and she huffed and she puffed…

So i come home today and settle my butt down on the couch thinking i’d spend some quality time with the idiotbox. Let’s see now -

Channel 4 – P.S I Love You: Good movie but no thanks!
MBC Max – Legally Blonde: Nope!!!
Fox Movie – Mean Girls: Arabic subtitles on American teeny boppers just ain’t funny
TCM – Zebra Head: Interesting and i would have stuck to this address on the tube, had it not been for the slaphappy punchdrunk ridiculous programme on the next channel Zee Aflam.

The movie was called ‘Parvarish’. It’s actually still on the tele as i write this. It stars Amitabh Bachan, Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi and Neetu Singh. It’s a 1977 film that is so unbelievably cheesy that i cannot help but love it and hate it at the same time!!!

Now, the storylines in these retro bollywood flicks are usually very easy to catch onto because of their extremely formulaic approach. What is not easy to understand however are these song and dance sequences. So, i’m sending a big ‘WTF!’ back to 1977 folks!!

I mean, wasn’t there a single person back then who could have seen this in a script and said that this makes no sense!?!?!? guess not and thankfully an entire generation’s undersight, brings me the much needed comic relief on this Thursday night!

Picked up the ever so pink and delightful Sugar Power from the airport a few days ago.  She and her gypsy bags were on their way for yet another adventure to meet the queen again. She carried three black bags, a pink feather in her hair and precious Melburnian memories. ‘I brought a gift for you, but i’m sorry… i drank it!‘, she said.

As we lazed around from one bar to another and talked, and talked, and talked more (wait! can a guy actually do that? ) i realized that i hadn’t missed her at all. It was almost like the past five years had turned into days and we were picking up from where we left off ‘just like that’.. unbelievable!

The wine flowed incessantly and as our tangents began to defy the fundamental notions of conversational geometry, i remembered how familiarly awesome her quirkiness was. Now it isn’t everyday that you see an emarati guy in a dish dash (also the owner of the hotel) laugh as he gets punched on the shoulder again and again by a crazy hippy!

Ardessa Nica Jessau! you remind me of Mr. Gump’s fantastic stories! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!

Click here to see some of her awesomeness!

So here is a little heap of nostalgia that came rolling into my head this morning. Johnny5!! Surely you remember that clumsy artificial intelligent metal contraption that came alive after being struck by a bolt of lightning ? Anyway! if you don’t and have a few hours to spare, log onto youtube and watch the entire movie there (in episodes.. pity and applaud the soul who had the dedication to upload it there one by one).

On a side note, i hadn’t quite realized how much Johnny resembled Wall-e !

Watch this from 6:20 onwards to 8:10 . The funniest and most memorable bit of this movie ever !!! Its the bit Johnny5 convinces Steve Guttenberg that he actually is alive.

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