Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I Like This :-)

As a member of the Jury at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, Indian Actress Sharmila Tagore arrives for the opening ceremony of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009.


( i like the date too :-)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Tears: some unknown and some grateful

For someone who hardly watches movies, the few that i do, leaves quite an impression on my mind. But there was a movie which i'd been searching for, for quite sometime now. But never found it on the net. Thankfully a friend from pune found the VCD there and mailed it to me by 'speed post' .. As i waited for its arrival, was rather curious and eager... cuz it was one of the latest musey movies after all!
It obvi didn't matter to me that it was in an unknown language and that it hadn't done well, with the critics panning it. All that mattered little in front of musey love !

When the CD did arrive finally, I got time only by 11 in the night to watch it. And thats where I did the mistake! With all the anticipation, I opened the cover, got the case out, put it in my Laptop, opened the file on Media Player and took a deep breath in .......... and when i did breathe out, it was a sigh.... a rather heavy one! Cuz the movie was in Marathi(of which i understood not a word) and had no english sub-titles !! wow ! But even this didn't deter me from going ahead with it! he heheee

The movie is 'Samaantar' ("Parallel Folds"), directed by Amol Palekar and features himself and Sharmila Tagore in the lead roles.

I became a 'mute spectator', if you'd like to call it that ... but there wasn't a thing i could understand in that, expect for a hindi word here and there ! But something very surprising happened: I started crying! It had touched me so much: the story, Sharmila Tagore's brilliant potrayal of a wounded deer, the agony of Palekar - everything was so touching, though not perfect !
And i was crying !! The music also played a major role in forcing the tears out of my eye like jog falls (it gushes during monsoons and is dry rest of the year... hence the metaphor!.. ).. It was soulful and tugged at my heart.... Many can relate to the poignant moments of the movie (though it could have been handled better).
Watch the trailer here:

The mistake of watching it late at nite caused a major hangover(of the movie) through the nite and showed its after-effects in the morning... and i kept thinking about people who have been emotionally wounded in life and how it would have affected them... Of course, reaching out to them and bringing in their life, HIS divine grace is what i am here for !

Somehow, the lost love and finding it in the evening of your life was moving. I hadn't expected myself to react so emotionally to it : that too when i didn;t understand the conversations and when the climax was so dumb!

And then it dawned:
Hey life is not just that ! Wake up and realize what are you here for ?! What is this chuttu-muttu life in billions of years that has been and will be.... ? What is this small body in this ocean of Universe ??
Makes me so grateful for the anchor of my Life, who is my goal, my strength and my 'astitva'. For the fact that, there is someone who loves me unconditionally every moment, is guiding me at my every step, is taking care of me in my every breath, gives me hope and keeps my faith alive at every emotional disturbance and makes me aware of the Divine Light that is making this Creation (Universe) move from one perfection to another....

To my gloriously radiant Master, I bow down.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

my Guru found me!

Well... I'll start with my mostest favouritest subject : my Gurudev, H H Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji :-)

Was searching for something (on the net, not in my room ;-) and stumbled upon the India Today cover story of Gurudev, which was published in Nov 2001 .. and how distinctly i remember those days !
I had seen Gurudev on TV in oct/nov 2001 and HE had left a deep inexplicable impression on my mind and I was also an avid reader of India Today ..
When I heard that HE was the cover story , i actually ran n grabbed my copy and read HIS story again n again ..
And then it happened... HE came to blore city for one those mostest awesomest satsangs in Dec 21 or 22 , 2001 !! and that too so close to my place!
I went to the venue at 5 pm only, so that i could catch place and see HIM from near... and when HE left the satsang, i ran to the periphery of the grounds to see HIS car leave (Guru Chasing already?! ) and had thought to myself - "oh my god ! WHO is THIS guy ?! ...... JUST who is this? "


And before i knew, tears were flowing down my cheeks - it made no sense to me at that time - i was just another gawky rebellious teenager and "gratitude" or "longing" was more alien than the adjacent solar system !
After that satsang, i immediately went for the course in my area but was sent back as there weren't enough ppl (thank god!) .. finally did the course in Jan 2002 and the rest , as they say, is just DIVINE LOVE (not history!)

Jai Gurudev!
Dimps

p.s: why did I thank god for having been sent back from my 1st attempt to do the AOL basic course ? thats another story for another day :-)

Hellllllooooooooo


I've been living a life that has been fascinating and intriguing and flowing with love and abundance..


This blog is about all that I wanted to share all that is close to my heart :
my 2 biggest passions (or is it dispassions?!) viz., Gurudev and Food :-) and a heady mocktail of humour, travel, fun, sarcasm & 'museys' of course ! oh wow ! it already feels so good - cuz have been wanting to start this for a long time and here it is, finally !

so.... Join me as I embark on this fascinating and intriguing journey called LIFE :-)