I seem to be in love with the movie all over once again after watching it for the nth time today on Star One. Today was one of those days when I enjoyed each and every moment of the movie more than usual. I was absorbed in the movie. Completely! The village, villagers, excellent acting by Shahrukh and others, costumes, dialogues, amazing background music for each and every scene, songs, lyrics, Kaveri Amma, the love story of Gita and Mohan, the cute little village kids, I can just go on and on about every single thing in this movie! As much as I want to write a long post on it, I want to watch some of my favourite scenes from the movie again too. And since I don’t seem to have had enough of Swades for the day, this post will have to wait.

Am now listening to the tracks of Slumdog Millionaire and with each listening, I seem to like each of the songs more and more. As much as I enjoyed reading/watching so many shows/articles/blog posts/interviews, etc. on A.R.Rahman post Oscars, I also got tired of hearing every other person saying that Slumdog Millionaire is not his best. I just wish everyone just enjoys the songs instead of repeatedly saying that it’s not his best. 😐 Though I haven’t listened to Jai Ho as much as Latika’s Theme or Mausam and Escape, that song has still really become one of my favourites.

As I am now seeing some photos taken two and a half years or so back, the nostalgic mood seems to be making a come-back once again. 🙂 At the same time, a scene from ‘The Namesake’ also comes to my mind. The scene where Ashoke takes his son Gogol to beach and realizes only after reaching as far away from the shore as possible, that they don’t have their camera with them and tells Gogol something like (I don’t remember the exact words now 🙁 ) ‘You have to remember this then. You have to remember that we came to a place from where there was nowhere to go.’ That was a scene that I really liked! I liked watching it in the movie more than reading it in the book. Not all unforgettable moments in life can be captured on a camera…

It’s amazing how something as simple as making a cup of perfectly yummy vanilla milkshake for two consecutive days can make one feel so happy, even though all it involves is mixing the milkshake powder and sugar with milk. 😛 But for someone who cannot even make one’s own cup of coffee without the sugar/decoction not being in the correct proportion, making a cup of milkshake is not a simple task. Definitely not 😛

• Heard that Yaavarum Nalam is really good. I want to watch it. It isn’t often that Madhavan’s movies turn out to be good! The picturization, cinematography and the music too seemed to be nice for two songs a few seconds of which I saw. Have to see how the full song is.

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Fresh. Cheerful. No signs of boredom. Silently humming song after song. 🙂 Enjoying the pleasant weather (There’s still a slight drizzle). Going for a stroll with the cold rain drops caressing me. Now lost in Barso Re. If only I had got a window seat today morning, this perfect day would have had an even better beginning. A weather like this is meant to be enjoyed with the window kept open.

Dull. Gloomy. Bored. The blues need not be Monday morning blues alone. It can be there all through the day. Adding to it is the weather that is equally gloomy. It’s slightly drizzling here.

Even though I had wanted to listen to Sikkil Gurucharan & Anil Srinivasan’s album Madhirakshi for quite sometime, it was only after attending a lec-dem by Anil Srinivasan during the December Season in which Sikkil Gurucharan sang Pirava Varam in the end, that I wanted to listen to it asap. The ambience at Vinnyasa Art Gallery, where the lec-dem happened, latAngi, which happens to be one of my favourite raagams and Gurucharan’s voice (Hasn’t he got a beautiful voice!) with Anil Srinivasan’s piano– it was magical. (I wanted to write this here on the day of the lec-dem itself. But never got around to writing it. Anyway, better late than never!)

Coming back to Madhirakshi, I did listen to it finally sometime in January end. Apart from piravA varam, Omana tingaL is the other song that I liked very much. Aarabhi is, after all, another most favourite raagam of mine. I like these two so much that, till now, I have listened to the remaining songs in the album just once, since the moment I think about Madhirakshi, these two songs are the only ones that I feel like listening to. 🙂 I was listening to these two songs on a repeat mode yesterday evening. And even now, that is what I am doing. Lost in the beauty of the contrasting soft and melodious Latangi and Aarabhi pieces!

By the way, only after listening to Omana thingaL, I realized that the Malayalam lines that come in Kuluvalile, the song in Muthu, are the opening lines of this song.

I am now in a mood to write a lengthy post. So, here I am typing away all that’s coming to my mind.

The Saturday before last was a day when I didn’t have any specific plans and all I wanted to do was just laze around doing nothing. A movie or a book is what I found to be the best company when I feel like that. On seeing that ‘The Namesake’ was about to begin on Star Movies, after reading a couple of reviews to make sure it was watchable, I decided to give it a try.
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I like this song as much as Kitni Baatein. If it was Hariharan’s voice in that song, it is Udit’s in this that makes one go ga-ga over it. This is probably the one song in the recent times in which Udit’s voice still has the same magic it once had a few years back. Udit and Alka – a vintage combo.

The conversation between the lead pair in this song is as good as the one in Kitni Baatein. The hero proposing in the simplest and direct of ways, mock anger from the lady, the man proposing using all those clichéd Bollywood lines, only to face the lady’s ‘anger’ again. This is such a beautiful song where the picturization is as perfect as the music and lyrics!