A Day of Laughter

I watched “Housefull” movie yesterday, yes, I did gather the guts to do so. I had nothing else to do either. I did not complete it though. It was such a big disappointment, not a surprise, however, what else can you expect from pervert filmmaker (I won’t be surprised if the next movie he makes will be called “Heyy Booby”). The only relief was that there was no Akshay-licking-dirty-diaper stuff and that I did not pay for the movie. The movie hardly made me smile; I was full of “uhhhh”, “errrgghh”, “shucks-yucks” like expressions. They all, Akshay, Ritiesh, Randheer Kapoor, Chunkey Pandey, Boman, and the “oomph-babes”, tried to make me laugh – all of them miserably failed though.

Worried, I thought, have I forgotten to laugh and smile? Is the stressful corporate life taking a toll on me?

However, there is something or the other since today morning that has constantly kept my funny bones tickling.

It all started with the early morning news – India’s cricketing Eves outsmart the men. I just couldn’t help laughing at Dhoni and boys, I smacked a shameless laugh. I hate cricket, ever since the whites changed to blue, green, grey, red, and so on, and the balls (the one used to play on the field) changed to white. [Do I love cricket, anytime? Umm, yes, only when Tendulkar bats and/or Akram bowls]. Some reasons I kept laughing:

• Dhoni boys out of the WC-T20, women are in the semis
• Dhoni shamelessly says he does not know the reasons for this failure; he was just hopelessly smiling at the cameras
• The women proudly say its dedication, sincerity, and focus on the game
• Dhoni later says IPL parties are reason for their loss at WC – ROFL :-D. If cricket, and not crores would have been your focus, you wouldn’t have come up with this excuse
• And then there was media, blasting away the team – “dekhiye ye sharmnaak hasi”, “aakhir nari shakti ne wo kar dikhaya jo mard nahi kar sake”, and so on

So much of commercialization in cricket annoys me. Look at any newspaper, 2 out of 3 pages will be dedicated to cricket and one page for rest of the sports. Take a look at www.ibnlive.com, one column especially for cricket and one column for sports where all other games are accommodated. Cricket ain’t a sport? Aww…how foolish of me. “It’s a religion, not a sport”, I laughed at myself, sarcastically.

I then saw some speaker started crying when MLAs taunted some woman – naari shakti once again. Men don’t cry, but they do when it is political and some foolish stuff.

Obama said that cancer like terrorism is a threat to Pakistan, not India. Dude, we know that, tell me something new. Your statements like these time and again, are now more often viewed as jokes, get serious in life man, stand up and act.

It seems that Maharashtra state wants all its ministers to talk in Marathi to all foreigners. This will foster cultural growth, is the justification. Weird logic. Nonetheless it kept my laughing riot in full pace, “yaa ingrazanno…aata tumchi **** ahey”

Some lady has filed a case against Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti on an alleged reason that image of Sonia Gandhi has been tarnished in the movie. Rationalization: Katrina Kaif, supposedly portraying Sonia Gandhi, has been shown in some intimate scenes with Ranbir Kapoor. Now if the lady so strongly feels that Katrina plays Sonia, then it is logical to show what Sonia could have done. Wouldn’t have Sonia ever got intimate with Rajiv? How, otherwise, can she substantiate the existence of Rahul Baba :-D

Just loved the laughter rides, I had throughout, though meaningless and insane, but they made my day. Finally, Prakash Jha replies, “it's a fictional story and bears no resemblance to any person living or dead”…hahaha

And the rollercoaster ride ends with a dialogue between me and Tushar (on chat), which again burst out clouds of laughter, though it was a paanchat PJ.

Tushar: Bola Pant (पंत - the Peshwa style of addressing the respected people)
Me: Kahi nahi shirt
Tushar: hahaha
Me: hahaha
Tushar: :-D
Me: :-D
Tushar: :-D
Me: :-D
Tushar: hahaha
Me: hahaha
Tushar: :-D
Me: :-D
Tushar: hahaha
Me: hahaha

And blissfully we laughed ever after.