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I sleep like a baby and smile...warm smiles...they keep surfacing like the gentle waves on the ocean bed...wiping away the old sand as it brings it back again to the shore....

Is it the warm touch my mom put me to sleep with or papa's tender voice....smiles

That old old crush who seems so stupid now ages later when I meet him ....smiles...

My first stage performance where I did my own steps in a group dance ...smiles...

That day i walked up to my prof and screamed he was wrong....and today I know I was all wrong....and remember the way he subsided his giggles...smiles...

All those days when I lied to my parents and spent my time on rehearsals...smiles..

Those moments when the other person thought me to be stupid and tried to impress me while I dissected her/him cleanly ....smiles...

When I give a naughty smile in a serious discussion (was remembering a joke)and suddenly the speaker forgot his/her lines...smiles...

Jeez I have the most important meeting of my life tomorrow...I'm supposed to night out ...Bloody...**** some one kick me out of my comforter!!!

Dil Chahta Hai

The winds are splitting my hair as they touch my cheeks. I'm looking outside from the Hyundai Santro I'm in,and enjoying the privilige of a pillion rider. There is Dil Chahta Hai(DCH) playing in the background.

As every song plays, it sprays across my eyes a million thoughts and memories. I am yet to think of a movie so thoroughly refreshing as DCH.The first time I watched the movie, that was about 4-5 years ago, I kept wondering what the title of the movie had to do with the story. Ofcourse I have watched the movie whenever I could,a dozen times or over. Everything about the movie : be it the dialogue,background score or even the backdrop say,is thoroughly etched along the aisles of my mind.

I know its too late to write a review for this movie...but some things get fresher and fresher as you revisit them. This movie is one such and I can surely claim it. The base of the movie spans so many aspects of life that almost anyone and everyone can relate to it.

Akash,Sameer and Sidh...well, I could choose to be any of them in real life. Akash for his keen sense of sarcasm,humour and carefree nature. Sameer for being so confused in life that he got his friends to care for him hopelessly and Sidh ofcourse, for the way he let his heart rule his mind...

Preity,Sonali and Dimple neither over/underplayed their characters, which kept the focus of the movie on the main track.

Every song was suitably introduced and the locations and sets were absolutely appropriate. Shades of blue dominated .Who can forget the awesome lyrics by Javed Akthar. I think he is at his pristine best in Tanhayee...'Ab tootey khwabon key sheeshey chubthey hain in aankhon main'......I'd die or kill for that statement

Well,I now can somewhat see why its called Dil Chahta Hai and people fondly rem'r it to be so. The movie makes you look at what your heart desires. Be it as a boy/girl ,a man/woman or father/mother...and the so-called unnamed slots on the peg board of life...the desires of the heart have been pictured as clearly as the theme of the movie could..

Sitting on a broken wall, staring into the ocean ahead , three friends share an unspoken bondage of their minds, hearts, bodies ...and probably a lifetime. May be thats what Dil Chahta Hai is all about and ....I still keep wondering and wandering

Trickling down my cheeks

I feel thes droplets trickling down my cheeks..

....I see them on my palm and smile..

And I think awhile...

Is it passion or pain?

For all the feelings I sustain...

I save them in my heart...nearly

They are mine and mine alone,so very dearly..

Happy or sad , I dont care

Its life...Oh dear life..I 'm aware ...

I feel thes droplets trickling down my cheeks..