But I don't know...

I think everyone who knows me is blessed!
No I am not taking away from the fact that you would have done something great in your past life to have known me (Ila flickers eyelids!!)

I sincerely believe that God has given you the innate power to understand what I mean when I say "But I dont know"!! I have been made fun of, have been scolded b y many and have been made to realize that I need to communicate!!

Just by saying "But I dont know" I can't assume that you would know what I want to say!
But the beauty is I assume and I am understood!! I hope I am not saying this a litle too early but I really don't know!

Am glad all of you are blessed with this innate ability!!

Cheers!!

Four loong hours: My Tribute!

Someone told me that when you got to watch that movie...go with someone you love and now I know why?!?!!

You REALLLY need to go watch it with someone whom you deeply love and are meeting after ages (I have further helped you classify your company!!) Go watch JODHA AKBAR!! with the movie comes lots of time in between to catch up and make conversation...Whilst Mallika - e - HIndustan is having her lunch you can actually talk about matters you have been wanting to discuss for a looong time!!

Well, I went with people with whom I actually spend every waking minute in Bombay and still made so much of conversation...so you can imagine the advantages of watching Jodha Akbar! its not a bad bet at all..you get the person's undivided attention for four hours...not a bad investment at all!!

We went for the 6'o clock show and now when I think of itI have no idea why we were so excited and why we even went in the first place!! Running to buy the tickets...we reach the counter, stand in the queue and teher is this man who is standing behind me who I assumed was also waiting to buy tickets...I turn around and this is the conversation I have

Man in queue: Madam bhada?
Ila: What?? Nandita didnt you pay him?
Nandita (a little irritated cos she is fighting with some lady): Who??
Ila: The auto man!!
Nandita(vehemently like she thinks its the auto man's fault!): No

I think she was more interested in fighting with the lady at the counter...she didnt want her to get tickets before we did, so she just turns around gives me a 100 rupee and turns back to the counter. It was war!! such juvenile friends I have who claim to be 23 I tell you!!

Since we are catching the movie right after work, we are lugging around our laptops with us. quiet tedious and quiet a sight, three women, three laptops, one take away bag and three flights of stairs!! So we find our seats and this gentleman who is sitting next to me has come alone and I have no clue how he managed! and we finally settle down!

The national anthem begins playing...all three of us are sitting with laptops in our laps and Neha just isnt getting up! I look at her and give her "where's your patriotism ddue" look and she says
"Ye pakad laptop yahan se!!"
Okay then!!!
(The enthu uncle to my right full on patriotic is singing away to glory with full fervour!)

The movie starts and enthu uncle screams "Oye Red Fort"
and then I thought that was the end of it but after 5 minutes again
"Oye Red Fort"

So with this guy going "Oye Red Fort" every five minutes. the little attention that I was paying to the movie also went for a toss!

My observations -

• If you can say five words in Urdu you just lost an employment opportunity with Jodha Akbar
• The process in which dialogues were rattled off...1..2..3..DIALOGUE!! I am very sure!
  
• The swagger with which our man Roshan walks and talks is so not like an Akbar's .. its like the next thing he will say is " Wheres the party tonight dude!"
• Aishwarya rai was at her best when she was playing with the rabbits
• that Sufi song where Akbar suddenly gets divine enlightenment and starts dancing with the other sufi singers who according to Nandita were wearing teracotta pots on their heads has lyrics that go "Shaam ka shampoo"
• "Takliya" all three of us felt was Urdu for f off!

The story line is also completely new, so fresh never seen before!! Jealous mother-in-law, plots against Jodha ma, misunderstanding between shehansheji and Mallika - E - Hindustaan, kiss and make up and finally war and Shehanshaji all encompassing in the end...I guess!!

Why do I say "I guess"?? Because guess what we got up towards the end...the prospect of cheap alcohol and chilling was seeming like a far more enticing prospect! so we went to Bandra Gymkhana and before the alcoholic hangover we had to deal with Nandita's Jodha Akbar hangover and her want to be called "Mallika - E - Hindustaan" and let me remind you yet again that our Mallika - E - HIndustaan is 23!!

Cheers and Takliya!

Theatrics!!

The stage was set, the music was playing...a brilliant symphony adding to the wait...the stage was low, the lighting was just perfect and I was excited!!!

It was a 9'o clock show and I was waiting, all excited and loving the experience of being where I was. Now where was I?? (From my previous writings you would have observed I am very good at creating suspense...n I can almost imagine you wanting to know where I was with baited breath...modesty I tel you!!)

I was at Prithvi...waiting for the curtains to draw (not that there were any!!)...waiting for the play to start...I was loving it, every second of the experience...for two reasons -
one because I was about to watch a play after a fairly long time...the last being when Prithvi had come to Delhi with Footsbarn and that was almost some two to three years ago and secondly because I have been part of plays and have done my share of theater and the "theatrical" me was getting more and more excited with every passing second...expecting something out of the ordinary!!

I had gone to watch this play called "C for Clowns" and it had the most brilliant actors as part of the cast - Vinay Pathak, ranvir Shorey and Rajat Kapoor (directed also by him)
The play started at 9 and from the word go I was thoroughly enjoying every minute, laughing out loudly...BRILLIANT is the word!!

These guys did it so effortlessly and naturally that the effect was completely and absolutely stunning...I was at a loss of words and still am...they touched the perfect chord with the audience and the end result was a job well done!! It was a good start to getting back to theater after the hiatus!

After the play we chilled at the Prithvi cafe and it was a brilliant end to the amazing evening!!
My only regret being I discovered this place a bit too late :(

Cheers

BIRD SHIT!

Ever since i have started writing... this is my third post wat to do my muse isnt inspiring me only =)
hardly any blogging happening...disappointed i knw cos all of u had been waiting for me to post...i knw i knw!! so back on public demand..its not a gd thing to make a writer write under pressure you know...but all your enthusiasm couldnt stop me!

Well Tuesday was all about bird shit n the luck it brought with it!!
I am running late for office, while crossing the road a bird shits, I mean a bird shits yes but it shat on me!! I was super pissed but then what my ma used to tell me "if a bird shits on you its lucky!!" thought came to my mind!

I then thought lets ignore the shit part of it and start anticipating a lucky day ahead:) i think the optimist that i wanted to be!! Tuesday turned out to be... Read on!

So i enter office with bird shit on my kurta trying to hide it with my bag hoping and pleading to God that I dont meet anyone on my way...but when its ur lucky day God wants to shower you with all the luck you know....i meet the very person who is overlooking our work!! =) I mean couldnt get luckier!!

And then this new pair of shoes I just bought ... wearing them for the third time, I was just standing around and the heel breaks!! Luck i tell you...great now i have to walk around office with a broken heel all day and the day has just started..so here I am walking with one broken heel on brand new shoes in my hope of passing it off as "IN" but I think the person that I am it only came across as a broken heel! sigh...

It doesnt end here...

And then I was told to introduce myself to someone BIG in the organisation...
Ila: "i am a graduate in English literature from Delhi University"
BIG MAN: "So who is your fave author?"
Ila: "right now its JK Rowling (I genuinely like her)
BIG MAN: Blank look trying to tell me weirdo you are a lit grad you ought to be more intellectual than that
Ila: (BEAT THIS NOW) I say from "Classic Lit" its that man!!(What was I thinking pls tel me!!)
BIG MAN: Blank look trying to tell me weirdo you are a lit grad you ought to be more intellectual than that
Ila: Takes 2 mins and says "Salman Rushdie"

I am sorry if those of you who know me are disappointed in me or are laughing at me in all probability but thats how bad an intro can go u know!!
So the BIG MAN probably went away thinking I am a freak of nature who the company recruited by mistake and trust me I was feeling the same!! It was insane!!

Then careless me also managed to drop chocolate sauce on myself...so in all wow!!

It dsnt end here yet...God wanted it to be a far more luckier day you see!!
I was supposed to send a mail to the person I met in the lift with an attachment, I sent the mail but WITHOUT the attachment and I leave the office, rch home check my mail and the man from the lift had replied back saying

hi,
You forgot the attachment :)

and I just wanted to say ya watever! the guy probably was thinking what an idiot..but now i was beyond thinking!!

so I reach back home and I am telling ma what a royally screwed up day I had and I start off with "Bird shit" and Ma says...GUESS WHAT

"if a bird shits on you its lucky!!"

I tell you its a vicious circle...
wat can i say
LUCKY ME;)

As good as it gets!!

okay first let me make it clear...these lyrics have been googled, i dont know them...i swear to God i dont know them!

Nashta Tyyar Hai Sir,
Aur Kuchh Chahiye Bulein to Mein
Yeh just give me some hip hop
hip hop hip hop hip Let's go
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Hey Hey
Work it girl
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Hey Aye
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Work it girl
Meri pyaar ki dariya mein meri love ki dariyaa mein, ek dupki lo na sir
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Kya tu bak rahi hai
Aise tak rahi hai
Khopdi pak rahi hai
Ruk ruk ruk ruk ruk ruk ruk
Baksheesh bhi diya
Bonus bhi diya
Chahiiye tujhko kya
fut fut fut fut
Tere Ghar mein bartan shartan Manjhti hun main brabar
Tu kabhi to Mere dil ke ghar mein pochha kar diya kar
God! She thinks she's hot like rekha
Maybe but she's not my flavour
Loving her is too much labour labour labour
How can I start her hip hopper
She's my bai just a part time naukar
it-----------
just give me some hip hop
just give me some hip hop
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Work it girl
Mere pyar ki rikshaw ko
Mere love ki rikshaw ko
Ek dhakka do na sir
Aye hip hopper Aye hip hopper
mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Ish! Sir lo na phone
Shhhh!
Meri girlfriend aa rahi hai tu kab ja rahi hai
Kyun sata rahi hai
Ruk ruk ruk ruk ruk ruk ruk
Usko pata jo chale to hoga woh
Socha na hoga jo
fut fut fut fut
Tujhko har din khana vana main khilati hun paka kar
Aaj mere dil ke taway pe rotiyan tu sek le aakar
there's no bai I know quite like her
if my girl finds out she'll strike her
coz she's the bomb
damn I like her like her
lock the door bend down lets do it
mop the floor turn around lets do it
all the bai's cook it up lets do it
just give me some hip
hip hop hip just give me some
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Mere pyar ki basti mein
Mere love ki basti mein
Kuch masti ho jaye sir
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper
Aye hip hopper mujhe pyaar to kar aye hip hopper


Alrite alrite...if you got thru that!!
can we please discuss what the motivation behind the lyrics of this song could be?? i mean i know i am a literature student and all of that...but critical analysis fails me here!!
Inexplicible!

" Meri pyaar ki dariya mein meri love ki dariyaa mein, ek dupki lo na sir"
Ek dupki lo na sir and then a crescendo..aye hip hopper!! these are such hilarious thoughts and the creative genius behind this song really needs to be saluted! i mean the song moved me enough to write abt it(the fact that I am jobless is another issue!)
how does someone take a dupki in the love ki dariyaa? I can almost imagine a Bo Derek like figure coming out of the water!! (sorry thats the first association that I came up with)

" Tujhko har din khana vana main khilati hun paka kar
Aaj mere dil ke taway pe rotiyan tu sek le aakar"
Ingenious i tell u...the likes of jaaved akhtar need to start worrying...so meaningful!! such depth!!

" Tere Ghar mein bartan shartan Manjhti hun main brabar
Tu kabhi to Mere dil ke ghar mein pochha kar diya kar"
Just because "the part time naukar" washes the "bartan shartan" in an orderly fashion??

I will need all your help to go deeper into the understanding such an abstract piece of art and appreciate it. I am so sure the lyricist and the singer are trying to promote world peace throughthis song. there si surely a deeper more profound meaning to this!! and I am seraching still!!

Cheers!

"Are we sundancing it today??"

"Are we sundancing it today??"
This is a question my ears were conditioned to hear every single evening (well almost!!) and now that we have been dislocated I have decided it is time to give this place, our haven a tribute!!
Located 5 mins away from Churchgate station...this place Sundance became our second home, the first being the shady mahim PG(on that some other time!)

we would rush to reach at 6:30 , order and start chilling.
Now who are the "we", "us" and what is the order and why 6:30??
one at a time...we includes anyone who would want to join the sundance musketeers(yes thats what Neha, nandita and me(more on Neha and Nandita later!!) have started being called) for a chilled evening over "the order"(boy do I know how to create suspense or what!!) and mind you there used to be quiet a few who would want to join the "sundance musketeers" so its not that we were completely useless, not that we dont like spending time with eachother alone!!

And yes now "THE ORDER" -
It always used to be Nandita "Bhaiya 2 vodka large, 1 rum large aur 3 cokes"
Bhaiya: Coke nahi Pepsi
Nandita: haan pepsi, acha bhaiya diet pepsi hai?
Bhaiya: Haan
nandita: acha 2 diet pepsi, aur bhaiya namkeen and loads of lemon slices

this is the conversation like it happens every single time!! no changes even in the articles...i swear!!

6:30 - 8 in the evening - happy hours at sundance and boy did we take that phrase seriously? and did we live up to it?? i dont think i would want to give any prizes for guessing that!!

"what is discussed at sundance stays at sundance" was the first rule that was set and do we follow that to the tee!! endless sessions of gossip and more gossip and even more gossip!!! thinking about the future, fantasising and fantasising some more...then after sometime realising that all this is so temporary(senti stuff i wil save for the end though)

the second rule that we set but have not been able to stick to - nandita should not start singing after downing her first drink!! and it has been so difficult to keep her shut that even the uncle has come up to us and told us that he does not have a license for people to sing and if the police comes we would have to pay 15000 bucks(no I am not kidding!!) that still does not keep her shut!


In the middle of these sessions I take my regular walk down to the cigarette man and pick up cigis for these people and I owe so much to this place...I actually got to understand the difference between the different brands, I now know that it is Classic milds and Goldflake lights(more on that later too)!! so sundance not only lets you be, it also helps you grow in terms of the kind of knowledge that you carry back!

It is just the feel to the place...the lighting, the arm rest where you can lean and sit, be screamed for it, laughing away to glory, just chilling, laughing away to glory, having repeat after repeat and then calling for another repeat! its just the best place to be, to chill!! so this is my first favourite thing - SUNDANCE!!

CHEERS!!!!