Ala Ala Shrawan Ala , WOW Welcoming Shrawan The Holy Month !!

The end of the Gatari Amavasaya where usually  whole night merry clinging glasses of beer and enjoying spicy non-veg feast , the day ahead we welcome the holy month of SHARAWAN . The month is auspicious since it accompanies many religious festival, Shrawani Somvar and Shaniwar celebration all the month along . The month long pious month even makes a die hard non veg connoisseur to leave that and enjoy the delicacies of sweets and veg. dishes in Shrawan .


The week starts with the Shrawani Somvar where people visit the temples of Shiva and fast for the day . The major enjoyment of Sharwan is the enjoyment of feast after the fast in the evening . the major delicacy is the spicy alu wadi . It is a great bliss to have the home-made aluwadis which make to feast in sharawan a pure enjoyment. Its nature great surprise to us that the same vegetables like alu, moongacha bird, bhendi ,maath ( red leafy vegetable ) taste so nice in this month . The evening delicacy of dinner to eat on a banana leaf is a treat in itself . the enjoyment of having varan -bhat -tup, mughacha birde, alu vadi the combination is fundu out of the world. then the dessert which usually on shrawani somvar is narayandas ladu (rawa ladu) is simply great.

The festival of Nagpanchmi is also celebrated during Shrawan which people do puja of naagdevata. Now,people have stopped feeding milk to the poor snake whole day and using small idols of naag is welcome sign of modernity . But the major part of the nagpanchami is the sweet delicacies it offered. the patoli, is the sweet which is prepared from rice flour, jaggery and coconut which is wrapped in the haldi leaves and steamed which give the fragrance and taste of he leaves is great.Then there are sabudanyacha fenya that crunchy munchy fried stuff which we enjoyed with its crackling noise in the mouth .

No one can forget the festival of Raksha bandhan /Narali purnima The day people prepare various sweets of coconut like naarali wadi, burfi and my favourite naarali bhat. I enjoy it since its very simple dish from coconut , rice , kismis, but usually tastes better and best on this day only.

This is followed by JANMASTHAMI, the birth of Lord Krishna, which is followed by day long fast which is broken at midnight with basundi and puri.



Thus overall the month of shrawan which plays all month along the hide and seek with rains. there is a sudden burst of very heavy rains with lull for next few moments described aptly as "SHRAWANSARI". The green dense cover in the city is a dream come true which this month brings along.

So friends welcome the month of SHRAWAN with an open heart and enjoying fasting and feasting month along !!!

Whiff of New Air!!!!!

Just within 15 days span saw two movies which were completely different from there normal genre. Shaitan and Delhi Belly were completely from the hatke lot. Shaitan had a complete novice brand of actors and sort of edgy feeling , while Delhi Belly with the known production house and young heartthrob was being famous for its cuss words and shit.


Shaitan the movie which revolves around the gang of rich buddies who through there share of mental trauma and to acquire high try to break the mould enjoy LSD things to get the kick. Even if it fills the run of mill story but the treatment given is fresh and engrossing. The only they missed on was apart from Kalki, Rajeev Khandelwal and Shiv Pandit , you fail to remember the other actors who have given the fine performances.the movie always remind of the real life incidents which are of course the plots on which movie is based as the makers say , how the nexus of police and the uber rich try to hide the crime . apart from it the similar situation like peepli live where media blares its own trumpet to make the situation worse for all. Kalki and Rajeev have given excellent performances . over all Anurag Kashyap has stuck to his dark genre of films but with bright and edgy characters . the remix of " Khoya Khoya Chand " is fantastic .
the movie really delights in sense even though zero stars still it is worth dekho.




Delhi belly was complete surprise package regarding the way it generated the buzz for its swear  words .The duo who completely loss the credit between was ABHINAY DEO and the film writer Akshat Verma . The script which uses the usual normal youngsters lingo makes the movie very close to our heart. After the dud GAME with reasonably good star cast , Abhinay throws a surprise with funny adult situational comic caper.super performance by trio Imran, Weird Ass alias  Vir Das , and Kunal. the don acted by Vijay Razz and his cronies also give superb support cast . Poorna Jagnathan was the new surprise packet in the movie with very reliable journalistic performance. Shenaz was okie dokie. The film break the barriers of being nice and brings all of us in there elements. Its guaranteed that while leaving the cinema hall people will be yelling " f*** what gr8 movie".

Yup, these two movies really are turning out to be the latest version like T20s in the movie which will give you a fast paced , whacky and right to the point kind of movies which makes us to want more !!!! THANKS AAMIR and ANURAG to bring 'A' class product which we always enjoyed watching in Hollywood rom-coms.