The Dazzling Soul

Red Chillies Entertainment, Dharma Productions and Hope Productions’ Dear Zindagi (UA) is the story of a girl suffering from depression and how she gets cured of it. Kaira (Alia Bhatt) is an upcoming cinematographer, very good at her work. She has shot many ad films and is keen to now shoot a full-length feature film, having so far only filled in for a cameraman who may have taken ill. Kaira has been into relationships but they’ve always ended in break-ups. While Kaira lives in Bombay, her parents live in Goa. The very thought of going to Goa to spend time with her father and mother puts her off. In fact, she can barely make telephone conversations with them. Kaira tries to put on a brave front but it is clear that she is not a very happy person. Just recently, she has had a break-up with Sid (Angad Bedi) because she confesses to him that she has slept with her colleague, film director Raghuvendra (Kunal Kapoor). Shortly thereafter, Raghuvendra gives her the good news that he ...

1. You should be close to perfect:  Nobody is. Nobody can be. No matter how much you try, there will always be somebody who is fitter, richer, more smart, cleverer and their lives will seem ideal and perfect. But what you have to remember is you are looking at only a single dimension of their lives. You can never be *perfect*. And you don’t have to be, in order to be happy. 2. Others should behave how you want them to : Another myth that most people buy into is that you would be happy if ___________ behaved in a certain way. If only he would_______ or If only she would____________.(Fill in the blanks suitably). Thing is you do not control anybody’s behaviour, but your own. If you control your reaction and expectations, you can be happy. 3.More money makes you happy : It doesn’t! Look at the people who have more money than you do. Examine their lives. Are they really happier than you? (I highly doubt it) 4.A particular person can make you happy: When I was a little girl, my ...

On 9th November our Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of the 500 and 1000 INR notes. Taking the country and allegedly even his cabinet by stun, the move would be effective from midnight onwards. He gave his countrymen 50 days to exchange the now illegal tender notes with legal tender. It was by far the boldest move by a prime minister economically, who touted the move as a means to eradicate corruption and black money. To me, a tax paying citizen of the country, I felt it is a welcome change to bring those who evade taxes to start paying up. It was meant well but was low on logistics – the sting of the change started being felt on the third day, when citizens started queuing up at banks and ATM’s for hours. The questions on daily wage earners minds were whether they should be at work or whether they should be standing in queue for the current operation? Also, as reported on many media channels, people queued up only to find cash run out of ATM’s. At my work ...

It's a lazy sunday for me guys! Nothing to rather than listings sonfs and doing my extra activities... I was just going through my snap story and here is  i am posting my snap from the snap chat with the Tiara  filter. Just a simple snap with a bit make up done. With compact and eye liner applied. Dressed in Denim's shirt. So guys it was a lazy sunday for me but don't waste your sunday go on outings with family and friends and enjoy your day! May share your story with me and for more snap and stories if havent followed than follow me on instagram id: the_dazzling_soul Snap id:hetvidhondiyal0 Facebook page: the dazzling soul Will be back with one of the best and intresting topic till than stay connected! Stay fab! Lots of love.😊

Dear kiddo, Varsha😊 Some people come into our lives and barely leave a trace, others leave a string of footprints etched upon our hearts, letting us know they are with us every step we take. You, my friend, have been stamping all over my heart since the day we met.  4-year ago self tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I wanted to be your friend. There wasn’t a moment of hesitance in my answer. I mean, who wouldn’t have wanted to be friends with someone with beads on their shoelaces? The answer was yes, and with a smile on your cherub-like face, you pushed me under your protective wing and haven’t let go of me since. As the years passed by, our love for each other grew. You weren’t just a friend, you were the sister I never had, my soul mate and the reason my days were filled with happiness, love and laughter. Even when the sun stopped shining, we’d get out there, splash in the deepest of puddles and make light of any situation life threw our way. Because together we ...

I and my grandfather were talking today. The papers were full of the details of the recent murder case that has been rocking the nation. It gets murkier and murkier. There is just too much negativity for me to even dwell on it, I said. And the extent to which people can go to--heinous and unimaginable. He understood. We spoke then---about relationships. About egos in relationships.About our need to be loved. Appreciated and liked for who we are. Our need to be understood and accepted. Human beings are social creatures. We want to connect. We want to be heard. Most of all we want to matter. No wonder we form the strangest of connections.We forgive those whom we love. Even if they have hurt us, trampled over us, we turn a blind eye. We are too attached--too connected. We need them in our lives like a cocaine addict needs his next fix. We imagine our lives will be meaningless without them. Love blinds us and binds us in ways that we can never even attempt to esca...

Every one like to be remembered. It is an assurance that one gets every now and then, that one might leave the mark on the earth, when its time to depart. Even the infants that die on the birth or the embroys that are aborted tend to live behind memories. Memories are the moment stored in our mind for the life time. We create memories by capturing it and a days wheather it is with friends and family. I'm to found of it to collect every little memory which after few years i can remember and e happy. Ofcourse, picture can't always complete some up and expirence hoe do you feel about it. Sometimes words are the only thing that can adequately express deepest feelings of your heart. Definitely each  and everytime i capture a shot and always put it on the social networking sites because i love too share my expirence with the world. As u and your friends and your family make new memories togather, again give some thought what you want to remember. Think about how best to com...

A movie I watched last night left me strangely disconcerted and made me think about the relationships we form in these technology-saturated times. The movie Mili directed by Rajesh Pillai was about a teenage girl who grows up with feelings of rejection. Nothing she does is good enough and she keeps getting into trouble at school for being ‘weird’ and ‘different’, unable to complete simple academic tasks, always being lost in a dream-world. She is sensitive and kind but painfully shy.  She stalks her crush on Facebook but is too shy to talk to him in person. She spies on her room-mates who have boy-friends and she makes their lives difficult by hogging the bathroom when they need it, overhears their private conversation that they have with their boy-friends, reads  the messages on their phone, her irrational behaviour stemming from jealousy and a feeling of neglect. She has no friends, nobody to talk to and as the days pass, she cocoons hersel...

My best friend and I often chat on an Instant Messenger. Sometimes what we talk is so absurd that we crack up completely---and then have to call the other just to hear the absolute helpless laughter. After one such mad session, I wrote this poem which I share below. If you have a friend with whom you can laugh like this, you will probably love this one. Read and let me know if you liked! Laughter . Helpless laughter. Guffaw, chuckles, mirth, cracking-up, cacchination, hilarity Absurdity. For a whole five minutes. Oh, the joy of utter nonsense. A priceless memory made. Life gifts you unexpected moments And sometime in the future, We will look back and say “Remember that time when we laughed so hard that our tummies hurt?” And we will laugh again. Reliving the magic of absurdity And it’s power to heal.

Today a friend sent me a beautiful site for challenging your writing skills. It is called oneword.com The site generates a single word randomly,  and it gives you 60 seconds to write on it. You needn't think. You just have to write. It's like a warm-up for your brain. After that you have the option to submit your entry, and see what the others have done. I loved the concept, and so decided to try it. The word I got was 'setup ' Here is what I instantly wrote in one minute: He  had set up the apartment well. He did want to impress her. He felt if she saw a clean home she would forgive him. When she entered she didn’t notice it at all. She went straight to the sofa and plonked down. ‘God what an awful day I have had’, she said. Why do you think she has had a bad day? What had he done so bad that he wanted her to forgivehim? If the above lines spark your imagination, and make you want to write, do write a story and post it on your blog. If you don't ...

Today I watched half of an interesting movie on Netflix. It was called  One Day,  and it starred  Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturges. In the movie, the parents of Dexter (Jim Sturgess) disapprove of the career choice their son has made. He is a succesful TV presenter, but the show he presents is 'crass' and 'tasteless' according to his parents who feel that he could have done better. He however enjoys his work, and he is having fun. It made me think about parenting. Many parents in India too, disapprove of their children's career choices. The adult/teen child might want to be a graphic designer, but the parents might want him/her to take a corporate job.Or the adult/teen child might want to become a musician or a fitness instructor or a yoga teacher.But the parents may not think it is good enough. I know many people who never thought they would end up in their present day career, as their ambition was something totally different. But their parents thought that was to...