While surfing channels on the TV today, I came across the movie ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ on Set Max and that was the end of all suffering…err …I mean surfing. That movie has my earliest and fondest memories attached to it. It is the first movie I remember watching in a theater. Prtam Dada had come to visit us after his ICSE exams and Ma had taken him for the movie as a treat. Lata aunty was the third one in the team and Sanju and I were tagged along since there was no one to babysit us. We were what…five years old! It was after the final exams of class Prep and our new session of standard One was yet to begin. I still remember the moment I saw Aamir Khan… Oh my gosh! Still the same set of butterflies flutter in my stomach and I still go weak in the knees every time I watch him, especially in that particular movie.
Aamir Khan was my first ever crush and boy did I start early or what! I don’t remember much of the movie from then but what is still etched deeply in my memory is the cover of the audio cassette of the movie with his picture on it. That was my companion for a long time to come and Pritam Dada bears testimony to that. The thrill of something never felt before, the immensely cute looks and the super lovable factor of THE Aamir Khan has not left me till date.
Just a fortnight after my first ‘real’ movie the new session began. I was still seeing Aamir Khan all around and there came Chetan. He had flunked class I and hence was destined to be with us. I took it as God’s signal that Aamir and I were meant to be together because Chetan, to my birdbrain, looked exactly like my darling Aamir. I used to follow Chetan around since he was the closest I could get to my LOVE…silly me!
Time passed and I outgrew the affection for Aamir? Naah… it was Chetan whom I wasn’t attracted to anymore. I still wonder what made him Aamir’s lookalike in my eyes and the answer still eludes me. As far as my loyalties are concerned, Aamir still rules my heart and there is still a very special corner reserved for him. Love you Aamir!
Aamir Khan was my first ever crush and boy did I start early or what! I don’t remember much of the movie from then but what is still etched deeply in my memory is the cover of the audio cassette of the movie with his picture on it. That was my companion for a long time to come and Pritam Dada bears testimony to that. The thrill of something never felt before, the immensely cute looks and the super lovable factor of THE Aamir Khan has not left me till date.
Just a fortnight after my first ‘real’ movie the new session began. I was still seeing Aamir Khan all around and there came Chetan. He had flunked class I and hence was destined to be with us. I took it as God’s signal that Aamir and I were meant to be together because Chetan, to my birdbrain, looked exactly like my darling Aamir. I used to follow Chetan around since he was the closest I could get to my LOVE…silly me!
Time passed and I outgrew the affection for Aamir? Naah… it was Chetan whom I wasn’t attracted to anymore. I still wonder what made him Aamir’s lookalike in my eyes and the answer still eludes me. As far as my loyalties are concerned, Aamir still rules my heart and there is still a very special corner reserved for him. Love you Aamir!
4 comments:
Yes, Aamir in QSQT was so so special!! I was 12 and was experiencing my first crush in school over somebody who was extremely good-looking and cute.. and hence I saw Aamir as his reel-version .. QSQT was the first Hindi movie I watched in a theatre.. It was during our stay at BKP after my Class Six annuals.. Pikludada was God to me for buying the tickets and taking us to the movie.. I could not sleep for a few nights I remember.. and kept replaying the movie in my mind.. :P
As said by Piyali di, Aamir in QSQT is a common heartthrob for all of us of that great generation...when kisses were shown beyond flower and butterfly acts... Aamir led all the girls to do their love blunder of their lives with all the 'undeserved' boys of the classes and neighborhood...my 'para'senior-buddy resulted to have her hearts for the so called Aamir look alike auto-driver.. sigh! but those small excitements in our lives still holds a good remembered page in our childhood memo book!!!
Yeah I know! even now I can't take my eyes off Aamir whenever QSQT is telecast...the only thing that's different now is that I notice Juhi too and her freshness and also the fact that Aamir had a lot to learn as far as acting skills were concerned :P
Yes.. Juhi is too good..
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