What a beautiful gem in Sajjad Ali's 'pakka' voice.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Kiya tamasha hai! Kabse jaari hai?
What a beautiful gem in Sajjad Ali's 'pakka' voice.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
From "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Sunday, October 23, 2011
"Way, The"
Martin Sheen's new but not very advertised movie, "The Way," is more of an independent film. It revolves around four characters who join the pilgrimage to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela for their own various reasons under the folklore that said pilgrimage helps spiritual salvation.
Martin Sheen is carrying the burden and ashes of his dead son. He is first joined by a Dutch man who loves food but fights his weight as his wife stops sleeping with him. Later, they found an angry Canadian woman who is a victim of domestic violence and is trying to give up her addiction to smoking. Actually, she is inside carrying the guilt of an abortion. Lastly, they found an Irish writer suffering from writer's block, but he hates his commercial job of writing for a travelers' magazine.
As the movie evolves, the pilgrimage progresses, and their interaction intensifies. As they fight their psychological issues and try to find meaning in their journey and life, they realize that it is not important to fight a particular thing in life. What makes it worthwhile is sharing each other's burdens and joys in life.
See trailer here
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Windows (Aik Hikayat)
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, The young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows".
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Poverty and Human Bonding!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Mere Baba ke das (10) Baras!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Age 40
Beauty of Internet is that you meet smarter people than yourself! On my last post (On Belief) 2 such people commented. One was Adnan, an extremely talented kid from Toronto. Other was Aasem Bakhshi. Aasem mentioned on his blog the reference of Qurani ayat for the significance of age 40. Let me put his words here;
"According to Al-Quran 46:15, man attains strength at the age of 40. A few might take it literally but it is an age when the perceptual experience of reality has to be expressed by humans".
Friday, October 14, 2011
On Belief
"It takes more faith to believe there is no God than the believe there is a God".
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
On Human side of people!
Saturday, October 08, 2011
On Disease and Spirituality!
"For several instants I experience a happiness that is impossible in an ordinary state, and of which other people have no conception. I feel full harmony in myself and in the whole world, and the feeling is so strong and sweet that for a few seconds of such bliss one could give up ten years of life, perhaps all of life. I felt that heaven descended to earth and swallowed me. I really attained god and was imbued with him. All of you healthy people don't even suspect what happiness is , that happiness that we epileptics experience for a second before an attack."
I am not going into any religious arguments here but it is said that Prophet Mohammad used to have similar attack before or at time of revelation from Allah!
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Love and Women
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Sab se Bara Dukh? - 2
"...mujhe aik bar mere susar (father i law) ne aik bat kahi jo main apse b share krna chahta hon... he said.. "beta, ap jantay hain k hum ko olad ka dukh maa baap k dukh se b barh k q mehsus hota ha?"..main khamosh rha to woh bolay.."Q k yeh hmara khameer ha, hmaray grand father (hazrat adam) k maa baap nahi thay, unko sirf oladd mili so unki fitrat mein sirf olaad k liye feelings bn gayen aur jo genetically aj tk hm sb insano mein forward ho rahi hain"... hence proved k "olad ka dukh wakeiye boht zalim hota ha" !!!
(Thanks Tahir)
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Maan!
"Trust ko?"
"Nahi! Trust to bohat chota lafz hai. Shayed angrezi main is lafz ke hum-palla koi lafz hai hi nahi! Jub kisi ke liye koi aehsas - aap ke andar, bahir, shaoor, la-shaoor bulke tahtash-shaoor - main yaqeen bulke iman ki had tuk chaya ho - magar khud aap ko us ki khabar na ho - aur tub khabar ho jub woh aehsaas aik dum se tute aur khud poora aap ko jhanjor jaaye, bulke tor jaaye. Us aehsaas ke liye shayed abhi koi lafz ijad hi nahi hua!"
Saturday, October 01, 2011
"The Help", 9/11 and Hope
Trailer here
Note: Emma stone proved herself in this movie as an actress