Sree Ranganatha

There was a time when I used to listen to ONLY this song. And I finally found it online today...! So that phase shall start off on youtube now. :-D





I have no words. The song is just too beautiful. Aha Arabhi...

Jodhaa Akbar

I finally saw Jodhaa Akbar today and I loved it. Honestly, I didn't have high hopes after what people said. Probably it was this lack of hope that made me like it so much.


The start itself was awesome, to me atleast. I love Amitabh Bachchan's voice. And then Hrithik Roshan's upper part happened and I was staring and staring until they tilted the camera downwards. Whatte shock! I saw how badly he needs to be taught to walk like Akbar. A sloppy walk he has all through the movie, like he is this rubber man in a circus. That aside, he looked extremely hot with that moustache and acted better than Kaho na pyaar hai and Dhoom 2. Effectively, one of his best films so far. Thankfully Akbar wasn't a man with supernatural powers or such shit.

And then there was Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who comes with all this I want to follow my dharm ideals and succeeds. Ofcourse, she also succeeds in keeping Akbar from touching her. But then we knew Akbar had to touch her at some point of time and I literally sat there waiting for it. The whole war thing in the beginning and in between were all so well-made that yes, I fell in love with the director, but I was getting little too bored watching Jodha be this extremely wonderful human being, playing with rabbits and birds and all that, who Akbar cannot touch but can only "Check out" through those heavily carved windows. And when the intimate stuff actually happened, it became one huge comedy affair. On the floor or on the bed. On the floor or on the bed. Floor maybe... some timepass and then yay!!! bed it'll be! Now to actually credit Ash for what she did - Unlike the world, I thought she was really good in this movie. For all those who called her a moving doll with nothing to do, I so disagree. She did ACT. Ofcourse, she wasn't on screen as much but when she was and the story needed her, she did well. Especially the sword fight with Hrithik, the anger was so clearly evident on her face that I forgot she was acting, for a while. The only thing one could probably point out was that she was too thin for the role. But again, you would have laughed if Hrithik would have seen someone else and said Masha Allah because I almost puked when Ranbir Kapoor said that in Saanwariya. Anyhow, she was beautiful and all that she had to be in the movie.

And so there were people and there were wars and these people spoke. They spoke Urdu but man, what dialogues! One after the other, things that I wish I could say. Things that I would love to say if only I remembered them. I vaguely remember ekaant and khaaaamosh and muaf and khauff and Mohabbat. Actually, if anyone noticed, Hrithik says maaf instead of muaf at almost the end of the movie. I still can't figure if that was a mistake or what... Anyway, if I watch it again, it'll be ONLY for the dialogues. So not like what we usually get to hear.

Then there was God and there was AR Rehman. Its been a while since I have heard so many amazing songs in one movie. I was singing along all the songs during the movie, that this person next to me got scared. Really, they aren't these normal Hindi songs where you can remember words. Every word is so new to me and to think of the fact that I and so many others know the songs by heart.....
It is ONLY because of the tune. The better the tune, the easier it gets to recogize patterns. Its how you feel when you see any alphabet for the first time. I fail to explain this properly all the time so I shall leave it at that. Like I was saying, the music is divine. Every song. Theres Mann Mohana by Bela Shende which is absolutely out of the world. I don't think Shreya Ghoshal can ever manage to sing that as well. Then Khwajaji by ARR which I don't even have to say anything about. Though the best, I think are, Jashn - e - Bahara and In lamhon ke daaman mein. When the chorus in lamhon ke daaman goes Kyun hai yeh aarzoo, kyun hai yeh justju, kyun dil bechain hai, kyun dil bathaab hai, I literally have goose bumps all over. Ok, I am out of words now. We just need ARR forever.
So, watch it if you haven't. Its different. Watch it for the dialogues and ARR. And I might also add, watch it to for Ash. She doesn't "just act" often.

Oh please listen to Mann Mohana. It doesn't come all at a time in the movie. That spoils the beauty...

Vellai Pookal

Its been a while since some song touched me so much. Though this isn't a new song, it deserves a post. I happened to hear it when Kanatthil Mutthamittal was shown on tv recently. And I have been listening to it ever since. Beautiful is all I can say.

Most of ARR's songs are hard to sing. I mean after listening to his version of a song one just cant listen to anyone else singing it. Especially Yeh jo des hai tera from Swades... I haven't heard one person sound as good as ARR. Again, there is Tere Bina from Guru which no one else can sing.

But this song is just too simple. And that adds to its beauty.

Listen to Vellai Pookal Ulagam Engum Malarhave here

Is anyone listening?

I know I am writing about this rather late but I just had to...

Indian Idol - 3 is AWESOME. This, I say, considering all the amazing singers it has found. There wasn't one person in the top 13 who couldn't sing well and was there because of public sympathy. I used to watch Indian Idol - 1 religiously. Still,it wasn't this good. 3 is a class apart. Most of the people I know watch it. This, excluding "I wanna become Donald Trump" wannabes who have probably watched one episode of The Apprentice.

Coming to the point... The people who are being voted out of Indian Idol DON'T deserve to leave. Atleast the last 2 weeks, the whole results show has been surprising me. First Deepali. Then Puja. The only girls who I thought were capable of becoming the idol, were gone. And the only girl left is Ankita Mishra. This might sound rude, but, comparitively Ankita's singing sucks. And I don't think she is a great performer either. Thats the sole reason Annu "I want more n's" Malik supports her and I so don't agree. She ONLY has a naughty face. And she tries to do things with her nose which makes her look cute. Anyone could do it. She probably has attitude in her voice but thats her voice quality. If you can expect Deepali to sing like Shreya Goshal or close to someone like that to vote her in, you should probably look for a Vasundhara Das in Ankita. You'll find not a pinch of her in Ankita. I do not intend any comparison. Each one of them have a different voice and I just think Deepali is better than Ankita, be it voice or performance.

So I hoped Ankita would go out and Deepali would stay - That did not happen.

And so I had to wait for her to go last week and what should happen again - Puja left. Now this definitely was crazy. If what a person had been singing for the last 10 weeks meant anything at all, Puja should have been on the top. "Ab ke saawan" is a really really hard song to sing and Puja sang it so amazingly well, I could not imagine her leaving after that. If the audience wanted a girl to leave then it'd have rather been Ankita.

I haven't considered the guys till now and if I did, I'd say Prashant doesn't deserve to stay this long. Nor does Chang. He could probably become the Indo-China Idol in China but definitely not Indian Idol 3.

Now that the girls I supported are out, my only hopes of a deserving Indian Idol lie on Emon.

For the LAST TIME, Emon does NOT sound like Sonu Nigam. If anyone remember how he sang "ek chathur naar", they wouldn't say this. He can modulate his voice to sound like almost anything or anybody AND along with all this he has this whole new different voice which belongs to him. Talking about Indian Idol's finds, he is certainly one of them.

The only contestant I haven't talked about yet is Amit Paul. So lets do that too.
He isn't great period
What Annnnnnuji finds in him is beyond me. He thinks his standing ovation means a thing? Its like shit. The way Amit sang "mai ri" was bad. If Palash Sen would have listened to it, he would have cried. But oooo what did Mr. Malik have to say?!

You are simply superb... *stands up on his cunning feet*

Just incase you read this Annuji-
If you could stand for him you could have stood for everyone. And if you didn't know, there are freaks who vote for people Annu Malik stands for. Deserving, they might think. Stupid judge, I say.

I once wished Alisha were blind when she was all gaga over the rock guy who couldn't sing a line in Hindi without going out of tune. The competition never stopped him from singing/screaming whatever he claimed was rock. And if it did, he didn't deserve to be there in the first place. In any case, judges need a limit for how much lou they can possibly show towards a contestant.

I think the sole reason there is so much confusion is, the whole concept is not clearly defined. The judges themselves do not know what they are looking for. Its so foolish. How did they even rate the singers till now? One of them wants performance and singing... the other just singing and Malik needs just some butter. Javed Akthar is the sanest.

In my opinion Indian Idol should be more of singing and stage presence. Right now, thats what one needs to look for. The whole performance thing will happen as time goes by. Or they could take it in the lines of Fame Gurukul. But who is listening to me?

I don't even wanna watch the show anymore. I just hope Emon wins though. But the unexpected always happens so allow me to expect Emon to lose.

Ok this should do. I have whined enough.

For the record... Mommy dearest FINALLY left me home ALONE! So YAY!