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Chandu ki chachi ko chandi ki chamach se chatni chatai….

Forgive the indulgence Chandu, but here is wishing you a VERY VERY VERY VERY HAPPY 50th Birthday!!!!

okay okay not exactly fiftieth…but a VERY HAPPY BUDDAY indeed!

Something about a good friend that makes you want to write about them!

Chandu is one of the very few bloggers whom I have met! We had a great time at the Pizza Hut in Bangalore and thats when I did get to know so many hidden secrets about this person!
I remember my early days of blogging, Chandu was one of the VERY few first persons to actually become a “blog friend”. From there on we had so many chat sessions, shoutbox masti, commentbox hungamas. We also plotted numerous devilish plots against so many non-suspecting bloggers…gang included Mehul, Ron, Preeti, and Hema..all of whom seem to have disappeared or just blog very little now! Aaah looking back..those were some days…!

Although very busy and very devilish and always trying hard to be funny, Chandu is a gem at heart! There are so many things that he does that were hidden from me until I actually met him! They say, you only know a person truly when you meet them and from the way they interact with you..and from my interactions with Chandu, I have only known him to be a very down to earth and truly genuine person. Now that is hard to beat!

So here is wishing you a very Happy Birthday Chandu! Hope you have many many long years and you continue to do what you do and make yours friends always special like you do and that too genuinely!

Often times I have seen friends who will say nice things and do sweet things just for the sake of it, quite hypocritically(is that a word?) actually. However, you have always been genuine and that shows in person. I remember in Bangalore, you were so worried about me reaching home safely that you WARNED Prasad to make sure he dropped me off right outside my sisters house! Prasad, poor thing was so scared of you that he did come all the way to drop me, and yes I reached safely Thanks for being such a wonderful person and a great friend! Start bloggin regularly for God’s sake! and LOL..how many KGs have you gained so far? ;)…gee thanks for giving me that name!!! hugs!

Happy Birthday once again! Ppl go wish him here, he is one person who truly deserves the wishes.. (now I dont say that often )

P.S. that mysterious number that called you this morning was me

Saw Kabhi Kabhi today for the first time. Unbelievable isn’t it? I was so accustomed to all the songs of the film that I just assumed that I had seen the movie and for some reason, I always confused it with Silsila. My confusion is justified! I mean think about it….when my kids grow up and they watch DDLJ, KKHH, K3G….I swear to god they will be confused among all those movies, what with Shahrukh and Kajol in all of them. I can so see that happening

Anyways back to the movie. A classic in its time, a superhit! We all love the songs and music and the characters and the performances! I do too Loved it but honestly, couldn’t help laughing at all the criss cross of lovers. A very complicated look at relationships. Each one with its own past. I couldn’t help but laugh at how AB and Rakhee had a history and then Rakhee was married to SK, and then AB to Waheeda Rahman. To top that, Waheeda Rahman has a child from a previous relationship and for some time I was wondering if Rishi Kapoor would turn out to be Rakhees and ABs son and that she hid the fact from everyone. Then there was the rambunctious daughter of AB and WR! Phew! For a simple brain like mine, all this criss cross in relationships and pasts, and qurbaanis can get a little too overwhelming.

Rakhee was the ideal lover, daughter, wife, and mother. The ideal lover, very beautiful, loving, the one who sings her lovers song at her wedding night, the ideal daughter who marries another man to keep her parents happy, the ideal wife who forgets all things good from the past and loves her husband unconditionally providing him with all his needs and love, and the ideal mother who brings her son up with all love and care and worries about him all the time. If that was not enough, she also turns out to be ideal in her now lost relationship with AB. She tells him to “remember her but think of her happily”.

Then there is the ideal husband and father Shashi Kapoor who even when he finds out about his wife’s past relationships salutes the sacrifices they have made.

Then there is our dear AB! He hates his wife for hiding her past relationship and her “paap” with the man she was betrothed to who died and it was no fault of hers. She did what was right and forgot about it ofcourse not telling her husband about it. Her husband however is really pissed off at her and is disgusted that she has a daughter from before whilst he still loves his old love away. He apparently feels “betrayed” by his wife for not telling him but does not feel he did anythign wrong by not giving his wife the love that she deserved. Male chauvinist pig I say.

The wife, demure old lady that she is, is heartbroken and decides to leave the house.

Then there are the three children, the guy who is totally spoiled by his father and crazy about this other girl, this girl who is confused and wants to see her real mother, and this other crazy girl who wants everything.

Towards the end there is this wild goose chase after this goose who has gone wild because she saw the guy she loved in the arms of another woman and because her father slapped her, the obnoxious child that she is! Two horses chased by a car which is in turn chased by a man on his bike while there is dynamite exploding all over the place. To make things better, one of dynamites creates fire instead of just sand all around and that fire lights a twig which in turn lights a forest on fire. They all go in the fire following that stupid girl who after this HOUR long chase starts crying and miraculously becomes a very understanding girl and hugs her now “sister”. When Rishi Kapoor and “her” are in the woods, the understanding horses run outside only to be brought back in by AB and SK. AB brings rishi and his daughter out and SK brings his future daughter in law out.

After this chase, AB suddenly remembers he has a wife that he needs to love desperately. He again rushes to his house and lo and behold, the wife that he had forgotten to love all these years is all of a sudden the love of his life that he cannot live without. In the end the two old lovers are family friends and the two crazy kids get married and the obnoxious little girl is happy smiling showering flowers at them.

My favourite characters were the doctor and his wife Simi Garewal! They brought this girl up, gave her all the love and in the end told her what the truth was and then got her married.

Nice parents they were.

OKay okay those raring to have a go…I said I loved the movie..but wondered what I would have written if I hadnt liked it..so this came out

I could not resist posting another one…so here is the third one of my 55-word stories…

Love’s Verdict

She loves me. She loves me not. Shall be confirmed tomorrow.
Verdict: She loves me not.
I love her? I love her not! I hate her? I hate her not?
I walk to her house. I walk out without her.
Verdict: Life imprisonment.
No death sentence? they ask…
I murdered her. They findeth her not.

Yes yes, I have given in to these as well! So here I go!

Love is Blind
She was unconscious. Man in dark coat picked her up. Woke up. Isolated hut! Snowed around six feet deep. Afraid, she tried to run. Biting cold brought her back. Got to know the man living alone….. Fell in love. Ten years later. Still married. He is still HIV+. She is not. Still love each other.

Like a Hot Dentist?
Nervous she entered the dentist’s. Hottie came out. Invited her in. Sat in the dental chair. Batting eyelids. Heaving bosom. Closeness. Appointment took three hours. She was under anesthetic. Did not feel any pain! Kissed. Departed. Twas heavenly.Did not notice the swelling. Did not notice the six missing REAL gold crowns. The missing degree!