Not happening at all

My heart ached, broke and bled, when I saw the new version of Mile Sur Mera Tumhara --Phir Mile Sur. Really. I mean the whole emotion of the original song was lost somewhere. Rather there was no emotion at all. There were only actors and actresses.

The musicians, all, tried to do a good compositions in their own style and they did a good job of it. I liked the A.R. Rehman, S.E.L.'s, Louis Banks, Anoushka Shankar and some others. And I understand that India's no work is completed without having Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan vouching for it. But why do we have people like Deepika Padukone, Ranvir Kapoor, Mahesh Babu, Shaimak Davar, Shahid Kapoor?

Shahid Kapoor is my favourite. But after seeing him in it and doing a Bakhuda once more looked aweful. I hated to accept that he actually did it. I don't know but somehow I won't have the same perception of him again. Deepika Padukone?? What has she done for India? And there she is standing in some lake with a one-piece and such a seductive expression on her face as if she is all set to charm the whole of India with that look or rather the whole India comes toghether with her look. God damn it, she didn't even bother to wear a sari. And why do we need Ranvir Kapoor in it?

All the actors were, as if, playing there own roles once again in a short 16 minute multi-starrer film re-made for National Integration. How does Aamir Khan doing a Bum Bum Bole, Shahid doing a Bakhuda, Ranvir doing a Khuda Jaane, and Shah Rukh Khan doing a Kal Ho Naa Ho, bring India toghether? Such big actors coming toghether for a cause is good, is very good. But the way of doing it is bad. This way is very bad. How can they not know that this will not work towards it's actual message, and that they are spoiling the original one. Each one has tried to emote their feelings in the best manner possible but it never comes out. Be it Shahid singing in full passion, or SRK spreading his arms wide open, or Salman with the kids, you just don't feel what are they trying to say. Same with Aishwarya.

It seems like the Production House approached them all and they all did what they were best at. Now the whole thing put toghether just doesn't bring in that feeling which the original one does. In fact, you tend to go to You Tube and look for the original one. There are no common people shown in the whole video as if the whole country is made up of only such celebrities. The sportspersons come in for such a small duration. Some states are just shown in passing, for the sake of showing it.

May be it will be a hit with the youth who haven't seen the original one. But for the ones who have seen it, it will never create an impact. May be it's targetted at them only.  May be they should have come up with a different lyrics all toghether and a different composition so that there was not so much of comparison made. May be...

Individual parts seen in itself are very nice but the whole thing put toghether is bad. It's really bad. When the whole composition looks disintegrated, how can you spread the message of integration to the whole country? The different surs really don't come out as one.

50 THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED.....

Here are 50 things that I"ll always remember about The Year That Was -2009:

1. My surprise birthday cake by my best friend, Rachel and her brother and a pacifier that my roommate gifted me!
2. Aaloo dum dahi bada after the roll call and the look that I got when i asked for a little more teekha!
3. Mehek - the sweet little girl outside the hostel and the way she called me out- Additti didi!
4. Me actually fainting under the hot sun.
5. Paying for a poor boy's chuski as i had no other company that day.
6. Friends that i made in the two hostels that i lived this year.
7. Neeharika Sahoo- never talked to her for four months in the hostel and made friends with her after leaving the hostel!
8. I lied to mummy and went to meet a special friend.
9. Complimenting a ticket checker on train. He was really good-looking and dashing guys...
10. On the same journey i made my second train friend- Karteek Narumanchi.
11. Train journey fron Lucknow to Mumbai on a waiting ticket for giving the entrance of Sophia's.
12. Boarding the local from Santacruz to Bandra with Shruti without ticket and the same day police had to ask us if we had a ticket.
13. Travelling in the local train for the first time alone at peak hours and the abuses that i got i marathi which i didn't understand!
14. Jeroo saying, "Aditi Sarda, you are in." (Sophia's)
15. Getting a girl inside the hostel by just talking and patoing the watchmen at a windy and bad night with two gals shouting in my room, "We will be fucked up."
16. Toward the end one of the gals getting really friendly to me..!!
    
17. Jerry's first class of four hours and creating a laughter riot!
18. I cried when Jeroo asked two of us to shift groups.
19. My interview with Gaurav Khanna.
20. Candida and all the days when I would shout at her and wake her up in the morning (that includes almost all the days by the way!)
21. When a special friend came all the way to meet me in Mumbai.
22. Kanika Rajani - for all the reasons coz of which she is Kanika Rajani!
23. Garima Goyal - for all her courage and spirit.
24. The night when we were stuck in rain at Marine Drive and i bet that i would walk out of the cab and still reach befor this cab makes it to the hostel.
25. Mani Iyer - the day i met him and the day he told me he his Shankar Mahadevan's elder brother!
26. The coffee that Candida made me when i really needed it.
27. The cake and cookies that Candida brought for me - that was the only good thing taht would happen to me after Jeroo's practicals every Wednesday.
28. The number of times people told me that i speak fast.
29. For the first time in life i experinced Monday Blues. 
30. Jeroo saying me, "Oh my sweet little Aditi, you are so cute. A bunny is a small little rabbit." (When it actuallly stood for the Playboy) and later publicizing it to the whole class.
31. On the bike with Tarang at almost 100 km/hr.
32. Anuj Kanodia - coz my friends would not stop teasing me about him. I dunno why. (Thank god it's stopped now)
33. The video on Lifeline Express which got deleted for all the good reasons (i made a much better one after that!)
34. The night long editing for the one minute A.V.
35. The evening when i was missing my Ex as hell and Ashoomi paid for me and forced me to attend Astad Deboo's dance performance with street children which made me much more cheerful than my boyfriend ever made me...
36. All the bus rides in Uttaranchal ki vadiyon mein....
37. Fanas (Farhad) and all the times i got into argument with him.
38. Camping in Sattal.
39. River crossing and Mountain rappling in Sattal
40. All the trekking that i did.
41. The night at Kausani, with Kanika Rajani!!
42. The momos that i enjoyed eating and ordered another plate without realising they had muttom it them. oopss
43. The hitchhiking at Jim Corbett - the boy driving was really cute!!
44. My two week long stressful period when i really cried at the weekends - once in Garima's arms and the next time called up Karteek for a change of mood.
45. Secret Santa and my sweet Chris Kid!
46. I got a laptop and lost my four month old pen drive!
47. The things that i learned about Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
48. My craze for Shahid and Hrithik at an all time high, dunno why??
49. The last train journey of the year on 23rd December when i decide that i would not shout (that means i"ll try my best not to)
50. For all the good and bad things that happened which will make me what i become tomorrow.