Sunday, May 27, 2012

Mighty Fine!

While people recommended I go and see the box office hit "Avengers," I picked to go and see "Mighty Fine" and did not regret it. It will strike you if you are a man from a desi culture. Though based in the mid-1970s of America, it precisely strikes the male psyche of desi men or maybe all men.

How man has been raised by their fathers to behave like a man - and how this teaching sometimes gets internalized - later manifests as episodic bouts of anger and destroys families!

The story revolves around a Jewish family - where the 'man of the house' is trying his best or overdoing to make his wife and daughters happy. But he slowly succumbs to the stress of dying business, and his rage takes a toll on his family's peace. Slowly climax gets built up to the point where he contemplates suicide.

This movie provides an opportunity to reflect on all men trying to balance their work and family. Sometimes Mighty is not fine! (he needs to verbalize, communicate and talk about his problems to his loved ones)!

See Trailer here

*

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Jagah

"Suna hai jagah badalne se qismat bhi badal jati hai" 

Chalo aesa hai to chal ke dekhte hain!

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

House and Woman

While talking to a Realtor about foreclosed houses, he made an interesting comment: "I think trouble starts when a woman falls in love with a house and a man falls in love with a woman"!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Dar-o-Deewar

(posted as told  - a true tale)


Woh Burnaby (Vancouver) ka shayed sab se ziyada khubsurat makan hoga, magar jub main us makan main daakhil hui to mujhe aik ajeeb si uljhan hone lagi.


Jese jese us makan main mera waqt guzarta gaya - meri uljhan barhti gai - mujeh aesa laga mujeh rona aa jaaye ga. Aur uper wale bedroom tak ponchte ponchte meri aankhain nam ho chuki thiN ------- Khud ye baat meri samjh se balatar thi.............. Aur kuch arse baad mujeh pata laga....


Ye wahi makan, wahi bedroom tha - jahan se usne apni pehli biwi ko khirki se bahir pehnke ke liye utha liye tha.....................................Us lamhe ki 'vibes' ab tak us makan ke har dar-o-deewar se apna afsana keh rahi thi!

Sunday, May 06, 2012

On not giving up!

(As we grow old - simple things matter in life and we learn more from minor events)

I took my daughter for Tennis camp. During class, she got hit on her already wiggly front tooth. She walk out of court crying, having bleeding gum and stained T-shirt. One mom who was sitting with me helped me putting ice on her gums etc. As bleeding subsided, I asked my daughter to either stay with me or to go back in court?, she kept crying, not knowing what to do.

Helping mom said to my daughter: "Go baby! you don't give up so easily!" My daughter went back and finished  her lesson.

And I was thinking: I was about to destroy my daughter's confidence. Thanks to that Mom to teach me and my daughter an important lesson in life!

Friday, May 04, 2012

Aik Arabi kahawat!

Ma ko sab se ziyada apne pehle bete se, aur Baap ko sab se ziyada apni bimar ya kamzor aulad se muhabbat hoti hai.   (Agree?)

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Bimar Khala

(posted as heard)


"Hamare paros main aik khala rehti thiN - sada ki bimar! Un ki 4 betiaN thi, jin ke rishte ki fiqar maiN woh ghul ghul ke bimar rehne lagi thiN. Blood pressure, Migraine aur na jaane kesi ajeeb ajeeb - dil hola dene wali - bimariaN thi. Saare mohalle main 'Bimar Khala' ke naam se mashoor thi -------- Aik mazaq ban ker reh gai thiN.


Aaj jub meri aik beti 26 baras ki hai aur uska koi rishta nahi aata to mera bhi blood pressure high rehne laga hai. Mujhe bhi migraine hone laga hai..............Log kehte hain, duniya badal gai - beta beti ka koi faraq nahi raha. "Desi culture" khatam hi samjho! ----- Ho sakta hai, yeh sach hoke duniya bohat badal gai hai magar abhi aik Ma ka dil itna nahi badla ke - beti beta lagne lage...... Aaj bhi beti ko ghar aane main 10 minute der ho jaaye to dil dharkne lagta hai....pooch to nahi sakti magar dua hi kerti hun ke izzat salamat ho........ShadioN main le ker jaati hun, ziyada khane se tokti hun, aas paas ke logoN se kehti hun, 2 dafa darood shariff bhi kerwaya....


Kiya tum mujhe neend ki koi goli likh ke nahi de sakte?"