The EYE Candy!

I had recently gone to Agra for my cousins wedding. I ate a lot.. danced a lot, sang a lot and...
I saw one of the most beautiful thing on this earth.

The Taj Mahal

You park your vehical and walk down for 20 minutes to reach the ticket quanter. You buy a ticket and then you wait in a long impatient line. Everyone entering the Taj is scanned and then allowed in. The process is slow and takes a long time to get through the same. but believe me the wait is worth it. When u enter the compound and walk towards the final entrance to the Taj, you have no clue what you are up for. As soon as u enter the gate you have the first sight of the magnificient structure through the tall dark gate. I saw a couple of dozen people standing near me, awed by the beauty of the structure.

You enter the complex and get the frst complete view of it and you stand there capturing the beautyi n your eyes. I stood there for almost 5 minutes, without speaking a word or trying to take a picture of the same in my camera. I dont know why, i was just bolted there.

I was pushed to move by my cousin, and then we went towards the mesmerising structure silently absorbing the beauty.

When I entered the tomb... there was this unbelievable commotion. YES!!!!

There was so much of sound in there, it was unbelievable. Scientifically it was a classic case of continuous reflection of sound. But When I was there, I felt that even after the lovers are dead, there is no peace for them. There was darkness and the constand noise, the torch bulbs reflecting the effecient art work on the tomb.

Shahjahan would have never imagined that the spledid symetrical structure he saw from the window of the jail his own son had put him in....... would be deforemed by his own grave!!!!

Coming back, I saw the new age lovers impressing their love on the moss settled in the unclean fountains of the Taj.

I came back with a lot of peace, questions and mind full of the Taj!!!!!!

Click Click!!!!

I am sure everyone must have felt this... when you are on a holiday or at home or just in your day to day life..... I can say it for sure that it has happened to me a lot of time...

The other day I was walking to my gym.. and I saw this small girl in rags.... I was watching her. like i would wath a small dried shrub or a pebble on the river bed.. but when I was passing by, I just hapened to give a small glance...... and that poor little face just froze in time...

I just so hoped I had a camera there, but then i realised it would be next to impossible to capture the same image that struck me there on the road...
I would not get the emotion, the natural view.. neither would i get the innocence that the moment had.

I so hoped that if only we had built in camera's in our eyes, that would capture an image of our choice when ever we want. So that we can share it with the world. We do have that in built camera..... but the only issue is that i cannot share that picture with you as I am writing this blog.

Maybe our scientists can work something for us. The James Bond movie's ahve already influenced them a lot!!!!

I will wait for that day.. if not me.. probably the next generation will use it in theor day to day life.

The Touchy Heart

All our lives we try and achieve a lot of things. We succeed in many and have numerous failures. We are dejected by one and over-joyed by the other. But then are we ever happy or sad. Please donot take these adjectives lightly, we may be happy about the fact that we got to go for a movie, that we were planning for a week or sad that we didbot get the best of seats. But the point is for how long do we be happy or sad after such incidences. I would say a few hours or at max a day. I am not referring to such short term feelings. What I am asking you about is some thing that stayed on with you for a longer period of time. 5 days, 2 weeks... a year...a life time.
The reason why I am asking you to think about it is that it will help you realise what registers with you and stays with you a life time. I had been thinking about this issue for a long time and I think(yes i do think sometimes) I have got the answer!

With this fast paced life of Mumbai we have become absolutely used to things around us and what ever happens around us hardly matters. The reason for which I think is that we dont have the time....
Our lives are so conviniently and completely messed up that we cant afford to bother ourselves about any thing at all. Then come the incidences that strike us straight where it hearts the most our heart( not the pockets my friends).

Anything that touches our heart is going to be with us for a life time. And nothing can remove it from there. I know this is something everyone says..but then this is something i have experienced myself and believe me its a wonderfull feeling.

On realising the fact that there are certain things that touch me.. i started analysing them and realised that all the incidences have a common link.
All of them were incidences of the triumph of the human spirit. Englands ashes win over Australia, the graduation seen of Black.., the last fight in 'the Cindrella man', the end of 'the million dollar baby'. A lot actually...... and most of them have been the the movies.. my passion...
You will argue that films arent real and hence should not effects us.. but then all our movies are derived from us. What is important is that i will never forget these events ever.. and each time watch them again... i will feel the same. I will have a tear in my eye after seeing the cindrella man and will be on a high on seeing cinema paradiso, as I would be sad as 'the black boards' comes to an end.

Man I love Cinema. It makes me what I am!