Hi! I'm a Punjabi and Bollywood paints me true.

Arent we sick of stereotypes already, where just cause you're a Punjabi, you have to be an obnoxious dancer, start drinking at sunset and while you're at it, obnoxiously sing about it as well!

Ajay Devgan firstly, in my books would never pass off being punjabi, secondly - just a lot of 'WHY'S?!!!'

So here are two songs which talk about the orbit and it's ecliptic plane, how the earth completes it's rotation, as a result of which Suraj goes asth and its subsequent impact on punjabi's going mast! 

What a revolution, I say!

Just to fill your thought bubbles: 

Lyrics of song 1, Movie 'What the Fish' :

"Suraj asth hua, te baabe mast hua, 

Phir kaake pairon ka, dance zabbardast hua!" 

Lyrics of song 2, Movie 'Action Jackson (what the fish man!)' :

"Surya asth, punjabi mast

Na pilana punjabiyon ko naap tol ke, 

Dilwaale hain, peetein hain yeh dil khol ke"

And anyway on one hand, we're shutting liquor stores, and declaring some states as 'Dry', while Bollywood continues to pom pom about how cool it is to be an alcohol soaked paapad! Why can't Punjabi's talk about 'Lovely Professional University' or 'Sarson da saag, make di roti' if you must, while on cliches. 

Koorgi's and Punjabi's to me are brothers in spirit, though i have yet to see a Koorgi sing and dance about it in alcohol support groups. 

Saiya, Banu Mein Teri Maiya!

It’s a man’s world. Let’s face it.

We can demand equality in jobs, walk streets topless, hold candle marches, but in a deep rooted subliminal cube floating in our existence somewhere, we accept.

I am by no means implying anything that could open doors for a volley of meaningful conversation. I’m simply stating observation from an article on Bollywood couples, that I recently read.

It was about actors that played each other’s love interest and then, blood relations, a few movies apart. Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh will soon be playing a couple in Bajairao and siblings in Dil Dhadakne Do. SRK and Aishwarya have done it too.

But a choice of role I found really interesting - Rakhee played Amitabh’s love interest in Kabhie Kabhie and later his mother in Shakti. The two movies were released 7 years apart.

So 7 yrs later, the Indian audience was still willing to clap and sing along with Mr. Bachchan as he romanced his new muse, but their tolerance level towards the female protagonist had her slotted into the role of a mother (I’m sure one of substance)

Big B also romanced Waheeda Rehman in Adalat, and 7 yrs later played a dutiful son to her in Coolie. With all due respect to Rakhee and Waheeda Rehman, their decision to play mother to a colleague they once romanced, shared equal poster space with, must have born out of circumstantial pressure of an imprudent audience.

A topless Salman Khan will still encourage cat calls, but a Preity Zinta (not topless) does not have it in her anymore. There will be a Pa, a Cheeni Kum, a Bhagban but how many English Vinglish?

Call it balls, call it talent, but hats off to the ladies, for giving a different meaning to the scene while holding the same man to their bosom, merely 7 years apart, one as lover then as a mother!

We still love a trotting Salman, but do we want to hear sweet nothings from Madhuri anymore(“Uhu! Uhhuu!”) We’re proud of the fact that “Aunty police bulalegi par party yuhin chalegi”, but why does Raveena not get Mast Mast? We’d swayed along with SRK when he asked Juhi “Aur Kya” but did anyone want to see her being his “Chamak Challo”?

We fight for rights and then discard them. 

I’d like to see Priyanka play Ranbir’s mom. Haa! There will be more Gunday’s  and other wall décor stuff, until one day a come back will be announced. People wouldn’t have even noticed the absence, cause all along her male contemporaries were in your face romancing a few talented and other look alikes. But always there!

Hasee to Phasee

Hasee to Phasee starring Parineeti Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra, is Vinil Mathews directorial debut into features.

Vinil who is known to have created magic with brands like Cadbury and Airtel , was roped in by Phantom to direct the story written by Harshvardhan Kulkarni.

Nikhil (Sidharth) a struggling business man is in love with Karishma (Adah) who is an aspiring actress (yawn).

Meeta (Parineeti) is Karishma’s estranged sister who ran away from the family and is a bit delirious and addicted to various pills.

To try and weave some sort of a story around the three – Meeta returns back after 7 yrs to attend Karishma’s wedding. Karishma in turn entrusts her sisters responsibility onto Nikhil, she doesn’t want Meeta anywhere close to the family thinking it may ruin the wedding preparations, considering the circumstances under which Meeta last left.

Nikhil starts baby sitting an eccentric Meeta, who keeps oscillating between longing to get one glance of her father and at every other opportunity suggesting that he (Nikhil) should break up with the sister and marry her instead (poker faced)

Thus continues a mindless charade between wedding preparations and baby sitting the sister.

I was honestly looking forward to this movie because the promo’s promised Parineeti in a different avatar, Sidharth in a more than ‘flexing the jaw line’ kind of contribution, but alas, all I kept doing was trying to find a reason to stay cause every movie deserves that much, I feel.  

Their plates did have a different menu to offer, but an inconsistency in the characters and direction, average cinematography and not thought through story line overshadowed the credit they deserved. 

Amar Mangrulkar is the only saving grace in the film.  Zehnaseeb and Ishq Bulaava are two of my favorites from the album.

If anyone figures out the connection between the story and the title, call me!