Na Jaane....

na jaane q chup reh ke 
kaafi kuch bolna chahta hoon main
na jaane q aankhein kholkar
ek umra tak sona chahta hoon main


na jaane kya bechaini
na jaane kya saazish hai
na jaane mere is dil ki
kaunsi si ye adhuri khwaish hai


na jaane q lagta hai aisa
ki samundar ko bhi 
apni aankho mein chupa lunga
na jaane q lagta hai aisa
ki uske paani ki ek boond 
bhi bahar na jaane dunga




na jaane  kis raah pe 
badhta chala jaa raha hoon main
na jaane kis mod par 
apna ghar bana raha hoon main


na jaane ye talsash rukegi kaahan


jaanta hoon, toh bas itna
ki chalta chalunga
jab tak pair na thake
chalta chalunga jab tak
ye saans na रुके


-- Abhishek Shrivastava

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Valentine Fools Day

I know many would have exclaimed on reading this, but I mean it.

Atleast in the current context yes its a fools day.

Yes I am not in for Rapid westernization of thoughts. I am not against lifestyles, because its ones own opinion, how to live with it, but a few western fundamentals really confuse me and ridicule me.

Other day I was reading Aashi's thread on Valentine week

Cant comment about everything, but yes for me my propose day, rose day, etc. would be the day I actually proposed, or gave my first rose respectively. Will i wait like a moron for these dates to approach so that I can propose, give a rose, teddy, chocolates, hugs, kisses and what not; do I have to check the calendar for this.

Expression of love is something which has to be felt all the time; if I make my woman feel special on valentines and for the rest of the year I sit back comfortably, does that mean a thing.

Moreover in the current Indian scenario with elections approaching and the absurd "senas" across India at their peak, who are waiting to gain mileage from Valentines is it sensible to go out in the wild with your love, cant u cherish your love some other day, is celebrating love on a particular day more important than your love being safe.

Think about it.

Its not just valentines; for me i dont understand mothers , fathers, sons, daughters, etc days

These relations grow all the time and have to be expressed all your life, you cannot mark a day, was done in the west because they dont have time.

Our Indian festivals do the same in a much better way where there is a gathering to make us all happy, however we are fast drifting away from it.

I know I have offended many, but be safe on this valentine, so that you don't have to mark Valentines day as a black day in your life

DRONA - The Rona

DRONA

Another good concept goes down the drain because of weak screenplay and direction.

First thing, the movie would have been great without the song sequences, the songs just brought down the speed of the movie to 0, and none of them were situational (no melodies too)

U lose the grip in first 15 minutes try sipping cola, then u hold the can in the fast scenes after that, the moment u grab the popcorns there is a song again that makes u doze of, this is all that is was doing through the movie.

all characters are good, a good superhero could have been etched
the acting is good, but the screenplay does not hold u

i would actually like this wonderful movie if it is available without songs

one indian movie we can compare in all aspects with "The Mummy"

animation, style, characters, just everything

just 2 stars from me

1920 : Served what I just expected

I wasn't expecting a "Raaz" because some movies can never be recreated, but yes i was expecting something veru close to it. I was served what as expected.

The movie starts with the backdrop of 1920 with Arjun who wants to marry a christian Lisa, opposed by his family he becomes a non believer.
The scenes are beautiful but they dont make you realise its India, palamkhet (of course the location is oversees and the horses used are foreigners too :P)
The first half of the movie has loose direction with almost no horror except a scene and little of love and emotion stuff, no fear....

But the story gets a grip just before the intermission, when I resumed with chaat , I just had my eyes on screen. Everything was perfect, scenes, acting, script, direction and everything else. Some very innovative approaches for the ghostly acting in a horror flick, the acting of the newcomers Rajneesh Duggal, Adah Sharma is good in the second half.

The fun is that a few horror scenes in the movie will actually make you laugh like hell, especially the way possessed Lisa moves in the mouse jumping here and there like "Betaal".

Overall a good movie, not a spine chilling horror. 
The good part: acting in second half, graphics
Music is just wonderful, though runs only in background.

TIME MACHINE

Time Machine

People have been thinking of a time machine since ages. A machine that will help people to travel through time.
But I really very urgently need a different type of TIME MACHINE.

I need a Time Machine too!!!!!!!

I need a time machine, so that I can give people a little time in which they can laugh with their loved ones, console them when they are in distress. A lil time to think about themselves above their education, career and all other materialistic things.

I want to give a mother a little more time to sing a lullaby;
a father a little time to build sand castles at the beach;a lover a little more time to talk to the love something more than just planning;a teacher a little more time to teach something about life which is never there in the syllabus.


Can someone make a time machine that suits my needs???

I really dont understand the necessity of the heaps of money we create when we can never share it with our loved ones just because you dont have that little amount of time.

When someone needs you emotionally, and the only reason you are not available is "time", this is something i never understand!!

Are emotions not worth that time of yours???

This actually shows the extent to which we have now become mechanical.......

I always abused the West for this lifestyle, and now it has entered our very own homes, I feel helpless as this syndrome is fast spreading and i cant do a thing. Just stand still and watch the deterioration of the human race to machines.


Just try finding that lil time today for the ones who need it the most and if you get a lil smile at the end of the session do repeat it sometime again.

My First Car and My Viral Fever ... aah wat a title

Many things kept me away from writing in the past few days, a lot happened in a short span of time, the best was that i bought my FIRST CAR, I had dreamt about this since a long time, but things kept me away from it. I wanted a luxury car, but daddy wanted me to drive a simple one till I learn to drive at low speeds.
My mom was crazy she never likes me driving, coz i zoom, still she steps in atleast to go to the mandir, she insists i keep a driver, i dunno when will ppl feel i can drive normal. I had just one accident in my kundali, and i had it whn i was 13. The James Bond kind of accident, with one car actully dashing and taking the other car along a few meters, now i am an experienced "Launchpad" of Ducktales.

Then followed my ill health, with me being down and having a temprature of 104 it was fun to relax but a pain to sneeze all the way, and those silly tablets making you sweat all the day long, just cant do a thing, cant swallow food, music irritates you, the tv and computer screens seem to be the biggest problem creators.

Its foolish to be ill, but one cant help, and the worst is when few people start calling you again and again and again and again, you aint gonna be fixed in a few hours. Why dont people understand that mobiles seem like the biggest problem when you are ill, especially those silly text messages, why the hell dont they understand this!!!!

Then there are a few people, when they call it seems like a lil sweet pill going down your throat towards your heart. You talk to the person for a just a few moments and feel refreshed, at the end of the talk you feel a little recovered, alittle soothened and very much happy.

Writing down this i remember Einsteins Theory of Realtivity with its popular statement "When you are with a loved one for an hour it seems like a moment and when you are with a person who irritates you, a moment seems like an hour". This is best explained when you are ill