Out of Place

After six days of staying at home, I'm reluctant to join the office back. I had a great time all these days, though it was very hectic. Children were very happy, as they always are when I stay at home, for more than one reason. I'm not a disciplinarian like my mother, may be because I'm not very disciplined myself. We listened to music, we watched a movie, we went for walks, we played games and we went to the terrace every evening and just sat there watching the evening sky. And I made them happier by making something everyday out of my limited stock of 'special dishes'.

Meanwhile I fell in love with Sunil Dutt. I think nobody looks better than him in dhoti and kurta. They don't come like that anymore, romancing through their eyes. Nowadays it's only banter. I went crazy and watched his three movies in two days. May be I chose the wrong movies because I felt he was playing second fiddle everywhere to the heroine. May be because heroine had more dialogues and more voice-space and I'm conditioned to think that's more important. It was as if he just stood there with a smile on his face listening to the girl giving vent to her passion....I was wondering about who else I felt like that before and then I realized it was Cary Grant. Watching Philadelphia Story and Notorious, I had thought just the same. Do they look similar too or is it just the black and white movies?