Thursday, June 18, 2009

Why I do not like Shah Rukh Khan


It’s a bit confusing but will try to explain what I realized while going back home by my office bus yesterday evening. It was raining heavily outside, and my mobile FM radio was airing “Tujhmein Rub dikhta hai, yara main kya karun….” from Rab Nein Bana Di Jodi (I don’t use film name initials, like KANK etc.).

He is a passionate and romantic lover, a passionate and equally responsible, loving and caring and highly romantic husband (what else a wife can ask for!), a good father, a good son. He is just like that, a perfect man in every role he chooses, like us, but so unlike at the same time that we admire him as a good human being above all. A young girl would look for his traits in her lover; a woman would think why my husband is not like him? A mother would like her son to be like him (Think of Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gum etc.). Ask me, after watching Dil Se, I was determined that I would love someone who would love me like he did love Monisha in that movie….watch his expressions in that song

Teri raahon mein uljha uljha hoon
Teri baahon mein uljha hoon
Suljhaane de hosh mujhe
Teri chaahon mein uljha hoon
Teri raahon mein uljha uljha hoon
Teri baahon mein uljha hoon
Suljhaane de hosh mujhe
Teri chaahon mein uljha hoon
Mera jeena junoon mera marna junoon
Ab iske siva nahin koi sukoon
Mera jeena junoon mera marna junoon
Ab iske siva nahin koi sukoon
Mera jeena junoon mera marna junoon
Satrangi re

The amount of passion and obsession this song required was well put in by SRK. I truly cannot imagine anyone else enacting Satrangi re…

SRK is myth. No one can be so perfect in a relationship. “Thoda hai…thode ki zaroorat hai” is the real story of every relationship. No one can deny this. Grapes are sour, so is the Maya created by SRK. Excuse me SRK fans! I know that’s what you are going to say…

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I have to do so many things, but when?

Dil dhoondta hai phir wohi phoorsat ke raat din...

Today, I do not have time for the things I love doing. Like reading books, sitting idle and watching the rainfall. Enjoying the silence around me...thinking about nothing as such, painting my ideas, giving color to my thoughts.

A heart to heart talk with someone I like to talk to...
Sharing my best music and book
Sitting by a river side, alone and seeing the moon glow....
Getting lost for a while with my bi-cycle...
Talking to stranger about a common human interest...
Getting engaged in a loud Krishna prayer "Kirtana" forgetting the world outside...
Singing my favourite songs...
Writing about everything I feel and understand...
Dance and dance and dance...which I have not done for a loooooooong time now

I have to do so many things, but when?

Monday, June 1, 2009

This one is my song! I love this song.



apanaa Gam leke kahii.n aur na jaayaa jaaye
ghar me.n bikharii huii chiizo.n ko sajaayaa jaaye

jin chiraaGo.n ko havaao.n kaa koii Khauf nahii.n
un chiraaGo.n ko havaao.n se bachaayaa jaaye

baag me.n jaane ke aadaab huaa karate hai.n
kisii titalii ko na phuulo.n se u.Daayaa jaaye

Khudakushii karane kii himmat nahii.n hotii sab me.n
aur kuchh din yuu.N hii auro.n ko sataayaa jaaye

ghar se masjid hai bahut duur chalo yuu.N kar le.n
kisii rote hue bachche ko ha.Nsaaya jaaye

Nida Fazli, she, as if writes what I always wanted to say...

garaj baras pyaasii dhartii par phir paanii de maulaa
chi.Diyo.n ko daanaa, bachcho.n ko gu.Dadhaanii de maulaa
do aur do kaa jo.D hameshaa chaar kahaa.N hotaa hai
soch samajhavaalo.n ko tho.Dii naadaanii de maulaa
phir roshan kar zahar kaa pyaalaa chamakaa naii saliibe.n
jhuuTho.n kii duniyaa me.n sach ko taabaanii de maulaa
[saliibe.n=Christian cross; taabaanii - brightness]
phir muurat se baahar aakar chaaro.n or bikhar jaa
phir ma.ndir ko koii miiraa diivaanii de maulaa
tere hote koii kisii kii jaan kaa dushman kyo.n ho
jiinevaalo.n ko marane kii aasaanii de maulaa

Koi Fariyad Tere Dil Me Dabi Ho Jaise

Koi Fariyad Tere Dil Me Dabi Ho Jese,
Tune Aankho Se Koi Bat Kahi Ho Jese
Jagate Jagate Ek Umar kati Ho Jese
Jaan Baki He Magar Sans Ruki Ho Jese
Janta Hoon Vese Aap Ko Sahare Ki zaroorat Nahi ,
Me sirf Sath Dene Aaya Hoon
Har Mulakat Pe Mahsus Yahi Hota He
Mujhse Kuchh Teri Nazar Puch Rahi Ho Jese
Rah Chalte Hue Aksar Yu Hame lagta He
Vo Nazar Chupese Mujhe Dekh Rahi Ho Jese
Ek Lamhe me Simat Aaya Sadiyon Ka Safar
Zindagi Tez Bahot Tez Chali Ho Jese
Is Tarah Pehron Tuje Sochata Raheta Hu Me
Meri Har Sans Tere Naam Likhi Ho Jese
Koi Faryad Tere Dil Me Dabi Ho Jese,
Tune Aankhon Se Koi Bat Kahi Ho Jese.....

Friday, May 29, 2009

Me, my son!


My Gopala....



badaa natkhat hai re Krishhna-Kanhaiyaa
kaa kare Yashodaa maiyyaa,
haan badaa natkhat hai re Krishhna-Kanhaiyaa
kaa kare Yashodaa maiyyaa,
hobadaa natkhat hai re
dhoondhe ri ankhiyaan use
chahun or
jaane kahaan chhup gayaa Nandkishor
dhoondhe ri ankhiyaan use
chahun or
jaane kahaan chhup gayaa Nandkishor
ud gayaa aise jaise purvayyaa
kaa kare yashodaa maiyyaamaiyya re haanhaan kaa kare yashoda maiyyaho bada natkhat hai re

mere jeewan kaa tu ek hi sapnaa
jo koyi dekhe tohe samjhe wo apnaa
mere jeewan kaa tu ek hi sapnaa
jo koyi dekhe tohe samjhe wo apnaa
sab kaa hai pyaaraa,
ho sab kaa hai pyaaraa bansi-bajayyaa
kaa kare Yashodaa maiyyaa,
mayya re ...
haan haan badaa natkhat hai re
Krishna Kanhaiyya
kaa kare yashoda maiyya
ho bada natkhat hai re!

Radhe-Krishna.........



Yashomati mayyaa se bole Nandlaala
Raadha kyon gori main kyon kaala
Raadha kyon gori main kyon kaala

Yashomati mayyaa se bole NandlaalaRaadha kyon gori main kyon kaalaRaadha kyon gori main kyon kaala







boli muskaati mayyaa lalan ko bataaya
boli muskaati mayyaa lalan ko bataaya
kaari andhiyari aadhi raat mein tu aaya
laadlaa Kanhayya mera ho
laadlaa Kanhayya mera kaali kamli waala
isiliye kaala
Yashomati mayyaa se bole Nandlaala
Raadha kyon gori main kyon kaala
Raadha kyon gori main kyon kaala
boli muskaati mayya sun mere pyaare
boli muskaati mayya sun mere pyaare
gori-gori Raadhika ke nain kajraare
kaale nainon waali ne ho
kaale nainon waali ne aisaa jaadu daala
isiliye kaala
Yashomati mayyaa se bole Nandlaala
Raadha kyon gori main kyon kaala
Raadha kyon gori main kyon kaala

Mayapur Temple: radha, Krishna and Sakhi...


Just beautiful....

My son...he loves books, he can't read though!

My sweeeeeet little Popeye!