Monday, June 23, 2014

My Father's Interest in Movies??!!

Strangely, I can find him in Sanjeev Kumar's face, Jaya Bachan's tender expressions in Parichay...........I can see him swaying to the music of Cheliya cheliya (gharshana) and Tilaana tilaana (mutthu).............I can see him throwing the towel and trying to pick it up as Arjun does in Mudinepalli madichelo..........I can witness him appreciating all the dancers standing behind the hero while watching a song and dance sequence.........I can visualize him in every comment of SPB on Paadutaa Teeyagaa........I remember his prediction about SRK becoming a superstar after watching 'Darr' for few minutes...........I can still find him relaxing with 'Manchaahe Geet' or Hits of Mukesh playing on his transistor...........I can keep on describing the little things related to movies, which remind him numerous times daily. There is never a show on TV or a movie that does not bring my father to my mind............

(But for all this, he was never a movie buff.......he hated watching stupid movies and never stuck to TV for long hours. The movies he watched throughout his lifetime were just a handful................his only motive was to appreciate the uniqueness of these things)

Once they cease to exist physically, people live in our memories. The impressions that they leave with us are eternal!!

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Thoughtful Greetings

Kids' li'l ways of welcoming their dad back home....the cards need some explanation....this handsome Allen Solly guy on the first page is imagined to be his father in the new goggles, by Kaka....the structure on the other page is 'our home' by Prithvi and that in the right most page is the apartment complex, the individual rectangles being the doors and windows.....since his father is arriving at the wee hours when everyone is asleep and the gates are locked, he wants his dad to climb the ladder(drawn in the pic) and enter the house!!!! He wants Phani to play tic-tac-toe with him after coming home, which is drawn on the middle page. Finally, Prithvi tried his hand at quilling the paper ribbon to write the first letter of his father's name, which also happens to be his as well (after few minutes, he stuck all the fevicol to his fingers, grew busy peeling it and forgot to do the rest)!!!!.
 

 
When they explained all this to me, it was too much info for me to process....