Reason to Smile :)

Reason to Smile: It is movie time for me - Badlapur and Dum Laga Ke Haisha I heard were movies good enough to take a glance. I picked up Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Anirban was willing to join me for the movie and we headed for an evening show on Sunday. The movie revolves around a guy, Prem - who owns a cassette shop in Haridwar. The film is based in the set up of 1995 era where CDs and DVDs were very new. Uneducated, struggling to look for self respect among friends and family; incapable of running his shop, he is forced to get married to an educated but an over weight girl - Sandhya. He clearly shows his disinterest in the marriage visible to all. A skinny lame guy who has no idea what to do in life i now thrown into a relationship assuming the wife will smooth-en things. But it only gets worse. Over time, his non interest develops frustration in her and she decides to walk out of his life. While all this is happening in Prem's life, a competing shop opens up selling music CDs in the...

Reason to Smile : What can be better or best than a 3 day long weekend for anyone ! Holi inspires us to be colourful, eventful and energetic all the year round. Lots of colours, lots of fun, lots of food, sweets with family and friends - thats what Holi is all about and yes it was the same for me too over the long weekend :) A wonderful stay at Courtyard Marriott with family made this weekend happening for all of us at home. Ala Grand Food; Swimming ; Gym ; an over spacious suite to ourselves; we just couldn't get enough of the property :P The Holi special diet got us all over eating for that day. Gujiya; The Live Chat counter; Pav Bhaji; Pastas, Pizzas, Chinese; Continental; Italian; Indian; Lebanese; Mind blowing Salads; Ice creams; Juices; and what not have I hogged on to :P Finally when I thought it was too much I gave in to a plan by Payal to just meet up on a Saturday evening and enjoy some ice cream - Again ;) Sunday was as usual - musical and sweet that I get invi...

Reason to Smile: Some of us decided to 'catch the flavor' with the food festival that was aired as an event this weekend in Mumbai. Nehru Center was the venue. Aditya and Pooja reached there early to see if it was even worth it. Me and Payal were about to get excited for the fest that we were informed by our 'investigators' that we better not waste any time there and move out to enjoy the weekend at some better place ;) So that's how it all began. I was invited by Intercontinental, The Lalit through my sister for a gala lunch buffet and right from chinese to lebanese, pasta, pizza, indian, mexican, italian, thai, continental, salads, rice, gujarati food, ice creams, kulfi, cakes, chocolates moose, we have had it all during the weekend .. Phew ! :) If there was anything left out on my mind, we went to Metro Pizza for a fine dine after the disappointment at the food fest ! ;) We hogged over a meter long pizza with all choices of veg pizzas on the platter litera...