Dukes Nose !!

Everyone likes to go for trekking in the monsoon season and I am no exception :) :)
There is one such trek which I cannot forget for the rest of my life and I am sure all my friends who were together for this trek also feel the same :) :)

The trek I am talking about is Dukes Nose !!
Last year in the monsoon season, all my friends from my company decided to go for the Dukes Nose as nobody from our group had been there before :) For a change all of us agreed to go to Dukes Nose........and we all started with the preparation for the weekend trek...
One of my childhood friend has been to many of these places many times, so I thought of asking him about Dukes Nose.He told me that we need to go to Khandala and wakl for 15-20 mins before the trek actually starts.....he also told that we can take help from some of the local boys to guide us.
All our preparation was done ans we all started on a wet Saturday morning......We reached Khandala on the expected time.We asked some local people abt how to go to Dukes Nose and everyone tried to show us the best possible way......
So we started climbing.......the mountain was too good and we were enjoying the nature's company......there was no crowd whatsoever....we didnt see anyone on the way to the top....
After couple of hours which included some breaks for snacks, we finally managed to reach the top and were very proud of our achievement !!
There were couple of villagers who were collecting some wood......we asked them where is the Dukes Nose ?? and the answer we got left us in a shock......
That person pointed to a mountain infront of us and told that "thats the Dukes Nose mountain"
we just didnt knew how to react !!! we had climbed the wrong mountain !!!!!
and there was no way we could climb the 'correct' mountain after this because we all were very tired and in no mood to climb another mountain :( :(
we climbed down the same mountain and decided to visit the Dam in lonavla :) :)
This adventure has become a laughter source for all of us.....whenever we remember this incident we just cant stop laughing !!!!!

Chak De !!

Saw the SRK Starrer Chak De for the sceond time yesterday :)
Let me make it very clear that I am not at all a fan of King Khan...but I do like some of his movies including Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa,DDLJ,Swades and now Chak De :) :)
Rest of his movies can be easily ignored :) :)
Coming back to Chak De........I loved that film !!! Hats Off to the director for executing the rare subject so nicely !! I am saying this because in the recent past many good stories were made into bad films :( :( Hats Off to Shimit Amin for extracting gr8 performances from each and everyone (including SRK) . I thought SRK was just too good in this movie !!
Handling the subject like the Women's Hockey would have been a real tough job but Shimit Amin has made a full justice to the storyline (which is non-existent in many movies).For a change Yash Raj Films produced a really fresh idea :) and the credit should go to Aditya Chopra :)
A gr8 story line, executed to the perfection by the director and awesome performances by each actor gives the film a gr8 look and the film touches the heart effortlessly.I dont think there are many movies where the public is clapping so much in a theatre :) :)
No unneccessary songs,no romantic angle,no glamour (except for SRK) and no overdose of patriotism( I hope J.P Dutta is listening) but still a Masterpiece !!!
Shimit Amin is the one who initially assisted Ram Gopal Verma and then went on to direct a film called Ab Tak Chhappan starring Nana Patekar(Which was also a watchable film)
I am really thankful to god that nowadays we are getting the opportunity to see a movies with some new ideas :) :)
I hope this trend continues and we keep on watching some really nice films :) :)