Ab Seekho Unka Khel

"Jaa Simran Jaa, Jee le apni zindagi."

And i gave 20 bucks to my friend for a cornetto as she did not have change. The ice cream wallah wondered what the hell is wrong with this guy. As she was having it, I just cound not resist to put another one. "Tum kya jaano ek chuski mango bar ki keemat rehri waale bhaiya "

As much as i hated the ice cream, just loved those two quickies from our apna desi bollywood. Was wondering what amazing(read degrading) impact it has had on my thinking and attitude towards life. Some of the ones i have heard over the years have been truly golden and apt for making some conversations worth remembering.

The other day a friend asked how come you are single still and out came the reply, ''Ladki ka chakkar babu bhaiya, bahut kharab hota hai." He shot back "Come on, impossible ho hi nahi sakta koi ladki kabhi pasand hi na aayi ho". I said " Abhi tak to nahi, par ab lagta hai badalon mein se vo chehra saamne aa raha hai". And he almost broke my head with the chocolate wafers he was munching. After a while none of us understood what it meant but yeah sounded good and more importantly, filmy.

Some of the other brilliant ones which have been used by me over the years at various times

1. Reply to friends when working late in office "Do not disturb me. Kaam hi pooja hai aur pooja hi kaam hai"

2. When suddenly a friend you desperately wanted to come to a party turns up. "Ishar kaka ne aakar bahut himmat bada di Bhuvan"

3. When somebody asks my hobbies. "Meri ungliyaan piano par padte hi vo khud ba khud bajne lagta hai"(How tacky!!)

4. When we desperataly want India to win against even Kenya "Maafi ka to ab sawaal hi nahi uth ta. Dhajjiyaan uda do angrezon ki. (applies to even bangladesh!!)"

5. My car broke down the other day at one of the busiest areas in the city. And out came "Chennai vaise paidal hi achcha lagta hai Senorita." Senorita(Karan) almost killed me and two burly auto vallas who had been honking behind.

6. About a bird park in Singpore. " Arrey yeh to Jurassic park hi hai with ducks and pigeons thrown in. Aise hi bevakoof bana rahein hain logon ko"

7. About any random girl my friends like. "Ladko agar vo tumse pyar karti hai to palat kar dekhegi. Palat palat.. " Ladke: " Arey bhaiya lekin hum to 5 hain vo kisse dekhegi pata kaise chalega?". "Arey draupadi tumhare akele ki thodi hai, tum saare shareholder ho" (Jaane bhi do yaaron awesome scene)

8. Bill in a restaurant is commonly reffered to as "Billo Rani" and tip is referred to as "Tip tip barsa pani" (How cheap!. But again truly filmy.) And the fav Kulbhushan kharbanda's dialogue from the movie umrao jaan "Ab isske paise kaun dega" (The oration is truly amazing!!)

9. We went to a concert at IIT. Was dead crowded. A friend asked "Arrey bhai saath saath rehna kahin gum na ho jayein". I said "Bade miyaan jab rakhi ke bete karan aur arjun 3 ghante mein 2 baar marne par bhi mil sakte hain to hamare paas to phir bhi phone hai!!"

10. "Zindagi ki daud mein daud kar karna kya hai, agar yahi hai jeena yaaron, to phir marna kya hai.."

The next one would be about some of the amazing songs which fit into our daily lives.

Cheers

p.s. I got a "D" grade in finance subject in IIT. Was listening to a peppy Baba Sehgal(?) number to cheer my self up. In walks a friend into my room and exactly at that moment the song changes to "Sach hai ki dil to dukha hai, humne magar socha hai .. Dil ko hai gham kyun, aankh hai num kyun.. hona hi tha jo hua hai"

The friend "Yaar ek grade hi to hai. Aise dukhi aashiq ki tarah kyun baitha hai!!. Chalo agli baar main pada dunga." (Damn the shuffle in ipod!!)

A piece of time...

A couple of question again popped up in my mind when i was doing the thing which i hate the most. A forced conversation. Actually does not matter with whom it was. The point is why it was. Its not like we did not have anything in common. We could talk about anything. But i just did not feel like talking coz it would have given the same kind of questions and responses.

Hows life yaar. "ok hai"
Hows work going on. "ok"
Ten mins of pause and, did you see yeaterday's match. "nopes was in office"

And then i lost the will to live for about 2 hours.

Took me 3 episodes of "Friends" to bounce back to life. And thats when i realized the relativity of time. One minute of "forced" conversation and a day with your best friend or some one special actually take the same amount of time. And thats what i call a "Piece of time".

The other day i saw an ad which said 30 years from now what would you remember the most when you look back at your life. The corner most cubicle and around a million hours spent there or that one moment when you thought this is the end of you and took that plunge right off the sydney harbour bridge and thought why have i paid to do this freak thing called bungee jumping. Yet hope to survive.Now thats my piece of time which i have just plucked out of the zillion seconds i have been here on this earth and made my "timepiece".

The second thought which flashed right after this one was the eternal objective of life question which haunts me. And one of the probable answers was may be the objective is to collect as many timepieces as possible and yet managing the paradox of not only doing that and nothing else such as generating means and resources to make that one moment possible. So how many pieces of time have i collected for the first 26 years of my life. A good bunch i suppose. Some of them very beautiful, some of them very grave. Some of them alone and some with other people. And i how many i have been a part of for others. Not much i guess. And thats one thing everybody ought to start right away.

Coz we are happy the most when we see ourselves in the photo frames of other people. Sharing their best moments and being a part of their timepieces. Who knows it might be your "piece of time" as well. I read somewhere that sounds do not disappear. They exist forever. So whatever you have said and heard would be there in this universe forever(Think the amount of crap you have blurted out). And I guess so will time. We may not be here after a hundred years but our pieces of time would remain. So may be i know what to go at for the remainder of my life. Or may be i would be proved wrong by someone someday. And wouldn't i would love that to happen.

Thinking long term after all is not a bad term after all.
As my long term just began today.

Cheers.

बीस साल बाद

कोई भी इंसान दीर्घायु की कामना ना करे ऐसा तो नामुमकिन है ।
पर उस आयु को आमरण जिए, ये ज़रूरी नही ।
आज से बीस साल पहले को ही लीजिये, मुझे याद नही की मैंने कक्षा में कितनी बार अद्यापक की बात सुनी या समझी । पर बहुत सी बातें ऐसीं हैं जो भुलाये नही भूलती।

कुछ ऐसी ही जिंदगी की झलकियाँ जो शायद सर्वव्यापी रही हों ...
१ अपने हाथों में कांग्रेस का झंडा लेकर वी पी सिंह हाय हाय के नारे लगते हुए सडकों पर घूमना
२ दूरदर्शन पर चित्रहार और रामायण के इंतज़ार में पूरा हफ्ता गुजारना
३ रसना और गोल्ड स्पॉट पीना अपने आप में एक त्यौहार जैसा होना
४ मम्मी के हाथ के बुने हुए स्वेटर पहन कर बर्फ में घूमना
५ रात से नफरत करना क्यूंकि शाम के खेल में रात का खलल खटकना
६ ये सोचना के लड़कियों को स्तापू खेलने से क्या मिलता है
७ सोमवार रात को बिनाका गीतमाला सुनकर चहकना
८ हैरान होना की सबके पास हो अगर एक मेंडक जैसी गाड़ी तो कितना सही हो
९ कूलर में पानी भरना दिन में दो बार नहाने जैसा मस्ती भरा काम होना
१० सकूल में ठंडा तिफ्फिन का खाना घर के आम खाने से कहीं बेहतर लगना

और अगर मैं आज से बीस साल बाद की कल्पना करू तो शायद कुछ ऐसे वाक्य मुझे याद रहे

१ वो कोने वाला ऑफिस का कमरा
२ घर में दो होम थिएटर होने पर भी दिल का न बेहेलना
३ दोस्त तो सिर्फ़ नाम के , सब अपने में उलझे हुए
४ बर्फ में जाना तो दूर, एसी का तेज़ होना जुकाम को निमंत्रण
५ खाने से ज्यादा कैप्सूल का लेना ज़रूरी
६ डाइट पेप्सी तो दूर अब तो डाइट पानी लेना पड़ता है जनाब
७ मेंडक वाली गाड़ी तो दूर अब तो लिमो से बोर हो गए हैं
८ गाने हैं की उफ़ हाय मेरी तौबा एक ही शब्द पर शोर मचाते रहते हैं। सुरूर और न जाने क्या क्या
९ शाम तो कभी देखी ही नही, आफिस में ही सुबह और रात का उजागर होना देखा है
१० सोचते हैं की अगर कभी चाट के मज्जे गलियों में लेने को मिलते तो क्या बात थी, अब तो सब कुछ मिक्रो में बनता है जो शायद दिल्ली के बड़े मियां कभी चख लेते तो वहीं शर्म से प्राण पखेरू त्याग देते

शायद ये सब कुछ न हो , शायद ज़िन्दगी कहीं बेहतर गुज़रे।
तो क्यूँ न हम प्रयास 'ना' करें इससे बदलने का , जैसे हमने बीस साल पहले भी नही किया ।
क्यूँ न हम इस शायद को मिटा दें ,
मुमकिन है इस ज़िन्दगी के लम्हे थोड़े और रूमानी हो जायें।

जय हो

Jai ho...

Rahman won 2 Oscars... I returned to blogging after 2 years...big day..
Just asked my self a couple of questions and had answers enough to fill a dozen pages
।

ज़रीवाला आसमान कहाँ है....

अगर है यहीं पर तो उसका इल्म क्यूँ नही है ?
क्या वो सिर्फ़ एक तलाश बन के रह गया है ?

क्यूँ उसके नूर की चमक से मैं अब तक बेपरवाह हूँ ?
उसके दीदार से माथे पर सिलवट क्यूँ आ जाती है ?

और क्या वक्त के साथ ये सिलवटें दरारों में तब्दील हो जाती हें ?

जब इंसान सब कुछ हार कर उसके दर पर झुकता है, तो इन दरारों के बीच उसका

नसीब उससे यह भी नही पूछता की ऐ मिटटी की काया,

।

"तू पढने की कोशिश में हमेशा, किस्मत को ही लिखना भूल गया...

जब इल्म हुआ की वक्त ले गया वक्त को , आसमान में ज़रीवाला बादल घुल गया "

।

इनके लिए ,

अल्लाह रखा रहमान

Saurabh and I

hi...

sumtimes i wonder......

is it all worth it....

is the life understood....

is the emotional side of us getting lost....

are we like the ones who we dont ever wish to be....

why do we expect a lot and give a little.......

why do we think a lot about the future and ruin the present....

why are we afraid of the fears that aint there.....

why do we care what others think of us....

why do we look up to somebody always to seek advice when we have the capability to think on our feet....

why are we afraid to take chances when we have a million options just waiting to be discovered...

are we really creative in thought and practice alike....

is the child inside still dere or we have forced him to grow up.......

can we cry and laugh at the same time and yet not be too happy or too sad......

can we touch somebody in trouble and share the fears to lessen them......and yet not give ours away....

are we the ones who were born to do what we are doing and yet know that inside out...

can we make a difference to a life of even one stranger......

can we learn not to hate.....

can we learn to love......

can we just be ourselves without imitation.....

can we smile when we leave this world..........

or can we ever not die.....

and still make a change to those around us.....

its a tough life...

sometimes i wonder......may be not...