An angel wrote in the Book of Life
Your baby's date of birth
Then whispered as she closed the book
"Too beautiful for this Earth"
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
