diwali ki haardik shubhkaamnayen. prithvi pe sach ka bolbaala rahe. paap apni andheri kothri mein exist kare.

kitni pyaari lagti hai duniya aaj mujhe,
har manzar lagta hai jaaga hua.
ujli ujli kirnen jaagi jaagi raahen,
bheegi bheegi khushbhu ne failayin hain baahen.

kitne saare geet surile, jab ye mausam gaata hai,
gam ki galiyan chorke ye dil sapnon ke ghar jaata hai.

main jahaan dekhoon, jaaoon jahaan,
muskuraata hai saara samaa.
jagmagaati hai raahen meri,
jaane ye kaisi jaadugari.
saahebaaan....

naya geet koi fiza gaa rahi hai,
zameen sun rahi hai,
hawa gaa rahi hai.
saahebaan, o saahebaan.
pal pal chin chin, machle ye dil.

a fantastic one from Nine, shankar mahadevan, javed akhtar. a reverberating taan in between

and of course all that reading brings me to the same paradox. intellectualism destroys romanticism. and one cannot survive without either.

dard ki yaad mein bhi,
dard hai behtar ye tha.
apne zakhmon ka hisaab humne na,
rakkha hota.

tehzeeb rocks!!

tu ban jayegi madhuri,
mumbai jaane ki hai deri

yoohoo..antara mali is back!

haath choote to bhi rishte nahi chora karte,
waqt ki shaakh se lamhe nahi toda karte.
pinjar rose upto its expectations. a well-written tale rendered with finesse. quite a treat on the big screen although it was only the three of us having the whole theatre to ourselves. hoho. well thats wot happens when u go on a mon night here. i hoped to catch a glimpse of chandraprakash dwivedi somewhere -- didnt happen. interesting set of cast -- all modern women stalwarts while the guys were kind of bollywoodish. laudable casting. and no words suffice for urmila -- she's too good with her histrionics as usual and her acting superb. i dont know if she worked hard on this one or there was a slow betterment already which i failed to notice. ( she has been doing too many of those horror-cry-cry roles of late). the characters appear out of the book yet have a life of their own -- eg. manoj bajpai has a constant role of guilt which was quite monotonous. except urmila n priyanshu, few characters showed more than one shades. good for the story. overall a damn good exp., a must-watch on the big screen - altho when ur kind of down(hoho) or feel like watching an art movie.