We watched this movie “Chillar Party” that was coming on TV this weekend. I actually quite enjoyed this children’s movie. It was touching and funny and cute at the same time. And, there are so many things that the movie says to the children in their language. The child actors have all done a wonderful job. They act beautifully. They are very naughty, inconsiderate at times, very loving at others — just like they are in real life. The movie was released some time ago, and if you have children you are sure to enjoy it with them. It also touches upon certain harsh realities of life like employing a child in a colony to wash cars. How the company of this off-the-streets child changes the decent lingo of the kids? How he gets them to realize the importance of family and home? And how each parent is so different in his/her approach :). Maybe, I am more sensitive to the movie because I have kids of my own and could relate to many situations with the parents.
Just digressing a bit, have you noticed that the best way to strike a conversation with parents is by speaking to their kids? It always works :). As parents, we become slightly different species. And, nothing pleases us more than hearing something nice about our child. Mothers always swap stories about how kids are becoming so difficult to deal with, so ahead of their times, so precocious and so on. I am sure my mother must have done that too :). My brother and I used to be very naughty and always at each other’s throats. I see the exact same behaviour between my sons :). And, as kids, we siblings used to crib about how insensitive parents can be. “Come on, we were just playing and something broke.” “And, promise, we will not talk to mummy.” Now, I hear my sons consoling each other and saying the exact same things including the “not talking to mummy bit.” I sometimes smile when I hear that :).
These tiny incidents make being a parent so enjoyable. I know, I, the perpetual cribber, am saying that :)! But then, who in their right minds would want to be parents and make each decision of their life revolve around kids if kids did not give us such immense joy in bringing them up. I fight with mine daily. I lecture them daily. They get on my nerves when they don’t remember something they were told a thousand times. Yet, they are so quick to forgive, so ready to hug and kiss, and dissolve into “I love you, ma!” I can never lose sight of that, no matter what.
After all that sentimental talk, coming back to the original point :). Good movie. Watch it, and you will like it! Hey, and I did not even get to see Ranbir’s item song! Damn! It was missing from the movie for some reason.
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