nostalgia lane

i learned a few weeks ago that my friend p. was a closeted hindi movie fan... she had outdone even me by watching like three hindi movies in a week (actually, my record is three hindi movies in theaters and one at home all in one day). but yesterday, i found out, she even keeps some at home! we watched maine pyar kiya and for me, it was a total trip down memory lane.


i think i scared p. cuz i knew most of the lines, even though i tried to refrain from quoting too much! it's just that, that movie, along with a few others, were the first hindi films of "my generation", and they're directly responsible for my love of bollywood movies today. it's a pretty typical young love story, but it was salman khan's first big movie and it was a huge hit. at diwali the next year, my friends and i danced to all of mpk's songs, which are terrific. we even tried to imitate the costumes, including salman's famous jacket. i went on to love salman for several years, but soon shahrukh came and it was over, no contest. still, to think of the salman of those days, sigh...