VINTAGE AASHIQ..........

A farewell indeed..

It's not what you're thinking. I'm not dying, much to your chagrin. I'm just fresh from watching DASVIDANIYA. The title indeed was quite intriguing to begin with, and add to that the presence of VINAY PATHAK and the bittersweet character that he plays, and what you get is a gem of a movie. I'm sure that the movie will not do well at the box office, as neither is it meant for the masses, nor for the classes. So neither is it a DDLJ, nor is it a BHEJA FRY.

But the movie sure was able to hold my interest till the very last scene. I'm not sure how many people are going to agree with me on this point though, especially because of the fact that the story is mundane and the journey of the character is also very predictable. But it is probably the natural aplomb of VINAY PATHAK that helps the director pull off a movie as fine as this. The way PATHAK carries himself throughout the movie as the 'loser' that life has made out of him, is indeed commendable as well as quite endearing. Although the character may seem to garner a lot of pity from the audiences, i hope there will be a few like me who would empathize with the same.

I'm not sure what kind of an impression i'll be giving the reader by making the statement that i'm about to make, but i'm sure that a few will also be able to find a small part of themselves in PATHAK'S character. And this is so because most of us may not be able to achieve most of the things that we desire in life. I guess we all have a ' things to do list' of our own, though i'm not sure how many items we may be able to cancel off it by the time we kick the bucket.

The movie wasn't really supposed to have a message of it's own, but i guess there is the one which i was able to make out of it. Time runs out real fast, and life runs along besides it. We can't stop time, and we don't want to stop 'life'. So make the most of the time and life that you have, or you hope that you have.

If you start making your list right now, who knows, you just might be lucky enough to strike out all the items off it by the time you look at the world one last time, and say....DASVIDANIYA.