Ghajini soundtrack...a masterpiece

Imagine you are listening to a song ... then you just get up and go outside for some work..but your mind can't stop humming the song..During whole time, the song keeps on playing in your head. As soon as you reach back home, you connect to internet and start listening to song again. Thats when you know you are addicted!!! Same thing happened to me when I heard the songs of Ghajini... and nowadays, I'm hooked.

5 songs + 1 instrumental - guzarish, kaise kahoon(song+instru), lattoo, oye bacchu & behka - all 0f them are captivating courtsey A R Rehman. He has dared to experiment and yes, you do need a different music for a movie like Ghajini which promises to be so much unlike the run of the mill bollywood flicks that we have seen over years. Though Ghajini is a remake of a hit malyalam movie(which was also titled Ghajini), I keep on hearing that it is actually based on Christopher Nolan's Memento. I have seen Memento and admittedly, I couldn't understand what was going on in the movie for most part of it but in the end, the director's way of story telling simply blew me away. It is an awesome creative masterpiece. I did felt that Memento's narration was somewhat inspired from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction but frankly, I don't want to take any credit away from Nolan. Having said this, movies like these come once in a couple of years and they are the trendsetters for others to copy..err follow.

Okay...back to Ghajini music now!!! Actually when I heard the album for the very first time, I didn't like it(except Guzarish ofcoz)...I thought that Rehman has experimented once too many and may be this time, couple of songs from album will be chartbusters. But then Rehman's music has always been like that. It keeps on haunting you unless you fall in love with it and I am no exception. His music is like nasha...dheere dheere chadta hai.. and then you can't do without daily dose of it :)

Chanda Mama is all smiles :)

1st Dec 2008

As soon as I came out of office building, I ran into couple of friends. While talking to them, I suddenly realized that something was smiling on us from Heavens. I looked upwards towards the sky..and lo and behold, to my utter surprise, it was moon. Two sparkling stars combined with moon's crescent were putting a dazzling smile on show in the night sky. I kept gazing at it for some time, trying to take a picture in my mind .. for you don't see a smiling moon daily.


Next day, the incident was reported in the newspapers and over internet. Apparently, Heavens had decided to skycast the show across the world. Later on, I came to know that those eyes were actually planets Venus and Jupiter.The brighter one was Venus while the other one was Jupiter. The planets can still be seen in the night sky with naked eye, though that particular smile is not to be seen anymore...it is only to be cherished in memories and photographs.

My 2MP mobile phone camera was not good enough for such occasions...so I found this image over internet...have a look.

BBQ hungry

Sometime back, I went to Barbeque Nation for dinner. I had heard a lot about the place ..especially their grills and fine service...and thankfully, I was not disappointed. The starters were delicious, the food buffet was sumptuous and the desserts were simply from out of this world(especially Gulab Jamun :). Overall, a delightful experience!!!

After this, I was craving for another BBQ dinner and an opportunity came last week when I went to Chhattees for a team dinner. This place is quite close to office and hence we thought we could save some travel time and also, enjoy another BBQ dinner. But hell, the food was ridiculously bad(though Chhattees costs nearly the same as Barbeque Nation). Alas..it is tough to find good restaurants. This restaurant is certainly off my list now as far as BBQ is concerned.