Posts Tagged ‘nostalgia’
Ek Do Teen
While I was sitting at home on the sofa, staring away into the piercing green eyes of the inflatable alien hanging from our ceiling, a random thought suddenly struck me. The song Ek Do Teen from the movie Tezaab just came to mind. The song begins with Madhuri Dixit's character talking to the crowd, and when they keep chanting her name (Mohini, [...]
Nirvana Anyone?
Has anyone ever listened to Nirvana five or six years ago, and thought Kurt Cobain was the Messiah for the jilted generation, with his untimely death and his amazing music only to realize when listening to it presently that none of it makes any sense? Does anyone else's mind conjure up the following words when itunes accidentally playes songs [...]
Redifining Hospitality
Atithi Devo Bhava Guest is God-like, or so said someone who had a thing for hospitality, and someone else wrote it down in ancient times and it seems to have stuck around for ages as an integral part of our culture thereafter, until now. These thoughts stuck me when some guy from my office who lives close to me said he'd drop in to my place, [...]
Adviteeya
Sometimes, when you discover new music in a collection that you've already had, its sort of like unearthing buried treasure. The thrill of stumbling upon a brilliant piece of music and listening to it ad infinitum has very few parallels that I'm aware of. One such instance of discovering new music and getting mesmerized had taken place around May [...]
Notes about Nothing – Seattle Diary
Its been five months since I returned from Seattle, but somehow something or the other happens that invariably takes my mind back to my trip there. This is a post about some of those memory refreshing incidents that have happened since I got back. * Grey's Anatomy: My sister follows the serial, although I haven't seen more than ten minutes of [...]
Flashback
Following is a post I had written on IMDB as a movie review for 'Swades', soon after I had seen the movie, in July 2005. I was trying to see how much I have changed since then, and the only thing I can say for sure is that I make consious, albeit unsuccessful attempts to write shorter sentences. Everything else remains the same. The original [...]
Movie Magic
There has been a progressive increase in the media's interest towards a particular movie, with each passing big budget release that happens out here in our country. Movies have tie-ups with soft drinks, television programs and IPL teams, which in turn help(?) in promoting the movie further so that hapless souls can venture out to watch them in [...]
A Tribute to my Landline
On sunday, the 6th of April, the land line rang at our house, and for a minute everyone was startled at having heard a noise that was so distinctively familiar, but at the same time, was something that hadn't been heard for so long that it sounded unusual all the same. It was similar to listening to the voice of an old friend, but after he'd hit [...]
