Random Thoughts

just yesterday I saw the new video of Kailash Kher's new single "Tauba tauba yeh, teri surat ". the video was decent, and to my surprise, actually had a storyline which has become very rare these days. the story goes something like this - at the start a pretty woman is shown who is going to the college and some of the sadak-chhap guys are leering at her. she goes to the class, and instead of reading books all her attention is towards the curly-haired professor who seems to be quite oblivious to her swooning. after some time, the professor goes out of the institute, and takes a ferry to go on the other side. there he sees one pretty, but slightly plump, woman and his eyes get wider !!! (the actor's eyes actually get wider in this scene, and in my opinion it is the most hilarious scene in the video). the woman in turn then goes to a recording studio......
by now you would have anticipated the story. there in the studio the woman sighs by looking at her co-worker who in turn is trying to pataao some other girl. thus, a chain-like structure is formed which binds strangers, though i agree the binding force is just infatuation, and so very short-lived.

this video has reminded me of the famous theory of "six degrees of freedom". first propounded by a Hungarian writer in 1929 and later proved empirically in 1967, this theory says that everyone in this world is connected to everybody else through a chain which has not more than 5 links, or intermediaries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation gives some interesting information on this). for example, it means that a small farmer in the Basauli village of Patna district can meet Amitabh Bachchan if only 5 people agree to help him !!! it seems quite strange, but i have tried it on myself and it actually works.

but this theory also raises some interesting questions. why is it that some people have to spend their entire lives searching for their perfect partner when they are only 5 links away from him/her ? it reminds me of the famous metallica song: so close......yet so far.....