I have made a decision

'Masala Munch' is the best of them all. I am talking about Kurkure. The crispy snack that I discovered at the Indian store here (Apparently someone else has discovered them at their ethnic desi store too). I'd seen the ads on the recent trip home, but then who has time for lowly snacks, when there are so many pending food cravings to be fulfilled. These are good with the evening cuppa or a couple of cold brewskis. I have tried all of them and liked them all, except for 'Green Chutney Rajasthani Style', it has a sick artificial lime taste and is best avoided. Evenings will never be the same now :-)

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Saw this three hour saga after a long long, long long, let's say too long time. Circa 1996, final year engineering, I think it was around the finals when this movie released. It was watched 5 times and that too in the movie theater. It was as kitschy and formulaic as a Yash Chopra film can get. These days, I must say the bollywood UK/Europe location has been replaced by USA and the Yash Chopra equivalent now is Karan Johar. Although Shah Rukh Khan still rules. No, I don't really like Kajol or the Khan man.
But even today, when I see 'Tujhe dekha to yeh jaana sanam', I can clearly remeber those days. The exuberance of youth, the uncertain future for an engineering graduate, shared cigarettes, the drunken stupor of cheap beer, long nights cramming voluminous books, the ladies. Life was so simple, you were never really expected to care for anyone or anything, rebellion was a given. I didn't realize things were so simple then, maybe given a second chance I could live that life much better, knowing now that over time life only gets complicated. Wow, time just flies. Indulge the cliches please.

Ijazzat - movie

It's been raining and snowing (if you can call that snow, in April) all day yesterday and today. The roads are wet, slushy and icy for the most part. Most people did not show up at work today, the wusses. I guess it's the kind of day you want to cuddle up at home.
So tonight I bought a couple of beers, some greasy Chinese food and and I am watching Ijazzat. It's the 1987 movie with Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha and Anuradha Patel. It's about a divorced couple that meet after a couple of years on a rainy night in a railway waiting room. I guess the weather in the movie was just like it is today, so I felt like watching it. The whole movie sort of flashes between the present (in the waiting room) and the past. The director is Gulzar, so naturally the dialogues and all the songs are great. I particularly like Mera Kuch Saman (current mood notwithstanding). Katra Katra and the title song Choti Si Kahani se are good too.
Just wondering, what would happen D, if we were to meet by chance after a couple of years. Not sure how we would react, considering we did not quite part on civil terms. It's times like this, when I am thinking of you, I wonder, are you also thinking of me. Are we on such days, so many miles apart, bound by such thoughts. I only wish these shared thoughts were like shared variables, that when someone accesses them the other person you shared the moment with, would know too. But I guess they were not meant to be that way. Otherwise wouldn't we have been together.