Ann's Abode

I saw Sex and the City - The Movie yesterday, was very excited to finally see it!

My colleagues and me were eyeing the newly introduced Tandoori pizza's at Papa John's for a while.

So one not so fine day, we ventured in to avail of the Papa John's Introductory offer for the new Tandoori Pizzas - Buy One Medium pizza and get 'pizza for one' (more like 'pizza for one kid', they left that out somehow) free!!!

I was having a good time, but then we ate at Papa John's.

I am entirely at blame, got enticed by their tandoori pizzas which looked so good on paper, how do they do that? Snap some other pizza? Or take a close-up of the teeny tiny pizzas they offer?

Take this: The tandoori paneer and tandoori chicken looked exactly the same with negligible amounts of chicken/ paneer respectively and with large doses of tomato, onion, corn… (screams)was more like an halfcooked utappam than a pizza.

The big red chillies, I thought, would be a saving grace, adding spice to the sad ordeal, but apparently that was too much to ask, the chillies were actually sour!!!(never seen that happen before, hence the special mention)

Quantity is less too, (that could be a good thing in retrospect) with the regular (normally 7-inches), they call it ‘pizza for one’ here (more like 'pizza for one kid', rolling eyes), being smaller than 6-inches and medium (normally 10-inches) being about 8-inches here.

The paneer is white by the way, my veggie friends seemed to have a problem with that, I can still hear them say: 'if it’s tandoori, it’s gotto be red'.
They have a point actually, after all we eat out even for the frills.

Like Saif said in the movie Salaam Namaste (wow, m quoting movies now) that: The wife is like ‘ghar ka khana’, when people are eating out, they expect a mistress.
(Saif played a Chef+Hotel Owner in the movie, that should take care of your wild imagination)

So the same day, I ordered the Chicken Bonanza from smoking joe’s (it doesn’t get better than that, very juicy chicken… mouth watering really) which finally satiated my pizza craving.

To Love and Win is the Best Thing;
To Love and Lose is the Next Best.

For people who understand that, Sawariya is a beautiful movie.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali himself said in one of his interviews that
Unrequited love is his favourite form of love.He believed that, it
was the only way Love lasted forever and that romance begins to fade
when people begin to take their loved ones for granted once in their
hold.

I agree with him in the fact that there is a different beauty in
losing your love as long as you know they are happy.The dull ache in
the heart is something i know i miss when i recover.

Ah! So Great minds do think alike after all. ;)

Its a beautiful picturesque movie, exactly what Hollywood calls a musical.

The breaking into a melodious songs happens for a good reason each
time and not just for the sake of it -> A True rarity in Bollywood,
not just the timely occurence of songs but also the melody contained!

i heard it took 3 years for Monty Singh compose the music, years well
spent i say.
Me thinks whether this one sets the cash registers ringing or not,
it sure has a chance of bringing the coveted Golden statuette home.

He could have easily shown the idyllic picture of the hero and the
heroine walking away in the sunset which the average indian audience
is so accustomed to seeing that every time it does'nt happen,
something in us revolts, Remember Titanic? and scores of other such
movies which makes us want to yell out 'Why did it have it have to end
that way?'


It sure takes guts to defy convention and especially when crores of
rupees are at stake.

I salute the man for having the courage to follow his heart which sure
will give him a sense of pride in his product;
Something even tasting Box office success Bigtime cannot bring if one
has compromised one's product just to make it more commercially viable.

Have a good day
Signing Off,
Ann3004