(Ah)Men!

This picture of Wasim Akram recently in one of the newspapers took my breath away. Girls, this guy is still drool-worthy!
We girls, who grew up in the late 70s and through 80s, were not all that fortunate as we had no such heroes we could have a crush on. And so who did we have? Amitabh (hain!) Bachan, Mithun Chokroborthy, Shotgun, Jeetendra...You get the scene, right? That entire period we didn’t have ONE Bollywood hero we could drool over.
Luckily for us, the cricketer Imran Khan came by and had us girls swoon over his pictures in the sports mags and we ended up cutting and sticking his pics in our rooms. Post teens, I found amongst my contemporaries, all midget sized actors.
And when I had given up on watching a soothing visage, arrives the tall and handsome, Abhishek Bachan with Refugee and knocked me flat with his dark brooding eyes, left-handed gestures, the small crinkle of smile in his eyes, and a ‘bechara’ expression on his face.

Watch him as the intense lover in Refugee, watch him as the funny and naughty Bunty in Bunty aur Babli, as the oh-so-sexy brooding bad boy in Yuva, as the gay with the cutely effeminate characteristics in Dostana. Watch him in Paa as that bespectacled politician portraying a clean image playing father to his real life one. Watch him in all his talk shows/interviews and listen to his witty and intelligent repartees.  AND… and watch him mouth those now famous words “Get Idea!” I LOVE that Idea 3G ad where he says, “Chi! Kitne gande gande comments aa rahe hain!”
He brings back the same magic that the heart-breakingly handsome Garam Dharam & the handsome hunk Sunil Dutt had spun with a their looks ( an amazing mix of vulnerability and sheer masculine strength.)

Just as I write this, I hear he is going to be a papa himself. I wonder what’s going to be the product when a 6 footer handsome hunk cohabits with a piece of plastic.

Why we women love men

• They give great hugs, (and always melt our hearts when a sweet "I love you Princess" is added)
• What they lack in talk, they tend to make up for in action.
• They're at peace with their bodies, except for maybe some minor anxiety over height and baldness.
• They make excellent companions when driving through rough neighborhoods or walking past dark alleys.
• They're enthusiastic about our bodies, even when we're not.
• They have an uncanny ability to look deeply into our eyes and connect with our heart, even when we don't want them to.
• They fall in love so hard, once they finally fall.
• Tho they often try to hide it, they're very tender-hearted and caring
• Chest hair, forearm hair and the feel of a newly shaved cheek.
• That spot right between a guy's neck and shoulder that's just so perfect for snuggling. :)
• Their near-endless appetite for discussing completely uninteresting things like the ins and outs of work and money - ours as well as theirs.
• Their face is a treasure to behold when they give us a present they picked out.
• Their unapologetic lust for a nice hunk of beef or chocolate cake.
• Their ability to solve problems simply by throwing a ball around.
• They give us a peek at the little boy inside when they get sick or happy or hurt
• How tender they get when they cry, and how seldom they do it.
• They don't mind accompanying a woman to a party even though she looks like a movie star and they look like the chauffeur.
• They don't care whether colors match, but are willing to be concerned if we want them to be
• Their genuine ardor for tinkering with toilets, changing oil and assembling gas grills- jobs any intelligent woman can do but would be nuts to volunteer for.
• How much they like us just the way we are.
• That they are bigger which makes them perfect for spooning.
• The way they get protective when someone hurts their loved ones.
• They are lovers who only rest when we have had (or pretend to have had) pleasure
• When, in the middle of a sentence, they decide to tell you how much they care about you. Gets me every time!
• Because despite everything they try to demonstrate, they can’t live without a woman