Bhoot- Part 1: The Haunted Ship Movie Trailer Review

On a new note, “Bhoot: The Haunted Ship” horror movie is based out of a ship rather than a house, which makes it a curious combination. Horror movies along with jitters need to have a good storyline; this trailer promises mild attacks with a couple of horror scenes and intriguing sounds.

The movie trailer does give us a glimpse of the story where Vicky Kaushal is sent to survey an abandoned ship. And what happens when he returns… is what we await to watch in the theatre on 21-February.

We hope this movie sticks to its genre and there are no Karan Johar’s romantic impressions on the movie. Considering the cast of Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar there has to be some good story. Looking forward to the release in the coming week.

Movie: Bhoot – Part 1: The Haunted Ship

Cast: Vicky Kaushal | Bhumi Pednekar | Ashutosh Rana 

Director: Bhanu Pratap Singh

Release Date: 21-February-2020

Category: Movie Trailer Review

Love Aaj Kal movie review... Imtiaz Ali confused while recreating his own success story, it's rather disappointing

Love Aaj Kal Movie Review by Pushkar Sohony

Here's a movie review of one of the latest Bollywood movie directed by Imtiaz Ali... "Love Aaj Kal". This movie released on Valentine's Day and was a weekend plan for many couples & families. Here's a quick review of the latest movie starring Kartik Aryan, Sara Ali Khan & Arushi Sharma.

Two love stories set in different times and a narrator to guide through the story. However, it lacks the punch and good performances by the actors. Ignore this release since the director, actors and the story writer have disappointed. A movie categorized as “Out of the Syllabus” is boring and not recommended.

The movie starts abnormally with Veer (played by Kartik Aryan) and Zoe (played by Sara Ali Khan) getting intimate and then suddenly Veer realizes that this is more than what he had wanted. Both of them continue to get confused over love-sex-career and conflicts arising due to this confusion.

Then comes Randeep Hooda (Raghu), the cupid, the guide who narrates his own story (played by Katik in his narration) and how he fails on his commitment for love. Kartik plays Raghu and is in love with Leena (played by Arushi Sharma) however he loses the love interest at some point and by the time he realizes his mistake, what follows is expected. His own love story makes Randeep Hooda the guide to the newbie couple so they don’t commit the same mistake.

There are some obvious problems in the movie. Love Aaj Kal is 2 Hr 21 Min that seems to be too dragged because of the poor performances by the cast and slow pace of the movie. It is so slow that it’s totally safe to take a nap during the movie without missing anything. Some songs are repeated and the rap song placed after the interval seems to be a misfit.

Love Aaj Kal Movie Cast- Performance

Kartik Aryan, played the lead in both eras, riding high on expectations disappoints this time. He is not the one who can be deep in romance as he is more a “happy-go-lucky” actor. He could not justify the role as a determined lover in both stories. Also, surprisingly he seems to have played a little psycho and physically weird (trying to copy Hritik Roshan from Koi Mil Gaya) all through the movie.

Sara Ali Khan has acted much more than required or reacted too much even when it was not desired. “Tum mujhe tang karne lage ho” is the dialogue audience will say after a certain time in the movie.

Arushi Sharma, looks good and promising and has delivered as per expectations.

Randeep Hooda, the only savior for the movie, looks handsome and has acted to the point. His performance and dialogue delivery gets full marks.

Love Aaj Kal Movie as we categorize it....

Imtiaz Ali (Director) has certainly disappointed this time, like the characters he also seems to be confused while recreating his own masterpiece. He wanted to copy the story but wanted to do that with a twist, that twist has created a movie that failed to impress while everyone had high expectations. This movie is “out of the syllabus” and not recommended to watch rather a movie release that can be ignored.

Movie: Love Aaj Kal 2

Cast: Kartik Aryan as Raghu | Sara Ali Khan as Zoe | Arushi Sharma as Leena

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Popular Dialogue: “Tum mujhe tang karne lage ho”

Category as Pushkar calls it: “OUT OF THE SYLLABUS“

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the last drink

Statement just before the last drink: The characters in this are genuine and bear all possible resemblances with any and every real life character/s. The drinker is intentional in motivating non-drinkers.

When it comes to drinking, we are labelled social, regular, party drinker etc etc and some are hard drinkers and some are soft and well some are of course heavy drinkers (the tankers) and the remaining are optimum drinkers. I personally am in the last category, as I always end a daru party with “agar ek aur ho jaata toh mazaa aa jaata”, so I quit just-in-time. There can be few substitute to this “ek aur” so once a character suggested to have a “kiwaam ka paan”, but a twelfth man is a twelfth man and is never on a score card.

So, one day I decided to trust my heart and mind and took the last drink

It reminded me of the old tarazu (I still remember the raddi wala bhaiyaa), not because of being a Libran but that fun of balance, rather imbalance which was difficult to achieve even after lot of see-sawing.

Anyhow while I was managing to balance myself, I swiftly boarded a Flight and that too without a ticket, well I had no time to buy one and imagined no one would ask for it.

I have seen people speaking English, tongue of slip, getting touchy about things but this category is different in all natural aspects. The last drink forms the connection between heart and mind, as both of them have never worked simultaneously for a normal man, after the last drink both works together, one vertically and another horizontally. So this makes the most deadly combination.

So I was on the flight and it landed in a new place. Neither heaven nor hell, it was probably Jupiter for it had moons. It made a lot of sense as sense came naturally with the realization that you are one plus optimum (the interesting fact I still remember that now I am over optimized). A drink satisfies all the five senses of the human body but the last drink is mandatory if one wants to ignite the so called sixth sense.

So test and taste it once … Enjoy and Cheers …

Statement just after the last drink: Please maintain the integrity and dignity of the last drink.

कभी हम , कभी तुम ॥ कहीं हम , कहीं तुम

कभी हम , कभी तुम ॥ कहीं हम , कहीं तुम

कभी धूप , कभी छाँव ॥ कहीं दर्द , कहीं घाव

कभी उल्फत , कभी रंजिश ॥ कहीं बेतकल्लुफी , कहीं बंदिश

                                  कभी तरकीब , कभी किस्मत ॥ कहीं झूठ , कहीं हक़ीक़त                                      

कभी शौक़ , कभी जरुरत ॥ कहीं शराफत कहीं शरारत

कभी ख़याल कभी खलिश ॥ कहीं ज़िन्दगी कहीं कशिश

कभी हम पर ना कभी तुम ॥ वही हम पर ना कहीं तुम

social networking ... the dialogue

Husband --- I was never a social person, though not anti social. But ever since I am wired (read as networked) things have changed a bit, for good sure.

Wife --- I was always a social person. My world was full of people, expression and expectations. But things have changed since I am married. (Read as unwired)

 Husband --- I feel new breath, with increased breadth of old friends, I lost them in professional world.

Wife --- As we are becoming technologically literate we are becoming emotionally illiterate. I miss the face to face communication, the personal touch.

Husband --- But it’s good to be in touch now, we know what’s happening in others’ life and also what’s not happening.

Wife --- That’s what I call fakebook, I am not interested in anything and everything in others’ life. That too publicly, what about privacy.

Husband --- I never liked gossiping but it’s good sometimes, that spicy news.

Wife --- But at what cost, fun on personal information ???

Husband --- Why only friends, we can linked in with like minded people.

Wife --- What about heart.

Husband --- But I really liked that tweet, there are abundant viewpoints now, sources to conclude our decision.

Wife --- Please don’t mix emotions and money, nothing is free, people are making money out of it.

Husband --- I think you are just acting selfish,

Wife --- I just hate selfies,

Husband --- Hmm, I take this point, at times it is too private.

Wife --- There you are, it is crossing the personal level.

Husband --- But if you use it sincerely and in a limited way, it can be a tool for growth.

Wife --- But you know what, addiction is unlimited.

Husband --- I know from where you are coming, but you can’t completely ignore the useful information.

Wife --- You don’t know the other useless information, your answer ‘nothing’ to my question what’s up? When I know you are browsing unnecessary thing, says it all.

Husband --- You are blaming, I am not always hooked to it.

Wife --- always …

Husband --- There is nothing wrong in being judicious.

Wife --- Ok, make a 'just' attempt.  

slow simple pleasures

This seems out of syllabus for my style of writing, slow and simple as except the ‘s’ these words are out of purview. To the point of imagination I only like spicy, that is the ‘s’ for me. Over a casual discussion, this title popped up so I cook something pleasurable … slowly and keep the intent simple.

I have often been tagged as slow, though I am fine with this tag except for its relationship with the word lazy. There is not a thin line but a big difference between these two words. Whatever physics I have learnt being slow is relative so that’s an individual perspective. So there is no harm with the speed.

To keep it simple for me is to keep it yourself; everyone is simple in their own world. Things only get complicated when we become more materialistic and thus simplicity becomes immaterial.

We often tend to derive pleasure from complex things and thus miss the important ingredient of pleasure …. Liking ….

So if you are taking a time put to understand pleasure …. You are not slow and once you ignore speed …. You will notice simple things and you never know these may be your carpe diem moments.

she persisted, i resisted, still i lost

They say sweet tooth, mine are all super sweet tooths, (I know yaar grammatically incorrect but emotionally correct) so much am in love that won’t mind marrying a halwai's daughter. 

Only once I felt bad about my love for sweet when a colleague said, तुझे ज्यादा ज़रूरत है क्यूंकि तेरी ज़बान कड़वी है | सही बात है ज़बान कड़वी तो है, पर मीठा तो मीता होता है|

बरहाल बात कल रात की है, 4th day on the GM diet ... I lost myself to

After successfully completing day 1 of GM diet, trailer of badlapur launced when I saw her. Though day one is easy as it is full of fruits, पर वो तो वो है |
Entire night she kept knocking the door so that I open it and she can get in my room but I resisted successfully.                                        

I struggled whole day on day 2, only vegetables and I missed her like anything. I saw her near microwave while I was making tea. She too was gazing me from her right eye. Suddenly my mom intervened and asked me what for the dinner. Sigh … I survived.

Day 3 is probably the toughest and for me it was a dual test, I would have failed miserably when I could not resist myself and touched her. But thanks to fortunes   I came out clean.                                                                                                                                                                                           
Day 4, 

आज office में बहुत ज्यादा काम था, घर पहुंचा तब बहुत थका हुआ था | सिर्फ २ banana shake पुरे दिन भर, can’t imagine I survived. Veg Soup
पीने के बाद सीधे सो गया.... जल्दी में room का gate बंद नहीं किया |
@ around 11, she sneaked into my room, कुछ हलचल सुनी तो मैं उठा और लाइट खोली देखा की she was sitting right there on the left corner of the bed.

That was the moment, when I lost it, I closed the light and enjoyed her completely from top to bottom, divine she was  ... my dearest kaju katli ...

                                                                       and I slept happily ever after…

Smoking is Injurious to Heart

This is the third installment on smoking, that too when it’s been a month I haven’t had my ciggu.

We all know that smoking is injurious to health but recently I learnt that it is injurious to heart as well, when I became the delightful victim of two incidents.

Two incidents of different attitude but of equal magnitude.

Recently, in a winter night, that too at an odd hour I was surprised with a packet of cigarette; (Smokers mind the importance of it in winters) by a non-smoker friend. Honestly I already gave up the thought of smoking since I realized that all the paan waalas must be dreaming but on this instance I was taken aback. I never thought about it, it was completely unexpected, he called it an extra mile, I referred to it as an injury to the heart.

We do come across lot of gestures / moments that touch our hearts, but this incident injured my heart … probably more than the effect of smoking. I never realized about this side effect of smoking.

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Sharing, a concept taught at all possible walks of life, will get a different meaning when you share a cigarette with a female …. Mind it, with a beautiful female.

कई साल पहले सुना था की एक नशे पर दूसरा नशा नहीं करना चाहिए, मतलब उस दिन समझ आया |I

एक आतिश जमाल हसीना और उस पर cigarette, दोहरा नशा तो होना ही था |I

I must have shared it with countless people, but I learnt the pleasure of sharing that day only.

The lip balm was more injurious than any nicotine manufactured till date. I have ruled the world so many times holding the cigarette in between the fingers, but that very cigarette made me weakest person on earth. I have seen lip balm with vitamin E; this was vitamin P.

Though somehow I managed to live after the deadly attack of that lip balm, next day I was succumbed to death, with that puff, the red lipstick on the butt, which is usually the discarded part appeared to be the most valuable. I always liked that filter; today that bloody red filter was causing injury to my heart.

My Bai is Zabardast

During our discussion in office I thought why not to ask my bai to write a letter to my boss.

The discussion was about what percentage increment will happen this year and whether it will be sufficient to give the increment to the bai(s). The bai(s) always ask for the fixed increment whether there is positive or negative variance, their demands have to be met as somehow they know they are indispensible. My view, if it so directly proportional they should also have their KRA and appraisal process, they can also accompany us in our appraisal. Now since this is middle of the year I thought I will ask my bai to write a letter to my boss to give some emotional touch. Here she goes ….

साहेब,

खर तर  मी हे मराठी मध्ये  लिहिणार होते पण उगाच भाषा विवाद होईल आणि विषय बदलेल म्हणून हिंदी मध्ये लिहिते

हमारे दादा बहुत अच्छे है, समय पर पगार देते है, month end पर छुट्टी भी देते हैं और कभी भी पगार में कटौती नहीं करते हैं, कुछ ज्यादा बोलते भी नहीं है पर मैं जानती हूँ वह अपनी net salary को लेकर बहुत परेशान रहते है, मुझे तो समझ नहीं आता आप लोग जाली लगा कर salary क्यों देते हो, आने दो ना पूरी

एक दिन कुछ हफ्ते हफ्ते बड़बड़ा रहे थे तोह मैंने पूछ लया की दादा आप तो समय से दफ्तर जाते हो और कभी भी समय से नहीं आते फिर भी कटौती क्यों होती है तो बोले की tax भरना पड़ता है, फिर बोले की तुम नहीं समझोगी कभी return भरोगी तब पता पड़ेगा, return सुन कर मुझे लगा कुछ पगार में कटौती की बोल रहे है इसलिए चुप हो गयी

मुझे जब भी वह terrace साफ़ करने के लिए कहते हैं, main मैं कह देती हूँ की कल करुँगी पर मुझे पता है की आप जब भी कोई काम देते है वह उसी दिन ख़त्म करके आते हैं

मैं तो सिर्फ इतना कहना चाहती हूँ की इस बार उनकी पगार ज़बरदस्त बढ़ा दीजिये और उनको बताने से पहले मुझे बता दीजियेगा, क्यूंकि मैं उनसे उसी हिसाब से negotiate कर लुंगी

अंत में शहरयार साब की दो लाइन पेश करुँगी

दिल cheese क्या है आप मेरी जान लीजिये, बस एक बार मेरा कहा मान लीजिये

आपकी सौ आशा

(name changed on request)

दादा कोई correction हो तो DC Query डाल देना, मैं लगेच respond कर दूंगी

alignment...cue from microsoft word

(Left aligned) So often I use Microsoft word for professional purpose but I never thought it can give an acute personal advice.

(Right Aligned) One day while doing final touch-ups to a write-up I was not getting what I wanted so while reading text by placing the pointer on every button, I read about alignment.

(Center Aligned) Technically alignment is proper adjustment for coordinated functioning.

(Justified) Of the four options, there is Justify which means Align text to both the left and right margins, adding extra space between words as necessary. This creates a clean look along the left and right side along the page.

So easy it is I thought, and I make things complicated unnecessarily. The alignment of the life has to be justified, apparently the different meanings of justify are not apt to my thought, so I will stick to the Microsoft Word definition.

Just try to strike equal balance between all the heads and tails of the coin of life and the in return the life will be just to you. Add personal space, apply brakes and take required breaks to maintain average speed of your life. This in turn will give you a clean life, full of peace and happiness.

बस आपही की आँखों के लिए

ये जिंदगी बस युंहि गुजर जाती

अगर आपकी आखों में थोडीसी जगह मिल जाती

युंह तो जिंदगी जीने के हजार बहाने मिल जाते

पर खुश रहने कि एक वजह मिल जाती

इस मुल्क में दो झीलें हैं, पानी बहुत साफ है, रंग नीला है,

नीला तो आसमान होता है, और इसी में तो मेरा जहiन मुकम्मल होता है

युंह तो वक़्त भी वक़्त के लिए नही ठहरता,

अभी कल ही मिले थे हम, आज बरसो हो गये

तुम्हारी आखों में खुद वक़्त भी अपनी राह भटक जाता है,

बुलंद है मेरी तक़दीर कि मेरा वक़्त मुझे यहिं मिल जाता है

सात समुन्दरों की मस्ती है इन आंखों में,

एक मैं ही हुँ दिवाना हजारों मस्तानों में

इस समुद्र की गहराई मापने के लिए डूब गया एक बार

तबसे बस तैर ही रहा हुँ उन जज़ीरों के अफसानों में

मुस्कानें झूठी हो सकती हैं, पर सच बोलती है ये आंखें

दिल की धड़कन को बढ़ा कर, दिवाना बना देती है ये आंखें,

युंह तो आवारा बादल भी चांद के इश्क का भी मोहताज नही होता,

पर उसी आवारा बादल में प्यार का ईमान जगा देती ये आंखें 

that kitchen

Disclaimer: Any resemblance to the character is purely coincidental and unintentional.

My daily usual TV slot is 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm when I have my dinner and watch ‘Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chasma’. Though it is not a favorite or a subject serial but a light and easy daily soap compared to usual family issues serials.

I am a foodie ... certainly eating is more interesting but I also have a small flair towards cooking so I know a bit of things and have good nose to smell a few spices and like to cook these spices by imagination.

But for past few days I was getting bored with that daily soap and since I don’t do any exercise I thought of starting post-dinner night walk.

It’s been quite few days...

Just happen to come across that kitchen at first floor in the opposite building. Though there are no fix timings of my walk but there is a discipline in that kitchen, right from the light up right at 8:30 pm to the whistle of the pressure cooker at 8:40 pm and so on ...

It’s been few more days after quite few days...

It was a 10 minutes’ walk initially, and now a daily soap of 30 minutes, the entire dinner preparation. I always hated my mother and sister to watch the entire cookery show for 30 minutes but this seems to be interesting. I was trying to fit some analogy between the aroma of the food and the person, so from here I started imaging.

The next day....

I love rajma, my no. of chapattis just go up with rajma but the aroma of that rajma is still with me even after almost 12 hours so today I thought to get raaz of that rajma.

The day after rajma....

Though I was very tired after a hectic day at office but I still started my walk and lost again in the egg curry ... another favorite dish. If invited I will not mind for a consecutive dinner and I was so much lost in the fragrance that I missed out on the raaz.

It’s been few more spicy days of the continuous aroma

My aromatic senses suggested that it has to be a Punjabi cook ... so the target for today was to check the society board.

And it read only Bhalla, though it was a hint but by now my senses was so much engrossed, that they ignored it. These days usually the name boards are in plurals or they at least have both titles, but I ignored giving the benefit of doubt of an older board.

The last week of the month deprived me off the post dinner walk, but my inquisitiveness for the person behind the spicy aromas was still alive. It goes in tandem with “पेट भर गया पर मन नही भरा”

So back on track after few days, today it appears to be a non-veg smell, although I don’t eat it but I know the gravy and it is amazingo so once again i returned empty stomach, i mean without any information.

The following day it was veg biryani and I almost had a full plate...

Today being a Sunday, I decided to craft a final drop-dead gorgeous image of my imagination and rang the bell to behold the beauty of all those spicy aromas.

In desperation, I rang the bell again and one uncle almost 45 plus opened the door ... wearing a pyjama that was not washed for almost a month, vest of which the color was yellow or white was difficult to recognize, almost bald and holding a skimmer in hand.

  

इस एक महीने का लेखा जोखा

इस बितॆ हुए महीने का लेखा जोखा किया तो समझ नहीं आय़ा

कि यह बिता हुआ महीना आपकी यादों के सहारे इतनी जल्दी कैसे गुजर गया

यॅु तो हर पल एक महीने के बराबर होता है

पर लमहो का गणित ना बने तो नासमझ को भी भला कभी अफसोस होता है

यादें हमारी ही थी लेकिन ख़याल सिर्फ आपका ही था

तसल्लि सिर्फ इसी बात की थी कि खयालो मे ही सही पर मै आपको जानता तो था

यॅु मै तो नासमझ ही ठीक था, जानने - पहचानने मे र्फक नहीं करता था

पर अब मै गणित समझ गया हुं, ख़याल अभी भी आपके ही है, बस ख्वाब खुद के बुनता हुं

There should be no उम्र for this लालच

It may sound a very derogative statement but that is the way it has to be.

I always crave for lot of things but cravings for fitness doesn’t come naturally for me. So thanks to my colleagues Pushp and Kartik for this inspiration.

They recently completed Mumbai Half Marathon in 2 hours, the inspiring point, this is their first marathon and the training time was less than 3 months.

The dream was seen in last year dream run only,

So those who don’t sleep properly, sleep and dream, it will come true in a year only, once dreamt you only need to be determined (you can buy determination from these two people).

Both Pushp and Kartik were very definite and distinct in their version of the preparation.

Definite as they were determined to do it, so determined that they even ignored a few drinks.

Distinct comes from their profile may be, version Pushp was very credit oriented, divulging required information only, sharing specifics and maintaining the stand that it is not a big deal.

The focus should be more on regimen, scheduling, timing etc.

Version Kartik was branded one involving things like how do you feel running in cold early morning wearing a t shirt and short, how to prepare the mind. It is all a mind game.

How do you feel running with horses on race course track.

Beside this, we also have one super hero Deven in our branch, who has also completed 3 half marathons in last 1 year.

Well, all in all the entire discussion was very afflatus and am sure there will be one more participant next year.

We can form a House of Dedicated about Fitness Companions. 

She is still profound in me

Your last nudge killed a lot in me …

                                                including U …

                                                     my first and last incorrect perception

            I used to feel it and lived it for years under the false roof of my well treasured understanding, that you are not any more in me but the gullible me, thinking something and feeling something else.

Then I was a minor for life’s original spin-offs. But in my bewilderment I flowered the deepest you in me. I was ignorant of the slow process of poison creation, the poison which gives life and takes away the living from you.

            My several attempts or rather several unsuccessful attempts of living that life without you, were making that living arduous without you. This is unfair, life given by you can’t be lived with you and life given by you can’t be given up as it is given by you.

            When I became major and thought of living somebody else’s life, I failed as so poor actor I am, even before others caught me I caught myself for being so unnatural. By now you were so in depth in me that the depth of my life was you.  

            You were in all the three tenses for me, the only moment you were not in me was the moment in between two seconds.

            The only way to be alive now is to live like you, maybe someday you will get tired of yourself, will leave me and then we will live together.