yes the exams are over and they've left me lifeless in their trail. watched 'dor' yesterday with a couple of friends and must admit that ayesha takia is quite a discovery. and its fortunate that nagesh kukunoor discovered her before she would've been made another clone of some two dozen 'hits' bragging bollywood heroine. i enjoyed the movie, and the cinematography added to the charm of it...i believe the locations created half the magic. the verdant forests and pebble laid paths of himachal and the dunes and blue houses of jodhpur...that could've been enough for me.

reminded me of the time i spent in bhopal. my balcony provided me with the view of lots of small bungalows and many two-storied, three storied pink-yellow-white colored appartment buildings...from where i viewed it, the city almost looked west-asian. sometimes standing on the rooftops watching the dimly lit city i would hope for an arabian magic-carpet ride. many a times i would find a rainbow strung up in a newly washed sky and would shout out to marissa to come quick before she missed the view. rainbows are rare things and i'm sure she wished upon one like i did each time we'd fall into a silence while devouring it...we'd wait till the colors would disappear into the pieces of cloud and give way to the honey of the evening.

yes moments spent in bhopal come back in spasms. just the landscape and the places...the chequered fields of our mahesh driven safari rides, the clean little village homes with dung layered green colored floors...i just let the scenes pass. maybe they rightfully belong to another time when my mind isnt coping so desperately with all that's already happening around.