I Hate Love Story

Oooooooooooooofffffffffff I hate love stories.
Bollywood love stories are mere non sense….. Bollywood heroes flaunt their flirting attitude and heroines are still portrayed to be one man woman. Please yaar, which stupid girl would wait for unfaithful, Mr wrong guy, although she loves Mr Wrong? When are they going to start making realistic movies?
If Bollywood has accepted guys flirting with 10 girls why cant bollywood accept a girl rejecting a flirt guy forever. Girls do say no to guys who threats girls as toys (use n throw). I am waiting for such movie.

Bharat Bandh Against Price Raise

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/Inflation-CPI.aspx?Symbol=INR
This site will give clear picture about inflation rate in last year. The government has still raised fuel price which will replicate raise in prices for other commodities.
Opposition parties had called for ‘Bharat Bandh’ on 5th July 2010 against price raise which was supported by aam janata. 60% people came out in support of Bandh in India, 72% in Maharashtra. Aam janta has shown disapproval to the government on price raise.
India has incurred loss of 13,000 cr Rs in one day. That’s the negative side of Bandh. Aam janta is hopeful to see some positive outcome from this protest.
We also must appreciate that we have freedom in our country to protest against government and be proud that we are part of a nation which is truly democrat.

One More Fav Number

tujhase naaraaz nahi zindagi, hairaan hoon main
o hairaan hoon main
tere masoom savalon se pareshaan hooN main
o pareshaan hoon main

jeene ke liye socha hi na tha, dard sambhalane honge
muskuraoon to, muskurane ke karz utaarne honge
muskuraoon kabhi to lagata hai
jaise hontonn pe karz rakhaa hai
tujhase ...

aaj agar bhar ayi hai, boondein baras jaayengi
kal kya pata inke liye aakhen taras jayengi
jaane kahan gum kahan khoya
ek aansu chhupake rakha tha
tujhase ...

zindagi tere gum ne hamain rishte naye samajhaye
mile jo hamain dhoop main mile chhaanv ke thande saaye

o tujhase ...

Visual

Movie : Masoom (1983)
Music : R D Burman
Lyrics : Gulzar
Singer : Anup Ghoshal

Wanna Know about Paulo Celho.....

He has got amazing art of telling complex fundas of life in simpler manner
His Biography
his Blog
Paulo On Twitter

Old Melody

Dil ki nazar se, nazaron ki dil se
Ye baat kya hai, ye raaz kya hai
Koi hamein bataa de

Seene se uthkar, honton pe aaya
yye geet kiska, ye raaz kya hai
Koi hamein bataa de, dil ke nazar se...

(Kyon bekhabar, yoon kheenchi si chali jaa rahi main
Ye kaun se bandhanon mein bandhi jaa rahi main)-2
Kuch kho raha hai, Kuch mil raha hai
Ye baat kya hai, ye raaz kya hai

Koi hamein bataa de, dil ki nazar se ..

(Ham kho chale, chaand hai ya koi jaadugar hai
Yaa, madbhari, ye tumhari nazar ka asar hai)-2
Sab kuch hamara, ab hai tumhara
Ye baat kya hai, ye raaz kya hai
Koi hamein bataa de, dil ki nazar se ..

(Aakaash mein, ho rahen hain ye kaise ishaare
Kya, dekh kar, aaj hain itne khush chaand taare)-2
Kyon tum paraaye, dil mein samaaye
Ye baat kya hai, ye raaz kya hai

Koi hamein bataa de, dil ki nazar se ..

Visual

Movie : Anadi - 1959
Lyricist : Shailendra
Music Director : Shankar Jaikishan
Singer(s) : MUKESH, LATA MANGESHKAR

I am happy about my own creation of this

Everyone is innocent when he/she born; even a prostitute, a terrorist or an underworld don.

Had one more rocking birthday My kids made it little more special this time

Birthday is always special day of life as one gets extra attention on D Day. I have been very fortunate to always being surrounded by friends and loved ones all the time (nazar na lagao). Every birthday of mine has always been celebrated with lots of Josh with my cousins and my friends.
But, this time it was little more eventful as my birthday treat was arranged by my kids(@ office), who are much younger to me. (Till now its been arranged by my parents, by me or by my friends who are of my age.) and they arranged it so well, they made me so special that I have no words to express. The best part was they planned it like my ideal dream. They took me to Nariman Point, one of the most fav place of mine in Mumbai. My every wish, however silly it was, was fulfilled. I got a cute balloon as my birthday gift. I just loved being with them.
May God bless them and may my every birthday be as rocking as they have been till now.

All Time Inspirational

There is always time in life when you start doubting you and your ideal values. You might feel to give upon those. Then I would say its right time to read this - Become A Man Of Achievement!
Here is the punch line -
Swami Vivekananda says, "Never mind the struggles and the mistakes. Hold on to the ideal a thousand times and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. Be bold. Be strong. Stand up and fight! Not a step back!!"

One More Good Song

Aye khuda mujhko bataa tu rehta kahan, kya tera pataa
Hum to yahan pe musafir hain, jo doondhe apni manzil ka pataa
Aye khuda mujhko bataa tu rehta kahan, kya tera pataa (pataa)
Hum to yahan pe musafir hain, jo doondhe apni manzil ka pataa

Yaada teri yaada aati hai, jaan meri jaan jaati hai
Tanhaion mein rehta hoon, khud se hi aksar ye kehta hoon
Kyun tune dil toda, kyun tune yun choda
Kyun tera abh bhi rahe dil ko intezaar
Kyun chali aati hai, kyun tadpaati hai
Kyun hoon abh bhi main yun bekaraar
Aye khuda mujhko bataa tu rehta kahan, kya tera pataa (pataa)
Hum to yahan pe musafir hain, jo doondhe apni manzil ka pataa

Faasle hain magar phir bhi tu door nahin
Maanke hum to hai, par tu majboor nahin
Har lamha mujhko ye tadpati hai, jaan meri jaan jaati hai
Tanhaion mein rehta hoon, khud se hi aksar ye kehta hoon
Kyun tune dil toda, kyun tune yun choda
Kyun tera abh bhi rahe dil ko intezaar
Kyun chali aati hai, kyun tadpaati hai
Kyun hoon abh bhi main yun bekaraar
Aye khuda mujhko bataa tu rehta kahan, kya tera pataa (pataa)
Hum to yahan pe musafir hain, doondhe apni manzil ka pataa
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Yaada teri yaada aati hai, jaan meri jaan jaati hai
Tanhaion mein rehta hoon, khud se hi aksar ye kehta hoon
Kyun tune dil toda, kyun tune yun choda
Kyun tera abh bhi rahe dil ko intezaar
Kyun chali aati hai, kyun tadpaati hai
Kyun hoon abh bhi main yun bekaraar
Aye khuda mujhko bataa tu rehta kahan, kya tera pataa (pataa)
Hum to yahan pe musafir hain, jo doondhe apni manzil ka pataa

Film/Album: Paathshaala
Singer(s): Lucky Ali, Salim Merchant
Music Director: Hanif Sheikh
Lyricist: Hanif Sheikh
Picturised on: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia
Choreographer: Ahmed Khan
Length: 4:43
Music Label: T-Series

Could not refrain myself from putting on my blog

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

Commitment To Excellence

Mahatma Gandhi got it right – “A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence."
Here is a good blog about Excellence:
Speaking of Excellence

On the occasion of women's reservation bill

Women's Reservation Bill, ensuring 33% reservation to women in Parliament and state legislative bodies, is it really required?
Well, I am certainly not in favor of any kind of reservation. Capable people should be holding the deserving positions in any of the system of this country whether its parliament, defense, medical science, education system or in any other damn system.

I do agree in India still there are places especially in rural areas women are dominated by men. They are deprived of the opportunities. But reservation is not the solution for this. Running programs to encourage women to explore the opportunities, educating them, giving concessions or providing additional facilities, making them aware of their rights is the way to empower them. If they don’t have the potential to do right justice to their responsibilities they are going to fail even after reservation.

They might become puppets and someone else would operate them. Men who may not contest the election for being quota system ask their ladies to contest and eventually rule the world according to them. Do we want to see more Rabdidevis everywhere?

Reservation is not giving the right candidate right opportunity. It raises frustration in society, reduces efficiency of the system and divides the society in groups.

Reservation is certainly not the solution of empowering any group or any community.

Alchemist - Is it only about following dreams?

Alchemist the amazing book. The author has succeeded to narrate difficult philosophy in very simpler words.
Here is the review about the book:
Review 1 Review 2 Review 3 Review 4

But I guess its more than that, its not only about following the dream. “when you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.” This is not the only thing the author wants to tell the reader. Its much more than that.

The King Plays major role in Santiago’s life. He helps him to follow his dream when he is about to give up. He advices - Destiny is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, they are not afraid to dream and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet : whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, its because that the desire originated in the soul of the universe. Its your mission on earth.
The soul of the universe is nourished by people’s happiness and also by unhappiness, envy and jealousy. To realize once destiny is a person’s only obligation. All things are one.

Santiago, the boy, opted to be shepherd because he likes to travel whereas the baker also had wish to travel the world decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. The boy never thought of peoples’ mentality of thinking bakers are more important to people than shepherd. He just continued doing what he likes without thinking about society.

The king narrate a story which concludes – the secret of the happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oils on the spoon symbolic to purpose of the life.

We should keep listening to Omen, the good signs to find the treasure, our destiny. One should learn the language of universe for the same.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

The boy works with crystal seller to go back but when he collects enough money to return back he thinks for a moment before returning back and decides to head towards Egypt thinking he is two hrs closer to Egypt. That’s a positive attitude.

The Alchemist tells a story about dream of a father, an angel tells him that the words of one of his sons would be leaned and repeated throughout the world for all the generations to come. He thinks it’s the one who is poet. But it happens to be the one who goes to serve at a distant place. So the story advices, no matter what person does, every person on the earth plays a central role in the history of the world and normally he doesn’t know it.

Where your treasure is, there will be your heart. That means your heart will lead you to the destiny that’s your dream.

The peak of the story is when Santiago wants himself to turn into wind.
The desert creates game to nourish falcon, falcon nourishes man and then man nourishes the desert where the game will once again flourish. That’s what love is. It makes the game become falcon, the falcon become man and man in his turn, the desert.

The alchemist’s secret is – we have inside us the wind, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, everything created in this universe. We all are made by same hands and we have same soul. Hindu Vedas talks about same thing everything is made up of panchamahabhoota (five elements), aap (water), tej (fire), vaayu (wind), pruthvi (earth), akasha (sky) and eventually everything turns to panchamahabhoota.

Its true that everything has its destiny, but one day the destiny will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better and to acquire a new destiny until someday the soul of the world becomes one thing only.
This is why alchemy exists. So that everyone will search for his destiny (the dream, the purpose of his existence), find it and then want to be better than he was in his former life.
Bhagvat Geeta talks the same, The God has created everyone for some purpose. When the purpose is fulfilled the life ends and new life is born. The cycle continues till the soul realizes you are same as that of creator.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the soul of the world.
We think the soul of world is perfect. But its also like other aspects of creation and has its own passions and wars. It’s we who nourish the soul of world. The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse. And that’s where power of love comes in. Because when we love we always strive to become better than what we are.

We should realize we are part of god and we have all the power to perform the miracles. This state is achieved when we see no difference in God and us. That’s what is called as achieving Moksha.

For me moral of the Alchemist is :
Everything is created by same hands with some purpose. We should follow our heart, listen to omen to know and fulfill the purpose our life. We should not fear to realize our destiny. We should spread love because that’s the language of soul of the world which is nourished by all of us. If we want the world to be better we need to be better and love is the force which transforms and improves the soul hence the soul of the world.

Whats so unique about Chetan Bhagat?

Chetan Bhagat is one more buzz word in India today. He has got unique style of writing which makes simple things very interesting. You can easily relate to his stories.
The thing I like about his books is he has small little revolutionary thoughts which he conveys in a very simpler way through his characters. I can feel his love for India in every story by him. And I feel he is trying to change the thoughts of Indian youth through his books. He might not be great writer as Arundhati Roy but he is reaching to roots of India. He criticizes the system, the characters in his stories are passionate and try to do all sort of weird stuff to make it possible which is sometimes very unrealistic.
The only thing I don’t like is at times he gets too dramatic like Bollywood movies that the story doesn’t give realistic feel and reader get feeling ‘yeh to sirf movie (CB ke stories) me hota hein’.
Do read CB’s books he is not that bad. J

Do you have answers for these?

The last thing you would like to do in your life is.............
--- to compromise on my dreams and values.

5 things you can not live without....
--- my dreams, my family the backbone of my life, India, my friends, my work

You get restless when....
--- When I think I am failing to fulfill my dreams

Ideal Match

Thanks for the overwhelming response to my last blog. Its really good to know different views of people.
We talked about love, we talked about relationship, shall we talk about Ideal Match now?

For me Ideal Match is compatible match. The ideal for me may not be ideal for you. Everyone has some expectations for his or her dream partner. I had read somewhere, every human has emotional needs, intellectual needs and sexual needs. When these needs are met by the partner, one enjoys the relation.
I guess apart from this, your values, your beliefs, your lifestyle, your goal of life should match or compliment the other. Its very important to respect one another. One should able to accept the other with all his/her flaws. I guess one should also think about would you like the other person to be mother or father of your kid.
In India marriage is not limited to only two individuals. Marriage is a ceremony of getting two families together. So once two individuals decide to get married its equally important that both families to accept it to have smoother life ahead.
I know nothing is perfect. But we can always try to make it perfect.

Well guys, these are my thoughts about Ideal Match and Marriage. I would love to know yours.

The Changing Trend

Sometimes I wonder whether Bollywood influences the thinking of public or public behavor influences Bollywood.

Earlier movies used to show love between rich and poor. For the two lovers achieving their love used to be ultimate goal of the life. The commitment used to be default part of the love. Physical relation before marriage used to be taken as mistake of the life.

Now the trend is changing, people love each other but they are not ready for commitment, especially according to Bollywood movies males hesitate to give commitment. They don’t understand that they are in love. Physical relation before marriage is very common thing. I guess India is still not ready to accept girl getting into relation without commitment from her side. As of now in all movies like ‘Hum Tum’, ‘Love Aaj Kal’, ‘Paa’, ‘Salam Namaste’ females are portrayed to be committed.

Females are becoming independent economically and emotionally that could be the reason of this change. But I don’t understand changed behavior of guys of hesitating for commitment or they not realizing they loving someone. Why don’t they get ready to take responsibility? Somebody please help me out here to understand.

I won’t wonder if I get to see single females, single mothers living proud life. I wont wonder to see many divorcees. I wont wonder to see single fathers. I won’t wonder if concepts like ‘single woman man’ or ‘single man woman’ no longer exist in reality.

Don’t know the change is good or bad. But change is inevitable.

Paa – What does it want to convey? Vision India 2020?

The movie is not about the difficulties that a progeria patient has to face. It just tells you what the disease progeria is.
And I felt its about vision India 2020 :-)
The movie tells us how the politicians should be.
The movie talks about how media is, how media should not misuse its power.
The movie talks about new India where female can be a proud single mother. I guess that’s revolutionary thought.

I would love to spread this across

http://www.chetanbhagat.com/speeches/speech_1.php

Something which keeps me ticking

http://www.chetanbhagat.com/speeches/speech_2.php