I heard the song for the first time, when I watched August Rush. For those who haven't seen the film, I highly recommend it. Anyway, going back, I downloaded the OST; and liked what I heard and naturally fell in love with it as i heard it over and over again. The lyrics are just totally gripping. And what can I say about the voice of John Legend, it makes you stop everything else and just simply listen.
Feel free to hear him here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZpOdpFvtBs
And to die-for-lyrics...
As days go by
and fade to nights
I still question
why you left
I wonder how
it didn’t work out
but now you’re gone
and memories all I have for now
but no it’s not over
we’ll get older we’ll get over
we’ll live to see the day that I hope for
come back to me
I still believe that-
we’ll get it right again
we’ll come back to life again
we won’t say another goodbye again
you’ll live forever with me
someday, someday we’ll be together
someday, someday we’ll be together.
I heard someday
might be today
mysteries of destinies
they are somehow
and are someway
for all we know
they come tomorrow
for today my eyes are open
my arms are raised for your embrace
my hands are here to mend what is broken
to feel again the warmth of your face
I believe there is more to life
oh I love you much more than life
and so I believe I can change your mind
revive what is dying inside
and someday, someday we’ll be together
someday, someday we’ll be together
someday, someday we’ll be together
we’ll be together
we’ll be together someday!
Yea baby, Bollywood's done it... Its finally made what I call a Chick-flick and its totally adorable... So mennnnn, don't go- you won't enjoy it as much, especially those who aren't into shopping or romance or happily ever-afters... But for all you women out there, I'd say go watch it ladies. Not just 'Suno Aisha' but also Dekho Aisha! :P
The story is set in present day New Delhi where the essence is kinnda intact and very realistically "Dilli". And unlike all other love stories which on a large scale are melodramatic, Aisha successfully manages to convey the message without any hint of being a tearjerker.
Sonam's world harks back to Jane Austen's giddy-headed British gentry class where match-making was not idle chatter. It was a serious religion. When placed in the neo-rich; totally-spiced-up; politically-charged (though not necessarily politically-correct) atmosphere of Delhi, Jane Austen's characters seem to come alive in unexpected spurts of sassy splendour and unbridled joie de vivre. You can't help but laugh at these young people's self-importance.
Seeking the sparkling spirit from chick flicks like Sex and the City, Confessions of a Shopaholic , 27 Dresses , etc director Rajashree Ojha sets the tone of the film quite correctly. With her feminine perspective, the lady director adds a youthful zing to the female bonding, packaging the film with the requisite glitz and glamour. Also what’s amusing is the interesting characterization of Aisha modeled on Austen’s Emma Woodhouse. Aisha deviously dominates her friends, decides for them and (as her friend Arjun mentions) turns them into her Xerox copies. The silliness of her ideas and actions quite easily amuse and irritate.
Ok, so here goes-- 'Aisha' is a two-hour celebration of pre-marriage rituals. Though no one says it, every girl in the film wants only one thing. And it isn't necessarily love, but somewhere close. The bristle and bustle of Delhi comes alive through the slender intellectual faculties of the protagonists. Let's not forget that Jane Austen had applied great intellectual strength to her "frail and shallow" people. While I wouldn't go so far as to call anyone frail or shallow- I kinnda know what she means! :)
The cinematography by Diego Rodriguez and especially the songs and background music by Amit Trivedi creates a multi-hued skyline in this saga of socialites, their loves, lovers and love tattle.
Although Aisha lacks that depth which would make it peppy, it certainly is not just another chick-flick. It can be enjoyed by people from both the sexes with that bucket of butter-popcorn. Perhaps the writer and the director tried to make something lighter, which would make the movie digestible and easy to enjoy (giving it essentially a feminine touch).
The movies main character's a good blend of Shopaholic meets Match-Maker meets Romantic... which is what men would like to call plain girly stuff... But girls, aren't there often times we look for a film that we would rather see with our girl-friends, ('coz men would end up not really getting it)? Well what can I say, your prayers have been answered- 'coz this is just that! Don't take hubby dahlings or boy-friends for this one- it'll dis-illusion your girlyness. I'd suggest, just go with other girls or women and totally appreciate it!
Is it four star material? Probably not. But definitely a three and a quarter star material. :P
I still remember the first time I had to explain the term "Friendship's day" to my family... To my teen eyes, they looked so "disillusioned" for not believing in a day that was so important to me. I was even mean enough to tell my mum, she wouldn't understand 'coz she really didn't have friends- All her friends were wives of dad's friends. You needed to feel something stronger to understand the true meaning of the day... (In hindsight I realize I was behaving like a teenager.)
At 15, the first Sunday of August was the day I took special permission from gharwallas to spend the evening with friends... I remember all the friendship's day melas we visited over the years. And how Archies & Expressions Greeting Cards helped, make us believe, that the epitome of friendship was gifting your friend a 'friendship's band' and a cute card; even a gift sometimes (if your pocket money would suffice). It really was a big deal to my teenage self. I went all out... writing poetry, getting flowers, making friendship bands, buying gifts and cards... The whole nine yards!
And I had a huge bunch of friends. So naturally I'd have to be creative. Some years I'd make my own cards... and some years my own friendship bands... But there was never a year when my friends didn't get some sort of trivia just because 'they were friends.' :)
Over the years I have often thought about continuing this tradition and sending a surprise gift to a close-friend via courier, just to say "I'm thinking of you. And you are important to me." But I have never acted upon this instinct till date. It doesn't mean, I don't have good friends 'coz really I do. Or that I claim these materialistic things have no meaning, "sab mithya hai" types- Hey, I don't believe that either. But there's something that stops me from being as demonstrative to my friends as I was before. Basically I no longer believe in the concept of 'friendship's day' and I find myself as disillusioned about it as my parents once were. But for different reasons of course.
At 27, it just feels so lame to have just one day dedicated to all those people who make your world richer. How can we tell them on one day "Hey I'm glad we are friends, 'coz u r an important part of my life" and not follow it up with our actions for the next 364 days...
Isn't friendship supposed to be the easiest relation to work with? Isn't it about 'like minded people staying together', no questions asked, because they like to? Isn't it about, 'no guilt attached relationships' where you're doing things because you want to, not because you ought to! And most importantly, isn't it about sharing time together, and speaking about normal regular stuff to get a neutral perspective that your husbands/ wives/ girl friends or boy friends can't give you!
I'm sure Friendship means different things to different people. For me, there are friends I love shopping with, others I miss having coffee with... There are 'get-a-beauty-treatment-together' friends and have-soul-searching-conversations- together friends. But really friendship is about a choice- A choice we execute when we say, "I choose to be your friend, 'coz I love how you make me feel. And I'd like to feel that way always." :)
So on friendship's day I dedicate this blog to all my friends- I'm sure you're wondering why you haven't received a call or an sms from me on friendship's day. But you're on my mind and I'm sure you know why I love you. :)
xoxo
