Penned Magic…

The most ignored of the 3 indians that won the Oscar yesterday has to be Gulzar saab. Amoung all the celebration apparently a lot of people missed noticing that he had won the award for penning the lyrics of “Jai Ho!”, mostly because he did not pick up the award in person.

It turns out that one of my all time favorite songs is his favorite too :)

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi – Movie Review


[rating:3.5/5]

Dear Shahrukh Khan,

I know I haven’t written in a long time, I am sincerely sorry for that. But when I saw Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi I thought I should write my review directly to you.

Firstly thank you for Surinder Sahni, he made watching RNBDJ(I know the acronym does not work) a pleasure. It would be hard to find a movie critic who didn’t think that it was possibly the most honest performance they have seen in a while.

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Tu Hi Meri Shab (Gangster) – English Translation

I got a mail yesterday from someone who had read the translation of a few lines of the song “Tu Hi Meri Shab…” I had written on April 18th 2006. The request was for the full translation of the song and I happily obliged :) Then I thought what the heck, I have already written the translation might as well post it so that someone else can use it if they require :P

I tried my level best to keep the poetic nature of the lines… Hope its not very bad :) Here it is…

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