On a lousy satuday evening....i decided to do something which i always did when life seemed to have come to an end,when there was nothin more to think,no path to tread,n a kinda of nirvana which indicates there's just VOID everywhere....suddenly,something in me said "hey..stop thinking like a hermit...jus luk around....there r many things in this world which haven been explored..u r sure to find something new...interesting " ."maybe",i shrugged..n within few minutes i was in the CD parlor hunting for some real arbit movie...well honestly,its among such arbit movies i find real NIRVANA...these movies not necessarily contain romance r action r the usual masala...they r usually bland...after watchin them,u get a feeling as if u have just returned from some other planet devoid of emotions...u r put into an intensive thinkin mission the moment the tape starts rollin ! n u r forced to remain in tat mode till the movie finishes(as its very unlikely for anyone to decipher the plot let alone the climax..)..anyway i restrained myself from picking something totally weird,as i didnt want to luk like russel crowe in beautful mind,as i had a function to attend later in the night..well after an exhaustive search,i zeroed in on "brokeback mountain"....the movie tat created quite a stir with its audacious plot of homosexual relationships...ahem...i had always been curious about this one n i was dyin to watch it ever since i saw a review of this in TOI...well before we continue lemme assure tat i am straight n tat hasnt changed even after watchin the movie..one caution before u proceed..
if you haven watched the movie yet,u may find some of the info revealing which may spoil ur curiosity abt the movie..but i still say its safe to go ahead as there's a big difference in watchin n readin abt this movie...

k...lets get on..the story is set in the 60's,u may call it the cowboy era in the united states.....the movie begins with two strangers walkin down to a big farmer askin for work...the farmer obliges. while one is assigned the task of takin the sheep for rearin on the brokeback mountain(i am still tryin to find out if there's actually anything like tat or was it jus a secret reference created by the duo) the other had to cook food n take care of their makeshift shelter...as the time passes by,the monotony of their job n their seclusion from the rest of the world makes them feel lonely...they crave to find noise but r firmly denied by the silence of the mountains..ofcourse there's the sound coming from the herd of sheep n the occasional neighin of their horses..but tat is all they can find... one cold night,one of them(who is a kind of introvert)while warming his body in the fire,hears a shrill call from his gregarious companion, from the tent...n on that fateful night they realise an unkown attraction r shud i say bonding between themselves...(ang lee,the director of the movie,says tat he had to re-shoot this scene many times,much for the dis-comfort of everybody,as the actors were findin it diffcult to get intimate...quite obvious...*wink**wink*) well,things go a lil awry as the guys start comin in terms with their abnormal feelings towards each other..(lee's done a gud job while portrayin this)....its winter,n the two lovers (almost by then !!!) warn the farmer of an in-coming snow storm..the farmer decides to stall the work n the duo decide to meet durin next summer at the same place...but,theres a hitch...one of them is about to get married in few days !!! n then he will have a family of his own...but,they have to meet as there's something tats pullin them towards each other....will they meet inspite of many such social barriers???is their luv strong enough to bring them back???even if they do,can they live in a society that considers homosexuality a curse..a taboo....

Full credits to the cameraman,for having caught some of the breath taking land scapes of Wyoming..lush green ranches,huge mountain ranges silhouetting against bright red horizon..sometiems u cant stop wondering if there is such a place on earth r is it some graphic manipulations !!! well honestly, I have always been a bad admirer of nature…it never made sense to me when ppl made endless descriptions n showered their praises on things as in-animate as mud,water,sky n stuff like tat..but now I am happy n relieved to say tat I really know wat they were speakin when they said “hey…tat just luks like heaven on earth”(well it’s a different fact how I used to struggle to find out how these ppl had got access to heaven to make all those comparisons !)…indeed this is the only way to reach heaven if u wanna make tat journey before u put ur head down to eternity…NATURE....just bury urself there..

however the highlight of the movie(for me atleast) is the intelligent usage of 'silence' by the director...he has successfully demonstrated how silence can speak more than words..(how i wish all r lecturers had understood this...*sighs*).

the movie defies the meaning of love n dares to make a bold statement that love's not only blind to age,but also to gender..when someone said,very rightly, tat "love is blind",he probably meant it with a much deeper meaning......

however one word of caution for ppl in relatioships: don watch it with ur partner...especially if its a girl(cuz she wont stop suspectin u...he he)
one word of advice to the rest(me included!)...the movie has got some intimate scenes..but who cares…the story requires it…

go watch it,if u r lukin for some un-conventional entertainment....

Part 2 : Relationships as the times change

welcome to the second late-night edition of "relationships as the times change"(late night,i say not becuz of some adult content in it...simply becus its 1 am at the moment)..anyway i think i have figured out y my posts(gud posts in particular...k i know i am jus 2 posts old...) take birth at such un-holy hours...night is the only time durin the 24 hours where in ppl tend to do what is only necessary...lemme explain: after a day's full of work tat we, may r may not enjoy doin(usually not),the nights give us the much needed reprieve..by the time we are back at home,we only want to catch up on things tat give us "pure bliss n no shit"....as the night grows intense,our filterin of the un-necessary stuff also gets intense!

well, who doesnt want to hit the bed with a clear n peaceful mind???(he he..hope the above lines did not sound too "late nightish"...ouch !) n tats y i think the later it gets, the better is the settlin of my thoughts...

anyway comin back to the topic,i am still honestly confused...perhaps a lil more comments might have helped me arrive at some conclusion...but never mind ! at the moment i will stick onto something which i have been doin for a lil while...get IMPULSIVE....sounds lil im-matured,but yea i am a lil immatured when it comes to this(grrrrr....y the hell did i choose this topic)...i believe tat relationships cannot be defined on a single day in a single note...i mean,a cousin of urs whos been livin in US of A ever since he popped out of his mum's uterus cannot qualify as a "cousin" overnight ! but at the same time u cant jus refuse to call him/her akka r anna r mama(uncle,in some indian languages) jus becuz u didnt see him for half of ur life ! well..sometimes i hate to get rational .... i mean i jus cant forget tat he/she(read cousin) is related to me...but anyway as i said before, i will act accordin to my impluse when i meet them..
k sorry to say this...i guess i will close this post for the day...i have just begun to enjoy the atmospehere around me...its half past one (midnight) n the "sound of silence" is jus so alluring!(except for the intermittent cacophony of the traffic emanating from the ring road....dang!)....

jus when i am about to hit the bed,a hidden voice pops out from nowhere......"jobless fellow...go back to sleep..u have college tomorrow"[:D]



cheeeers!

Part 1 : Relationships as the times change !

well i really dunno if i should talk about the ambivalent feelings runnin in my mind as in all probabilities you might find this post little weird,stupid and utterly pointless.but,i think i should share my thoughts as i have always felt the need for a discussion on such a topic.

how many of us have felt that slowly and without our knowledge we are all growing into individuals who are increasingly becoming apathetic towards our relatives,family etc. how many of us have felt the need to get back to our cousins with whom we had literally grown up n played during every festivity! the situtaion becomes bad when ur gud ol' cousin gets settled abroad r even worse when ur aunt gives birth after goin there ! well maybe an aunt is too close an acquaintance to loose contacts with, so easily. but ur family is just not limited to ur immediate aunts n uncles..what about ur father's aunts ,ur mother's uncles....k now pls wipe tat smirk off ur face as i am sure u must be thinkin wat the hell am i talkin about.u must be wonderin tat when its soo difficult to reach out to our immediate cousins in this busy world(...oh! how i hate tat cliche), father's aunt r mother's uncle is well off on national geographic along with the dinosaurs r the dodos!!!...

ok...maybe there are a few exceptions amongst us...(and my earnest adulations to them!)now i take it for granted tat those of u who r readin this post agree tat the questions tat were raised before are valid in someway ! one common reason,tat i have come across(n pursued to some extent),for such a gradual wearin down of the relationships is this: more often than not,all of us expect the iniative to come from the opposite side ! we tend to think tat if such a thought hasnt flown from the other side,then its almost next to crime to get them in us ! but what gurantee is there that ur acquaintance too wont be thinkin on those lines..in such a situation do u think its ever possible to live with them in the way you thought you should be???

is the world going to be a place where one's family is limited just to his/her father , mother, wife/ husband and children?

are close friends going to take positions of our relatives?(well we don wan someone who is all smiles whenever we meet ,n talks vehemently to us just because we have the same blood flowin in our veins !).

most importantly is it worth at all to take pains in givin a damn about our relations?

anyway,with these questions i wud like to end the first part of this post...the second part will follow soon ! but before that i would love to hear your comments on some of the questions i have raised..........

The Three Musketeers???
(shreyas,your's truly,aditya)

oh my god....the main reason for me not blogging for such a long time is this: I had forgotten how to create one..agrrrrrrr! but there is some solace at the back of my mind at least now! well its gotten real late in the night at the moment !( i dunno why all my blog entries happen only durin the wee hours of the night) but i don wish to dis-appoint myself by jus typin some gibberish..

well...this is my official first blog entry !

my blog will primarily be a sort of diary and to some extent a lil entertainin to the noble souls who read it!
i have always struggled to find an identity for myself...n i hope,through this blog ,wud be able to get a better picture of me.as i have already mentioned,i want to make my blog 'a lil entertainin'...for obvious reasons tat i want YOU to read n comment ! please do COMMENT as i dont wish to do this journey of "identifying myself" all alone! it wud be fun to have u along !

oh yea...there are however two qualities which have got stuck in me ever since birth(atleast you can say so):
1)i love humour n in particular the so called PJs
2)i tend to speak endlessly if the listener wishes to keep his mouth shut for a long time !

k k ..i think we are now ready to begin the journey !
bon voyage!

statutory warning: the blogs,at any time, do not gurantee that the author was at his saneful best when composing them.you might feel,at times,maniacal,after reading them, and any damage done by you to self or others,does not bear any relation to the author,what so ever...aghai? *wink* *wink*