"How you doin?"

My all time favorite sitcom has been F.R.I.E.N.D.S and I guess it will undoubtedly remain my favourite forever. I started watching it many years ago. Out of desperation, as at that time I used to look for things to do, so that I ould be able to pass my day ( which in fact was very difficult to do). I was absolutely lost at the beginning. I didn't even know then how huge this sitcom was. All these years later, I can watch the same episodes several times over. I know most dialogues by heart and I cannot , for the life of me, stop laughing at the jokes which I must have heard several times over.
It is witty, there is sarcasm, humour, at the same time some very touching moments. I have always tried to pick my favorite character, but then all the actors are so great, I have never been able to do so. However, I like Chandler a little more, as he is just so so so funny. According to Joey, "Funny is all he has got" :). Some of my favourite episodes are when Rachel and Ross break up, when Chandler proposes to Monica, actually there are just many....
I wish it would have gone on forever, and I could watch more than ten seasons over and over again, but , alas every good thing has to come to an end . Sigh!

P.S. If you thought that the serial is funny, wait till you watch the bloopers, they are Hilarious

How bad a movie can you make?

These days people generally don't have a lot of expectations from the movies they get to watch. I guess I said it wrong. The moment we start having expectations , think that Indian cinema has finally moved on to quality, standard, meaninful movies, we are brought back with a thud. On one side, you have movies like Chak de India and Taare Zameen Par, thoughtful movies, on the other hand, you have movies like Tashan. I shouldn't even bother to write about this trashy movie, but I was stunned to see the preposterousness of it! It made me think whether there was a script written at all and if it was did the stalwarts bother to read it? I get it, we as a society are opening up to many ideas, and are shedding our narrow thought process, and we are okay now to show it and see it in our movies. But shouldn't there be a reason for you to show the amount of obscenity, vulgarity and nonsense? Over all, an over-hyped movie with nothing to cater to the audience. As I have been telling everyone around me, if you hate someone, just make them watch this movie.

Summer of '08

I love Summers. I hear people complaining about it all the time, at times I also do, but more than any other season, I like summer. I think it is just in my head. With summer, I relate fun, frolic, going out ( of course in the evenings!!), sleeping on the floor, everything cheerful. I relate melancholy with winters and hence, don't really like them.
I like dawns in summer. Right when the sun is about to be up to punish us with its blaze. Being stuffed in a room through out the night, the moment I step in the balcony, I can feel the freshness in the air, the very slight chill, when it touches me, is like water being poured on a fire to extinguish it.

Last summer was different and a lot has happened from then to this summer. Life would change so drasistically for me, I had no idea, but yet again this one year is a reminder for me to always keep in my mind that you don't take life for granted, you just can't. The twists, turns, shocks, surprises I had in this one year will keep me on my toes for a long time to come. :)