After a series of fights with Mohit and some words of advise for the book my show search engine for tickets for 3 Idiots, it was a friend who came to the rescue and got us tickets. With high hopes and time in hand, we reached the theater only to be told the show was running late by 45 mins. Not enough to dampen the spirits but still we roamed around bored in the halls of Satyam Cineplex.
The movie started late as mentioned earlier and the first one hour drifted off. With predictable, slap stick comedy and a few laughs later came the much awaited 'Aaall izz well' from Aamir Khan. There was something in the mannerism and the patting of his hand on his chest that 'gave me some sunshine'. He kept at it for the whole movie and we came back smiling.
While the movie was good and cheerful, motivating me to forget 2009, it also got in me an exuberance for the year ahead. I saw myself doing an 'A La Aamir' when my mother and cousin discussed the cruel implications of the eclipse on the New Years night. We all broke into a laugh on that note. It was something that came naturally from me at the spur of the moment and was not at all pseudo. The way Khan had said that line looked so nice to copy and spread to the world.
Too stocky a Phrase, but 'aaall izz welll' does sum up the faith of a thorough optimist towards the pains of life. Maybe we all need to induct it in our lives too. I took this spirit to our smallish New Years Eve Party(?) at a friends house. Well, just a dinner was a better term for the group of 10 people. But by the time the Tequila bottle was finished, the group seemed to make some noises louder than the iPod did and fitting enough for two dozen people. While the food lay bored on the three brand new tables of the hosts, the vodkas and the bacardis made their way inside our stomachs. The Chivas even made its way into a full kitchen roll and the boys repented wasting almost 60 ml of it.
A fun night to mark the ending of a funny year. I cannot stoop so low to call it the worst year of my life, my husband isn't going to appreciate my talking of another year spent with him like that. But it isn't the star in my list of 29. Some brand new beginnings were marked in the past year, while there were also some crappy endings. But after some smiles and tears, I've learnt a lot last year and plan to be happier during this one.
Hopefully Aamir's truism with the 3 words is going to be take me through it all.
See him chime right now
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