Aicha

Guess, Khaled makes all the difference to a song like this.
The lyrics are mostly in French except for a few lines which are in Arabic.

A romantic song like this in a romantic language like French sung by an expressive Arabic crooner with those real strange pronounciation of "h" or "g" and other syllables makes it an absolute delight i.e the experience to listen to this song.
Remember seeing some interview by Priety Zinta sometime back which was shot soon-after the release of "Veer-Zaara". During that interview Priety said that she had to really work on her pronounciation cause her dialogues were in Urdu and she gave a demo on the pronounciation of certain syllables like "h" or "g" in Urdu. The way she pronounced it appeared like these syllables will need lots of air in-them(like Shreya Ghosal or Harini who have this particular style which appeases the listener thanks to their innocent voice and pronounciation of lyrics). Guess, the same rule applies to Arabic(from which Urdu is supposed to have been derived).


Comme si je n'existais pas
Elle est passée à côté de moi
Sans un regard, Reine de Sabbat
J'ai dit Aïcha prends tout est pour toi
Voici les perles, les bijoux
Aussi l'or autour de ton cou
Les fruits bien mûrs au goût de miel
Ma vie Aïcha si tu m'aimes

J'irais où ton souffle nous mène
Dans les pays d'ivoire et d'ébène
J'effacerais tes larmes tes peines
Rien n'est trop beau pour une si belle

Oooh!
Aïcha... Aïcha... écoute-moi
Aïcha... Aïcha... t'en vas pas
Aïcha... Aïcha... regarde-moi
Oooh!
Aïcha... Aïcha... réponds-moi

Je dirais les mots les poèmes
Je jouerais les musiques du ciel
Je prendrais les rayons du soleil
Pour éclairer tes yeux de rêves

Oooh!
Aïcha... Aïcha... écoute-moi
Oooh!
Aïcha... Aïcha... t'en vas pas

Elle a dit garde tes trésors
Moi je vaux mieux que tout ça
Des barreaux sont des barreaux même en or
Je veux les mêmes droits que toi
Du respect pour chaque jour moi je ne veux que l'amour
Aaaaah!

Nbghik Aïcha ou nmout allik
[Je te veux Aicha et je meurs pour toi]
Hadi siyet hayaty ou hobbi
[Ceci est le conte de ma vie et de mon amour]
Inti omri oua inti hayati
[Tu es ma respiration et ma vie]
Tmannite niiche maake ghir inti
[J'ai envie de vivre avec seulement toi]
Oooh!

Aïcha... Aïcha... écoute-moi
Aïcha... Aïcha... ana nbghik
Oooh!
Aïcha... Aïcha... t'en vas pas
Aïcha... Aïcha... ou nmout allik
Aïcha... Aïcha... réponds-moi
Aaaah!
Lalala....lalala... ya layli.... lalala....


I had earlier learnt French and eversince been a fan of anything which is French :-)
I cant understand some of the lines in the above lyrics but still nothing stops me from enjoying this Khaled's song.

Kevin Costner/Nicolas Cage by Independence day

Open Range:
What a waste of talent - Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening :-(
Movie had loads of typical Hollywood sentiments and way too many cliches.

WaterWorld:
Movie was a bit too long, felt like I was watching this movie forever.
Full marks to the bold-storyline.

Dragonfly:
Boring movie again. Really wonder how come I watched such a movie :-(

Revenge:
Again a typical Hollywood masala movie with was too many cliches.
Best if avoided!

For the love of Game:
Good movie.
I had earlier seen "Bull Durham"(another Kevin Costner-Baseball movie) and thought this one was not really in that class, but still was enjoyable.

Lord of War:
Nicolas Cage had tried to pull-off a "The Rock" kind of movie with this one.
The movie does no justice to the cause(against arms-trafficking) that Nicolas Cage tried to patronize, nor was it an entertaining :-(

Matchstick Men:
Good movie.
Ridley Scott has pulled-off a blinder with this movie.
Not really of the "The Usual Suspects" class, but still a decent one.

The Family Man:
Ordinary movie.
Best part in this movie, of course has to be Tea Leani

Found a strange coincidence, most of the Hollywood movies featuring the big-stars seem to have the actor as the producer as well from Tobey McGuire to Sylvester Stallone to Kevin Costner to Nicolas Cage. Guess, this allows them the liberty to call-the-shots over-ruling the director. But there are some star-director combination which has worked too well like Zemeckis-Hanks or Soderbergh-Clooney.
Even in Indian movies this trend can be seen, but it is still slightly rare cause Aamir or Shahrukh or Kamal or Ambitabh dont try this all-that-often. Rajnikanth is slightly differnt in this aspect cause he is in-charge of distribution for a number of his movies, which reflects on the confidence he has in his movies or maybe in his fans.

Eagles consumed

What is Peace-of-Mind?
Nothing comes close to hearing songs that you like, when you are down and out.

Do you really need people around ?
Of course one needs, but never too close

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

Cant really follow the movie. Maybe a revision of 'The curse of the black pearl' would have helped. I guess the best pattern for watching such movies is to go for a marathon session i.e watch all sequels at one go. I did something similar for LOTR and it kind of helped, though quite draining in the end of the day.
So, guess it makes sense to wait for the Pirates 3 and get a dvd and watch all 3 at one go.

6 Weird Habits

Six weird habits:
1. i used to avoid walking on floor lines, of course this was some long time back(when i was a kid, before the jack nicholson movie "as good as it gets" got released)
2. watching movies in theatres was a painful experience cause of the screen-brightness and dark-surroundings and lousy noise inside most movie theatres, so most of the times i will be out of the theatres with a big headache. but still gave this a shot, so in the long-run this irritant stopped bothering me
3. use my left-hand for handling computer-mouse(though i am a natural right-hander)
4. always wait till the 11th hour to do anything (guess, this is not really weird, most of us will be in this category)
5. compulsive newspaper reader ('the hindu' mostly)
6. cant help thinking that i know french, even though my french is a real disastor

thanks afj for the tag

passing the tag to : bidda, ashok, pras, rahul, eshwar, aquaM