NTLM Authentication and Firefox

If you are a Firefox user who is tired of entering the Windows password again and again for your intranet sites, then this is a must read.

I set both the keys required - I don't know if only 1 is sufficient. But it works!!

Link: Patrick Cauldwell's Blog - Firefox and Sharepoint

Got this great joke in my mailbox ...

A to Z of being Punjabi.

A is for Adjust. Punjabis will always ask you to adjust whenever they want to push you around.

B is for Backside, and it has nothing to do with your bum, it is an instruction to go to the rear of a building, or block, or shop or whatever.

C is for Cloney and its not a process for replicating sheep, nor is its first name George. It is merely an area where people live e.g. ... "Dfence Cloney".

D is for Dilliwallas that live in Dfence Cloney

E is for Expanditure. Punjabis are never shy of spending money ¡V the latest cars, gadgets, marble floors: their ambitions are always expanding.

F is for Fackade, and even though it sounds like a bad word it is actually just the front of a building (with backside being the back, of course).

G is for Gaddi, and the way a Punjabi can pilot his gaddi puts any F1 driver to shame. (If the Grand Prix does come to Delhi there's no way Hamilton, Alonso or Kimi can overtake Balvinder, Jasvinder or Sukhvinder.)

H is for Ho Jayega Ji, and the moment you hear that you have to be careful because you can be reasonably sure it's not going to happen.

I is for Intezaar, and to know more about it see P.

J is for Jindagi, and if there's one person who knows how to live life to the fullest it's a Punjabi.

K is for Khanna, Khurana, etc, the Punjabi equivalent of the Joneses (e.g."Keeping up with the Khuranas")

L is for Lovely, but unfortunately she almost never is. Nor is Sweety. She is usually married with kids.

M is for Mrooti, the car that an entire generation of Punjabis were in love with.

N is for No Problem Ji. To find out how that works see H.

O is for Oye, which can be surprise (Oyye!), a greeting (Oyy!), anger (OYY!) or pain (Oy oy oy...).

P is for Panch Minit, and no matter how near (1 km) or far (100 km) a Punjabi is from you he always says he'll reach you in panch minit.

Q is for Queue, a word completely untranslateable into Punjabi.

R is for Riks, and a Punjabi is always prepared to take one, even if the odds are against him.

S is for Sweetie, Bunty, Pappu and Sonu, who seem to own half the cars in Delhi.

T is for the official bird of Punjab: Tandoori chicken.

U is for when you lose your sex appeal and become "Uncle-ji"

V is for VIP phone numbers @ Rs 15 lakh and counting.

W is for Whan, as in "Whan are you coming, ji?"

X is for the many X-rated words that flow freely in all Punjabi conversations.

Y is for "You nonsense", when anger replaces vocabulary in a shouting match.

Z is for Zigzag. (Please refer to G, M and P)

This was sent to me by a Sardarji friend of mine.

Moral of the story:

Unlike most other communities who take instant offence, they can have a hearty laugh at themselves.

Cheers to that!!

Reverse AJAX : Comet

Reverse AJAX : Comet

Comet is basically Reverse Ajax --> for streaming data from the server using a server-side push mechanism.
Needs server side support as well. But a good idea nevertheless ...

Link:
Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser

Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance on the Back of Five Business Cards

Very nice article. Simply written but very useful.

Link: Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance ...

[Original]: Review of Manorama - Six Feet Under

[Original]: Review of Manorama - Six Feet Under

Summary: Slow movie, but liked it.
Cast : Abhay Deol, Raima Sen, Gul Panag, Sarika, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Director: Navdeep Singh


Satyaveer or SV (Abhay Deol) is a government engineer leading a drab and dreary existence in a small town in Rajasthan. He has a nagging wife (Gul Panag) who is frustrated by his lack
of success. Abhay's real passion is writing detective fiction. He writes a novel called Manorama that flops badly.

A mysterious lady (Sarika) with the same name as the novel comes into his life. She asks him to spy on her husband, a local and powerful politician (Kulbhushan Kharbanda). From
then on his life gets caught into a maze of mysteries - big and small.

Sarika gets murdered. Then it turns out that Sarika is not the politician's wife. The politician has an illegitimate daughter who is demanding that he recognize her. She and her boyfriend (the politician's personal doctor) are brutally murdered. Abhay is threatened by a couple of goons working for Kulbhushan for some photographs.
A cop (Vinay Pathak) who is Abhay's brother-in-law, is his only source of help, and even he can't do much as the politician is powerful.


Raima Sen is the murdered daughter's room mate. She and Abhay are subject to many twists and turns as the story unfolds.

The obvious questions -
1. Who was Sarika? Why was she murdered?
2. What is the link between the murders of Sarika and that of the illegitimate daughter?
3. What is in the photos?


The suspense is good but not outstanding - all questions are reasonably guessable while watching the movie. But what I liked was the simplicity and realism of the movie. Right down to Abhay's unpolished shoes, there has been a conscious effort to make sure everything is as real as possible. The dry and arid desert was used as a very good metaphor for Abhay's dull
existence.

The film pays attention to the relationships between Abhay and different characters - Gul, Raima and Vinay. No songs. It is more like an art film than the usual fare.


Performances:
Vinay Pathak has some of the best lines, but still has too small a role to make a big impact. Raima Sen is good.
Gul Panag did the nagging act well.
Kulbhushan - as good as ever.
Sarika - competent (but again has a pretty small role).

Abhay Deol is the main character and he does justice to the role. I had not liked him in some of
his earlier performances, but now he has moved to the +ve side for me.



Negative points:
1. Slow pace.
2. Gaps in writing as far as scenes or continuity is concerned.


Overall, worth a watch.

Windows: Your computer may randomly play Classical Music

Microsoft does its very best to entertain you as well as improve your "class".
Classical music on your PC:

Microsoft Link: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

Beware of Garbage Trucks!™

Very nice article.
From this link : " Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of ...

Beware of Garbage Trucks

By David J. Pollay

How often do you let other people's nonsense
change your mood?

Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter,
curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you're the
Terminator, for an instant you're probably set back on your heels.
However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their
focus on what's important.

Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I
learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened.

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for
Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden,
a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver
slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just
inches!

The driver of the other car, the guy who
almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad
words at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was
friendly. So, I said, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car
and sent us to the hospital!"

And this is when
my taxi driver told me what I now
call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

"Many people are like garbage trucks.
They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of
disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And
if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take it
personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You'll be
happy you did."

So this was it: The "Law of the Garbage
Truck." I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me?
And how
often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home,
on the streets? It was that day I said, "I'm not going to do it
anymore."

I began to see garbage trucks. Like in the
movie "The Sixth Sense," the little boy said, "I see Dead People." Well, now "I
see Garbage Trucks." I see the load they're carrying. I see them coming to drop
it off. And like my Taxi Driver, I don't make it a personal thing; I just smile,
wave, wish them well, and I move on.

One of my favorite football players of all
time, Walter Payton, did this every day on the football field. He would jump up
as quickly as he hit the ground after being tackled. He never dwelled on a hit.
Payton was ready to make the next play his best.
Good leaders know they have to be
ready for their next meeting.

Good parents know that they have to
welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses. Leaders and
parents know that they have to be fully present, and at their best for the
people they care about.

The bottom line is that successful people do
not let Garbage Trucks take over their day.

What about you? What would happen in your
life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?

Here's my bet. You'll be happier.

Life's too short to wake up in the morning
with regrets. Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who
don't. Believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance ,
TAKE IT! If it changes your life , LET IT!

Nobody said it would be easy… they just
promised it would be worth it!

____

I have sometimes wasted my mental CPU
cycles, trying to analyze my interaction with some people who were simply
unloading their garbage.

Of course, like other inspiring thoughts, it
needs to be applied judiciously. This is not a prescription to ignore feedback
from others when we don't like it. Or to be insensitive to another's plight.
Just to move on and spend energy on the next step forward.

[Original]: Review of Saawariya

[Original]: Review of Saawariya

It is now too late to save many people (including myself), but here's my review of Saawariya.

1. The title should have been SaBOREiya.

The movie is amazingly boring. At no point of time did I feel interested in what was going on.
The predominant thought that I during the movie had was regarding the money we wasted on tickets.



2. The main characters are a demented couple.
Neither of them has much logic to offer. Now love is beyond logic and all that, but still one is supposed to have some logic at all times.
Ranbir Kapoor has a "boxing your way out of grief" theory. Sonam Kapoor breaks into demented laughter from time to time. She has fallen in love with Salman – absolutely no reason given other than the fact that he stayed at her home. Instant coffee, and now Instant Love!! Show up at a girl’s doorstep during rain, grimace and stare at her, and win her heart!!

Both of the actors (Ranbir and Sonam) seem to be decent in acting. But the script and the dialogues that are given to them are so pathetic that they can't do anything. If both of these folks want to make a mark in the Indian Film Industry, I suggest they stay as far away from Sanjay Leela Bhansali as possible.



3. The side characters try to save the movie, but fail.
Zohra Sehgal (good as always) and even Rani Mukherjee have their good moments and provide some relief.
But since they are not the main characters of the film, they can't do much. What could anyone do about this turkey?

Salman Khan has a tiny role where he shows a grim face (perhaps because he guessed the fate of the movie during shooting itself), and says some weird dialogues like "Main mulk ka (secret) kaam karta hoon". Since the entire movie set is a fantasy land, I guess his country and work are also equally imaginary.


4. The sets, lighting and casting are weird/pathetic/psycho.
The whole set is pale blue. The women (a city of at least 60% prostitutes) wear various shades of blue. I think they got a group discount on blue clothing.

Almost all shots are at night in dim lighting. By the time the movie finishes, your mood has turned blue also.

The fantasy city is partly Venice, partly old city look and wholly weird.

The streets have designer potholes where Sonam and Ranbir can jump stylishly and then do "grief boxing".

There are approximately 7 males in the entire city, counting Ranbir and Salman (who is a visitor anyway).

Rain pours like a tap and shuts like a tap being closed, hence proving that it was filmy rain coming out of a tap anyway.



5. Sanjay Leela Bhansali thoroughly disappoints.
You find it hard to believe that this is the man who gave us a great movie like Black, and a very nice love story like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.

I think throughout the shooting of the film, he was stoned/drugged. Which is the only reason that one can think of regarding the final output.
This would also explain the sets, lighting and casting.




P.S. The story of the movie is:
Ranbir meets Sonam and falls in love with her. But Sonam is waiting for Salman. Who will get the girl in the end?

Answer: Well before the movie ends, the public says "Either Salman or Ranbir can get Sonam, we don't mind - but please end this movie (and our suffering) quickly!!



More P.S.:
Somebody should have boxed Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ears (and other body parts) for making this movie. There is no way you can "grief box" your way out of this one.

Java: String class leaks memory

Java is also capable of inadvertent memory leaks.

Link: Xebia Blog

Rules for Hotel C Park Inn, Delhi, India

Rules for Hotel C Park Inn, Delhi, India

See the highlighted one ….

Misbah jokes (Twenty20 cricket final)

Got these on email ....

Knock Knock !!

Who’s there?

Misbah.

Misbah who?

Mis bah 5 runs!!

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Misbah’s mistake:

Misbah thought he was hitting where there was no one. He didnt know that
there is a Malayali in every corner of the world!

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Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?

Very nice article. Go read it.

Link:

Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking? | Copyblogger

Joke: The Atheist

An atheist was taking a walk through the woods "What majestic trees!
What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. As he
continued walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes.
Turning to look, he saw a 7 foot grizzly charging towards him.

He ran as fast as he could up the path. Looking over his shoulder he saw
that the bear was closing in on him. His heart was pumping frantically
and he tried to run even faster.

He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but
saw the bear raising his paw to take a swipe at him. At that instant the
atheist cried out: " Oh my God..."

Time stopped.

The bear froze.

The forest was silent.

It was then that a bright light shone down upon the man and a voice came
out of the sky saying: "You deny my existence for all of these years,
teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic
accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to
count you as a believer?"

The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of
me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps,
could you make the bear a Christian?"

"Very well," said the voice.

The light went out.

And the sounds of the forest resumed.

Then the bear lowered his paw, bowed his head and spoke:
"Lord, bless this food which I am about to receive and for which I am truly thankful.
Amen."

A guy walks into a bar ...

The longest list of bar jokes that I got in an email ...


No one knows when the first joke beginning with the
six words "A guy walks
into a bar . . ." was told, or how it went.
Nevertheless, an entire genre of
jokes has been created revolving around that opening
scenario. Here's a
sampling of some of the variants that have sprung
up, many now involving
animals or inanimate objects:


A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under
his arm and says, "A
beer please, and one for the road."


An amnesiac walks into a bar and asks the bartender,
"Do I come here often?"


A guy with dyslexia walks into a bra.


A young Texan walks into a bar and orders a drink.
"Got any ID?" asks the
bartender. The Texan replies, "About what?"


A pair of battery jumper cables walk into a bar. The
bartender says, "You
can come in here, but you better not start
anything!"


A Latin scholar walks into a bar and says, "I'll
have a martinus." The
bartender asks him. "Don't you mean martini?" The
man tells the bartender,
"Listen, if I wanted two or more drinks I would have
asked for them."


A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "So,
why the long face?" A
variant on this joke during the 2004 presidential
campaign substituted John
Kerry for the horse, but the punch line remains the
same.


A penguin walks into a bar and asks the bartender,
"Has my father been in
here?" The bartender says, "I don't know. What does
he look like?"


A brain goes into a bar and says to the bartender,
"I'll have a beer,
please." The bartender says, "Sorry, I can't serve
you. You're out of your
head."


A little pig goes into a bar and orders ten drinks.
He finishes them and the
bartender says, "Don't you want to know where the
toilet is?" The pig says,
"No, thanks, I go wee-wee-wee all the way home."



René Descartes is in a bar at closing time. The
bartender asks him if he'd
like another drink. Descartes says, "I think not,"
and he disappears.


A bear walks into a bar and says, "I'd like a beer
and . . . . a packet of
peanuts. The barman says, why the big pause?"



A kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a beer. The
bartender says, "That'll
be $10. You know, we don't get many kangaroos coming
in here." The kangaroo
says, "At $10 a beer, it's not hard to understand."


A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bar
tender here?"



A cheeseburger walks into a bar, and the bartender
says, "Sorry, we don't
serve food in here."


A dog with his foot wrapped in a bloody bandage
hobbles into a Western
saloon. He sidles up to the bar and announces: "I'm
lookin' fer the man that
shot my paw."


A baby seal walks into a bar. "What can I get you?"
asks the bartender.
"Anything but a Canadian Club," replies the seal.


A grasshopper hops into a bar. The bartender says,
"You're quite a celebrity
around here. We've even got a drink named after
you." The grasshopper says,
"You've got a drink named Steve?"


A goldfish flops into a bar and looks at the
bartender. The bartender asks,
"What can I get you?" The goldfish says, "Water."



A guy walks into a bar and sits down next to a lady
and a dog. The man asks,
"Does your dog bite?" The lady answers, "Never!" The
man reaches out to pet
the dog, and the dog bites his hand. The man says,
"I thought you said your
dog doesn't bite!" The woman replies, "He doesn't.
That's not my dog."


A guy walks into a bar. A horse behind the bar
serving drinks. The guy is
just staring at the horse, when the horse says,
"What are you staring at?
Haven't you ever seen a horse serving drinks
before?" The guy says,
"Honestly, no. I never thought the parrot would sell
the place."


A skeleton walks into a bar. The bartender asks,
"What'll you have?" The
skeleton says, "Give me a beer, and a mop."


A polar bear, a giraffe and a penguin walk into a
bar. The bartender says,
"What is this, some kind of joke?"


A guy walks into a bar in Cork, in Ireland, and asks
the barman: "What's the
quickest way to get to Dublin?" "Are you walking or
driving?" asks the
barman. "Driving," says a man. "That's the quickest
way," says the barman.


A fellow walks into a pub near Buckingham Palace in
London, sits down, and
says, "Give me a beer. I've had a rough day at
work." And the bartender
says, "Oh? What do you do?" The guy says, "I take
care of the corgis--you
know, the dogs the royal family owns." The bartender
asks, "Tough job, huh?
The guy says, "Yeah. All that inbreeding has led to
low intelligence and bad
temperaments. And the dogs aren't too smart,
either."



A man goes into a bar and says, "Give me a drink
before the trouble starts."
And the bartender pours him a drink. He drinks it
and says, "Give me another
drink before the trouble starts." He downs that one
and says quotation mark,
give me another drink before the trouble starts."
Finally, the bartender
asks, "Just when is this trouble going to start?"
The man says, "The trouble
starts just as soon as I tell you that I don't have
any money."



A tourist goes into a bar where a dog is sitting in
a chair playing poker.
He asks, "Is that dog there really playing poker?"
And the bartender says,
"Yeah, but he's not too smart. Whenever he has a
good hand, he starts
wagging his tail."



This cowboy walks into a bar and orders a beer. His
hat is made of brown
wrapping paper. And so are his shirt, vest, chaps,
pants, and boots. His
spurs are also made of paper. Pretty soon, the
sheriff arrives and arrests
him for rustling.


A guy goes into a bar, orders four shots of the most
expensive 30-year-old
single malt Scotch whisky and downs them one after
the other. The bartender
says, "You seem to be in a great hurry." The guy
says, "You would be too if
you had what I have." The bartender asks, "What have
you got? "Fifty cents,"
is the reply.



A Northerner walks into a bar in the Deep South
around Christmas time. A
small nativity scene is behind the bar, and the guy
says, "That's a nice
nativity scene. But how come the three wise men are
all wearing firemen's
hats?" And the bartender says, "Well, it says right
there in the Bible--the
three wise men came from afar."



A man walked into a bar, sat down, and ordered a
beer. As he sipped the
beer, he heard a voice say, "Nice tie." Looking
around, he saw that the bar
was empty except for him and the bartender. A few
sips later, another voice
said, "Beautiful shirt." At this, the man calls the
bartender over. "Say, I
must be losing my mind," he tells him. "I keep
hearing these voices say nice
things, and there is not a soul in here but us."
"It's the peanuts,"
explains the bartender, indicating a dish on the
bar. "The peanuts?" "That's
right, the peanuts--they' re complementary. "


A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. He says, "A
beer for me and one for
my giraffe." And they stand around drinking for
hours until the giraffe
passes out on the floor. The man pays the tab and
gets up to leave. The
bartender says, "Hey! You're not going to leave that
lyin' on the floor, are
you?" The man says, "That's not a lion, it's a
giraffe."



A guy walks into a bar with a German shepherd dog.
The bartender says, "Hey
buddy, can't you read that sign? It says no dogs
allowed! Get that mutt out
of here!" The man replies, "No, I can't read the
sign--I'm blind, and this
is my Seeing Eye dog." The bartender is embarrassed
and gives the man a beer
on the house. Later that day, the man tells his
friend about it: "I told him
I was blind, and I got a free beer!" The friend then
takes his dog into the
bar and sits down. The bartender says, "The sign
says no dogs allowed!
You'll have to leave!" The friend says, "Sorry, I
can't see the sign because
I'm blind, and this is my Seeing Eye dog." The
bartender replies, "Since
when do they give out Chihuahuas as Seeing Eye
dogs?" The man says, "They
gave me a Chihuahua?"



A blind man walks into a bar, grabs his dog by its
hind legs and swings him
around in a circle. The bartender says, "Hey, buddy,
what are you doing?"
And the blind man says, "Don't mind me. I'm just
looking around."



A man walks into a bar looking sad, and the
bartender asks him, "What's the
matter?" The man says, "My wife and I had a fight,
and she told me she
wasn't going to speak to me for a month. The month
is up today."



This guy walks into a bar and orders a drink. He
looks in his pocket and
orders another drink, looks in his pocket and orders
still another drink.
His curiosity aroused, the bartender asks, "What are
you doing? What's in
your pocket?" And the guy says, "It's a picture of
my wife. When she starts
looking good to me, I know it's time to go home."

Toilet Instructions

Toilet Instructions

Instructions inside a toilet in a company in India. That should give you an indication that many folks in India are unaware of how to use western toilets :-).

If the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon disappears in Windows ...

Don't panic. Run this command (Start --> Run ):

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll


Original Article: Safely Remove Hardware: ... Ask Leo!

Lyrics of Chadhta Sooraj

If you know this qawwali, then there is no need for any explanation.
If you don't know this qawwali, then there is no need for any explanation either :-).



Chadhta Sooraj by Aziz Nazan


hue naamavar ... benishaa.n kaise kaise ...
zamii.n khaa gayii ... naujavaan kaise kaise ...

aaj javaanii par itaraanevaale kal pachhataayegaa - 3
cha.Dhataa sUraj dhiire dhiire Dhalataa hai Dhal jaayegaa - 2
Dhal jaayegaa Dhal jaayegaa - 2

tU yahaa.n musaafir hai ye saraaye faanii hai
chaar roj kii mehamaa.n terii zindagaanii hai
zar zamii.n zar zevar kuchh naa saath jaayegaa
khaalii haath aayaa hai khaalii haath jaayegaa
jaanakar bhii anjaanaa ban rahaa hai diivaane
apanii umr e faanii par tan rahaa hai diivaane
kis kadar tU khoyaa hai is jahaan ke mele me
tu khudaa ko bhuulaa hai pha.nsake is jhamele me
aaj tak ye dekhaa hai paanevaale khotaa hai
zindagii ko jo samajhaa zindagii pe rotaa hai
miTanevaalii duniyaa kaa aitabaar karataa hai
kyaa samajh ke tuu aakhir ise pyaar karataa hai
apanii apanii fikro.n me.n
jo bhii hai vo ulajhaa hai - 2
zindagii haqiikat me.n
kyaa hai kaun samajhaa hai - 2
aaj samajhale ...
aaj samajhale kal ye maukaa haath n tere aayegaa
o gafalat kii nii.nd me.n sonevaale dhokhaa khaayegaa
cha.Dhataa sUraj dhiire dhiire Dhalataa hai Dhal jaayegaa - 2
Dhal jaayegaa Dhal jaayegaa - 2

maut ne zamaane ko ye samaa dikhaa Daalaa
kaise kaise rustam ko khaak me.n milaa Daalaa
yaad rakh sikandar ke hausale to aalii the
jab gayaa thaa duniyaa se dono haath khaalii the
ab naa vo halaakU hai aur naa usake saathii hai.n
ja.ng jo na koras hai aur na usake haathii hai.n
kal jo tanake chalate the apanii shaan-o-shaukat par
shamaa tak nahii jalatii aaj unakii qurabat par
adanaa ho yaa aalaa ho
sabako lauT jaanaa hai - 2
mufhiliso.n kaa andhar kaa
kabr hii Thikaanaa hai - 2
jaisii karanii ...
jaisii karanii vaisii bharanii aaj kiyaa kal paayegaa
sarako uThaakar chalanevaale ek din Thokar khaayegaa
cha.Dhataa sUraj dhiire dhiire Dhalataa hai Dhal jaayegaa - 2
Dhal jaayegaa Dhal jaayegaa - 2

maut sabako aanii hai kaun isase chhuuTaa hai
tU fanaa nahii hogaa ye khayaal jhuuThaa hai
saa.Ns TUTate hii sab rishte TuuT jaaye.nge
baap maa.N bahan biivii bachche chhuuT jaaye.nge
tere jitane hai.n bhaaI vaqatakaa chalan de.nge
chhiinakar terii daulat dohii gaz kafan de.nge
jinako apanaa kahataa hai sab ye tere saathii hai.n
kabr hai terii ma.nzil aur ye baraatii hai.n
laa ke kabr me.n tujhako muradaa bak Daale.nge
apane haatho.nse tere mu.Nh pe khaak Daale.nge
terii saarii ulfat ko khaak me.n milaa de.nge
tere chaahanevaale kal tujhe bhulaa de.nge
is liye ye kahataa huu.n khuub sochale dil me.n
kyuu.N pha.nsaaye baiThaa hai jaan apanii mushkil me.n
kar gunaaho.npe taubaa
aake bas sambhal jaaye.n - 2
dam kaa kyaa bharosaa hai
jaane kab nikal jaaye - 2
muTThii baa.Ndhake aanevaale ...
muTThii baa.Ndhake aanevaale haath pasaare jaayegaa
dhan daulat jaagiir se tuune kyaa paayaa kyaa paayegaa
cha.Dhataa sUraj dhiire dhiire Dhalataa hai Dhal jaayegaa – 4

[Original]: Article on Himesh Reshammiya

An original article written by yours truly (Amit Shirodkar).

Himesh Reshammiya

TanaHAIyaa!! TanaHAIyaa!! TanaHAIyaa …

These sounds from a passing car assault my ears.. I escape to a coffee shop. “O O OOOO --- Tera mera tera SurOOOOOrr!! OOOOOOOO…” is what they are playing proudly. I go home. Switch on the radio. “Naam hai tera tera – Naam hai TERA TERA!!”. Radio off. TV on. “Jhalak dikhlaja!! Ek baar aa ja aa ja aa ja AAAA JAAA!!”

There is no escape!! He’s everywhere!!

Thoughts swirl in my mind. Is there any place where “Himesh bhai” is not present? Apparently not. A TV set shows him, with the ubiquitous cap perched firmly on his head, his face snarled as if he just drank some castor oil, crooning away. Why does this guy never smile, anyway? I ask a friend (he is a fan of ‘The Cap’ ). “Because his brother died when he was just 11”, replies my buddy. Really? Has Himesh been this obnoxious for so many years now? His parents deserve a gold medal for patience then!! I would recommend them for a medal of valor - a Veer Chakra at least.

A Google search for "Himesh Reshammiya" results in 413,000 hits. Half a million!! Has the whole world gone stark raving mad? "Mohammed Rafi" returns 140,000. Where is the justice? People prefer songs sung by a guy who seems as if he has no mouth and instead has directly connected his vocal chords to his nostrils to those sung by the one and only Rafi?

It all started off so well. Himesh bhai was just giving music – and good music, may I add. The movie was “Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya”. Nice melodious songs. Pleasing to the ear. Many movies followed. Tere Naam was one such gem. It seemed as if ‘The Cap’ would give many hits. I was happy back then.

And then it happened. “Aashiq Banaya Aapne” was the movie. The title song was sung by Himesh Bhai. At first I said, let’s ignore the nasal sounds – it’s just a one-time thing. It will soon pass …

But no. This was just the calm before the storm. Before you knew it, ‘The Cap’ had gone off and blasted more songs that you could count. And best (or worst) of all – people were loving it!! They could not get enough of him. Hit after hit after hit followed.

As if the sounds were not enough, the eyes were being assaulted too. Cap-filled videos were sprouting all over the place like weeds. And just like weeds, they were very hard to get rid of. (They still exist). So now 2 out of my 5 senses were under a barrage of crappy (I mean cappy) songs.

Just when you thought that the end had come, came another chapter. Himesh bhai acted in a movie.The promos made you feel as if for once, the villain should win!! But alas, that never happens. And so AKS (Aap Ka Suroor) was about to be released. I thought that it would be a flop and so at least this avenue would end in a whimper. Things would go back to normal.

Wrong. Dead wrong. The movie is a hit!! People love him even in this avatar!! Looks like I am one of the few sane ones left on this planet. Stop this world, people, and let me get off!!

I suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Thus spake Hamlet, and exactly that is what I feel. What is to be done? What can be done???

Radio on.

TanaHAIyaa!!

I will not react.

TanaHAIyaa!!

I will not respond.

TanaHAIyaa …

Breaking news – there will be a sequel to Aap Ka Suroor.

Billions of blue blistering barnacles!!! Tana%@#$ HAI !#@ yaa %^$% !!!

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