And now, some SRK.
Oct. 26th, 2008 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whathoThe parents are away this weekend, so I've had a sort of trial run at the grandpa-minding business. Well ... I got him to fax me his shopping list, then I got his shopping, then I found I wanted to sit down for five minutes a lot more than I wanted to leave the house again and there wasn't room in the fridge to stow his stuff so I took my brother up on his offer to convey the shopping to the grandpa. So minor fail there on the truly crucial element. It was fine anyway. Then about an hour ago he sent the obligatory disturbingly nonsensical fax and I fought to contain a cold sweat. Seems to be an evening thing ... possibly something to do with his medication 'cause he's essentially properly coherent the rest of the time. At any rate, I don't much like it. Mostly I need to remember that the three-week minding stint is set for next June and I can't be doing with panicking over it for the next seven months. I have a tremendous headache. It's not even NSAID season.
Otherwise I made an apple and blackberry fool. Go me.
I watched a scene from Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham the other night. It's a film with Shah Rukh Khan in, and Amitabh Bachchan, and Kajol. It's quite special. It makes me think massively of a play by Shakespeare, but I can't recall which one. Most of them make me think massively of a play by Shakespeare. I didn't watch the whole thing because it goes on for about three and a half hours - I just watched the reconciliation scene at the end. Amitabh Bachchan has chucked SRK (his son) out of his absurdly palacial family home for marrying an inappropriate woman or something, and then about ten years later SRK comes back. And then his father, crying with shame and guilt and all that, tells him off for not PSYCHICALLY KNOWING he'd been forgiven and coming home sooner. He hits him very gently in the face several times. It's pretty much the best thing I've ever seen. SRK protests blubberingly that his father had never got in touch to ask him to come home, and his father says THAT'S NOT THE POINT, YOU SHOULD'VE COME ANYWAY. And that goes on for about five minutes till the father changes his tune and apologises for not calling him back and SRK has gone in entirely the opposite direction and wails that he shouldn't have had to call him back, and that's the power of Amitabh Bachchan hitting you gently in the face. I love Mumbai.
Otherwise I made an apple and blackberry fool. Go me.
I watched a scene from Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham the other night. It's a film with Shah Rukh Khan in, and Amitabh Bachchan, and Kajol. It's quite special. It makes me think massively of a play by Shakespeare, but I can't recall which one. Most of them make me think massively of a play by Shakespeare. I didn't watch the whole thing because it goes on for about three and a half hours - I just watched the reconciliation scene at the end. Amitabh Bachchan has chucked SRK (his son) out of his absurdly palacial family home for marrying an inappropriate woman or something, and then about ten years later SRK comes back. And then his father, crying with shame and guilt and all that, tells him off for not PSYCHICALLY KNOWING he'd been forgiven and coming home sooner. He hits him very gently in the face several times. It's pretty much the best thing I've ever seen. SRK protests blubberingly that his father had never got in touch to ask him to come home, and his father says THAT'S NOT THE POINT, YOU SHOULD'VE COME ANYWAY. And that goes on for about five minutes till the father changes his tune and apologises for not calling him back and SRK has gone in entirely the opposite direction and wails that he shouldn't have had to call him back, and that's the power of Amitabh Bachchan hitting you gently in the face. I love Mumbai.
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Date: 2008-10-26 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-26 09:45 pm (UTC)(Except that this week Dean from Supernatural played his leg like an air guitar and that was a VERY KIND thing for film to do as well.)
I love that SRK remembered to become an actor and make a million brilliant films of GREAT EMOTION AND BEAUTY with tears in his eyes instead of not doing that and failing at the entire WORLD.
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Date: 2008-10-26 10:08 pm (UTC)That's just the most relieving thing ever. It's no fun imagining that he hadn't. That would be an ABSURD world. He only went wrong in not being cast as Jack in Lost, but we have to forgive him on balance because of EVERYTHING ELSE he did to make up for it.