Serendipity

Like me, you too might find the first few minutes of the movie a bit .... well ... stupid... :-)

But love often makes one do pretty weird things (right guys?!) And Jonathan Trager (John Cussack) and Sara Thomas ( the beautiful Kate Beckinsale of Underworld fame) in this movie are no different! :-)

You may meet your future soul mate anywhere - in a shopping
mall as well as in  the labour room of a hospital! ;-)

You might have experienced that when you meet some girls/boys you just feel so awkward and are desperately groping in the dark, trying to to think hard, what next to say to her!! But then you meet someone ... someone with whom you just click from the first hi you say to each other... while talking with that special girl/boy, hours seem like minutes, minutes like seconds.... Well it was like that for Johnny and Sara when they come across each other in a mall.

But then they go on to do something quite stupid (one may feel like telling them - "grow up!" or "STUPID!")

But as i said love makes one do stupid things!

So, bear with their seemingly stupid decision to not to give their contact number to each other and rather leave it to fate for them to meet again. If you manage to get past this point, i promise the rest of the movie will manage to wow you! :-)

They get on with their life... meet someone else and are about to get married to completely different ppl- the other kinda guys'girls, with whom they don't click, they have a lot of awkward movements.... and suddenly they miss their ultra brief encounter many years back...

And from this point they set themselves on a desperate attempt which was pretty much like finding a needle in the hay!... :-)

One dialogue that particularly struck me (and probably explains the foolishness in the movie..) was Jonathan's conversation with his best buddy while trying to search Sara... His buddy tells him that he was having problems with his wife and they were getting separated exactly because their relationship lacked the foolishness that Jonathan and Sara were unwittingly doing... He then goes on to quote a wonderful line by an ancient philospoher named Picatus,

The philosopher Picatus said,"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

If you are someone who believe in the often illogical, and even trying, but in the end, handsomely rewarding love and in soul mates..then, this is definitely made for you! :-)