Year 1998, I still re-collect..I was preparing for 10th standard. The so called study leave period had been prolonged owing to the repeated postponing of my board exams. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai a.k.a KKHH was a much awaited relief during the longgg wait i had to endure ! It took me a coupla days to convince my folks that a 3 hour movie will not digress my mind from studies. I did everything and anything which my parents commanded so that I could watch KKHH...Saw it once in the theatre..was truly,deeply madly in love with the movie...saw it again...and went crazzzy after it...i adored everything abt the movie. Identified with Kajol, wanted to be like Rani and fantasized for some1 like Sharukh. I felt a sudden need to change the National Sport of India to Basket ball...prayed for a college like Xaviers and desparately wanted to attend a summer camp. "Love is Friendship" became the mantra of my life ! Flip side of the story being that thinking of Love at that age was outta question...and freinds..well I was in a all girls school till 10th Std. But kehne mein kya jaata hai... Anyways, so after my exams got over, I purchased the video cassette (VCDs were an alien thing for a small town kid then) and religiously saw this movie once or twice every week. When the count reached to 50, my bro asked - "U seem to have some problem understanding the story ??"
Flash forward - Year 2007, June..have nuthin better to do than to surf TV channels...u can't do anythin better when u r in a house arrest due to heavy rains..Sony set max is showing KKHH and i stop scanning channels further...decided to watch the movie and remember some good ol days. To my amusement, I could not connect with the movie at all..the story seem to be running without any logic, the situations so unreal and the dialogues so cliched. My critical brain which is usually dormant when watching Bollywood movies, came outta hibrenation and started analyzing 'a decade' old work of Karan Johar...
Cudn't gulp in following things --
1) Having seen colleges in mumbai, I can say that college life is no where close to as it has been presented in the movie. My college principal wud have to take a re-birth to find a prof as hot as Miss Briganza.
2) How(more importantly- Why) would an oxford student(Tina - Rani M.) leave her studies mid way and continue the remaining part of it in India? Guess u can have tht liberty if u r princi's daughter.
3) I am still trying to search for this Xavier's college in India, where there were no classes/assignments / lectures for students. All they had were proms, Goa trips, sports, flings, heartbreaks et al.
4) I am not sure if Rahul - Sharukh even completed his bachelors ! Even if he did, some1 please find a B.A / B.Com grad for me who gets a privelege to attend the International Trade Conference's. All in suit - boot...hw did he manage that job ?? Did I miss out the campus placements in the movie somewhere ?
5) Even before delivering the baby, Tina knew that there'll be so much complication in the delivery that she wud not survive. okk...may be i am unaware of the progress in medicine..lets assume that docs made her aware of her situation before hand. So when did she write those 8 letters to her daughter - during the delivery or while dying? And while dying how cud she speak for 30 mins at length ??
6) Tina wrote 8 letters (1 to be given on each bday)for her daughter so that the baby girl can know her mother better. OMG !!! I did not know that the new borns can read/write right from the very first bday.
7) For 8 long years , Kajol was undergiong a make over? Does it take that long to get outta a pair of jeans and drape a saree around !
8) As long as Anjali - kajol was a tomboy, Rahul cud jus see her as his best buddy. But the moment she transformed into a proper girl sorts..his feelings changed..and he cud see a potential gf / life partner in her ! Hw does appearance and looks matter as far as feelings such as LOVE / friendship/ affection are concerned ?
9) Why did Anjali wait for 8 years ? I c..till then Sallu bhai was wandering in Jodhpur jungles to hunt a chinkara..is it??
10) Summer camp- the funniest part. When no other kid can get their parents along...Rahul, Anjali nd Granny are the only exceptions who get to stay on the campus..and sing songs..and play charades..and get wet in the rains and have a romantic ballroom kinda dance.
11) Rahul takes absolutely no efforts to confess his love to Anjali. Even when he reaches at Anjali's wedding uninvited, he has no better thing to do than to play charades..to say those three words "I LOVE U". All he does there is watch Anjali shed tears and reciprocate with even bigger ones. He acts superdumb till the end. Thanks to Sallu, who told Anjali - maaf karo bhai,jaao uske paas !
Ohh...mannn...look at what have i done to a movie which i adored so much ! Does this happen to every1 who thinks he has matured in 10 yrs...may b m watching 2 much of sensible stuff these days that my childhood favorites seem extremely stupid to me nw...I guess I am ok...all i need is some break frm this over worked schedule of mine...so dat i can get back to watching another Karan Johar drama ;)
Flash forward - Year 2007, June..have nuthin better to do than to surf TV channels...u can't do anythin better when u r in a house arrest due to heavy rains..Sony set max is showing KKHH and i stop scanning channels further...decided to watch the movie and remember some good ol days. To my amusement, I could not connect with the movie at all..the story seem to be running without any logic, the situations so unreal and the dialogues so cliched. My critical brain which is usually dormant when watching Bollywood movies, came outta hibrenation and started analyzing 'a decade' old work of Karan Johar...
Cudn't gulp in following things --
1) Having seen colleges in mumbai, I can say that college life is no where close to as it has been presented in the movie. My college principal wud have to take a re-birth to find a prof as hot as Miss Briganza.
2) How(more importantly- Why) would an oxford student(Tina - Rani M.) leave her studies mid way and continue the remaining part of it in India? Guess u can have tht liberty if u r princi's daughter.
3) I am still trying to search for this Xavier's college in India, where there were no classes/assignments / lectures for students. All they had were proms, Goa trips, sports, flings, heartbreaks et al.
4) I am not sure if Rahul - Sharukh even completed his bachelors ! Even if he did, some1 please find a B.A / B.Com grad for me who gets a privelege to attend the International Trade Conference's. All in suit - boot...hw did he manage that job ?? Did I miss out the campus placements in the movie somewhere ?
5) Even before delivering the baby, Tina knew that there'll be so much complication in the delivery that she wud not survive. okk...may be i am unaware of the progress in medicine..lets assume that docs made her aware of her situation before hand. So when did she write those 8 letters to her daughter - during the delivery or while dying? And while dying how cud she speak for 30 mins at length ??
6) Tina wrote 8 letters (1 to be given on each bday)for her daughter so that the baby girl can know her mother better. OMG !!! I did not know that the new borns can read/write right from the very first bday.
7) For 8 long years , Kajol was undergiong a make over? Does it take that long to get outta a pair of jeans and drape a saree around !
8) As long as Anjali - kajol was a tomboy, Rahul cud jus see her as his best buddy. But the moment she transformed into a proper girl sorts..his feelings changed..and he cud see a potential gf / life partner in her ! Hw does appearance and looks matter as far as feelings such as LOVE / friendship/ affection are concerned ?
9) Why did Anjali wait for 8 years ? I c..till then Sallu bhai was wandering in Jodhpur jungles to hunt a chinkara..is it??
10) Summer camp- the funniest part. When no other kid can get their parents along...Rahul, Anjali nd Granny are the only exceptions who get to stay on the campus..and sing songs..and play charades..and get wet in the rains and have a romantic ballroom kinda dance.
11) Rahul takes absolutely no efforts to confess his love to Anjali. Even when he reaches at Anjali's wedding uninvited, he has no better thing to do than to play charades..to say those three words "I LOVE U". All he does there is watch Anjali shed tears and reciprocate with even bigger ones. He acts superdumb till the end. Thanks to Sallu, who told Anjali - maaf karo bhai,jaao uske paas !
Ohh...mannn...look at what have i done to a movie which i adored so much ! Does this happen to every1 who thinks he has matured in 10 yrs...may b m watching 2 much of sensible stuff these days that my childhood favorites seem extremely stupid to me nw...I guess I am ok...all i need is some break frm this over worked schedule of mine...so dat i can get back to watching another Karan Johar drama ;)
.. Wow..i thought to miself.Generally, I don't easily accept gifts, but had very little choice this time. Owing to this, I took extremely good care of myself in the last 2 days...
I mean thats what i thought until I was declared as 
M still puzzled as to what exactly did they find unusual with me...I just demanded for bland boiled food without spices, asked for chappati if rice was cooked and if chapatti was served, I gently requested for khichdi, gargled every 1 hour with salted luke warm water so that I don't loose my voice on the day of the interview, did some ramdev baba yoga b/w every gargling nd steam sessions, used gestures instead of voice(was saving my voice for the D day) 
, asked my bro to attend to my calls(since I didn't wanna use even 1% of my vocal powers 
But dats the nly phrase my folks & I have mutually agreed to refer to any of the disagreements b/w us 
I made a face and uttered Damn ! ). Anyways, so lets continue the story...so I went off to sleep at 11:00 PM last night. But before going off to sleep I again proved myself a **GENIUS**. I collected all the cell phones available in the house -- 2 from folks, 1 cusin's, 1 mine and nicely arranged them on a table near my bed. Ahh..forgot to add the alram clock. okk...so each of them were tuned to ring with a time gap of 10 mins, starting at 4:30 AM sharp.
, had a gud breakfast at 5:45 AM [have never seen this time of the day in consciousness...nd here 
types look} acha acha...abhi toh kafi time hai...aap bahut jaldi aa gaye...TOI / HT doon kya? Time pass ho jayegaa...
} Nahi bhaiyya, mein apne yaad kiya hue answers bhul jaaongi..
