The Awakening Joke!!!!

Hi Guys,

Dan-ta-dan presenting first the mundane (n hopefully funny) part of the post first...

As most of us would know yesterday Aug 14 was Janamashtami - The birthday of Lord Krishna.
This event reminded me of a joke which I guess most of you would have read but anyways here it is

A school teacher was teaching the Mahabharat to his students. The story he was teaching about was Kirshnas birth story and he was telling the class that "Kans the evil mama (maternal uncle) of Krishna was told by astrologers the 8th baby son of his sister would ultimately be the cause of his death in fact he would only kill him"

So the evil mama ( his sister and brother in law into prison. And when the first child was born Kans killed it by drowning it.

The second child he killed by slaughtering it...
The third by throwing off a cliff...
The fourth.....but before the teacher could proceed any further Bunty put up his hand...

The teacher asked him what is it....Bunty said he had doubt...
The teacher was amazed he said in 5000 yrs no one has ever had doubt on this story of this great epic...but you my son have doubt...please ask my son ask me your brilliant doubt...

Bunty innocently asks the teacher: Sir if Kans knew that the 8th child of his sister would kill him & he was such smart yet evil king why did he commit all these murders...why didnt he just keep this his sister and brother in law in 2 separate prison cells....

The teacher was stunned to speak any further....(courtesy an email forward)

Now I know a lot of you reading this story would be saying...see now you know why I hate hinduism, why hate going to temples and some would be saying...now you know why I love to embrace western culture...

But hold on to your guns a bit...Following are few links which if you choose to visit and read fully you would be blown away by what hindu culture and knowledge books have to offer...Our culture is so rich in it is symbolism that IF UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY it would even put Dan Browns Da Vinci Code into a distant second place.

So my friends I urge each of you to visit the below links with an open mind and please do come back to leave your thoughts here......so presnting here the spiritual part of the post


The word about the author(s) of the above links.

Bawa & Dinesh both belong to Art of Living. Bawa does most of the writing I dunno why the blog is named after both though ;) Both been teching AOL courses for a long long while now...There blog Sounds Interesting belong to my blogroll as well....

I hope now some of us will take a lot more pride in our religion and also think a 100 times before criticizing Hinduism or for that matter any other religion.

After all for everything 1 you know there are a 1000 other things you have no idea offffffff....

Cheers
SMC

PS: Thanks Bawa for putting up this amazing knowledge on you blog.
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Love Aaj Kal - A Review

Hi All,

Man its been like 4 months since i have written anything but what do I do I just couldnt think of anything creative enough and at the same time funny enough to write. Not that this post is either of the both but atleast its my attempt to out do Mr Rajeev Masand ;) so here it goes

Love Aaj Kal - Movie Review - My Own (Unique) Style

The Cast Performance: Saif is just brilliant in his portrayal of Jai and also does a good job playing the sardar lover Veer (the younger Rishi Kapoor ), Deepika does a reasonable job playing Meera (Jais love interest) but pales in front of Saifs performance. Rishi Kapoor does justice to the role and i bet he could play this old lover boy reminiscing of his younger days character in his sleep. His performance is not to dissimilar to his role in Delhi-6. The Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro playing the Sardarni who is wooed by Veer (the Sardar Saif) looks nice and underplays the character perfectly. The credit for it is more with the director who captures their love story very well and more essentially just with gestures and expressions and very few dialogues.

The Story: The story is humorous as Hum Tum in parts and is told in the RDB style with the back story interspersed with the contemporary one. The story is about a no tension, funny but career oriented lover Jai who has a great romance with Meera a modern assertive and again career oriented girl. Jais life dream is to build bridges with this american firm and Meeras lifes passion is to revive frescos of indian monuments .

Both being practical people realize that long distance relationship dont work and hence split very amicably, even throwing a party to celebrate there break up. This leads to a funny sequence where their friends are left perplexed as to should they feel said or happy, how should they greet the couple happy breakup or i am so sorry for you and what gifts to buy for the party.

So they split and Meera moves to delhi, but both are in constant touch even guiding each other through how to get into a new relationship Meera with her new boss and Jai with some firangi...
Despite all this they fail to relaise they are soulmates so it takes a rishi kapoor to come in and tell Jai about his own story which is not to dissimilar to Jai, just that it is set in the old days in Delhi...

The old and new stories go parallelly and are told in the RDB style of narration. The old story is cute, has few words and takes a magical acting effort from Saif to pull off... Ok back to Jais story...Jai goes down to india, both he and meera have a time of life hiding from their current love interests and hanging out with each other... Yet they part ways again, just like practical people and Meera even ends up marrying her boss...

In all this Conspicuous by there absence is the families of both Jai and Meera and this is my biggest crib about the whole movie...

To know if they get back together if yes how and what leads them to do so..Well for that go catch the movie...you dont expect me to give it all away right here do you ;)

Remarks:Overall i give this movie 2.5/5 go see it for it clever humor and good story telling style...

Regards
SMC.

PS: Do let me know what u thought of the movie and more importantly my review
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