Jannat is by far one of the best movies I have seen in my life. It surely ranks in my top 10. Seems like the Bhatts never run out of ideas. The theme holds strong for the whole film: "Simplicity is better than materialism". Unlike of what you might think, it is NOT a film based on bookies. It is purely a love story.

For sure the story revolves around the bookies world, but in the midst of all that, there is a girl, who for love's sake, buries her own happiness.

The story starts of in a simple and most typical manner. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, they do crazy things, the boy can go to any extent to keep his love happy. Arjun (Emraan Hashmi) is a middle class man with big ambitions. And his only way of achieving the impossible is by taking a shortcut. Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) is a simple orphaned girl with ambitions. The only difference is the way she wants to achieve her dreams. Arjun graduates from being a small gambler to the most favorite bookie. And this is when the story takes a turn. As Arjun digs deeper into the world of betting and fixing, he starts to lose his love. When Zoya finally finds our Arjuns truth, she hands him over to the police. Arjun spends time in jail and when is finally let out, he goes in search for Zoya.

After a series of emotional sentences, Arjun promises to leave this path and follow Zoya to happiness. But as it is, bad habits can never be destroyed. Arjun struggles to keep his life on track and one look of jannat, promises are forgotten. Zoya is aghast and can't believe that her trust has been broken twice. She forces him out of the house, but can't forget him. Before playing his one last fixture, things go amiss. He is blamed for a murder he hasn't committed. At that time the only person he wants to meet is his girlfriend. Once again, the girl asks him to surrender because she knows he is innocent. He obeys, but not long after Arjun dies in Zoya's arms.

Along with all that, there is something else that plays an important role in the film. A Ring. They meet because of the ring, Arjun goes to extremes to get that ring, he tries to give the ring its right place, he feels the burden on the ring on him, and he dies because of the ring.

Well yeah the story was not well placed, the emotions were not displayed well, their love was not given total justice. Yet this is one film that is not to be missed.

Have you ever had a day...where everything just goes wrong? Well today was my day. Life started of well in the morning. I was actually not feeling sleepy at all. Went to college... life started to move slowly (as always). But, god, I had NEVER asked for that much fun. My heart almost jumped into my hands when it happened. The reason behind, as I assume it to be, is that it happened for the first time to me! Well...even before that something happened which, I personally do not find the need to discuss...but to be short....IT WAS HORRIBLE!!
Moving on to the main event. How should I describe it? Well to start off... it was painfully dreadful. So here it goes. On two days...me and my classmates/friends/buddies etc. are free between the not-so-cool hours of 1 pm - 4 pm, which in turn, gives us 3 hours of nothingness. Obviously, since we are in an age of hyper activeness, we need a good past time, in which we do not have to stay in college and so we sometimes go out. Today was the sometimes when we have to go out. And our ONLY hope is always 'Sam the Great' (shes a girl btw and this is her nickname!), just because that lady has a car and is quiet a good driver. Since I have just got a license and am not that good at driving, so I practice in Sam's car (have done only once before and today was the second time).
Its only 5-8 minutes walk to 'Marry Brown', but since its so freaking hot in Dubai, you cannot possibly think of walking that short distance and so I insisted on taking the car (because i wanted to drive :)). So I parked the car safely in front of MB and we all were having a meal (4 girls) when three of our friends passed by MB, since they were headed for Caesar's (15 minutes walk from college). One of the guys, Taher, calls up and asks if Sam could drop them back to college just because they didn't wish to walk back in that hot, sweaty weather. We agreed.
So me and Sam left MB's to pick them up. And thus began the ride to our untimely, unneeded fate.
Sam took a u-turn and headed back for the college on the same road. Cars were parked on both sides of the road (it is a two way road without a divider). So from our side, a woman in Mazda 3 wished to go on the opposite lane. Her car was parked in a way that her cars front faced the road (she had reversed parked it!). We were about a 100m away when she moved her car out a little bit, so naturally, Sam slowed down to let her go but she stopped and so Sam accelerated. Again the lady moved out a little bit again (there was some space available between the main road and the parking). Naturally (again!) Sam decelerated the Mazda 6 but the stupid lady stopped again. And then Sam accelerated again. With only 10m gap left between the two cars, this time around, the lady got a move on and BANG! the two cars bumpers collided. I was sitting on the passengers front seat and the bloody car was so close to me. I had my coke in my hand and the only thing I could do at that time was *slurp*. I slurped the whole coke within 40 seconds.
WOW! Now that was something good eh. Well on Sam's request we left for college after 10 minutes of waiting. Whilst on my way to college, I saw the police car arrive and was happy to know that they arrived early.
For the first time EVER, thanks to this accident, I was actually awake in my Aircraft System Principles class. Hell yeah it was fun. It rocked...though I was scared!

why do people have problems when someone wishes to change for good? Can the change be so harmful to people that they give you the worst looks possible? I seriously don't understand why all that happens, but for once the person can be left alone. How hard is it to do so?

That is what i wanted to do and that is what i have done but suddenly it seems like a crime. My friends keep asking me questions that i don't want to answer, people show that they disagree with this change and all this ANNOYS me like hell. I just feel so frustrated. Its not there life, its MINE and ONLY mine. They have no right to get angry or mad at me. Plus some of them are not even friends who should get angry.

God...i don't know what to say. I just want to hang myself. You know what the problem is? They can't be ignored so easily either and that, my friend, is a killer.

I wish I could crush someone into pieces. People wish to rule over me...and i aint letting that happen...at least not now!

There are times when suddenly everything changes in life. People you have never liked, or thought no better of them have become important to you. Thats what happened to me this semester. I already had a good freind but then two people whom I never talked freely with just because I didn't like them that much seem to important to me now.
Usually when people tell me that there is something I shouldn't do or something is not good about me, I seriously get pissed off. But whatever these two friends tell me, no matter how bad it is, nothing pisses me off. I have grown too fond of these two people, and I love hanging around with them.
Just something I found online, like it and thats why im posting it here:

To Izzah, Sam, Fiji, Madiha, Anam, Princilla, Abhi, Hibba and Aleena

When i'm happy,
I look at my hand
And search for the line
That made me lucky enough
To have a friend like you

When we see a Yash Raj film ad on TV, we expect to see good films and above all good stories that have everything in it. But lately that has changed. Yash Raj has started to depend more on star cast and style rather than the story line. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Tararumpum, Aaja Nachle and now Tashan. What ahs gotten into the Yash group only God can tell. Every single hype created for this film has turned only to disaster.

A few questions that bugged me through out the film:

1. where is the story?


2. why is the music below expectations?


3. why wasnt Akshay given more attention in promos?


4. where is the chemistry between the new "Hot Couple"?


5. where is the expected screenplay?


6. why is there the unwanted action?


7. why can't 1000 people kill three people?


8. how on earth can u get a speed boat in a nala (sewer)?

Akshay certainly stood out more than the others. He was by far the best thing that could happen to Tashan. Saif seemed like an object that was there for no reason. Kareena seemed to be in the film ONLY to show her size 0 look. Anil acted very well as the "English" speaking don.

There are some good point in the film but then over all it falls on the negative. The story could be MUCH stronger. With the actors Yash Raj had in hand, and the versatility of all the actors, the storyline could have done better.

A good try to copy film styles from the 70's but am sure if it was released in the 70's it would still be a flop. All in all if you want to watch a film, then you can watch a film from the 70's rather than watching Tashan.

But if you still want to watch it, then go ahead.

The first time anything reproductive ever happened in our college apart from studies is the 'Mini-Skill Club'. Thanks to our friends who came up with this amazing idea of learning and teaching new things to others. Out first day was quiet good. We kept it all amongst ourselves. Only a handful of people knew about it and less than a handful came. Ofcourse the only reason was timing problems. But still it was fun. A good way to pass your time when you have nothing at all to do!
Yesterday in our first class we made PAPER PLANES! No...not the basic one. Anyone can do that. But we made the ones that are a little more harder and one of them flies SICK! it is so smooth and goes to far. Just totally amazed.
Well in out next session we are planning to teach Photoshop. That means I hav to be ready for it! WOHOOO!!! It's my turn to be a teacher.

There are times when you really need to soothe your mind because you have had too much to think or work too much. To cut a long story short you need to relax. So I tried to find a new way and the only thing I could possibly think of was SLOW songs or Ghazals. Well I went for Ghzalas.
For all you people who dont know what Ghazals are, here is a short discription:

In poetry, the ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain. Each line must share the same meter. Ghazals were written by the Persian mystics and poets Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (13th century) and Hafez (14th century), he Turkish poet Fuzuli (16th century), as well as Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869) and Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), who both wrote Ghazals in Persian and Urdu. Through the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany in the 19th century, and the form was used extensively by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) and August von Platen (1796–1835). The Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali was a proponent of the form, both in English and in other languages; he edited a volume of "real ghazals in English." (Wikipedia)

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Mohammed Rafi
• Farida Khanum
• Tina Sani
• Kishore
• Mukesh
• Jagjit Singh
• Ghulam Ali
• Hariharan
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Asha Bhosle
• Mehdi Hassan
• Pankaj Udhas
• Noor Jahan

These voices have some beauty man. Try listening to some ghazals from them. They SERIOUSLY rock.