Meghna Mathur, a small town girl with big dreams of making it to a supermodel in the big bad city of dreams, Mumbai. We all have dreams and love it when we ourselves make them come true. But most of the times in the bargain we forget we lose the most precious part of our life that is us as an individual.
The movie fashion also runs on a similar plot. But unlike Madhur’s previous movies like Chandni Bar and Page 3, this is much more commercial. The movie is well knitted but in the whole idea of portraying the good and bad of the ‘fashion world’, he has missed the hard core reality. Especially on the relationships and how each unfold into the next.
For people like us who has been with the fashion fraternity at the background, I would rate it as 5 out of 10.
Khana Khazana
Statistics show that Indians are the most versatile people when it comes to food. Indian food is spicy but you can make different recipes with the same ingredients. Even when it comes to eating, Indians are one of those creeds who love roadside dhabas to Italian pastas. Today 5 people from different parts of India viz. Bengal, Kashmir, Bihar and Barelli got together to have “food” for dinner. They landed together at Srinathjis, an International Vaishnavi cusine (purely veg), and dug into Chowchow Potato,Nachos,Chinese Fortune Rice, Italian All Mix Pasta and Thai Noodles along with various mocktails. Don’t ask me how its Vaishanavi expect for the owner having a vaishnavi tika on her forehead! Going ahead from there, after a nice walk into the by lanes of Ghatkoper, they parked themselves at a famous Gujarati hangout place called Khau Gali . Khau gali offered them Indian delicacies like mix and kala khata golas and multiple flavoured kulfis as deserts.
The programme was not over yet. After all, how can an Indian not end with a local mouth freshener?! Just before they could head back to their nests they indulged into mitha pan, with their tongues turning red and brown sweet juices dripping out of their lips. Now that’s what I call a Journey of Food!!
Experience Courtesy: Nicole Ghasi, Roop Wadwan, Shipra, Amrita’s sister and the one and only Payal Dass on 27th sept’08
The programme was not over yet. After all, how can an Indian not end with a local mouth freshener?! Just before they could head back to their nests they indulged into mitha pan, with their tongues turning red and brown sweet juices dripping out of their lips. Now that’s what I call a Journey of Food!!
Experience Courtesy: Nicole Ghasi, Roop Wadwan, Shipra, Amrita’s sister and the one and only Payal Dass on 27th sept’08
Just Wanted To Write my Blog
As the title goes, I just wanted to write my blog even though am dead tired and ready to fall. People change as their circumstances change and am setting no different example. Ever since I have taken up this new job, I'm fully worked up and I mean it. More than 12 hours a day am at my office trying hard to meet my client's expectations. Well I don't know how much that matters anyway but still work is work, thats what I'm about. Ok so getting back to point of changes in life, this job occupies most my living hours. I hardly bother to keep in touch with people or for that matter even speak to my closest buddies. Some close friends have suddenly shared their feedback with me that I'm rude. Well may be at times I'm. I do need to take out my frustrations man and what better than to share it with closest friends. But I guess I'm somehow destined to be lonely all my life cause in the middle of so many friends that God has blessed me with I somehow am still searching. Very honestly I've stopped searching and actutually started living my life like a typical single girl in a big ciy. my life has changed and I do not regret because I beleive I have alot to learn and step by step I'll go ahead. Until next time when I just feel like blogging......Adios
Truth is nothing but the truth
Since the past few days I’ve been trying to write on my blog but never got the time. Even as m writing now my eyes are dreamy and the bed is craving to be slept on. I’ve been working day and night since the past few days for the press con and party of LFW ... oops! There you go the same mistake that has taken my peace of mind. I made the mistake of over promising my client...or lets put it in a honest fashion .... I lied to my client saying that i’ve pitched the media that the party was a Lakme & IMG party instead of an LFW party....but what happens next is why I’m so tensed or may be not is that tomorrow might be a doomsday. I believe God had been hinting me for quite sometime that I need to stop doing a lot of things that I ve been doing and may be somewhere call it a stress mode or whatever I’ve have lost the basics of what God’s has taught me. I ve started lieing immesnselyand doing things which are not to be done the way it is done. I don’t know where, what, when, how will my life unfold next. All I know is I need to go to office tomorrow and face whatever is in store for me....but whatever it is just be true.....to myself.
Soul Searching.....
The title of the blog might make you think this is another one of mine high philosophy crap where I'm trying to find where my life is leading to. Interestingly enough its not :)....this is more like...where I continue to praise my dear God for showing me the world and its wonders and strange mixture of everything......Dear God, All I want to say is I love you!!! Muah
Sudden Change
Call it sudden...or planned by the eternal forces, my life has drastically changed. I remember I wrote in one of my previous blogs that "its life's calling"....well life is calling for me. Things I would never do personally, my job requires. Even filling my own bottle of water. Life is not easy and God has his way of teaching me. I am amazed at myself...wearing formal clothes, getting up early, trying to think practically.... what more do you want from a person who had been in denim and tees running around carelessly all her life?!
Lord I love you for the changes you have brought about. I know you have a reason and I respect it....... but as saying goes Kay Sara Sara....Halleuah!
Lord I love you for the changes you have brought about. I know you have a reason and I respect it....... but as saying goes Kay Sara Sara....Halleuah!
My Last Write Up to STM
Once upon a time there lived a girl in a town named Howrah,West Bengal, who dreamt of being in the Filmfare awards……. 22 years later her dream came true and that too as a MIP guest. She was chaperoning the Miss India’06 batch and it was one of the events they had to be a part of. At that point of time she was not aware that the people behind this event would become her buddies in a year’s time. And the guests who she was looking at for the first time out of the silver screen would become her daily dose of genuine gossip and the faces she would bump into every now and then.
Yes things changed for her on the 22nd March when she was interviewed by Shaheen n Raj in the tiny Indiatimes chat room. I still remember how street smart I had been to take a train from Santracruz to Churchgate and then a cab to the TOI, VT building. It was the 1st time when I smelt the polluted air of Mumbai like millions out there entering into this big, bad city of dreams. Somehow I just knew this is my home and I will get the job at Shoot Talent Management. I knew nothing else …I knew no one….all I did was picked up my Footloose red bag with minimal clothes and hit the roads of Mumbai on 2nd April and was welcomed by 2 most wonderful people on Planet Earth – Dipti & Sabir.
It’s been over 2 years now. Everyday when I cross the Empire Mills on my way to office I remember the day I told my friend, ‘how funny is this place, with all offices in the name of mills and compounds!!’. God immediately thought of playing the most humorous prank…lets get this girl here!! Zoom was not my office but it was where we sat and continued until we realized it was more a part of us compared to many other Zoom employees. Hence we had a huge issue and heart break when we had to move to Times tower.
Sometimes its fun when you sit back and think what all you have conquered in your recent past. Ila laughing at my stupid comments, Raj listening to my drab lovelife, Tapan giving in at my ‘point’, Sonia confused at my confusion, Shirin & Poorvi’s similar cries for the irritating models, Anjana’s 10 000 queries…. I believe we all had our share of personal bonding along with the 24/7 mobiles ringing with stress and personal space scattered everywhere.
In the midst of my professionalism, I’ve goofed up many times, got blasted and saved even more times, lost my cool, have abused and bitched, even once got drunk and puked…..but I have learnt a very big lesson…. “No matter what, Life goes on!!!” There were people and emotions that came in and out during these 2 years but nothing really stopped. Even if it did it’s was momentary. Keeping all such moments saved in my memory, I bid thee farewell…. Life has to go on!!!
Take care ……if destined will meet again
Big HUG and a broad SMILE (payal style)
Payal Dass
9867585336
dassspayal@gmail.com
Yes things changed for her on the 22nd March when she was interviewed by Shaheen n Raj in the tiny Indiatimes chat room. I still remember how street smart I had been to take a train from Santracruz to Churchgate and then a cab to the TOI, VT building. It was the 1st time when I smelt the polluted air of Mumbai like millions out there entering into this big, bad city of dreams. Somehow I just knew this is my home and I will get the job at Shoot Talent Management. I knew nothing else …I knew no one….all I did was picked up my Footloose red bag with minimal clothes and hit the roads of Mumbai on 2nd April and was welcomed by 2 most wonderful people on Planet Earth – Dipti & Sabir.
It’s been over 2 years now. Everyday when I cross the Empire Mills on my way to office I remember the day I told my friend, ‘how funny is this place, with all offices in the name of mills and compounds!!’. God immediately thought of playing the most humorous prank…lets get this girl here!! Zoom was not my office but it was where we sat and continued until we realized it was more a part of us compared to many other Zoom employees. Hence we had a huge issue and heart break when we had to move to Times tower.
Sometimes its fun when you sit back and think what all you have conquered in your recent past. Ila laughing at my stupid comments, Raj listening to my drab lovelife, Tapan giving in at my ‘point’, Sonia confused at my confusion, Shirin & Poorvi’s similar cries for the irritating models, Anjana’s 10 000 queries…. I believe we all had our share of personal bonding along with the 24/7 mobiles ringing with stress and personal space scattered everywhere.
In the midst of my professionalism, I’ve goofed up many times, got blasted and saved even more times, lost my cool, have abused and bitched, even once got drunk and puked…..but I have learnt a very big lesson…. “No matter what, Life goes on!!!” There were people and emotions that came in and out during these 2 years but nothing really stopped. Even if it did it’s was momentary. Keeping all such moments saved in my memory, I bid thee farewell…. Life has to go on!!!
Take care ……if destined will meet again
Big HUG and a broad SMILE (payal style)
Payal Dass
9867585336
dassspayal@gmail.com
U , Me Aur Hum Sab!
U , Me Aur Hum Sab!
Imagine if you had a loved one who one day develops an incurable disease like Alzheimer (I pray, God forbid such a situation though!)……what do you do?! ‘U, Me Aur Hum’, the movie, revolves around a similar plot where finally Ajay Mehra decides to live with his love, his wife, under the same roof no matter what the consequences are. And they lived happily ever after….with or without remembering it! But the moral of the story is tied up on a parallel plot where two of his friends neither had great love lives. One’s girlfriend doesn’t want to commit while the other is busy quarrelling through out with his wife. These are the lives we can relate to and may be the story of Ajay Mehra is something we would never wish for. Then why aren’t we happy with what we have. That’s the moral…. We have what we can handle, we need to handle it with care.....there are worse things that can happen in life.
My life doesn’t have a so-called special love but I don’t want to loose what I have. I have the love of my wonderful friends and family. Today I was with one such group of friends - Niti, Vidhi, Vanya, Nicole, Sweeta, Amrita, Roop, Shipra – one of my hostel gang with whom I went for U, Me Aur Hum and later for a sumptuous dinner at Lamba . Even though I have nothing common with these girls they are the ones I‘ve found my family in. These are the girls who make my day – Niti’s innocence, Vidhi’s love, Nicole’s intellect, Vanya’s spark, Sweeta’s calmness, Amruta’s weirdness, Roops bachpana and Shipra’s silence, each has their own influence in me.2 years down the line probably we wont even be in touch but these sudden trips will always be there forever.
So here I go one step ahead….. Dear Future, here I come to the land of unknown I know you have what I can handle…. Thank you for what you have given me till now.Love PD
Imagine if you had a loved one who one day develops an incurable disease like Alzheimer (I pray, God forbid such a situation though!)……what do you do?! ‘U, Me Aur Hum’, the movie, revolves around a similar plot where finally Ajay Mehra decides to live with his love, his wife, under the same roof no matter what the consequences are. And they lived happily ever after….with or without remembering it! But the moral of the story is tied up on a parallel plot where two of his friends neither had great love lives. One’s girlfriend doesn’t want to commit while the other is busy quarrelling through out with his wife. These are the lives we can relate to and may be the story of Ajay Mehra is something we would never wish for. Then why aren’t we happy with what we have. That’s the moral…. We have what we can handle, we need to handle it with care.....there are worse things that can happen in life.
My life doesn’t have a so-called special love but I don’t want to loose what I have. I have the love of my wonderful friends and family. Today I was with one such group of friends - Niti, Vidhi, Vanya, Nicole, Sweeta, Amrita, Roop, Shipra – one of my hostel gang with whom I went for U, Me Aur Hum and later for a sumptuous dinner at Lamba . Even though I have nothing common with these girls they are the ones I‘ve found my family in. These are the girls who make my day – Niti’s innocence, Vidhi’s love, Nicole’s intellect, Vanya’s spark, Sweeta’s calmness, Amruta’s weirdness, Roops bachpana and Shipra’s silence, each has their own influence in me.2 years down the line probably we wont even be in touch but these sudden trips will always be there forever.
So here I go one step ahead….. Dear Future, here I come to the land of unknown I know you have what I can handle…. Thank you for what you have given me till now.Love PD
March 15, 2008
1:04:16 PMI
I Love Life!
Then I ask myself….suddenly why such a drastic realization??!!.... Hmmm! Let see… In a bookstore you have thousand and one books talking about winning in life, looking at things positively, feng shui for betterment etc etc etc….nah! I don read such books. Is it counseling of people and their precious time invested in my better living??!!....hahaha..if I start doing things listening to other people’s advice phir toh ho
I love my life cause I get to stand and smoke with people who write reviews of movies and gossips that makes famous people famous! I love my life cause I’m with people who’s one small decision can make or break other people’s dreams. I love my life cause I’ve friends who animate the world into the small idiot box. I love my life cause I get into the nitty grities of everything from religion to fashion to books to traveling. I love my life cause I’ve dated different people. I love my life cause I can carry off any kind of clothes. I love my life cause someone came to me and said I’m the only person she appreciates in the hostel. I love my life cause I can make people smile.
Purpose
March 1, 2008 : 9:22:56 PM
Purpose
Its been a really long time, I’ve not scribbled anything and circulated. After Minaxi left Shoot Talent it was a bit of stressful but then the best way out is to just accept and go with the flow. Yes I’m very much going with the flow but in the mean time losing my purpose in life. I’m sure each one of us must have thought about it at some point of time. Most of the people find me too philosophical, someone who is curious to find the unanswered question, and think I loose track of practical life in the bargain. But I ask you what is practical life and REALITY? Is reality waking up every morning going to work and back because it gives us our daily bread?! Is it about parties, friends, drinks and movies to have fun and be in the ‘gang’?! Or is it about feeling free?! Incase you have seen the movie MATRIX we humans are in a virtual world with something in our mind which makes us believe what we want to believe. Even the book called The Secret talks about visualizing what you want to make happen. With due respect to all the people who think they know what it is all about…. I’m not convinced. There are a lot of things in the world beyond scientific n psychological explanations which people cover up with stories of religion or unreligious threats. But who decides no one knows. You believe cause it is been coming down for ages. And then of course you have the sense n sensibility to revolt and hang mid-way which again pulls apart the whole purpose. What is this purpose? Something greater than what we think we know or want! Find it or as they say in today’s world ‘who cares’!
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