It's difficult to explain how good this movie is and how much support it should get. But I'll try. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They have problems between them. They get separated. Do they come together again? Cliched? Formulaic? We've seen tons of films like that. What more can be done? The prospect of watching a film with a premise like that didn't excite me at all. Band Baaja Baaraat , I smirked. Wedding planner... grrrr. It must be one of those love-shove-shaadi films from the relentless Yash Raj banner, I thought. Yash Raj makes love stories every year to keep up their brand image as peddlers of love stories. In the past, it met their commercial goals. They made different love stories. If something succeeded, they'd do it again and again and again in several other films with Rani Mukherjee, Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, sometimes different stars but with same lighting, same backgrounds, same fields, same houses in Australia or elsewhere...

Life is... weird, fascinating, fun, sad, painful, mysterious, simple and lots more, at different times or even all at the same time. That's been my experience. There's so much to learn about one's own self. Even that learning can be relevant or irrelevant depending on time. Similarly, everything is valid or invalid depending on time. I am not prompted by a desire to philosophise about a black hole out somewhere out there. This is about my life. There's enough here to investigate and understand-myself and others-with a little bit of help from others. My life is weird, fascinating, fun, sad, painful, mysterious, simple and lots more. Last night, I met my sibling. I found myself flying off the handle late into the night. It was only when my wife, who was trying to sleep in another room asked me a couple of simple questions that I became an observer, of myself. She asked me "Why are you shouting so loudly and attacking your sibling?". One moment I was mad a...