One Two Three ....

Had been out of touch with the latest movies, release dates, pre-release antics, etc. in Bollywood for some time now, mainly because of no time (*roll of the eyes*), and no TV at our new home (*very sad face*) !!

But now, since the last week, both problems got solved, and I am back on the circuit (*proud smile*) !! :-)

The first movie (and its songs) that I noticed when I got back to my music channels (a horde of them nowadays, difficult for me to even keep track of all of them), was One Two Three. Trailors showing Paresh Rawal selling *kachcha-baniyaaan*, and Tushar Kapoor as a wannabe *bhai*, with Suneil Shetty, Vrajesh Hirjee (whom I really like a lot, especially since his stint in RHTDM), and a horde of heroines, made it an immediate must-watch, especially after I was making a comeback and had almost forgotten what E-Square looks like from inside !! To the extent, that I was not even waiting for the reviews this time :-).

So, first-day-last-show tickets were booked ((incidentlally, not at E-Square), and the movie was seen!! Excellent performances all around, except for all the ladies and Upen Patel, which leaves us only with the 3 Laxmi Narayan's, the 2 Dons, and Alberts and Pintos :-p !! I feel it would have been an excellent movie, had it been woven together properly. The indiviual hilarious moments were many, but for some reason, the tempo is not maintained. The plot, well it cannot be called a plot, but even that could have made for a good watch, if the entire story had been concentrated upon the 3 Laxmi Narayan's rather than giving equal screen space to the rest of the bandwagon, like it had been done in Hera Pheri, with minimal focus on Kabira and Deviprasad.

Tushar Kapoor, I loved him in this movie, because he is playing himself for once :-)!! The typical fattu, wannabe, under the rest of the family's shadow types character, that he is in real life, is portrayed with ease!! Paresh Rawal is as hilarious as ever, and just continues from where he left (in one of his earlier movies, I don't even remember which)!! Suneil Shetty, great job, with his *aapka left ya mera left* antics!! The first Don (Manoj Pahwa) with his two-liners, the second Don (Mukesh Tiwari) with his "s"s everywhere (a spinoff from Javed Jaffry in Salaam Namaste), Sanjay Mishra (Alberts) with his Jeevan accent, and Vrajesh Hirjee (Pintos) with his usual stuff, make a perfect team!

The title song and the *Rock Mahi* track are great, according to me, I have them on my playlist on loop currently :-).

And this kinda completes my *review* in typical Taran Adarsh style (as GB would put it) :-).
Some of the two-liners from the Don to conclude .....

बंदूक से निकला फौलाद ..... और पेट से निकली औलाद ..... वापस नही जाते !!

एक बॉल पे दो चौके ..... और एक लाइफ मी दो मौके ..... कभी नही मिलते !!

जवानी पे चढा शबाब ..... और ज़ोर से लगा पिशाप ..... ज्यादा देर नही रुकते !!

(*applause*)

लारी छूटी ..... के लारी मिल गई ??

So ..... I am no longer a bachelor (this realisation has just started to sink in, after more than 3 weeks of *not* being single) ..... and allow me to make a public confession ..... I am loving it !! (to be said in the McDonald's style) :-)

My first post as a *married* man !! :-)

Had been thinking for a long time, as to how to break the news on the blog. Not that it matters, how I put it up here .... coz most of the people who venture onto this blogspace already know about it!! But its still something to think about :-).

As we were about to leave today morning, as usual, I had been humming along a song (that is usually stuck in my head because of an overdose of listening to it the previous day, till I change the entire playlist, so that I can get it out of my head, to end up listening to just one new song for the entire day again, and hum it along the next morning ..... and the cycle continues ..... you get the picture :-)).
And suddenly, she says, "These lyrics kinda match with what has been happening to you over the last few days, isn't it ??".
And then I had to hum through the lyrics all over again, to *hear* them this time, and I realised, that they did kinda match with whats been going on with me lately :-). So now hear I was, hearing and writing out the song in देवनागरी, the way I like it.
But, I also did realise as I wrote it, that the base of the song is *unexpected*, things of copper suddenly turning to gold! And that is NOT how it has happened to me, meaning, I always knew things were "golden", just that I did not know that they were in reach :-)!! (समझदार को इशारा काफ़ी है !). Well, so what I have done, is highlighted (in red) the parts that I can identify with :-).

So here goes .....

वोह कहते है ना ..... जो होता है ..... अच्छे के लिए होता है ..... गलद कहते है !!

किस्मत का खेल है सारा ..... फिरता था मैं आवारा ..... ये क्या से क्या हो गया .....
चार दिन की जिंदगानी ..... हर पल एक नई कहानी ..... क्या था मैं क्या बन गया .....

क्या हुआ जो लारी छूटी ..... जीवन की गारी लूटी ..... ख्वाब है तो मुझको ना जगा
जिंदगी एक पल मे साली ..... यू पलट गई हमारी ..... झूठ है तो मुझको ना बता !!


मुम्बई ..... सुना था यहाँ आदमी पुरी जिंदगी अपनी किस्मत .....
slow track से fast track लाने मे निकाल देता है .....
पर ढाई घंटे मे मेरी किस्मत .....
ऐसे slow track से fast track पर आ जाएगी .....
यह मैंने कभी सोचा नही था .....
सजा मजा बन जाएगी .....
यह भी कभी सोचा नही था !!!
last local क्या छूटी .....
साला किस्मत पटरी पर आ गई !!


कर लू जो भी करना है ..... होता है जो होना है .....
गुजरा तो पल ये ..... फ़िर ना आएगा .....
क्या बुरा है .... क्या भला है ...... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है .....
हो जाने दो फ़िर ...... देखा जाएगा !!

क्या हुआ जो लारी छूटी ..... जीवन की गारी लूटी ..... ख्वाब है तो मुझको ना जगा
जिंदगी एक पल मे साली ..... यू पलट गई हमारी ..... झूठ है तो मुझको ना बता !!

वोह कहते है ना ..... जो होता है ..... अच्छे के लिए होता है ..... सही कहते है !!!

Wishing Sonal and myself a very *Happy married life* !!! :-)