Thursday, January 31, 2008

Sunflowers...



A field of sunflowers…
Unending stretches of yellow…
The sun as bright and pleasant as it ever could be…

Memories I’ve never experienced…
Images of a lover I’ve never seen…
Songs well known playing in the background…
Of Rehmaan and a nightingale’s queen.

Sounds of running water…
Playfully tease my loneliness…
I dream of the one who will come…
That one among the many.

Holding me gently…
He will never let go…
The joy will always continue…
And forever overflow.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Round-Up January 2008.

Round-Up January 2008

Hi! And welcome to my yearly round-up, that brilliant (self-acclaimed) post of mine that tells you everything you need to know about everyone around me. Yupp, you will have to know me to know whom I’m talking about, but the round-up will be an interesting read all the same… So here’s to friends and joyful memories. Cheers!

Golti-Tamizh Paiyen is till very much in love with Malayali-Tamizh Lover girl. Good for him! We still talk and I still would give anything in the world for him.

Krishnan Ammai is hale and hearty and enjoying life as her annan is now married to sweet-kps-classmate-bhatt.

AK47 is missing in action, god alone knows why; near-fatal incident a la Libra has left us partitioned over several issues I assume. Independence was never the solution.

Goan-Tamizh-Malayali Paiyen is happy. He has ‘finally’ broken off from said cute-Kannada-girl. He marries off his sister in a few days, and I plan to help him with the ceremonies.

Malayali-Dusky-Goddess is in Mumbai, works for a religion and has fallen for a Goan boy. Her marriage is a-pending anytime now. Happiness I see, but I amn’t too sure.

Kashmiri-Adonis is busy playing hide and seek. I miss him so much. Wish he would come back, and be a part of my increasingly boring life.

Girl-I-would-marry-if-I-had-a-chance 1 is in France, pursuing her higher studies. We talk. That’s enough for me for now; actually that’s enough for eternity.

Girl I would marry if I had a chance 2 is in Hyderabad, having seconding issues in love, life and lectures. She is as she always was. She can still never NOT bring a smile to my face.

Golti Film Maker is busy learning to make films, in city he hates, and growing back his cuteness that he lost a month ago. I can see a crush coming. It’s actually already here. He is single and I pray he stays that way. When will he get fate?

Goan-Hunk was sick in town for long times, but is back in biriyani nagar. He forgets who I am the moment he sees the coloured rices. Promiscuousness is not something I need worry about. Food was always man’s first love.

My Adonis is now happily married to animal-healer girlfriend. They live together in harmony not far from Home 1, and still watch movies. He gets hotter when he is happier. I naat like. Actually I very much like.

Konkani-NDTV is working for Google and still dreams of her journalism career. She met her first boy bastard and has come out a winner. A bit late, but everyone has to start somewhere.

Nine Ten is busy being clandestine. But if that’s what keeps her happy who am I to spoil her happiness. She in the meantime applies for courses, and cuts her hair, and becomes more girlish.

Adi-Dravidaar Ponnuh now two times with work and an MBA, she grows prettier by the day. People think we are in love. Are we? I am not too sure we aren’t.

Her sister is still being an American Call doing girls, and works hard now to literally keep the family. Marriage was in season but is now just a phase. Thanks be to god.

Goodhal is busy colleg’ing. Wonder if she’s upto anything these days other than teaching fatally gorgeous Iranian boys. I so J.

Brother Bear 1 is enjoying his press freedoms. Still randomly dating, Guess he’s got the most chicks in the family (?). Has a band now with said Goodhals above, Brother Bear 2 and a friend.

Brother Bear 2 is busy being himself. Plans on studying are finally materializing. It be so cool. He dreams of Japan and I pray it happens.

Brother Bear 3 is still lounging. The Piranha still eats and landscaping is now the final frontier. Oh yes! He is a year older in his marriage-ful life.

Original Boy-Wonder is working now, somewhere and all. We hardly meet and talk. I miss Krupanidhi only for what I miss of him.

Naidu girl is married and missing from action.

Business-Boy is still very business-see even though he is unemployed. Funny I must say. His clients are still his clients even though he doesn’t work for them no more. He watches movies like nobody’s business.

Isue is losing her extra pounds and looking prettier than ever. Don’t know if she’s seeing someone. Wish she’d find Mr. Right and get married. I want to be sweet uncle of sildrens. Yeah! She has so much plans. It gives me hope.

The G Girl Junior is happy in life. I like it that way. Looking so much better. She does miss Mallu-Hunk in Londyn but that she’s happy keeps me happy all the same.

The G Boy Senior is still managing the city’s talkers. The station is coming back. Whatte fun! He looks more aged and slowly acting that way too. Still a hunk though.

The CJ Ma’am is mommy again to a princess who grows prettier by the second. It’s so much fun when you know someone knows you eggjacktly. She’s that only one.

The Mallu-Hunk is in Londyn and still flirts like crajee. What would life be without such items ya? Miss him a lot, don’t know why though.

Musician-Hunk lives now in my dreamland (not my dreams, but where he stays). Plays hard to come by and I must say that hair is finally getting to me. Enough hair on face pliss. Reduce pliss.

The Lord of The Rings works with me, growing prettier locks, and becoming so girl-ie looking by the day. Never knew he was such a natural born good-looker. His band goes strong and everything seems ok.

I QC, subtitle and still live life. There’s so much I can look forward too, and I hope it all works out. Love seems to avoid me, but I think I ask for it. Opportunity also has forgotten my postal address. But life still goes on, and my biggest joys are from the littlest of things.






Welcome 2008.
May you be more rewarding than 2007 (atleast for me!)

Monday, January 28, 2008

Daboo Ratnani's January ;)

Joy to the world!

Just when I was about to give up, and say to hell with all these jerks, who consider themselves special, and different comme moiself, I found joy!

True love exists even within gay communities, and even though I know that it was always the case, the scenario in this freakin’ confused metropolis has befuddled me over and again.
So finally when I came across a brilliantly portrayed relationship, in a movie, it sure came as a happy reminder that hope still existed. I could wait and maybe, I would still find the perfect one.


The Adventures of Felix [Drole de Felix], was a chance treasure-find that I quite unassumingly came across at that hub of piracy also known as the Two-DVD-Stores at Commercial Plaza (Guess where?). These guys stock the best of DVD’s and well they are affordable. The prints are brilliant, coz’ these are copies of well… originals (Ironic!).
I am not one for being staunch against piracy, nor am I completely for it.
I would lash out at someone buying a pirated copy of a film that’s available quite easily as discount originals at any DVD store for anything below Rs. 60. But I hold back my argument when someone decides to buy a pirated DVD for say Rs. 70, when the original is priced at nothing below Rs. 599. As always argued, piracy is subjective and to uphold or detest is something that should remain personal. Governments intervening and holding laws defining what piracy is... seem utterly stupid.

The film however was amazing, and I feel no guilt for buying it off the store in that damned hub of such morally obscene ethics (Har! Har!). It followed a few days in the lives of an Arab hottie (Sami Bouajila) who is in a relationship with a teacher [Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! My ONLY dream :(]. He (La Arabe) works as a foreman (Ship) and has just quit his job. He plans on going to Marseilles to find his dad, whom he has never met. Brought up by his single-parent mum, the boy has all the qualities that make a gay boy that much more adorable. His partner (the teacher - Pierre Loup-Rajot) is a Caucasian boy, who doesn’t do much other than lip-lock the Arab hottie, several times during the movie (Grrrrrr!). So said Arab hottie plans out his trip and books a ticket to Marseilles for his boy-firend so that they’d both arrive a la Marseille on the same day, and the he sets out on a five day trip from Normandy walking and hitching a ride wherever he can.

The movie follows his amazing journey through the French country, where he meets the most gorgeous of people, and gets involved in what I can only refer to as the mystery and the grace of our human existence that has often been referred to as ‘mankind’.

I will not be a spoiler and tell you what happens, but the kisses and embraces that dot the film are just too beautiful to miss. The meeting of the two lovers at Marseille actually brought tears to my eyes, coz’ the most beautiful moments of love are often the most simplest. This film personifies ‘love’ as most of the international gay community perceives the beautiful emotion: Free, un-judgmental, unquestioning, and not in the least bit possessive. It’s not anywhere close to how I perceive the divine emotion, but their view is equally beautiful all the same. At the end of the day it’s just about True love… and everyone knows that ultimately…

Love rules all!




Dekhteen Hain Negaahaen Tujhe Iss Kadar….
Khoobsurat Hain Tu…
Iss Kadar…

Oh… Raanjhaa Sang Raen’na…
Oh… Dukh Sukh Saen’na…

The movie was released in 2000, from co-directors Oliver Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, who are in love, and share their lives together (who is surprised!)