No Words Necessary!

The following are the images I got in a forward mail. It was such an amazing mail that I sent to almost everybody in my contacts list. But I just realized that what they got was an e-mail with the subject "No Words Neccessary" with no words or images in it.

HA HA HA.....It's so very embarrassing,actually. 

So here are the cute pictures,they missed with added one liners :~)

 “Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Procrastinate Now! "

"Mental backup in progress! Do Not Disturb! I Am NOT Asleep!"

"One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others."

"Please, Lord, let me prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me."

"Anyone who can remain calm during a crisis, just doesn't have all the facts."

                                 "I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert".

                                     "Innocence is always unsuspicious.”

Yes,I know the title says No words necessary but a few words is okay right :~)

With this post, I broke my own rule of not to post any forwards or stories or whatever(excluding images & quotes) from other sources in this blog.

When you break the rules,there comes a freedom so liberating? hmm..Not Always.

Tum mile-Got you ;~)

Movie name: TUM MILE

Genre: Romance
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan, Mantra
Cinematographer: Prakash Kutty
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Producer: Vishesh Films
Writer: Kunal Deshmukh, Ankur Tewari
Banner: Sony Music, Vishesh Films
Music Director: Pritam
Playback Singer: Neeraj Shridhar, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Shadab , Mohit Chauhan, Irfan Ashraf,Javed Ali, Kay Kay
Lyricist: Kumaar , Sayeed Quadri 
Music Company: Sony Music

NOTE: Please don't read this if you haven't yet seen the movie and are planning to. But if you are like me and would rather want to know the story before hand ...go ahead. Well, you can read from the 'what's new to watch' till the end of 'Post Script'  at the end if you don't want to know the story :~)

I hate to be a critic and I don't know how and why I ended up writing such a critical review of the movie I did like the most. This movie is surely worth a watch and Don't miss it.

Synopsis:

Tum Mile is a romantic (?) movie that starts off with both the protagonists meeting in a flight to Mumbai coincidently. And then starts off the flash back with Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan) meeting Akshay (Emraan Hashmi)  for the first time (in Cape town of South Africa) 6 years ago.

Then the movie proceeds with long flashbacks and short present glimpses and we get to know that Sanjana is a (rich dad's only girl) caring, independent,writer who falls in love with Akshay an aspiring artist who hails from a not so rich family, who dreams of making it big one day as an artist (liked by & for the aam adami).

Sanjana is the calm & understanding girl who thinks for both and gives their relation a greater importance while Akshay is the introvert kind who is more of self obsessed with his aspirations. And as we get curious (a very little bit) to know as to why they had to break up, the much hyped Mumbai floods sequence starts. As the floods get them closer again, the flash back reveals on how they parted. What happens next is for you to watch :~P

Review:
The scenes depicting the flash back and the present are a way too interwined that it makes it complicated to make any sense of what you are watching (present/past? )initially.( or may be I must have been too dumb to follow the plot).
The floods part was disappointing. May be a bit more of drama was needed here to emphasize on how a natural calamity could bring (two) people together again. The concept of Mumbai floods seem to have been rather wasted. I still don't understand whom they were aiming to impress in the shot in which the duo gets stuck in a building during the floods and what you see only reminds you of a failed attempt of recreating a bit of Titanic magic.( Who wants a diluted wine in a new bottle?...Not  me.)
But the performance of Soha Ali Khan and Emraan almost nullify all the above said disappointments. Soha though looked too aged (may be the sideeffetcs of using too much of Olay), carried herself so naturally that is worth not to miss. Emraan did his best too and like Soha, suited well for his role. Mantra, as Akshay's friend did make the best use of his time on screen to claim his bit of appreciation.

The live in relationship concept has been neatly and delicately dealt but wonder if it is going to appeal everyone alike?( Yuck! Why am I saying this...aren't we living in the 21st century?

I shall give this movie 3.8 stars out of five-for the simple yet an entertraining story.

What's new to watch?
Less of Emraan's kissing scenes(wasn't he famous for that?) and more of Soha's low necked-sleeveless tops(sure she is gonna get more famous for this). But both look pretty good :~) and the chemistry between them did work well.
What's good to hear?
All the songs are equally good. (or better ask someone else...all music is noise and all noise is heaven to me.)
What's not to miss?
The scene in which Emran paints Soha's picture against a night background.( :~| yuck)
The end title and the home made (apparently) video showing what happens next.:~)

What is the moral of the story?(As I understood)

A man got to be more sensitive to a woman's need. Be it a wife or girlfriend, she wants to be with her man during his ups and downs and expects the same. Apart from cooking,buttoning his shirt, sharing his food and wine, scolding him for smoking, supporting his dreams and sleeping with him she also likes to be cared for. And she also expects to know her partners plan for their future. Its not right to blame her for asking more of his time and her share in the decison making .( A girl is writing this...what do you expect? lol)

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Post Script

----> I have seen a movie after 5 or 6 months and this is the 3rd or 4th movie(not counting any hollywood (in Hbo/star)movies) that I have seen this year.
---->This is the first movie review or synopsis I have ever written. And I am amazed I had the guts to even think of writing something like this (patting my back). Its not easy to follow your wild ideas. duh

-----> I had a hard time finding the name of the writer who wrote the story of Tum Mile. Why are writers never given the credit they desreve??

----->I haven't seen the first 30 minutes of the movie.I still wrote a review :~D

------>I was on time at the theater but Si* one of my friend took the wrong bus and came 15 miutes late and Pa* (the other) hired an unlucky auto whose driver was caught by a traffic police for going in the wrong direction (he took the wrong route cause my frnd was getting late..how sweet of the driver isn't it? ) and got late by 30 minutes.Last heard he was still locked up.

------>Pa* has been teaching me to be Patient since 4 years. She has never been on time for any damn thing...not even during our final (chemistry) exams,bday parties,movies or blah blah.

------>My dad went out of station and he called me up in the morning spoke  for a minute and a half before he hung up saying that 'he loved me & missed me'. He also did the same in the evening. It made me happy but I was worried cause he is not the one who would speak out his emotions.
Then I remebered what my dad said few days ago about an article he read that day. He was explaining my mom about how 3 words when used frequently and geniunely could bring about a happy-positive-effect. I brushed aside his opinion, asking if he meant "I hate you". But :~) today I have understood how goooood it feels to hear what you already know.

-----> If you are still reading this.....please do tell your loved ones- sometimes,how much you love them and need them. It does make wonders. Yes tell your mom & dad the next time you talk to them.

----->Dad & Mom you read this or not I love you and you are the best parents ever.

QUOTES:

a)“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

-Wiiliam Arhur Ward.

b)“A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.”

-Johny Gray.

***Pic Courtesy: Google

"Let's make Our Story"-She Said

4.45Am
He couldn’t sleep all night. He was too excited anticipating how memorable the next day was going to be in his life.
He was almost mad with excitement as he lay on his bed with his big-brown eyes wide open, looking at the night sky through his window. The smile that lit his face when she said she was ready to meet him a week ago was still adorning his boyish-innocent looking face. The sparkle in his eyes which reflected how happy a man in love could be was only getting brighter as each minute ticked by.

He held the little box close by the whole night. A day more and the ring would be on her soft-delicate finger, he thought.

Everything was meticulously planned. The restaurant would be of her favorite choice, decorated with her favorite flowers, the music that would be played once she entered shall be her favorite one. He gave special importance to the ring he would present her. He felt both anxious and happy with all the plans he made to make the day big for him and her.

The sparkle in her eyes, when she would see him is all he dreamt of as he fell asleep staring at the brightest star.

7.45Am

“You don’t want to waste a minute of today. Do you?” He heard his father saying as he woke up to the warm embrace of the sunrays that filled his room.

“Yes”, he said as he smiled back.

Everyone at home - his mother, his dad and he particularly were happy and contempt content that day. He already had this feeling of a happy successful man building up in his heart, as he thought of the events that were to unfold in a few hours. It would be the last day in his aviation academy. One more hour of flying and he would be a licensed pilot. With a track record of distinctions he already had the best offers coming from the best of the best aviation industries.

Flying was his destiny and to reach his destiny was his passion. She once asked him if it would be her or flying and he said the obvious. Though she pretended to be upset with his answer, she felt proud inside.

9.45Am

He got a clearance to fly at 10.00Am that day. But he was always before his due time.

When his instructor called him saying they should postpone the class by an hour, he had a hard time convincing him that he would go alone.

He had no time to spare that day. He planned that he would be landing by 11.00Am,would reach the restaurant by 11.20am and he would still have to pass 10 long minutes before he could see the one who was ruling his heart since 3 years.

10.15Am

A clear sky, a perfect weather and with a happy heart he felt like a king ruling the sky and the world below flying the aircraft, all by himself.

He only wished she was beside him at that moment. As he looked down at the match sized buildings and the pea sized vehicles moving, he wondered if he was flying right above her.

It was amazing the way he met her and fell in love with her. His friends told him love between 2 people never met can never happen. But as he came to know more of her and She more of him…both knew this was it.

Love needs no reason to begin and thereafter not a million reasons could stop it.

Let’s make our own love story, she said and both decided they shall neither see each other for some time until they both felt sure what they were feeling was true and meant to last long.


He took the ring from the box and looked at it for one more time. “2 more hours” he said and winked at the ring with a big smile.

10.45Am

Mr.Rao felt a sudden heaviness in his heart as he read the headlines in big red bold words on his television screen. “Chopper Crashed”

The visuals of a burning chopper, made his mind blank and heart miss a beat. He trembled as his eyes were filled with tears. He was scared as he watched the news for more details.

“The aircraft had crashed straight onto the road. Few people who witnessed the aircraft swirling before it crashed on the road say that the pilot acted in a noble way as he...…Let’s hear to what a witness here has to tell about this fatal accident….” The reporter spoke as the cameraman zoomed on to the burning chopper behind her.

“When the plane crashed, we were right in front of it….we saw that the pilot was hurt and had blood stains all over his face….we first thought he was dead…Everyone was shocked and did not know what to do..We were scared too...but when I saw his hand move…I rushed towards him… he was struggling to free himself… but the seat belt was stuck around him…I was about 4 feet close to him and was about to reach him when he waved me to go away…I was confused and scared …I ran back when I saw the sparks coming off the engine…And in a minute the whole chopper was in flames…See I’m burnt all over my right shoulder and both my hands too…But I feel bad that I couldn’t help him…and to think he waved me to go away…to go away is”, he stopped his sentence incomplete as he burst into tears.

“As is obvious the pilot is A HERO. He tried to save others till his last breath and averted a major mishap from happening. As we can see the human and property loss that could have resulted if the plane hit any of the buildings here or the petrol bunk nearby would be unimaginable…..”The reporter continued.

“NO…NOT MY SON”, Mr. Rao shouted.

But when he heard the reporter say his son’s name…he felt numb.

4.45Pm

“It’s an accident case Dr. Siya. We have to submit the report as early as possible.” Dr.Riyaz told her.

She silently went in to the post mortem room. Her profession made her too strong she thought as she saw the corpse lying in front of her. She saw many indigestible sights before but this one was the most horrifying. The face was burnt beyond recognition and the body charred.

“There is something here…” her assistant murmured pointing towards the dead man’s hand.

She saw a little box tightly held in his right fist. She opened the box and saw the most beautiful ring ever with the letters S&A inscribed in a heart.


A diamond ring the way she told him she wanted with the first letters of his&her name inscribed together within a single heart.

“Ankit” She said and the next moment her heart stopped.
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“You don’t believe this”? She asked him.


“Yes, I don’t.” He said with a  smile.


“Wait a minute.” She said as she went to fetch something.


“Look at this.” She said as she handed him 2 diaries.


On the first page of both the diaries a photo was stuck. One was the photo of a beautiful girl in her apron with a stethoscope in her hands and the other was a man in his aircraft. One thing that was striking in both of the pictures was the sparkle in their eyes and the smiles that lit their faces.


“They made their story...a touching one.” He said rather to himself.

"Let's make our story.....a happy one" She said

                                                                                    [To Be Continued...]
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P.S
1.A trainee aircraft plane crashed on 8th Sep of 2008.
Link to the news article:
Link one(Thaindian News)
Link Two(NDTV)
2. The witness part of the story is all true. Neeraj Jain-the instructor did wave his hand that day.
3. This story good or bad is dedictated to Neeraj Jain of whom I am  profoundly reminded of each time I see an aircraft fly by.
4. Here goes the quote from source unknown "Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end."That means I am gonna write more :~P

Common man

Rk Laxam's common man redrawn and colorized.

Drawing this was FUN. But everything is supposed to have a purpose and a message.So does this one.

In the life of a Teacher/Actor/Doctor/Lawyer/Scholar/Politician/Criminal/
Priest/Rich/Poor or a Common Man there is someone who holds a
Special place.

Q) Who is it?
A).......................

Guess.Its not a tough question.Do give me your answers in the comments form and I will post my answer soon.

November Already

'Wake me up when Spetember ends',this is one of the many songs I have listened to for a hundred or more times since the past couple of months. September ended so did October but not my new found passion for listening to gloomy songs and corealting myself to it.
Minutes and days have passed horribly slow all these months. But again to think that 2009 is going to end in less than 2 months is astounding. I am trying hard to think of all the good times I had this year but nothing seems to showup. Not that I had a rough time all along but the few I had were strong enough to overshadow all those good memories :~( 
I know this is how life is for most of us. We don't get what we want most of the times. And to not get what you whole heartedly-truly-ever wanted is disappointing, disheartening and whatever you think that fits in here. If you have everything you want then go away,this planet is not for you.