Sunday, February 17, 2008

Future of indian sports and Jodhaa Akbar ...

Firstly, sorry for this weird title .. but couldn't think of anything else ... if anyone gets some better ideas after reading the post ... please feel free to suggest ...

Secondly, I had penned down the below post on 19 Jan 2008 (the day when India won the Test match at WACA); just couldn't put it on the blog earlier. Many (not that i have many readers :)) will find this post totally out of context or even un-apprehend-able (for yaa all, check out my take on Jodhaa Akbar in the P.S. note) ... but I am sure that die hard cricket/tennis fans will be able to relive the exact feeling that i wanted to convey from this post a month back ...

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Today (that's 19 Jan 2008)... the present that the Indian cricket team has given to all us cricket fanatics is just inimitable ... am sure that there would have been many moms/grand moms etc asking "Su thayu ???" (for non gujjus, this translates to "what happened ???") when their kids must have simply started screaming their lungs out and dancing too... when R P Singh's yorker uprooted Shaun Taits off stump ...

And for once, I was delighted with Star (Hindi) News creativity ... they were airing a nice slide show of snaps from this memorable win with the background score of Lagaan's "Chale Chalo" ... and when the line "Toot Gayee jo ungli utthi ... " came, Ricky Ponting's snap, the one where he had raised his finger at SCG to (incorrectly, cheatingly, unsportsman likely) pronounce Saurav as OUT, was shown ... and this moment surely got me smirking with pride...

And yes ... Ek aur Karega ???? this simple question of Kumble to Ishant Sharma will surely become a lingo close to all cricket lovers for years and years (i think even generations) to come ...

and also today, 19 Jan 2008 saw two Indian stellar performances down under ... one at the WACA ended up on the winning side and other at Melbourne sadly on the losing end ... I am talking about Ishant Sharma and Sania Mirza ... somehow i found a lot of similarities between the contests that they were having ..

---> both were fighting out against the best in the business ... one vs ponting (in particular) & other vs Venus Williams ...
---> both are young and inexperienced
---> both gave their rivals a torrid time. Even though Sania ended up losing the game; this was one of the hard fought win for Venus. (Believe me, I had a tough time shuttling between the tennis and the cricket match; Sania was playing awesome tennis)

Today gave a satisfying feeling about the future of Indian Sports ... just hope that these talents are groomed properly ... AMEN !!!

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P.S.: saw Jodhaa Akbar yesterday night; it’s an okay movie, magnificent sets, costumes and all, great direction/cinematography for sure ... but somehow i didn’t find anything great that would justify the rave reviews it is getting on all sites. And I am sure most of you all will find this berry funny ... but I enjoyed watching Rohit Jugraj's SuperStar (the one in which Kunal Khemu plays a double role) more than Jodhaa Akbar ...

Friday, February 8, 2008

JoJhol

I am back to end another of self imposed exiles of sorts by writing about Jo-Jhol ... nay... this has got nothing to do with the "Namesake" character Gogol ... this is a creative union of names of my friend aka “Jhol” and his latest* love interest “Jo” (as he likes to call her) …

I won’t bore ya’all by writing the nitigrities of their love isstory (read as none of us “close” friends too were aware of any of the happenings until his avowal very recently :)) ... just that this incident has reinstated my faith in a couple of maxims; so jotting those down on ma blog for the benefit of rest of my single friends …

--> Keep trying unless you succeed ...
Almost on the verge of giving away his dream (the one that he was dreaming since his adolescence days) of a love marriage; to the extent that he had also seen 3-4 girls following the dreaded process of arranged marriage (add to it he had met girls from remote places outta mumbai too :))... but then this kamina was still trying to pataofy girls ... and (unfortunately for Jo :)) he finally succeeded after 10 years** …. So friends, never lose hope and give up; success might just be round the corner J … (Always have the story of King Bruce and the Spider going on at the back of your mind …)

--> Destiny can strike out of the blue ...
Things that are meant to be are just meant to be … and totally unexpected situations can lead to what is destined which in itself is unbelievable until it happens … like who would have thought that two people from vastly different cultures and backgrounds, who have met in person just for handful number of days and are sited about 650 kms apart would decide to spend the rest of their life together …

hmmmm … will end this post with hearty Congratulations to Jhol & Jo and wish them luck for an awesome life together.

ciao friends n take care,
hiren

* use of the word “latest” here is intended to mean recent just in context of time and not in numeric context; although people knowing Jhol might want to disagree :P

** 5 in college + 5 at workplace. Efforts below the age of 18 do not count, so school & junior college years not considered.

P.S. 1: Real identities concealed only after extreme pleading by Jhol :) (m writing this with a smirky & devilish smile on my face ;)) & all brutes who might get itchy to cash on this post for their sadistic pleasures are forewarned not to reveal true names in the comment section …else they might face severe consequences (jhol dost, don’t worry, I will set the comment section to be moderated:))

P.S. 2: Most important of all; no one is allowed to use this post and write comments to the effect of giving advice to me for settling down etc etc …. In short no comments about me getting married and all will be entertained. :)