DCH. Again!

“One more birthday gift for you is that we are allowing you to take us to an Aamir movie as a treat to us”, said one of my friends. I couldn’t have agreed more. It was my last birthday as a teenager when I suggested that I’d take all my friends to the next Aamir movie as my birthday treat. It was really a rare occasion as it was the second Aamir movie in just 2 months. The first movie was India’s official entry to academy awards that year and the second one was officially the best movie on friendship ever.

I went to the movie because of Aamir. And I dragged all my friends as well. They started teasing me when first 10 minutes showed that gloomy atmosphere of hospital and all. But now when I see their profile on Orkut and FB, DCH is their favorite movie;)

Today I watched it again. I was prompted (or provoked) to watch it on this weekend when one of my friends told me day before yesterday that he’s going to watch DCH. I thought how come he’s watching DCH without it being in my “to-do” list? So I watched it, again.

When I went with my friends to watch it for the first time, the reason we liked it was that every one of us was able to relate to one of the characters out of 3 leads. As it is said that you like a movie more if you are able to relate to it. It was exactly that kind of movie. It was about that one relationship which I keep at the highest pedestal above all the other relationships. It was about friendship and then, of course, love.

There have many mails floating around since then about the learning’s from DCH. I would say that the movie just highlighted the facts. Some of them that I liked the most are:

• Whatever kind of creature you are, reserved or confused or careless. You need friends. All three leads here.
• Best friends are those who make life hell for you but you know that they love you the most. Aamir with Saif all the time. This one is especially for my friends;)
• There’s a line, which should not be crossed even with best friends. Aamir does that with Akshay.
• You can fall in love with anyone. Yes, anyone. One of the best scenes of the movie is the one where Akshay slaps Aamir and gives some gyan about love. Awesome and so true!
• Its never too late to make up with your friends. You can give your ego a break. It can be massaged with so many other people you have in your life but not with friends. Aamir’s apology to Akshay. Bestest!!!!

Not many movies are there that leaves such an impact on you. DCH is that rare one. It says so many complex things in such an entertaining manner. DCH is one of the ways in which go back to be with my friends again. To hell with the fact that I don’t see them regularly anymore!

Good Decisions. Bad Decisions.

“…and the only thing that sets apart great leaders from others is their ability to take good decisions”, said one of my professors before ending his class. We have heard this so many times before as well. But I have my own take on this saying. I will say it’s the ability to take decisions rather than end result of that decision, proving good or bad, which is important. Of course, not all of us are born to become great leaders but all of us are born to take at least those decisions that affect us, if not the humanity.

We all have, at some point in our life; have faced tough situations that demanded a tough decision from us. And I have felt that in those moments of indecision, I have panicked a lot. What if my decision goes wrong?

Today, as anyone else can, I can very well analyze those decisions and start thinking that I should have done that thing differently or I should not have taken that decision. Yeah, some decisions did not work as expected. But I have the satisfaction of taking those decisions on my own to the best of my knowledge at that time. I chose something that was best for me at that particular time of my life. I have seen that many of the decisions have turned out to be brilliant and I don’t rue the ones which did not go well. And many of my decisions have actually carved a path for me for which I can only thank my stars. The important thing here is that I stand by every decision (good or bad) of mine even after years of taking them. Because, I feel if we regret our decisions, we are actually trying to escape from ourselves and are ashamed of some part of our own.

Life is more fulfilling if we know that everything that has happened, is happening and will happen to us because we wanted it that way. It’s just like giving a script to the God, who is the ultimate director, and waiting to watch a blockbuster in the end. But I think a below average and flop performance also has something in it: Learning. And anyway, I believe in not recognizing failures.

P.S.: Someone sent me a message few years back: “Be very careful about what you want from God, You may get it”. Hmm..interesting;)