The old Shah Rukh -:)

For all my readers wish you a great happy Diwali. I so wish I was in India and I am missing being in India a lot. Diwali is about the feel of enjoyment and lights in the surroundings, celebrating it in a party style here for a day, in sophisticated manner does not match the enthusiasm it brings along with :( US stay is really giving me a taste of all the things that make my life complete, and would make complete in future. I am glad I am missing it.I so wish everybody has to come to US once atleast to understand importance of lots of things :P I so wish this dream comes true someday :)

I have been going through a lot of rough phases in terms of studies recently. Needed a much needed break and peace of mind. Luckily I came across one of the songs "Mai koi aisa Geet gaun" from the ShahRukh Khans movie "Yes Boss", which I used to like immensely. Shah Rukh is shown wooing Juhi Chavala with his dream merchant role. This song took me back to the phase when I was a young kid, when I used to dream a lot about lots of things. So the dreams are still there at present too, but somehow with experience you get to know that the real world is lot different and harsh than the dreamy bollywood. But dreams continue to stay.....

One song led to other song and I ended up seeing lots of songs from Shah Rukhs feel good movies :) mainly from Pardes, Kabhi han Kabhi naa, Raju Ban gaya Gentleman. Mainly the movies which he did when he was not a star and when he was not in the Yash Raj Camp:) Then I felt Yeah, I like his feel good movies which used to show some nonsense, innocent roles but still a great dreamful life. I suddenly realized I like Shah Rukh's charm in his past movies, I like his innocence in "Kabhi ha Kabhi na". I feel I identify with so many of his characters. I felt I was like that sometime back and I would like to be like that in future. I truly believe if you want to know the worth of a really happy life, you have to go through sever depression, and bad phases, the phases when you would feel God, why me? and when you would feel, please not again, I have had enough or when you would feel, Oh, is this the end and would I wont ever come to a normal life again? Depression is a great leveler. It tells you why a good, cheerful life is important. How much valued it is.

So all these songs of Shah Rukh took me back to an altogether different era when I was a kid in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya boarding school. Somewhere in between 5th to 10th standard. "Those were the best days of my life." Sometimes when I sit back and take a look at all the events that has happened in my life so far. I find it too eventful. I do not frankly think anybody could have had such an eventful and great childhood than the students of Navodaya Vidyalaya. I so wish I go back to those old days when we were so young, innocent and had a fun filled life. Our life was like the the movie "Rockford" or "Tare zameen pe". Lots of activities, lots of great memories. Lots of fun. I so wish to write a book on that life someday. I really mean it. And all my fellow navodaya students who are spread across different part of India would agree with what I would say. We wre not a rich school, but that school taught us to be independent and what we are today. It changed us in lots of ways. These songs brought back the memories when we used to cuddle together to watch the only TV we had in our hostels hall. All girls and boys. We used to feel so great then. There are many sequences which I can recall as it is like a video playback and they give me immense satisfaction and joy and happiness. They make me feel motivated to have dreams that I carried in my childhood. They make me feel great about myself and give me a feel good factor :) They cheer me up. I often take support of those days when I am depressed, feeling low and need someone. those memories stay as my best friends.

All these songs brought a great smile back on my face. It took my depression and tensions away and made me happy. It gave me a new hope from the bright past to a bright future.


Moral, Life is extremely beautiful if you are surrounded by the right set of people, if you get the right friends, if you have the right ambitions, the right attitude of looking towards it with a positive outlook. So wait for the right things to happen and believe in things will happen for right...I love the old "Shah Rukh " who was a common guy like us and who was a dream merchant for all his great qualities, for his charm to bring a smile on peoples face :P ...I hate the current "Shah Rukh" who I feel has lost that ability. Old is gold :) hehe...




-Mrunal