random musings

Thanks to Eid, I am enjoying a long, leisurely weekend. There is that zing in the air which festivals bring about. Today's Eid and Navratri has also begun. Back in my hometown, Navratri was the best thing that could have happened to us. ''Abhivyakti" the garba-dandiya programme was what kept us bursting with enthusiasm. None of us actually gave too much thought what was the significance of Navratri and all we cared about was how to get free passes for abhivyakti, what dresses to wear for the 3/4 nights on which we were to go play dandiya, who all were coming, how to evade our parent's (who came along to keep an eye on us) for a couple of minutes to have a hasty tete-a-tete with our objects of teenage affections.

I still wouldn't have known the reasons for the celebrations but for SA who religiously fasts for both the navratris and 4 months back when she was fasting (during the first set of navratris) I decided to google (I know, shame on me!) why was navratri celebrated. And now that I know, I can disdainfully look down upon everyone who doesn't..hah.

Anyhoo, saw Dil Bole Hadippa. After "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi", we were (again!!) expected to take a reluctant leap of faith to believe that shahid kapoor (anushka sharma) could not figure out that it was the same person that rani mukherjee (shahrukh khan) was playing in her two different avatars. But what I really could not get over is Sherlyn Chopra. That woman is looks so unclean! ughh..we wanted to take her to Turkey, put her in a Hamam and leave her there till every morsel of that pancacky make up and gross sun block is removed from her being. The only redeeming factor in the movie was rani in her chotta sardar attire. She was spunky and hilarious and kept us in splits.

Also saw "Ugly Truth". It was ok-ok. Both Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are great actors but a little ugly.

And just so that you know I am in love with Reshammiya's "Man ka Radio" from the movie Radio.

Today is the last day of the long weekend (sigh!) so now I should take your leave and go back to my sulking.