"flow"

When we listen to a song by watching its music video, the video colors our imagination. There is a different magic that we can experience if we can isolate the sensory experience. Close your eyes and listen to the song. Imagine the singer singing it. Imagine yourself singing it. Imagine your own setting. Let your imagination loose. Lose yourself in it. Experience a semblance of "flow".

Take it a step further. Just look within, into yourself, into the depths of your mind. No music. No video. Nothing. It's just you. And everything you've gathered to become who you are. Look deeper, beyond the clutter of all the mental possessions. Beyond the light, beyond the darkness, to a place which no metaphor can explain. That's "flow".

Why they don't make movies that are "love stories" any more?

I was listening to the song “kaho na pyar hai” from the movie “kaho na pyar hai” and it suddenly struck me - love story as a genre in Bollywood is over.

There was a time in India when seeking love meant fighting the world, and of course the family. But now that’s not that big a deal - not totally and not quite everywhere, though. Seeking and finding love, and being accepted for it, is not that far fetched fantasy today.

Look at Hollywood. The love story genre there has been long dead. Romantic comedies as they are called are hardly love stories. I think that’s coz American, in fact most western cultures have embraced marrying for love long back. A few romantic comedies that still get made just celebrate love, and that’s cute, but we don’t want tons of that stuff when it just depicts the reality, and perhaps starts deviating once it starts looking too far from reality in how beautiful it turns out in the end!