Sunday Morning

When I see the world with half opened eyes,

When thud of news paper welcomes the sun rays white

I assemble all the energy to get up,

And fall again to feel the same dreamy world of night.

I was flying with you on the silver clouds,

Somebody stole my bike but still we were laughing,

I took your hand and your were whirling around me,

We tripped over a stone and caught raindrops while swinging.

I feel a tinge of tea while my back is on the wall,

My head resting on my hand, asking for more sleep

Light music of “Chasing Cars” pouring slowly in my ears,

I was crooning it to fight the marsh in heart deep.

Half opened door of the cupboard gives me a glimpse,

Of the past year’s golden days,

When we were together in summer and rain,

And today we have chosen different ways.

My eyes are closed again and I dare to open,

I can see the same roof, rock and crossroads

Smile with bright sparkling eyes,

Fading hand saying bye when the tree bows.

If I lay here and forget the world,

If I don’t listen to wake up calls and downstairs' whining,

I will be happy remaining in the same world of

Just few hours before the Sunday morning.

Note : This is for Punni !!!

Tinsel Town Two Stars

Two times in a year I felt thrilled sitting in a dark hall. First time when I was clapping for the magical dribbling of the hockey sticks and second time when I was feeling myself again a school going kid. Both times, I felt highly spirited and same was the feeling of everyone sitting in the darkness. Yes, I am talking about Chak De India and Tare Zameen Par.

Chak de was about the low level of the national sport Hockey in India that too when it is played by the "Susheel Indian Nari" who is supposed to play all roles of mother, sister and daughter but not the forward, midfielder or the goalkeeper for the national hockey team. This movie touched many grave issues like religious-fanaticism in every part of life, regionalism among every one from sports man to common man and individualism over the spirit of team. In three hours of entertainment cinema its really tough to touch so many issues in a single movie but the director Shimit Amin did a fantastic job. His direction proved that the new Indian thinks in an innovative way to address all the problems. He is unlike his predecessors who showed the problem but never the solution, who thought that the parallel cinema can never be mixed with the contemporary entertainment and who considered the main line cinema stars as untouched for such kind of movies.

Ti ti tak digi digi dag dag kili kili kili kili kulu bhigi bhigi bhigi bag bag …yes that was the entry of Aamir Khan in Tare Zameen Par. A person who believes in changing the view of audiences towards the small looking matters. This time he took the responsibility of taking care of small kids who are forgetting their childhood in the present rat race of creating the machines performing well in every field. The presentation was so effective that every one saw his own childhood in the eyes of small kid in the movie and gave a standing ovation to the movie. Full 10 marks to Aamir khan to touch such a grave issue to make an entertainment movie that showed how a small kid in typical Indian family faces difficulties to settle down in the main stream of present society. Really it echoed the song “we don’t need no education, teachers leave us kids alone.”
Both the movies are worth a loud appreciation. Today people are still fighting who is better between SRK and Aamir khan but no one takes an initiative to bring both stars into one project where we can see the visionary direction of Aamir Khan and stunning acting of SRK. Indian cinema needs such milestones to get it ranked among top Film making industry.