A troubled Daddy

~*A troubled Daddy*~

Generally Shaurya is a happy child and loves playing with me (his momma was always jealous of that) but since few days he is giving me tough time. Earlier he use to hold me and sleep while we both sit in a rocking chair but from last few days he is not coming to me if I am sitting in that chair or starts howling whenever I sat on that chair.

What could be the reason behind his abrupt behavior?

He is getting bored of me or what????

Or he simply want to enjoy his new hobby and that is riding in a walking chair?

So decided to give him sometime, so that he can realize my importance and can trouble his momma who is now enjoying his company and teasing me for that!!!!

Huhhhhhhhh!!!!!

~*The Monday Morning Blue*~

~*The Monday Morning Blue*~

This is what happened to me last Monday!! Here are the details that lead to this

Sunday: Got up late at 9.30 and was as usual late for giving car for servicing which was due from 15 days. Reached service station pick up point and found no one there and then decided to call the service center people who told me that I am late as the slots of that day were filled. Cursing them I came back and found that Ma and Medha were done with their breakfast and Shaurya was playing happily in his pram!! Had breakfast of Yummy pyaaz ke parathe and mango lassi and went to sleep again!! And got up by 12.30 when Shaurya kicked me after trying his best to woke me up. Skipped bath (dirty me), had lunch and then sat with lappy to watch movie (Watched Lahore and it was awesome, one of the best sport movie product in the country) and got up by 3.30 when the Saas and bahu decided to go for shopping!!!!!!

I tried my best not to go with them but then who is going to fill in the shoe of driver and nanny when they will shop.

Went to Hypercity Mall @ Cybercity and Medha was ecstatic after seeing some nice Salwar suits and saris and I do not know what what!!

In the mean time I kept Shaurya in a shopping trolley and we happy roamed around in the mall for 2 hr , touching everything and pulling everything and almost screeching at the sight of every small kid (Shaurya is very found of the small kids of his age and now want to set beside them, it doesn't matter whether they want or not).

Till that time everything was fine but after that he started getting cranky and wanted to be carried around in the lap so I took him in the lap and sat in the corner and give him his milk which he drank and slept. (Ma and Medha still busy in shopping).

At 10.3 0 reached home and had dinner and decided to doze off but but but
Suddenly I heard a shriek and ran to the bed room and was shocked to see Shaurya up and playing happily and there was no sign of sleep in his eyes. We decided to play with him for some time so that he will get tired and will sleep but he decided to go against all odds and played up to 2.30 and then dozed off peacefully.

I hardly had 4 hr sleep and then there was an important presentation in the office.
I started the presentation and at that very moment yawned for the first time and they keep on coming after every 2 min. Thankfully no one asked any question and i finished it off in 20 min. After that there was a coffee break and a double cup of black coffee gave me enough boost to clear up my thoughts and then i realized what I have done with the presentation!!

I came back and then sat my place to draw this one (may be my mind was still fuzzy that time).


Generally Shaurya sleeps well in night and had never troubled us but I think now a days he is trying to stand on his own and cruising. And now he want to take us with him for a ride!!! A tough ride.

:)

Random Doodlings of a Confused Mind-1

These days my life is absolutely beleaguered with meetings. My whole day is being usurped by the meetings as there are some pre-meeting meetings, normal meetings, post meeting meetings, meeting to discuss the schema for meeting, unceremonious discussion after and before a meeting, brainstorming gathering along with various other unexpected time wasters. Most of the times it leaves me totally drained and irritated and I felt like I am slowly slowly being pushed towards mental volatility and brain death.

BUT the final word is that, these meetings can’t be avoided.

So I decided to come up with something that could help me in surviving some of the most boring one where I usually sits absent mindedly. I tried using Twitter but alas no one replied me back (except Arshad Warsi and Celina Jaitly, even she replied on Shaurya’s Tweet pic Check it here) or retweeted me, tried listening music using under collar hidden earphones (Alas got busted by my boss and got a stern look) and also tried playing games on mobile phone, but no respite.

So decide to go back to doodling (to scribble or draw aimlessly) which was my favorite past time during my college days and this is the thing where you will never got caught and others will think that you are deeply indulged in the discussion. This is the first doodle, doodled at today morning meeting (Gosh!!!!!! It is so horrible to start your day with a boring meting).

Do tell me how is it and how you cope up with such situation.

Watch this area for more!!!

P.S: I feel that it is golden opportunity to write/draw my experience with Shaurya, my little devil who is teaching me a new lesson every day.

~*Kites: Crash Landed*~

The larger the budget, the finer the star cast… the better the propaganda, advertise and controversies… the bigger the expectations from a film. This all falls in a p lace for a movie like KITES. Kites has all the big names attached with it, Hritik Roshan, Barbara Moi (Bigger because of her photo shoots and the Hritik-Suzzane hullabaloo), Anurag Basu (I loved his direction in Life in a metro and Gangster), Rakesh Roashan and Rajesh Roshan.
Well, have you ever heard of a hindi phrase “दूर के ढोल सुहावने होते हैं” or in English "The drums sound better at a distance" (Oops in the lingo of Kites (in Spanish) it would be tambor sonido mirarse bueno de distancia or something like that).

Well somehow I managed to watch this movie and I found it painfully slow and totally confused one.

Plot: J (it was Jay or Jai???), is a paltry nobody in Las Vegas who wants to rake in the big $$$ as soon as possible by marrying green card seeking illicit immigrants for a large fee. Beside our J (does it stands for Jack-of-all-trades???) also gives Salsa classes to Gina (Kangana Ranaut) and tru to lure her to woos his way into her family, which comprises of ruthless casino owner Bob ( Kabir Bedi) and his son Tony (Nick Brown). At a family event, J meets Natasha (Barbara Mori), the fiancée of Tony and one of the illegal girls whom Jay got married. Their collaboration leaves Tony’s suspicions sufficiently aroused and there after follows a hackneyed progression of riotous uproar which leads to some weird heist, fighting and the love birds runs to same them from wrath.

What happened next?

To know more!!

Read some reviews or go to Wikipedia (but do not go to watch the movie)!!
The Good: Before thrashing the movie, I would like to tell some good things about आईटी।

1. Music: When I heard it for the first time, the first word came to my mind was “WHAT THE CRAP!!! This is not anticipated from Rajesh Roshan” but after 4-5 hearing I kindaa started loving them and within a week time it was on my playlist. In Tum bhi ho wahi Suraj Jagan's screams his trademark full throat rendition to croon this track along with Vishal Dadlani. This song has a punch in it which will force you to listen to it. Dil kyun ye mera and Zindagai are good but what stole my heart was the Tum bhi ho wahi (Remix version), Fire (marked by a long overture, electronic resonance and brawny arrangement of orchestra. It sounds like a track to be used as a background score.) and 'Kites in the sky'(simply beautiful lyrics by Asif Ali Beg. This one is crooned by Suzanne Dmello (steals the limelight because of her heartfelt rendition), Javed Dayma and Hrithik (joins the stage for around a minute but still holds his stage well enough to leave an Impact. The true gem of the album). Overall the music of the film is fresh and well experimented and provided a welcome change from the monotony of the present day music.

2. Dance: Though there were very few dance sequences in Kites (may be they want to match the requirement of international cinema) but the sequence of the 'Fire' featuring Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik was simply awesome.

3. Cinematography: Ayananka Bose’s cinematography is splendid. He beautifully captured not only the serene beauty of Mexican desert or the luxurious casinos in Las Vegas but also captured the emotions perfectly.

The Bad: Visually, KITES is thespian and never fails to make an ample impact, but it stagger drastically in various departments.

1. Story: The story was way-beyond-the-world kindda of story. It was a perfect bhelpuri of K. Balachander’s Ek Duuje Ke Liye, Tony Scott’s Revenge (watched this one yesterday and was totally shocked) and Roshan’s very own Koyla (* SRK and Madhuri). The story is totally predictable and unrealistic.

2. Cinematography: I praised it a few lines above but only because of the serene landscapes, otherwise you will be tired of Hrithik’s close up shots (almost every 20-30 sec there will be a close up shot of him, where he will be shaking and trembling his lips or crying or howling…….. (Dude!!! Give me a break!! We know he looks nice but I don’t want to see him as a screenshot for half the movie).
3. Slow motion shot: Kites have a way too many slow motion shots (even more than YRF films) and it is totally unbearable and it forced me too yawn and finally to sleep after some time. Why so many slow-mo shots Mr. Basu??

4. Overacting: this was true for all the lead characters!! You remember a promo where Hrithik says “Bolo Pakaun kya??” and he did that wonderfully by his whining, howling and cryi

The ugly and the most importantly: Direction: After LIAM and Gangster, I was a big fan of Mr. Basu but this movie left me dumbstruck. I am still confused what exactly he wanted Hrithik to portray, a passionate aficionado or a bare-chested eye-candy? Barbara looks nice at places but was so inconsistent.

So in other words, besides, personage brilliance, Kites flew erratically and finally crash lands on the pocket of the movie goers!!! In three words, I will define the movie as “Exteriorizar chingando mierda" or something of that sort (I tried to change words directly to spanish :P)