ek din bikharna yaha !!

Love the song...love it to bits!! So when Lucky Ali was on air performing for MTV unplugged i waited for this song to come on..Did not happen...next course of action..take to Youtube,,,and there it was!!

Kitni haseen zindagi!!...loved the song, loved malaika arora in it...far removed from her chaiyya chaiyya and munni days :)..loved the part where she kinda lugs the box around only for it to open and spill!!! took me back to my days as a kid when i'd be glued to te telly for the song to show itself..wiki tells me they released it back in 2001..gosh almost 12 years!!! took me right back there

tumhe bhi kabhi ye satate hain
muskuraan ke dil ko churaate hain
jeene ko toh dil yeh chaahtaa hain
jaane phir kyun sharmaata hain!!


such bliss!!

Bilqis !!!

It is a shame that songs like Bilqis get lost amongst the 'champa-chameli' songs of the day. I dont mean any disrespect to the aforementioned songs but I would love, if songs like these could get a tad more airtime.

And the fact that this song has been around for more than four years just makes it worse.I chanced upon it by random luck.

 The song expresses an angst that I assume most of us feel in ourselves every-time we hear depressing news of injustice perpetrated in various places.

Hats-off to Rabbi for having the inclination to come out with a song that echoes with what I feel in my heart...and as far as the song goes...awesomeness!!!
Love it!!!

Paes Bhupati Saga

I am a fan of Leander Paes..unabashed fan of Lee right from the days he started playing with Ramesh Krishnan in 1991..been following him since then and watched most of his Davis cup triumphs as a wide eyed boy!!
And Leander Paes never disappointed, he may have not had the best of singles career with titles of note..but cometh the Indian flag and cometh the man. Playing for India in Davis Cup he has been phenomenal beating guys like Ivanisevic, Rios, Henman names i remember who were in their prime and ranked several places above him. It was a treat to sit through those matches and watch him perform for the country. Yes today he is a champion doubles player but i remember him most as the guy who kept coming back from the brink and wining it for the nation.

 The recent episode that happened is just a tad too much. I am biased towards Leander and believe he has been treated shabbily. When playing for the country i think its only fair that people keep aside their personal differences and come together to obtain the best possible result. Cole and Sheringham at United did not see eye to eye but were a fearsome strike-force together.

Bhupati and Bopanna unilaterally deciding to boycott Paes was not fair. I understand them wanting to play with each other and both having split with their respective partners and working for a year but even then they knew that the final decision rested with the AITA and if AITA thought that Paes-Bhupati combo was the best then in interest of the nation they should have agreed to it.

It was more a case of Bhupati and Bopanna holding the tennis association to ransom and arm-twisting to get their way. I wish AITA had showed more balls and told the both of them to either honour the selection committee or not go to Olympics. Instead they came up with a so called compromise formula allowing Bhupati and Bopanna to pair and having Leander to go with a low ranked player.

At the end of the day Paes is still the highest ranked Indian doubles player and it would have made more sense to pair Mahesh or Rohan with him.. and knowing how the Indian Express has fared before I wish we could have seen together one last time at the Olympics which definitely will be the last for both of them.

It remains to be seen how Leander reacts to the compromise formula which is highly unfair to him, I somehow think Leander might just play this being his 6th olympics and its a rare honour for any sportsperson to be part of 6 consecutive Olympics. He might just take the compromise formula considering tomorrow not many people might remember him withdrawing but having being there for 6 Olympics would be a part of History.

And if he does withdraw, I will be pleasantly surprised. If anything the saga seems to keep rolling on.

Ekla Chalo Re

If they answer not to thy call walk alone,

If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,

O thou unlucky one,

open thy mind and speak out alone.

If they turn away, and desert you when crossing the wilderness,

O thou unlucky one,

trample the thorns under thy tread,

and along the blood-lined track travel alone.

If they do not hold up the light when the night is troubled with storm,

O thou unlucky one,

with the thunder flame of pain ignite thy own heart

and let it burn alone.

DIANA PENTY!!! COCKTAIL- HEADY

So just happened to watch the first look from the movie Cocktail, and the song is instantly likeable, tumhi bandhu :) very likeable..very nice groove to it.. what was more surprising was the first time i saw the song i hardly saw Deepika Padukone.
It may not be "very easy" to overshadow her, but when a newcomer does it...thats something...enter Diana Penty...firecracker!!! completely took my breath away (yes married men are allowed to have their breath taken away, atleast i hope so)..had me scrambling online to get to know who the lady was!! and i am not disappointed at all. No clue how the film would fare or how her career would be..or maybe i speak too early..but i am a fan.

Wonder what prompted Imtiaz Ali to ditch her and go for Nargis Fakhri, to his credit he did recommend her for this one. Let's see how this one goes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D8GYi4n_gHUc&rct=j&sa=X&ei=jV7HT-6oApGPiAeH8ZjfDg&ved=0CDwQuAIwAA&q=tumhi+ho+bandhu+youtube&usg=AFQjCNH491gEahs4cjLnY-WXfKvZr4rKbA&cad=rja

How True

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and
you are the easiest person to fool.
—RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize-winning physicist

THANK YOU RAHUL DRAVID.

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity, and it was about upholding the spirit of the game," he said."I hope I have done some of that."
Yes, you have!!!.

Thank You for being the player you were on-field and the person off it, for giving immeasurable joy, pride and moments that every indian fan cherishes. a big heartfelt thank you from a fan for lighting up the era that i have been part of as a fan, thank you for your grit, determination, passion. No tribute would be worthy of what you gave us fans battling in the middle.

 All I can say is thank you for being Rahul Dravid

Happy independence day

Guess no better day to start writing again than the day 65 years down the line my beloved country writhed out of the clutches of the British and started her march onwards in the wide unknown realm dreams in a million eyes..prayer on their lips... hope in their hearts... funnily 65 years down the line we still are pretty much along similar lines

Not in the least meaning to sound despondent..but deep down i somehow feel sad looking at the spate of things occurring. Tomorrow Anna Hazare starts a fast for get his way with the lokpal bill, though i admire his honest effort to do something for the corrupt ways existing here and applaud his intentions having a Lokpal will simply not cure the ills that ail our system

The malaise starts with us, me and you, us the giver.. as much guilty as the one who receives the bribe.. till the time we as a society are governed by the need to get our things at a jiffy with the least of work involved..to bend rules our way.. to suit things up the way we need albeit at a cost..we will continue to rot in this mess..Anna or Lokpal notwithstanding..

The more i think the more morose i looking outta the windows and watching the poorest of poor toil for their daily bread and get paid peanuts close to a parked BMW i am not sure my country's tryst with destiny is heading up the right alley!!

INDIA WINS THE WORLD CUP!!!

thank you team India for the joy..incredible...part of history!!!

Sachin finally has a world cup..for 21 years as Kohli said he carried India...now something back for him...and cannot express how happy the nation of a billion is by your feat on the field..amazing...surreal!!!

City lights

You illuminate my being. When the sun goes down and vapors of a hot and humid day hang low, you tiptoe along one by one across the skyline. Soft-footed. I lay back and marvel at how you engulf the velvet blue of the evening and add a surreal neon glow to the edges of the sky. You are the prelude to a wafer-thin moon floating like a forgotten kite; the precursor to tiny, mad hoppers appearing out of nowhere, flitting across the grass like Gulliver’s little world come alive. You come on and make a hushed shadow fall across the park and embolden me enough to grasp the dark lushness of grass with a certain fearlessness. You do not deter plump little fireflies -they still appear, not bedazzled by your light but a little lost in spite of their own. There is comfort in your impersonal, flickering fire. You are the beacon, the siren call, the true north that all dark thoughts seek.