Non-Prom Night

Yesterday instead of going to prom, I went to an Indian themed party at Emily's house! We ate lots of good Indian food from Mehfil, a restaurant in Roseville. I'm pretty sure buttered chicken ranks up there as one of the best things I have ever tasted. I've forgotten the names of the food and probably would not be able to spell them anyhow but there was this one spinach dip-like spicyish thing which was amazing with naan. Jasmeen brought this chick pea soup-like thing which was delicious as well. I brought a very non-Indian fruit salad.

After eating yummy Indian foods, we watched some Indian movies. Basically all of them have a similar plot line: guy from lower social status likes girl, arranged marriage is involved, family wants to beat up guy etc. We watched a romantic one called 'Jab We Met' and this one guy was depressed then he met a girl, Geet, who was super talkative and turned his life around. He liked her, unfortunately she wanted to marry this dude, Anshuman, and her parents had a marriage arranged for her with this guy, Manjeet. Depressed guy runs away with Geet to find Anshuman, who rejects her, Geets family is furious 'cause they don't know where she is, then eventual happy ending. We didn't finish the whole thing but it was cute.

We also watched this other hilariously cheesy Indian movie. It was about this guy, Phem, known as the 'love guru' who was trying to help this other guy, Bhaskar, who wanted to marry this super rich famous lady, Priya, who was arranged to marry a British guy, Peter. Phem wanted to marry this journalist lady and had to get her son, Rohan to like him. A super short villain guy, Don, was involved too. Indian movies have the best wire and stunt work of all time hahaha. The movies were both in Punjabi with English subtitles so occasionally the authentic Indians, Jasmeen, Karman, Kainaat, would have to explain what was going on to us non-Indians. I found it funny though that in the movie the people would switch between Punjabi and English all the time. All the Bollywood numbers were classic, with tons of people joining in to dance along whenever someone randomly broke out into song. We were all wearing bangles and stick-on forehead jewelry things and Kainaat brought other Indian garb. Twas truly a fun time celebrating an awesome culture!