mera chaand mujhe....aaya hai nazar

arrey...yeh kaaaun kambhakt hai jo hamare chand ko chura raha hai....??

This is not the great dilip kumar...trying to impress nutan with a romantic dialogue in a black n white movie....its lunar eclipse time people....when earth comes between the sun n the moon which results in the moon disappearing in the earth's shadow...well... actually it is still hanging there in space, but we cant see it for a while...not getting?? ok.... picture this...a grasshopper( too high on vodka to fly) sitting on the road staring at his frnds having a great time flying around a huge street light...n sunddendly an elephant passes by..the shadow of the giant completely covers the poor fellow....and he gets eclipsed....still not getting??...well..go n grab a 3 standard science book...i'm sure u bunked all ur science classes just as i did

so as thers an eclipse today...and being the superstituos guy that i am... i faithfully did all the things as prescribed by the bestseller "101 things u must do during eclipse to avoid bad luck"...... completely normal stuff guys...like....ate with my left hand all day( which resulted in a big oily stain on my t-shirt)...gave the eclipse special food(d recipie was in d book) to the cow oustide, which resulted in a rather grumpy look from her( what did she expect...i'll give her domono's pizza or what)....n finally put the holy taabeez (which came free ) around my neck.....bas..ab koi bhi maai ka laaal mera kuch nai bigaad sakta

just kiddin guys...its just the non stop coverage of this event on aaj tak getting to me...chandrama par giri..dharti ki chhaaya.. as they call it...as if doom's day is just round the corner....all kind of experts(mostly weird looking astrologers) r called in to guess how this would effect people's life....then they show people taking a dip in the holy ganga...some of those looked like belonging to a group called....dilli jal board ke sataaye log..jinke yahan mahino se paani nahi aaya....i enquired from my mom...what dis taking-a-dip-during-eclipse crap was all about...n she said that it was considered auspicious...

just then i had an idea that i could prove to my mom that i wanst a complete atheist...n still had some of her genes left in me...i asked her if taking a shower wud be counted as auspicious....her look said it all though..and i immidiately brushed aside the thoughts of a midnight shower

but the aaj tak guys..still managed to save the day for me...as they interviewd a really pritty girl at the nehru planetoriam....she was surrounded by a whole bunch of guys....who seemd to think that this coming live on TV(aaj tak) was their 1st step towards becoming the next mithun...
these wannabe superstars just kept staring at the camera with eyes wide open....as that girl answered the questions...while adjusting her hair frequently...

maa kassam... she looked so gorgeous....i bet that the correspondent was also lost in those pretty eyes as he kept asking her silly questions like... aaap ko kaisa lag raha hai yahan panetoriam main chandra grahan dekh ke....kya aaap pehli baar chandra grahan dekh rahi hain...just trying to buy more time .... n all this while....the guy sitting in the studio....wanting to be in his place... is helplessly.. waiting for him to point the camera towards the moon...

so he finally speaks...(trying hard not to sound angry)..."dibaang...zara humare darshakon ko asleee chaand ki tasweerain dikhain".... dibaang turns towards the camera looking completely blank..it takes him a few seconds to wake up to the fact that he is actally a news correpondant...n finally the viewers get to see the real thing....a complete lunar eclipse

well...who says aaj tak is a crap news channel...the interview lasted for just about 5 minutes...but for me..its was the best part of the non stop coverage called chandrama par giri..dharti ki chhaaya....

and the raj kumar inside me suddenly woke up n said...dileep jaaani...chaand aaj aasmaan main nahi...nehru planetoriam main nikla hai