Window of opportunity

Before I even get started on the plot of this post, I find myself compelled to explain why (oh why) I even bought the Julie DVD. No no, this is not the classic Julie from 1975 with the totally awesome songs. This was Julie from 2004, and the very fact that the movie stole the name from an older, nicer movie should have sufficed to stop me in my tracks before I proceeded to the payment counter.

But I was blinded. Blinded by the presence of Priyanshu Chatterjee in the movie. Now those who have seen 'Tum Bin' and loved it the way I loved it, would know why Priyanshu is such a big deal. The moment he uttered the words, "Main sahara nahin, saath dene aaya hoon." ("I'm here to give you company, not support.") to the defiant Pia, women all over swooned, and men all over went, "Ughhh... not another SNAG we have to match up to!"

Anyway, so while I queued up with all these women waiting for his next movie, he was busy signing really bad ones.

And then I heard about Julie. And true to the spirit of humanity, someone had passionately recommended it to me as a must-watch, so we could be united in our lamentation later. Such a burning desire to see fellow humans suffer just like you did is becoming more and more common. Recently, I saw someone's Facebook status: "Raavan is a must-see! I want you to waste your time and money like I did."

So the fact that I was naive enough to believe that Julie was a good movie, and the fact that it had Priyanshu in it, made me buy the DVD.

And then I watched it.

*deep breath*

Neha Dhupia is a terrible terrible actress. The movie had a terrible terrible story. Sanjay Kapoor was simply terrible. And Priyanshu... how thee let thy fans down... sigh.

And so I was stuck with this DVD. The other DVDs in my DVD rack had started to inch away from this one, pinching their noses and giving me dirty looks as they did so. Each movie in my collection had earned its place. And this DVD was bringing the sanctity of that space down. I could see the other movies were not happy and were this --> <-- close to a mutiny. So I decided to throw it. Evil though I am, I could not bring myself to give it to a fellow human being with feelings and all. And that's when I remembered a tip Shub had given me on how to keep birds from offering their... err... "offerings" on your window sill. She'd told me that if you keep a CD at the window sill, the glare keeps the birds away. And the window near our drying yard does have the bird problem. So now I have the Julie DVD, which, once upon a time had scarred me, successfully scarring scaring birds away. Though I must say I don't know if it's the glare that's keeping them away.

I personally think they're all looking at the DVD and going, "That's enough crap for one window sill, c'mon let's find another place."