Sheru Chala Sher Khan Ban ne

Yesterday there was an article in the newspaper about the shooting of Sohail Khan's movie 'Sher Khan' being postponed. The film has Salman Khan and a tiger playing a lead role. Salman watched the movie 'Life of Pi' and was so impressed with the tiger in it that he wants his sher to be closely resembling to the one in LoP. 

Sheru was reading the newspaper and trying to flip the pages but in turn ended up pawing the paper to shredded pieces. After much efforts he came to the page carrying the article and understood that the Sohail Khan is looking out for a talented Sher in his upcoming movie. And BLINK!!! Dimag ki batti jali! I will also try auditioning for the movie...he thought.

Immediately a series of impulsive activities followed-

Ran to bathroom > dipped himself in the water > rolled around on the bed to wipe himself (thereby spoiling my bed sheet as he couldn't find a towel. Need to teach somebody civilized behavior) > pushed the talcum power bottle on the floor and spreading the powder all over the room > rolled over the powder again, and > VOILA!!! All ready for a photo shoot session with me as the by-default camera(wo)man. 

Anjaana Anjaani...Ki Kahani

"Phew! 1 more kilometer to go for the marathon to end. Let me check out some cute guy while running so that my attention will be diverted from this painfully long 1 km" I though while gasping for breath while running. I did not want to give up coz I was secretly competing with an elderly colleague of mine and my ego did not permit me to lag behind :)

Finally the painfully long 10 kms marathon came to an end. We assembled back to the place from where we started, had refreshments and started for our journey back home. 

Me: RICKSHAW! Kurla station chaloge?

Rickwalla 1: Nahi 

Me: Kurla station chaloge?

Rickwalla 2: Shakes his head in negative and leaves (What an Arse?)

Me (after crossing the road to the other side): Kurla station?

Rickwalla 3: Nahi Madam

"Excuse me. To go to Kurla station, do i have to take a rickshaw from here?" asked a guy wearing a t-shirt with his company logo. No dude. I am doing Kathakali here... I thought to myself slightly irritated with his stupid question. But i politely said yes to him...all thanks to manners taught to me in school.

Finally we hailed a rickshaw to Kurla. "Hi. I am Vikram (name changed). I am working for Tata Motors. What about you?"the once upon a time irritating guy introduced himself. I too introduced myself and we instantly got some bakra to pakaofy each other. We got down at Kurla station, paid the rick guy and started walking towards the station. Generally I am not very chatty with strangers and give big time attitude to talk if they are the first ones to strike the conversation with me. But with Vikram and I belonging to the same Tata Group helped in breaking the ice with an added advantage of the guy being easy to talk to.

Being a public holiday, I underestimated Mumbaikars to be sleeping in their houses. But the station was crowded to the fullest. We were talking about our work profiles, work locations, blah blah blah...and didnt notice the already almost approached train. As usual people started fighting to get into the already crowded train. There was no time for me to run towards the far-off ladies compartment. 

"There is no way I am getting into this train" I said knowing that the next arriving trains are gonna be equally crowded and wont make much difference. And then something unexpected happened before i could even react. Vikram held my hand firmly, pushed aside the crowd somehow and made way for me to get into the train safely. Once inside the train, throughout the journey he shielded me from the crowd so that nobody touched me or misbehaved. He didn't care about his wallet being picked or bothered about his injured back just so that I was safe. It was time for me to get down. Again he made way through the crowd for me to get down safely.

I am used to such gentlemanly behavior from my brothers and friends but that coming from a compete stranger whom I am never going to meet again ever bowled me completely. Fida over your Chivalry stranger. And thanks for the care.

Weekend meet-up with Chandrooo

Its Friday today. The most loved day of the week. The day went off superb. Had fun in office, had Subway sandwhich for lunch (which I am currently addicted to), my report got approved, and finally in the evening met up Chandrooo aka Mahalakshmi. at Inorbit Mall. 

It is always fun to catch up with your college friends and nobody can fill up that space of happiness what with all the fun filled times we had during college days. 

Well atleast I tried to have fun ;) It gets a lil difficult for a person like me to bunk lectures and go out when your group comprises of you (interested in doing only keedas), college topper (Chandrooo), Class CR (Naayeee aka Gayatri) and an above average student (scholar for a student like me :)) - Prachi. Out of the 4 gang members, only me and Chandrooo are the priviledged ones of being single so we decided to catch up today. Chandrooo has shifted to a different city and had come down for Diwali.

It was fun to recollect the old times, which ofcourse my dear friend had to help me recollect all thanks to my short term memory loss. We talked about our psycho professors, Gayatri's 'Naaaye', Lunch @ Rangoli, and ofcourse the hot topic for girls our age - How to face/avoid marriage :). 

What's funny was Chandrooo is much more chilled out not. No more the righteous iyer girl that i knew who would scold me for my stupid keedas. Surprising pointers about Chandrooo which will make any SIES 2006 BMS batch students faint for a moment:

• Chandroo has gone clubbing (but for an office party) and even won a prize for her dancing skills:) 
• She has read Mills & Boons in 10th std itself
• She uses the FUCK word often off late
• She corrected me with the middle finger signage
• She even said that inter-caste marriages are not bad :)

But the best part is it was fun meeting her. Had fun Chandrooo. Your story about how you were baptized as Chandroo will follow soon.

Ye Dosti Hum Nahi TodenGAY!!!

In one of my earlier posts, I had mentioned about Sheru's two best friends - Chantu & Bantu. Sheru's life history is incomplete without the mention of these 2 :)

Let's meet those two cartoons.

While in this pic, Chantu looks chatty and Bantu-the quiet one. Looks can are deceptive. 

Chantu is the quiet, intelligent and always-on-alert dog. He is the peacemaker when Sheru & Bantu get into a        paws-claws fight. He instinctively knows when his friends are in trouble and need help. Whether its babysitting Sheru in our absence or ensuring that Sheru doesn't get himself into unnecessary trouble, he can be counted on to get the job done. A matured boy in the company of immature buffoons :)

Bantu is exactly the opposite Chantu and very much like Sheru (the buffoon gang). He is the palyful, innocent, careless pup who always gets himself into trouble or does some masti with Sheru and puts tha blame on Chantu :)

But these 3 together make an awesome threesome gang.

Death as a Selfish Motto

The situation in Mumbai today is tensed with the critical condition of Balasaheb Thackeray. The 86 year old Shiv Sena chief is struggling for his life (as claimed by the media). However, there are also rumours that he has already passed away on 14th Nov. While the situation is not a happy one, what is even more sad is the mentality of people. 

People are hoping that he dies on a Monday so that they don't have to come to office on Monday and enjoy a long weekend at the cost of someone's death. People were also happy today because they got to go home early from office today as Mumbai started closing down with a fear of ruckus incase of his death.

It is disgusting that for a mere one-day leave, people are betting or hoping for his death on a particular day and even planning out their vacations. The same set of people make a hulla out of a death in their family without realizing that the person for whom they are discussing death is somebody's relative - somebody's Father, Brother, Leader, Inspiration, Uncle, etc.

HYPOCRACY!!!

Though I not a great fan of politics and people dealing with it, it is appalling that people have stooped down to the maximum and have turned into Selfish Machines.