The unknown... the unseen.. ?

Over the weekend I've been playing songs from around a decade ago and this song kinda got stuck in my head and has been running in a loop ever since. :tone :tone :tone

... andekha anjana sa
            pagala sa diwana sa
               jaane woh kaisa hoga re....

[For the ones who have wandered by from the non-Hindi land, here's my feeble attempt to a word-to-word translation ]

... unknown and unseen
         crazy and passionate
            don't know how he's really gonna be...

[Those who have a better translation please feel free to leave it in the comments section.]

Yeah I know the song sounds very  silly now. But back in my teens I was a die-hard fan of those cheesy gooey mushy romantic Bollywood movies. [ Somewhere in my heart I still am .. ;) ]
Those movies were soooo very dreamy that it made me  sketch in my heart and mind the image of that perfect dream guy - my 'andekha anjana sa '....  :/


Everything was crystal clear to me- his physique, his charming personality, his thoughts, his attitude, what he thought about me, how he reacted to my antics, his magnetic smile, the deep husky voice - apart from his face of course..  :(  The face was always very hazy.

Since it was all in my head - I knew him perfectly well. :)
He was the guy who loved me the most in this world. He would treat me like a queen everyday and consider himself fortunate that his lucky stars had bought me to him.
[OK stop chuckling now.. its my story.. my script... and I always play the upper hand here.. :P ]

The very thought of him - and my heart would start racing. His one look gave me goosebumps. He was slightly haughty but equally humble. He could be hilarious and solemn at the same time.
He totally got me and was equally mesmerised by me as I was with him.
Yeah I know - he was soooooooo very real to  me that it might all sound very creepy !

I started to compare and tally the guys I met in real life with the dream guy in my virtual world and finally strike them out  as none of them even came close to being him.

Life took its ugly turns and thoughts became mature, people came and left and the hope of finding my ' andekha anjana  ' started fading slowly, sometimes making me wonder - had my prince charming lost his way in the dark woods and was too stubborn to ask directions to his beautiful princess. Yeah I know i can get really filmy at times. Sheesh .. :/

Finally with age came wisdom ( hair loss and wrinkles ) , realisation struck hard - I was never gonna meet my ' andekha anjana ' as he was toooo perfect to be real and God had never intended to incarnate anyone like him. Ahhh... growing up really sucks ! :/ 

Guys who have stumbled by stop guffawing.. :P

Believe it or not but every gal has an ' andekha anjana ' in her teens - that perfect guy whom she creates and re-creates in her dream world and then you unruly boys barge in , burst her bubble shake her up from her deep slumber and make her face the ugly truth that - its all a whimsy !
Sigh <\3  

Movie-thon

In your life you bump into a person who changes the course of your life  and sets your sails in a completely different direction. Nope m not talking about the sole mate stuff... : /
Its a person who makes you do wild things, makes you more impulsive and most of all its a person whom your parents dread and warn you never to be friends with. But in spite of all this your friendship stands the test of time, criticisms and objections. : )

Yup I have one such friend, who altered my life in  a lot of ways and made me do a lot of stuff , stuff which I never thought I would / could do in my wildest of dreams. She added that extra spice and taught me to live life with a zing!

This post is about one of the less crazy stuff that she talked me into doing sometime back.

Being an ardent Bollywood fan, she hatched up this crazy plan of doing a movie marathon. You would ask - Wat's so crazy about it ? Well watching your favourite movies in  a loop cuddled in your comfy bean bags with yummy food is a totally different affair. And oh yeah don't forget the discretion of pausing the movie for your bathroom breaks.

My dearest friend's version was to do a movie marathon at the cinemas. Yup! the plan was to pick three movies that were currently running (regardless of their reviews) and watch them back-to back at the cinemas. And it turned out that our options were really very meek and pathetic. : /

 She roped me in for her ambitious adventure as i m an ideal candidate, OK  now...other than the fact that I forget the names of some the actors/actresses and can never seem to  place them wen i see them again in another movie /ad or forget which song is part of which movie - I m totally head over heals in love with the Bollywood masala flicks. :P

 And moreover I jumped at the idea coz its always a double delight watching a movie with her - the occasional hoots and the hilarious remarks can turn any dull and lifeless movie into a total entertainment.

So  what  had I to lose [ other than a truckload of cash ] , even if the movies turned out to b a bummer, her jest would keep us alive and get us through...We' ll my prophecy was soon gonna be shattered to pieces... : (

We checked the movie timings for the nearest cinemas and zeroed in on 8.50am (Karthik Calling Karthik) 11.30am (Teen Patti) 2.15am (My name is Khan)... Yeah now u  know what I had gotten myself into. : / And two more souls volunteered themselves for the crucifixion.

The first challenge was to arise on a Saturday morning at an unearthly hour  and reach the movie-house on time to book our tickets for the three shows. Yeah... technology or no technology we weren't fans of the on-line booking system back then... And i really don't know why - coz that would have saved us from the crazed look of the guy at the ticket-counter -  when he saw a bunch of drowsy gals booking movie tickets for three shows in a row. He kept confirming that, were all the tickets for the same day. Sheesh.. : /

Oh I forgot, my friend had also invited one of her guy friend  (a totally new acquaintance for us ) who was very eager to watch ' Karthik Calling Karthik' . Well his movie - watching experience with us must have been extremely harrowing as he made a bee line out of the cinema hall the moment the first movie ended and we have never heard about him ever since. Hope he is still in the pink of health.. : P

Well getting back to our ordeal, the first movie went quite well till the interval but then began our extreme agony of having to listen to the shrill 'Trinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng...' 'Trinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng....' every few seconds. Couldn't the directors of the movie think of a better ring tone for the damn phone. The screeching sound made me pull out my hair... harder and harder... had the movie been any longer I swear  I would have  gone totally bald ! : /

We grabbed a few popcorn and samosas n rushed into the next screen for the second movie. ' Teen Patti ' seemed to be shot completely without the lights. It seems after paying the stalwarts like Sir Ben Kingsley and  Big B , the producers din have enough to pay for the lighting technicians... And the whole movie seemed to be shot in a dark cellar, we had to keep craning to see what was actually happening. : (

The oily food, the re-bounding chairs (every time u lean back to rest ur tired back, the back-rest would bounce back with double force) and the freezing temperature of the air-conditioners along with the harrowing movies had  left us completely drained out.
Even my friend who is always upbeat and full of energy was fully subdued .First time ever, in the 15 yrs I have known her.. ;)

Before the last movie, we got a cup of steaming hot coffee and settled down to watch the KJo-SRK-Kajol saga. Though the movie was highly melodramatic, the aesthetics really soothed our eyes and ears. The movie did relieve us from some of our sufferings. KJo sure knows how to make an eye-pleasing movie. :)

Thus ended our first ever movie-marathon. And though it left us dead with lot of cramps and muscle spasms and took us days to adjust to the 'Trinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng' 'Trinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng'  sound  of the desk phones at work, I just feel totally elated and awe-struck that we got through it!
Just wish i could put it on my resume  as a whooping achievement ;)

 Oooooops.. will this post  trigger any new loony ideas by our schematist. : P

But the next time we do this - lets read the reviews first and go to a movie house with recliners Please!.. : /