English Vinglish ! Sridevi is a super amazing Actress...

Hey friends!

Hope you all have been doing gr8!
After a long break of watching movies, reasons for the break partly because there were no great movies coming up and Majorly because I feel lil Kaanha (my son) deserves more of the outdoor activities.

Due to this reason since past few months our outings were limited to evening or morning walks at Kalisot dam (a wonderful small dam near to our place, just a 3 minutes drive ) or the big parks where he would play with the Ball or just roam about and enjoy his evenings or early mornings :)
Oh well Did I divert from the title .. well Yes I was talking about the recent movie that I saw 'English Vinglish' (on 5th Oct last show) .. and I must say I simply loved the movie.

Not to mention Sridevi's acting is so very natural, the concept is good and new and the movie has a good pace..Well I am no film critic like Anupama Chopra or Mayank Shekhar.. but in my personal opinion I liked the movie.
Sridevi took a sabbatical of almost 15 years but Man... She just doesn't look like that........Not at all!!!!!
Her skin, Her figure.. her comic timing :) (which I have always loved) and her super expressions and super natural acting....uhh I just loved her in the movie !

A few things that I feel were really interesting about the movie was the display of the normal Indian Mom..in this case a Maharasthrian Home maker( I personally always refrain from the term Housewife coz I feel it just doesn't justify the Responsibilities and Duties of the Lady of the House)

The lady of the house in the movie
1) Gets up early and is done with her morning routine and is already done with the preparation of breakfast and also the tiffins for the family.
2) Doesn't get angry (even when her son tells her that her daughter has been to the Cafe Coffee Day outlet with friends including guys and not for a group study )
3) Apart from the daily activities of Laundry and Housekeerping and Cooking for the family she also manages to run a small business of her own - Making Ladoos!
4) She goes personally to each household to deliver her handmade ladoos. A very important part of business.
5) She saves money that she gets on selling her ladoos (since Saving is a virtue!) and uses that when she needs to join a language class.
6) She is told by a stranger that she is one of the most beautiful females he has come across and yet she doesn't let that become a dent to her already settled married life!
7) She misses her final exam of the language class just to make laddoos for her niece's wedding return gift.
8) She keeps her language class a surprise for every1 around except her niece who comes to know about it somehow and then helps her a lot.
9) She makes no air or boasting in front of the same family who doesn't respect her because of her lesser or no knowledge of English.
10) Last but not the least when asked to give blessings to a newly wed couple for whose marriage she had been to: She describes the Family as the most important bond explaining the fact that Come what may its your family who would always support you and stand by you.. even when her family dint do so!


These are the things which I observed and felt somewhere deep in my heart that at times we forget to respect our Mothers...there might be times when we try to Teach them things stating the fact that they Donot know it...
We have the complete right to tell them whats right and whats not but not at all at The Cost Of Their Self Respect.
If you are a girl and reading this make sure you take your Mum to go and watch the movie.. And Yes she says it right: "You would realise it When you become a Mom/Parent"

She is the most Special human Being to have come to Your Life and No1 else can take her place.
Take time out for your Mum and if needed agree to her statements and decisions without questioning them for once and for sometime... answer her anger with lots of love.. her worries for you with lots of concern instead of back answering n saying - "Mum you needn't worry bout me M old enough!"

Remember its only one life and you have only one Mother and
God knows for how long you may be together..
I might be sounding like a forwarded msg text but this is what came Straight from the heart.

Kocham Cię Mamo
I Love you Mamma!!!

Handwritten letters a thing of past but oh so important!

Hello All!

We all stay in a world which is extremely well connected! Social networking has brought all of us close..we can check each others updates regularly, can get in touch with anyone anytime, can email each other anytime of the day and it reaches the receiver within seconds..send each other e-cards and Mobile connectivity..How could I forget that! Every person is an SMS away Or Just a call away (even International ones!)

But still I feel Handwritten letters have their own charm and beauty!
Few days back was cleaning up my desk when I found a big envelope with many letters that I received during my school n college days.. almost a span of 20 years.. It contained letters and cards addressed to me.. And once the envelope was opened I could not stop myself from reading all that one by one ( M blessed that my kiddo slept early to let me do all this ) And it brought back all the memories of the past 20 years.. one by one..

Can't describe the state of peace and satisfaction that I experienced.by reading them :)
And the best part was these all letters were a response to the letters that I sent them!

This all started with the festival of Rakhi! The preparations for Rakhi at my place would begin about 2 months in advance..we even used to make the Rakhis at home.. back in my school days!
It was my Mum who handed me the responsibility of writing handwritten letters along with the Rakhi envelope during my primary school days :)
Slowly and gradually I became used to writing one letter in every quarter.
I liked to describe the new happenings of my life to a few who were close.. and slowly and gradually I became so addicted to writing that Come What May.. I used to take out time to write letters and felt it to be a very nice way of entertainment as well as a way to enhance my writing skills as well as skills of describing things...

And this has been a routine since then..every Rakhi my relatives wait for the Handwritten Letter that comes along with the Rakhi!
Marriage and a kid had decreased the length of my letters to one small page of half A4 size page, which initially were about 2-3 A4 size pages.. So this Rakhi I made it a point that I write the same lengthy Rakhi letters and send it to everyone.. And I was more than delighted to get a call from my Bhabhis the very day that they received the letter stating that...

Oh it was so very good to read your long letter after such a long time! We have read it and re-read it so many times! Now we'll also continue writing at least 1 letter in a year! And we'll also try to instill the same habit in our kids.. Letters are really so important! Thank you for taking time out to write such a big letter and also post in before hand so that it reaches before time!

And I felt so good! Both coz I wrote them and coz I got such a nice response!

How many of you prefer handwritten letters? At least Reading if not writing !!!
Si te gusta leer la carta escrita a mano escribir una carta a un ser cercano y ver cómo se sienten especiales!
( If you like reading handwritten letter write a letter to a close one and see how Special they feel!)
:)
Regards
Nidhi

Whats the score ? ..... Hopeless!

On reading the title I am sure many of you might have already guessed that I am going to talk about Cricket. Bingo!
But this statement was not uttered by a Teenage boy or his father or his grandfather....
This statement was uttered by my Nani and infact this was her signature statement whenever India played bad..
If she did not like the score - it was always termed as hopeless
I visited my grandparents every summers so it was approximately 20 days at Dadi's place and 20 days at Nanis place.

Nani looked like the typical grandmums who have grey hair and dark rimmed old fashioned spectacles and used to wear soft cotton saris. Her chandan ka teeka is what I remember very very clearly.

A little that I can say about my Nani - Shrimati Sundar Agnihotri - is an extremely Positive person, whose aura of positivity made everyone around also Positive!

A Sports lover and an ardent cricket FAN, A gossip lover (she could gossip with people of different age groups simultaneosuly), Expert in playing Chess, Bridge, Carrom you name it and she knows it. She knew the World geography on her fingertips, knew a zillion of Mantras Shlokas and Bhajans had a story for almost all the festivals on all the 365 days of the year :) and she was ambidextrous- I was a fan of her handwriting more so because her handwriting was beautiful and the same by both the hands :)
I liked watching her play Carrom and Chess with my cousin brother (her grandson)

Nani used to be very much engrossed in her Puja, she did the lengthy Puja - twice a day and it lasted for (if I remember it correctly) almost 2 hours.

The days when there was a Match she used to take breaks between her Puja, come near to the TV screen and have a close look at the score... For us waiting to Nani coming to see the score was more important than the Match itself  : P
If the score was good she used to get a faint smile on her face and stayed back for a few more minutes to see India playing 
and just in case if the score was something like

i.e.: 75/2...Huhhh HOPELESS and immediately went back to resume her Puja :)

And all of us used to burst out laughing!!
Such a reaction from a Lady who was 70 plus was indeed hilarious! We all enjoyed Nani's reactions to the score rather than the match itself : ) 

A few things that I learnt from her are
Age is just a number
Gossip  on any topic under the sun except for people keeps you happy and thougtful!
Always have interest in games of all sorts they keeo you young and active both physically and mentally..
and ofcourse
Performing Pooja and watching Cricket are 2 things can be done simultaneously with equal dedication!

:))