Hello !
Well .... writing a blog after a long time .... wrote last almost 3 months back ! but today, I was reminded of blooging and its certain merits by a link sent by my friend Satyajit (aka Ali .... I wonder where he got that name from .... never asked him ..... ;-)) ....
Any way spent most of the of the day sleeping ..... awoke at 11 am and brunched and then listened to Hariprasad ..... he is just to good with that mere piece of cane ! Sometimes I feel if only I could do something wonderful like that ..... I am sure creating something like that takes you to a higher spiritual level, all with your feet still on the ground !! Such music is elevating ...
Well then I spent the next couple of hours from late afternoon 4 pm ?? till 6:30 ?? basically watching Hum Tum for may be the fifth time .... I kind of like the goofy / cheesy humor of Saif, the dialog is pretty cool too..... even tho' it is an adaptation from Hollywood's Harry met Sally .... but I would say an excellent adaptation to desi mentality and street talk ..... tho' missed some parts due to use of panjabi lingo ..... punjabi stuff seems to have gripped Bollywood movies this last few years ..... and this was a Yash Chopra production so I guess panjabiyana was bound to leak into it ! ..... tho' I didn't like it when it also seeped into Saif's Parineeta that I watched sometime back ..... I am more or less sure that you didn't have "horde" (chorus singing to be polite) singing at upper middle class Bengali pre-nuptials, I doubt whether you have it today also ..... and definitely not in the 60s which it is supposed to depict ..... (forget about the 20s ..... which the original novel was based on ..... but let's stick to the 60s ... that that's what the film makers say they wanted to bring forward into from the 20s ) .... guess this was just to give it an India-wide appeal .....
Well basically watched because my new roomie hasn't watched it before ..... but I fell asleep some 20 minutes to curtains I think ..... and as usual woke up 3 hours later ! God knows why I can't sleep less than that .....
Well some other time .... someone's calling on the cell ......
