Haider - Beautifully Made

Did anyone else understand the Biggest Metaphor of the Movie?

TABU - The beautiful and Deadly KASHMIR which is burning itself
and is confused who to side on with as it loves everyone equally.

HILAAL Meer - The country which neglected and devalued her
and now considers her treacherous and responsible for all wrong
befalling it. Legally deserving her but morally not.

KHURRAM - the opportunist which gained control over her and value

her more than life but has sacrificed ethics in order
to achieve her. Maybe Legally Deserving her but morally not.

HAIDER - Her son who wants her badly enough to destroy
everything around him as well as inside him. His Lust knows no bounds.
Not deserving her Legally or Morally.

Kudos Vishaal Bhardwaj - Your art is Exquisite!

Email to Prove Rom-Com are Different!

When I was a teenager, I read a book by Sidney sheldon and told my cousin brother-

“Sidney sheldon is an awful writer”

My brother didn’t argue with me he said-

Which book did you read?

when I told him the name, –Bloodline he said its one of the worst and told me to read “Master of the game”

20 years later, Sidney Sheldon is my favorite author and I am grateful to my bro

for letting me know my choice of book was not correct to judge the writer.

I would have missed reading the some of the best thriller+mystery novels  had

I not pushed my horizons.

 

So I asked all my friends on FB and here is the list of all the best

Rom-Coms of all time  and 3 imp points-

1)Most are hits and  allare classics- widely liked by public

2) I didn’t include any Meg ryan’s movies though hers are the best (You’ve got mail, When Harry Met Sally)

3) None of these have the cliched ending (In some the hero heroine do Not end up together)

4) Main in Manhattan was Jennifer’s biggest hit but it was not the “Biggest hit” in rom-com. (its not even in top 50 list of rom-coms anywhere)

 

 

Not necessary for you to watch all of them- not necessary for you to even reply to this mail-

its just so that you know there is a genre- which is hardly made in India and which is

the one we can very easily watch with our kids.  [coz its rom-com not romantic with hard core love scenes]

List is ordered by my preference 

 

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

50 First Dates (2004)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Forrest Gump (2014)

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Legally Blonde (2001)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Bedazzled (2000)

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

She's the Man (2006)

Just My Luck (2006)

Clueless(1995)

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Shallow Hal (2001)

500 Days of Summer (2009)

Juno (2007)

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Arzeb Khan's Milestones

My Lovely son Arzeb was born on 28th November 2013,  Thursday - the Thanksgiving day.

Saving his milestones on my blog - so I can never forget how happy he made me feel.


Happy Reading!

First haircut

date: 01/08/2014   age: 5 weeks old

Arzeb's Father shaved off hair from his head 

after almost 40 days of his birth.

Simple ceremony at home- along with

Siwayaan cooked by me and distributed to friends.

Slept through the night

date: 02/15/2014   age: 2 months old: Week 3

So Arzeb slept 7 hours non - stop last night!!!
LIFE U are BEAUTIFUL!

First time rolling over

date: 03/17/2014   age: 3 months old: Week 3

Made Arzeb Lie down on his back a bit away

from the laptop and went to get his milk bottle- 

Came back to see he had rolled over and was lying on his 

stomach next to the laptop looking at its screen!

It was the FIRST time he completely rolled over.

(even if it was to spy on his Mom's lappy) 

First day of childcare

date: 03/26/2014   age: 3 months old: Week 4

Well - Mommy started her office today and the 'easy' boy he is,

Arzeb stayed with my friend Nargis all day.

But when I went to pick him up- he just came in to my arms

and didn't leave me fo the next half an hour.

Started solids

date: 03/31/2014   age: 4 months old

Arzeb just had to hit on our plates all the time- so as soon as he became 4 months old

we gave him lentils and he really loved it!

First time crawling

date: 06/15/2014   age: 6 months old: Week 3

Arzeb would earlier just make his body jump to change direction but now

he has started pushing with his feet to move forward. 

Seeing him crawl like that so early made me proud!

First tooth

date: 06/20/2014   age: 6 months old: Week 4

After many nights of pain and clenching of mouth-

my baby finally got his first set of two teeth.

He looks lovely right

First time standing up

date: 06/28/2014   age:

He can STAND NOW!

Of course holding stuff up.

But he just loves to stand

First steps

date: 08/20/2014   age: 8 months old: Week 4

Well Arzeb got down from the trampoline and started taking steps towards Nargis.

As soon as he tooks two steps Sunny screamed- and he got down since he thought maybe

something done by him was wrong.

Did it again next day at home in front of Mom and at the doctor's appointment on 9/2/2014

Said "mama" or "dada"

date: 08/30/2014   age: 9 months old

So it finally happened-
my little baby said something for which he knows the context-
though he has wailed- "aa"-"maa" several times;
yesterday in the afternoon he woke up and even though I tried 
to make him play with me- he went over to his sleeping father
on the bed ; hit him hard on the shoulder and said
"Dada"
(PSlease prounce it as D and not the grandfather one  )
and "Da-da" woke giving him a million doollar smile-
I am sure wouldn't have been the case if someone
else did the same 

First Clap

date: 09/03/2014   age: 9 months old

Made him wear a cap which he didn't like much- so just clicked a pic and took it off.

Think of my surprise that as soon as I took it off- he clapped his hands!

A Marriage Ahead of its Times

My little sister is getting married.
Yayyyyyyyy.
A joyous occassion for me .. but not for all.
I keep remembering what my mom told
me about her wedding- how people hated them;
didn't want to meet her for years when she 
being a Shia married a Sunni.

But by the time we were in our tweens;
almost both sides of the family had accepted
my parent's marriage.
Recently when my Shia  maternal cousin brother married 
my Sunni paternal cousin sister-
there was hardy any displeasure and it all went as
though anything was hardly out of place.

So now I feel my parents were ahead of the time-
hence same for my sister. In this world, where
its so hard to find a soul- mate; isn't it harder 
to find someone of your own religion, matching castes
or even social backgrounds?
What's the big deal if you marry someone out side
the specifications. Why are others so intimidated
by your decision? If these same people have to make this
decision for their children, they would do the same without
batting an eye-lid but for others they become judgemental?

So much double standards and hypocrisy
that it actually makes my head spin around.
I am happy for my sister. Period.
She is doing what she feels is best for her.
She is an adult and knows the implications.
Its her life- her decision and I respect it.
If she was not my sister and was a friend;
I would do the same.

Funny thing in this scenario is the people who
say something about it are mostly men- and
many those who do not even offer prayers 5 times a day.
The first pillar of our religion is to offer
5 prayers a day- other wise you are just a "Muslim"
in say. Yet these "Muslims" have an objection-
while women who offer these prayers have no objection
as long as the bride is happy.

I feel it definitely has some psycological implication
that the men are feeling threatened by an inter-religion
marriage since in future the competition will include
all sects- which means they need to have better qualifications
in all aspects. Because giving religion as a reason even though 
it is hardly practiced by them- seems pretty hilarious.

What ever be the cause- I know and believe that the rebels
would be eating their words in the years to come as time
always puts everyone in their place.
As for me- I am just happy, in deed and in heart.

You have my blessings sis.
You chose well :)