YEKE YEKE!! Mory Kante's amazing smash hit plays
ecstatically in my ears & I can see
Amitabh Bachchan on the yacht, heading towards Mandwa in his white suit on a
sunny afternoon. looking heroically & almost awe-inspiringly towards the
blue carpet of water spread vastly around him. Blue & white, the colours
look resplendent. Oh, a small trivia: The song I talked about plays itself when
Amitabh Bachchan is going to meet Kancha in Mandwa for the first time. It's this
sleek montage of Amitabh getting ready & heading towards the island. From a
chartered plane to the yacht & then on towards the island, his gaze is
sharp, looking on determinedly. The song plays in the background, somehow
brilliantly gelling with the visuals. Then a bomb is dropped on the yacht &
boom! You think Amitabh's gone, or at least so thinks Kancha for a short
while as Amitabh emerges from the ocean suddenly, his white more splendid, his
persona even sexier. I bet Daniel Craig must have copiously taken down notes as
a teenager then for that Casino Royale introduction he would do in the future.
Now you know where it just might have come from! ;) Although I can hardly decipher the meaning
of whatever is being said, the Zulu language, don't know nothing about it. But
that's the best part about music, right? You don't have to know anything about
what someone is saying. Sometimes, the music just communicates with you. Some
part of the composition just strikes you & you develop that bond with the
song!
I am just back from this fabulous semi-date with my best
friend/semi girlfriend! We have caught up in person after quite some time,
although we chat away to glory on Whatsapp almost everyday. It feels awesomely
amazing & worth the week long wait & three cancelled dates. I am super
fresh & energetic right now, although it's almost 11:30 in the night. I
wanted more time, we needed more time, there was so much more to talk about!
Anyways, we will catch up soon again. It's just her company that works wonders
man! One time college colleagues, today we are still very much in touch despite
all distances & work. Career concerns, crushes on girls & boys,
amazing, silly & hilarious memories of college, problems, future
aspirations, plans for fun, everything is laid out & tackled in quite
detail. I realise her value so much more
now, never thought as much about it in college. I realise how much we have
changed, except with each other that is. I think after graduation, we have got
to know each other so much better than in those three years. It's like those
three years were OCEANS ELEVEN & now its OCEANS TWELVE! She is pretty much
the same, although a bright future looks at her from a distance. We both aspire
to be these hotshots in the industry & then we will be giving interviews
together telling the scribes the whole story of those foundation years in
Hislop & then keeping touch, having stupid little quarrels in between but
ultimately coming closer, planning all these glory days in lounges & cafes
to then realising it. Hell yeah, we should make this happen, just the thought
of it actually happening! Oh yeah!! There's a blockbuster story right there!
I am having this surge & urge to write, something I
haven't experienced in a while now! This is good, like GOOD! This is how it
happens every time it does, of the 30 blogs I wrote, some of the best (strictly
personally speaking) have come from this kind of spontaneous surge & urge! There was
this gloomy cloud in between over me, nothing felt like to write, to talk about.
It was like yeah-so-what's-there-to-talk-about-it kinda thing happening with
me. I didn't care to explore the reasons
behind it for the plain reason that it's fruitless. I have been waiting for
just some things to happen, thinking that they will make things very different
but maybe it's not only about those things.
Maybe it's just that I need to hang on a bit more & things will just
fall into place. Too much contemplation, too much running around exploring
things, probably that is not what I need right now. I need a calm, focused
& steady approach. I am at home, and it already, like every time feels like
bliss. College is just on the very brink of ending, yes it has been quite the
journey I wanted! Seen so much, heard so much & learnt so much more, it's the
perfect time to move ahead now. Which is why I guess I am not too sad at the
prospect of leaving it now. Of course I can't be completely emotionally
detached & say I won't remember it. It will be one of the deepest memories
I'll ever have. And it will be the people at certain points of time, the sights
& the experiences that will remain. But this departure doesn't seem
heartbreaking, it doesn't. It seems logical. it seems natural. A naive,
slightly clueless, dependent boy has given way to a not-as-naive, purposeful,
mature-er, more open minded and stronger boy.
On an ending note, I was seeing KOI MIL GAYA in the afternoon
and nostalgia crept in wide & fast as I remembered seeing the first look of
the movie as an amusing 14 year old. Hrithik Roshan was Krish for me right from
Kaho Na Pyar Hai & then I see the first look of this movie, Hrithik sitting
on some rocks, sobbing, an evening set up, looking as if something's wrong with
him mentally & then the movie caption. It might be noted here that this
scene was NOT a part of the movie! It was strictly promotional. And I was like,
why is he acting like that? This is no hero! Make him the hero again! I was
dead sure this film was gonna flop, of course it would, look at how they are
showing Hrithik! Sweet teenage naivety! How wrong was I! The film not only
truly heralded the Indian sci-fi genre but now in hindsight, but is the best of
the trilogy. I think the Krish series doesn't have the simplicity of Koi Mil
Gaya. There is some cinematic brilliance in the latter, which translated into
technical in the former & the attention shifted from story to special
effects. Rohit Mehra was the societal reject who any reject in any degree
identified with, not to forget those who were not the rejects as well. We need to
abolish this concept of the reject, it is very narrow minded of us. Look at
Michael Jackson! The King Of Pop, a pioneer, a genius, a charitable, soft
spoken, shy eccentric( not offensively but naturally), controversial,
vulnerable & a bit indecisive. With literally the whole world at his feet
for two decades, he was suddenly the biggest reject there ever was! And what
did that result in? Yup, death! His rejection led to his death! The drugs were
just a catalyst. Remember, you only despise someone until you become that
someone!
Did I say something about an ending note?
Uh.....well....yeah...it ends here.
