25th wedding anniversary

The occasion: My parents' 25th Wedding Anniversary

Date: 15-11-2009

(It was on 16-11-2009 but we celebrated it on the 15th as it was a Sunday.)

Venue: Rangoli Banquet, Vaibhav Plaza, Kolkata

me & my sis starting the proceedings

my maasis danced well too...

the delicious cake :)

Cutting the cake....

Me & Neha after the party. It was a rocking night :)

The party had been planned well in advance but the surprise was the dance programme which we had secretly organized and the efforts did not go in vain as everyone present there appreciated us so much. The smiles on mom-dad's faces said it all... :) :)

Lots of love to my bro Tushar for anchoring the programme in the most awesome manner-You rock dude- and my sis Neha without whom nothing would have been possible. She put in her heart and soul into making the celebration a wonderful one.

All in all it was an awefome night :) :) :)

Awefome Kameenapan!!!!

Firstly forry for the late blog...but better late than never...

As I sat down to watch another VB (yaar apna Vishal Bhardwaj) flick in Fame Lido, Bangalore I was expecting another good movie from the brilliant VB but he proved me wrong. It was not good it was fcintillating, fuperb, awefome!!!

From the starting monologue "ye duniya badi kutti cheez hai aur if duniya mein kutton ka firf ek hi jawaab hai.....Kaminey" to the end "naam hai Fophia aur ye 'f' ko 'f' nahi bolti" Kaminey is a masterpiece, a roller coaster ride where you don't get time to catch a breath. Story, dialogue, acting, music, lyrics, cinematography, editing, everything is awefome in this Kameeni film.

Kaminey is about Shahid Kapur as G...g..g.. Guddu (he stutters) and the awefome Charlie (he lisps..bachpan fe hi 'f'(s) ko 'f' bolta hai..). Charlie is a gangfter who dreams of becoming a bookie at the race course whereas Guddu works for an NGO and is in love with Sweety (Priyanka Chopra is great in the role of a fiery Marathi girl) who is the sister of another gangfter cum aspiring politician Bhope Bhau (Amole Gupte delivers an outstanding performance) who hates immigrants in his city especially from UP. For Guddu, Charlie is as good as dead and for Charlie, well this line says it all-kaali billi agar rafta kaat jaaye to thik hai par agar uf manhoof ka chehra dikh jaye to maiyyat pakki hai... Kaminey is also about Charlie and Mikhail. Chandan Roy Sanyal is just fantastic as the coke addict mental best friend be it the friendly mini-fight scene before the dhan te nan song at the discotheque or the scene where he calls himself Tope Bhau. Kaminey is about that fateful night when the lives of all these characters get entwined in an absolutely Kaminey way.

VB has done an awesome job with the script based on an idea by Cajetan Boy, a writer from Nairobi and keeps viewers clued to the screen with the twists and turns. The dialogues are just mind blowing. Charlie says "ye life badi kutti cheez hai", "pefa kamane ke do raafte hain, ek fortcut or doofra chhota fortcut", "Vaat tab nahin lagti jab tum koi raafta chunte ho, vaat tab lagti hai jab tum koi raafta chhodte ho". Sweety says "to kya maine tumhara rape kiya hai?"

The music and background score as expected from VB is awefome. Starting from the superhit Dhan te nan to the title track Meri aarzoo kameeni, mere khwaab bhi Kaminey and the ballad pehli baar mohabbat ki hai, the music is superb. Gulzar saab as usual has penned down outstanding lyrics be it the title track or Fatak, the song about aids awareness. The background score uses Dhan te nan to good effect and even the peppy song duniya mein logon ko..dhoka koi ho jaata hai. Tassaduq Hussain's cinematography is brilliant. The way he has captured the rain-drenched Mumbai adds to the entire experience of watching this superb flick.

All i would like to say is go and watch this movie in the theatre to enjoy the cinematic brilliance of Vishal Bhardwaj and you will come out singing Dhan te nan.......

Samvatsari Aaj Kal..!!!

August 24, 2009 : I observed a fast on Samvatsari like every year. My sis, cousin and I were sitting idle at home watching Love Aaj Kal which was about Love of the past and Love in 2009 when I decided why not write a blog on Samvatsari Aaj Kal becasue so much has changed in the manner in which Samvatsari is spent. So here I go......

Samvatsari Kal -

Samvatsari is the last day of Paryusana(or colloquially Pajushana) - the eight or ten day festival of Jains the day on which Jains observe a complete fast. The whole day was spent in prayers and contemplation. A yearly elaborate penitential retreat called samvatsati pratikramana was performed on this day. After the pratikramana Jains seeked forgiveness from all the creatures of the world whom they may have harmed knowingly or unknowingly by uttering the phrase— Micchami Dukkadam. As a matter of ritual, Jains personally greeted friends and relatives Micchami Dukkadam.

Samvatsari Aaj -

Cut to 2009. Samvatsari is the last day of Paryusana(colloquially Pajushana) - the eight or ten day festival of Jains the day on which Jains are supposed to observe a complete fast. As a matter of fact many don't observe a fast and instead observe an ekyashana (eat once in a day) and so many others don't even bother to observe ekyashana. The whole day is spent watching tv, movies, chatting with family and friends and waiting for next morning when we can finally eat/drink. This is the story of most of us, exceptions being elderly and religiously inclined people who spent the day in prayer and perform samvatsati pratikramana like my Grandma. After the day is spent doing nothing we go off to sleep to get up exactly at sunrise(sometimes even earlier) to break the fast and then we eat to our heart's content. The fun part is normally we might never get up this early but then the empty stomach can do wonders :D As a matter of ritual, we still personally greet friends and relatives Micchami Dukkadam and/or Khamat Khamna but the personally usually means sms/phone calls instead of personal visits of yesteryears.

I am no staunch follower to question what is right and what is wrong in Samvatsari Aaj..but what the heck of a difference in Aaj and Kal !!! and yeah...if i have knowingly or unknowingly hurt you or your feelings by this blog...Khamat Khamna !!!

Bangla Bandh!!!!

Friday July 17, 2009. First time in 400 days the office was closed for an unofficial reason. The reason - a Bandh called by Congress to protest against the attack on its MLAs at Mangalkot. Buses were burnt, roads blocked, vandalism was the order of the day with the police just watching the tamasha like impotents. The city has become a playground of political clashes, even as reports of vendetta and violence pour in every day from other parts of Bengal. The 24 hours that i had to spend indoors caused me to think a lot about this brouhaha and I have got certain questions and answers (from the administrators of Bengal) :

Q: Why could not the police stop the vandalism?

A: The police say they did not have any instruction (so expected of the Calcutta Police) to deal strictly with the vandals.

Is it not the constitutional duty of the police to protect the public and public property? or is the bandh like an emergency for the police force where constituional laws stand dormant and the law of the President (here the party who called the bandh) is the law of the land. why are you being mere spectators to such lawlessness?

Q: How were the Congress MLA's attacked in the first place since adequate police cover must have been there?

A: DG, Police Bhupinder Singh says,"maybe police were outnumbered".

(Bravo Mr. Singh!! what a million dollar answer!! huh :| how much more incompetent can the police force become?)

Q: Why did public owned buses not ply as promised?

A: "Yesterday, so many buses had been damaged and set on fire. So we decided not to bring out state transport buses today. There was insecurity."-Sumantra Chowdhury, transport secretary.

Great job CPI(M). if you are afraid how the hell will you protect the citizens of West Bengal who have been electing you for decades?

Q: Why did the Congress resort to violence to protest against violence?

A: ------------

Reason unknown as even the Congress cannot justify this one. After all who can justify such vandalism which cripples the entire state machinery?

Q: Why did not the Govt. take a proactive stand?

A: “The people’s recent mandate (Lok Sabha polls) didn’t empower us to take strong action to ensure peace and normality. Let voters now judge the worth of those they have invited to replace us.” - a secretariat member.

So are you taking revenge for your loss in the Lok Sabha polls? I believe you don't want to win the Asssembly polls either because some more incidents like these and the people will surely elect a new Govt. after decades.

With a brave Govt. and even braver police force like ours, Bengal will surely prosper beyond measure... :|

Wait!!!!! I have been blaming the state machinery all this while but what about us citizens? Why are we sitting quiet? Why are we so afraid to step out of our houses during bandhs? Do you think the vandals can actually harm lakhs of people if we all step out? Why are we electing the same stupid Govt. again and again? Don't you think its time for a change of ideas and ideals?

Watsay people????

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