abu & rabad

it has now become customary for abu to ask me “what’s it about?” every time i watch a film. turns out, dil bole hadippa, is playing on one of the tv channels soon. so, abu – mamma, what’s dil bole hadippa about? me – well rani mukherjee plays a girl who absolutely loves cricket and […Read More…]

abu – accent speaking people * * * this statement of abu’s reminded us of an observation he had made some 2 years ago. a friend of ours was visiting us from the US. she had come with her kids. now her older son is as old as abu. And abu and he were good […Read More…]

abu – which movie did you watch yesterday? me – Kambakkht Ishq abu – how was it? me – BAAADDD! abu – why? me – it didn’t have a story. abu (all tense and worried) – then what will you write? me – i will write about the acting, the jokes, the story – not […Read More…]

our cousin spent the day with us yesterday. she had an interesting conversation with abu-rabad, which i asked her to jot down for your reading pleasure. over to babli, abu-rabad’s 24 year old, buaji (paternal aunt)… * * * Abu was busy writing a story and Rabad was completing her drawing. Suddenly Rabad asked me, […Read More…]

so, i’m in this phase of telling abu and rabad that songs are not just sounds but have actual words that mean things also. pat comes the question… abu – what does ‘taare zameen par‘ mean? me – it actually means “you”…children…aamir khan uncle is saying that all the children in the world are stars […Read More…]

I was telling a group of friends how anurag kashyap hated the dialogues he wrote for Shakalaka Boom Boom and that he wrote a post titled shaka laka fuck fuck at Passion for Cinema. rabad, who i thought was sleeping, asks …”mamma, what did that uncle say?” hubby dear – “Shakalaka boom boom” rabad – […Read More…]