leave her baby in someone else's care in a far off place. But it was a very charming ending by showing the reunion of everyone.

The character that i liked the most in the movie was not Julie but that of her mother Margaret. She has portrayed the image of a real Anglo-Indian woman who fancies that her motherland is England and not this bloody India in her view. She carries an air of grandeur around her even when her husband walks with her as a drunkard. Her only dream is to go and live in England, her dream land. She loves her daughter so much but the mental torture she had to go through when she left her pregnant daughter at her aunt's place for a long 9 months and the time when she had to close her eyes to her daughter's pain on losing the child is all so beautifully portrayed. We only look at the angry side of her character which makes us dislike her but if we look deeply we can see a very compassionate mother. Nadira really reminded me of my mother who loves us so much but never shows that. Nadira is Jewish in origin. She had won Filmfare's Best Supporting Actress for the character that she played in Julie. Something that i learned after doing a bit of research on her is that she was the first Indian actors to have owned a Rolls-Royce (Oooh!Wow!that's pretty cool!).

I think the movie is pretty good but that would be an understatement because my forefathers have already given the movie such an appraisal that what i say doesn't count any more, right? So Hip Hip Hurray to the director Mr. Sethumadhavan for whom i dedicate this article (was this last appraisal a bit cheesy? Hey, am serious people) !!!

Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna... {Never Say Goodbye...}

Do you remember Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'?? I know that's not the proper reference to be made at this time, but that comes into my mind when i think of the way things are going. Last month, i got a call from L. She has been my childhood friend. She has been with me from class 1 to 10. We did separate from 10th after a big fight which i still really don't know for what. But we never had any contacts after that but i used to get every news about her from her new friends who happened to be my friends too. Thus one year before, actually speaking about 7 years later, we talked on the phone again and renewed our friendship and now again we are the secretholders of each other as we were before in school. So coming back to the call that she made, she was in a fix with a guy and he ditched her. And the ditching has made her really shattered. I dont know why such an unfortunate thing happened to her. For a day i couldn't really sleep thinking about what happened to her. Maladies do happen in life but this was the failure of true strong love that she showed for that guy. It was actually tragic. I dont know whether she will ever be able to love someone again with that same strong sense the next time, especially when her folks want her to get married at the earliest. That made me think of the poem To His Coy Mistress. Will she have to live on untouched? I dont want her to go on in this misery. I want to see her in a beautiful relationship again. I am not sure if as all says time will heal things. But i know to an extent, time does heal things and helps us bury things at the bottom of our heart where we will have to dig up to get to those wounded memories but the saddest thing is that such memories never get faded which is a real curse. Why are guys like that? Why have they got no consideration for someone who loves them truly? But i won't blame all guys because i do have come across guys who are ready to go to any end to be with their girl forever, who can never even think about the word "DITCH".

KABHI ALVIDA NA KEHNA

I myself am wondering why i am writing about this video, that too a song from a flop movie. But this one song in the movie is something which i want to hold close to my heart still. It has some elements which really make me yearn to listen to it more and more. There are certain events in everyone's life, i believe, which really have made them emotional, cry their heart out, and there would have been some person in one's life whom one never wanted to leave one's life but unfortunately had to take leave of. This song goes for all such people who loved and lost. What i believe is that loving and losing that person from life is not a misfortune but it is something that makes us look life through a more wider perspective. That makes us realize how vulnerable we were and how much more stronger we should be with the game of heart. It's true that i am person who never learns from past mistakes but i do learn how to collect myself from past miseries. By now i have learnt how to make things work out, how to be happy with what blessings you have and how not to look at the closed door, which is sure never to open again, forever. People do need to move on and live their life as it is destined. Sticking to memories is one thing that really sucks. Ya, am writing this from real life experience. Memories, either sweet or sour, should stick to us for a certain period of time. If we float away with those forever, we might end up in the grave with nothing to be proud of.

Truly speaking, i still believe in love and still believe in successful relations because that's the one feeling that holds all people with one string in this whole world. So happy going guys and gals!!!

Happiness is a Boon....

Today, dont know why, but am having a very elated mood and is feeling on top of the mountain, maybe because my love life is going pretty smooth and for the time being there are no worries that i can find ahead. Yesterday, it was shopping day and myself, amma, and achan went for shopping at the mall. The most purchased were the goodies that i bought because i cant think of going for a shopping and not buying anything to eat. LOL. U have guessed that right, i really am a foodie. My ardent desire for a long time have been to learn to cook delicious yummy items that can take away anyone's heart. But unfortunately, i haven't been able to reach that goal yet, but one day i am sure, i will. Claire Boose was a person whose blog really made me aspire to become a good cook. It is such a great thing to be able to make the need of appetite fulfilled. Talking about cooking, my favorite dish has always been the traditional Chicken biriyani. One of my Muslim friends, Rani had invited all us friends to her home and have a feast on Id. That was a real pleasant experience because her family had made us feel at home there. Rani, i miss u a lot but i am sure you are not reading this, because you will be happily settled with your hubby at the coolest place in TN, am i right