Lage bin tere mujko akela....
The 2 lines that I cried for last...
ARR, U are god...and u make me identify emotions that were hidden somewhere....
Rang de basanti is a god level album...lotsa songs are good..most notably the Paatshaala song, and Roobaaroo....The best ofcourse is Luka chupi..which contains the 2 lines i am obsessed with...
Ik Omkar and Tu bin bataaye are again songs that grow on u...so yet to reach peak with them,....
all in all am impressed with the album and it's takin away a lot of my study time...and am scared as hell whether i will cross the IIMB Term 2 bridge...I need a lotta prayers for that....
And no more booze till term end...yesterday nite was the last of all the booze nights.....
My other thambi a cylindrical piece that burns too soon for my liking... is my key companion...
Dont ditch me, brother....I need u to survive.....
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
This one is for you, Uncle...
Atthi, You were an unsung hero,
You never got your share of recognition,
You never asked for it,
But you needed it, atleast for your family.
You forgave betrayers,
As you always did...
You took tough times with a smile,
And toiled with the same zest,
You were a puritan at all you did,
Perfection in even the mundane chores was your trademark.
You always had a word or two of motivation for all of us,
Your kids were lucky as hell to have you groom them,
Your spouse and relatives adored you for the smile you brought to their faces,
Even when you had your own troubles.
You lived a noble and meaningful life,
You deserved a better end,
God shouldn't have snatched you away from us....
So soon, and in a flash....like he did.
May your spirit guide your children and my aunt towards peace,
And happiness,
And success.....
Afterall, thats what you always wanted,
A peaceful and contented family.
I hope you saw from up somewhere,
The tears and cries of despair of all of us,
We just couldn't think,
That you aren't with us anymore,
Don't play your pranks uncle,
Bless us with your jokes, ideas and bread sandwiches sometime soon....
Atleast bless us with the tonnes of goodwill you always had.
Let the world be cleaner,
And let more of your innocence fill this,
This mad, bad world....
Why did that raging Scorpio have to lift you to heaven?
You had so much to offer this impure, opportunist world.
You were a rare GOOD man,
And now you are extinct....
But your spirits and memories live on,
To haunt me and so many of us....
The tie you gifted me last is still my favourite and is a lucky charm,
I will preserve it...like never before, its a promise...
Will I ever do as much to people as you?
I know the answer...and that is what hurts....
Harish J
in memory of a departed, LOVED uncle,
30.11.2005
You never got your share of recognition,
You never asked for it,
But you needed it, atleast for your family.
You forgave betrayers,
As you always did...
You took tough times with a smile,
And toiled with the same zest,
You were a puritan at all you did,
Perfection in even the mundane chores was your trademark.
You always had a word or two of motivation for all of us,
Your kids were lucky as hell to have you groom them,
Your spouse and relatives adored you for the smile you brought to their faces,
Even when you had your own troubles.
You lived a noble and meaningful life,
You deserved a better end,
God shouldn't have snatched you away from us....
So soon, and in a flash....like he did.
May your spirit guide your children and my aunt towards peace,
And happiness,
And success.....
Afterall, thats what you always wanted,
A peaceful and contented family.
I hope you saw from up somewhere,
The tears and cries of despair of all of us,
We just couldn't think,
That you aren't with us anymore,
Don't play your pranks uncle,
Bless us with your jokes, ideas and bread sandwiches sometime soon....
Atleast bless us with the tonnes of goodwill you always had.
Let the world be cleaner,
And let more of your innocence fill this,
This mad, bad world....
Why did that raging Scorpio have to lift you to heaven?
You had so much to offer this impure, opportunist world.
You were a rare GOOD man,
And now you are extinct....
But your spirits and memories live on,
To haunt me and so many of us....
The tie you gifted me last is still my favourite and is a lucky charm,
I will preserve it...like never before, its a promise...
Will I ever do as much to people as you?
I know the answer...and that is what hurts....
Harish J
in memory of a departed, LOVED uncle,
30.11.2005
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Fast and Curious..
Life is fast...I am curious to know whether am makin the right moves in the frenzied activity where more often than not I am just hurried into a decision with minimal cerebration.... "Movin on with the crowd who always seem to want to catch a next flight to paradise in five minutes, rather than THINKin and plannin the next decision" - this is what I am doin...but guys, Playin catch up with an F1 car is not my definition of FUN....
Well, this rather incoherent start is not an offshoot of another of my shots of tequila...Summers happened at IIMB... Midterms, unforgiving as ever, happened a day after the placements' invasion into my time was over....Even the so-called celebration of gettin a place to go for the summer was short and yet again hurried.....
Yeah at this not so appropriate juncture, lemme say where am goin for my internship...Microsoft, Location to be known, either for a consult or a marketin role.....And BK, had to refuse ur ex company in the process;)
Now, after all the waves of frenetic activity have died down, I am still not sure whether I chose what I wanted or whether it was "take what comes ur way and get the hell outta the process"...I am definitely happy and relieved abt the placement but whether it was the best i could have mustered, I dont really know...
Not so long ago I seemed to have decided to go all out for the biggies in marketing, and then this happens....
Que sera sera....I am gonna take this by the horns and see whats in store.....Life is definitely better than it was last week with the uncertainty that had clouded over IIMB junta...cus summers and the midterms are over....Midterms were not as bad as term 1...which is good for India;) AND yeah Here's an official congrats to my dear pal Sab, aka Garbaa...who made a dream offer at HLL...Vindi Banga...watch out...our man is gonna gun for u...
And term 1 CG is also out in the open...I am not one of the toppers at IIMB, That was no surprise to me....But I aint a misfit here either....Lets see what terms 2 n 3 have to dish out.....Was particularly happy with comin out on top atleast in one course...I do hav an A to show my grandchildren;) See, I am gettin better at being satisfied by whats on offer....Life goes on...Albeit too fast and with so much in offer that I end up missin more than what I take....
Heaving a sigh of relief....and signing off...
Well, this rather incoherent start is not an offshoot of another of my shots of tequila...Summers happened at IIMB... Midterms, unforgiving as ever, happened a day after the placements' invasion into my time was over....Even the so-called celebration of gettin a place to go for the summer was short and yet again hurried.....
Yeah at this not so appropriate juncture, lemme say where am goin for my internship...Microsoft, Location to be known, either for a consult or a marketin role.....And BK, had to refuse ur ex company in the process;)
Now, after all the waves of frenetic activity have died down, I am still not sure whether I chose what I wanted or whether it was "take what comes ur way and get the hell outta the process"...I am definitely happy and relieved abt the placement but whether it was the best i could have mustered, I dont really know...
Not so long ago I seemed to have decided to go all out for the biggies in marketing, and then this happens....
Que sera sera....I am gonna take this by the horns and see whats in store.....Life is definitely better than it was last week with the uncertainty that had clouded over IIMB junta...cus summers and the midterms are over....Midterms were not as bad as term 1...which is good for India;) AND yeah Here's an official congrats to my dear pal Sab, aka Garbaa...who made a dream offer at HLL...Vindi Banga...watch out...our man is gonna gun for u...
And term 1 CG is also out in the open...I am not one of the toppers at IIMB, That was no surprise to me....But I aint a misfit here either....Lets see what terms 2 n 3 have to dish out.....Was particularly happy with comin out on top atleast in one course...I do hav an A to show my grandchildren;) See, I am gettin better at being satisfied by whats on offer....Life goes on...Albeit too fast and with so much in offer that I end up missin more than what I take....
Heaving a sigh of relief....and signing off...
Monday, October 24, 2005
Can I unlearn the art of Unrestrained and uncontrolled eloquent bullsh***ing....?
For a momentary sojourn to a different city or probably country to spend the interim time between the first year and second year in hell, the "place" (placement committee for the unaware) makes u go through well....more of hell....Ofcourse, these guys are doing a stellar job in gettin us placed and half of wat IIMB is, is due to these unsung heroes.....
But life is what the heck-tic......
A dozen resume submissions to every company that decided to put up shop in some of those god forsaken garages and under those banyan trees.....
If that were not enuf...we are subjected to relentless and unrestrained continuous discourses on the nuances of corporate life and the mantras to succeed in life, work and everythin else by some wise grey haired, paunchy guys in blazers....welll we are talkin abt the Pre Placement talks that we attend everyday......
And...its not all......we have some more fartin to do in the forms that ask u everythin from your dog's maiden name to the color of ur toilet's tiles....
What are ur three areas of focus in life in the last three years?
Me : Batting, bowling and fielding....
What do u think are ur strengths and weaknesses.?
Strength - farting
Weakness - well, it smells...
What do u think is ur greatest achievement in life so far?
My paunch....
Why do u want to join us?
Well, u offer free food and accomodation..
What are ur short term and long term goals
Short term : To sleep well today
Long term : To sleep well everyday
How do u see urself ten years from now
FAT....
Well all this uncalled for cynicism apart.....we do have a lot of work to do,..but it is somethin that is gonna serve us in the long term....ofcourse all pain is endured by believing gullibly, these glob statements...We are kinda privileged to be gettin all these opportunities....but the point is....
with the load of burdensome courses that unfailingly flummox the lesser mortal that I am, and the placement season heatin up every min....
It is time to say goodbye......
The big fat book of corporate finance that unceasingly talks of nett present value and the time value of money beckons...as if to prick me in my bottom sayin "Dude...study".....
Kotler, with his unique and unparalleled ability to scare the wits outta the reader by conjuring countless jargon in every page....is also callin me to pick him up and consume some of his gyaan....soon..
Its hence at the better interests of mankind that I sign off......
But life is what the heck-tic......
A dozen resume submissions to every company that decided to put up shop in some of those god forsaken garages and under those banyan trees.....
If that were not enuf...we are subjected to relentless and unrestrained continuous discourses on the nuances of corporate life and the mantras to succeed in life, work and everythin else by some wise grey haired, paunchy guys in blazers....welll we are talkin abt the Pre Placement talks that we attend everyday......
And...its not all......we have some more fartin to do in the forms that ask u everythin from your dog's maiden name to the color of ur toilet's tiles....
What are ur three areas of focus in life in the last three years?
Me : Batting, bowling and fielding....
What do u think are ur strengths and weaknesses.?
Strength - farting
Weakness - well, it smells...
What do u think is ur greatest achievement in life so far?
My paunch....
Why do u want to join us?
Well, u offer free food and accomodation..
What are ur short term and long term goals
Short term : To sleep well today
Long term : To sleep well everyday
How do u see urself ten years from now
FAT....
Well all this uncalled for cynicism apart.....we do have a lot of work to do,..but it is somethin that is gonna serve us in the long term....ofcourse all pain is endured by believing gullibly, these glob statements...We are kinda privileged to be gettin all these opportunities....but the point is....
with the load of burdensome courses that unfailingly flummox the lesser mortal that I am, and the placement season heatin up every min....
It is time to say goodbye......
The big fat book of corporate finance that unceasingly talks of nett present value and the time value of money beckons...as if to prick me in my bottom sayin "Dude...study".....
Kotler, with his unique and unparalleled ability to scare the wits outta the reader by conjuring countless jargon in every page....is also callin me to pick him up and consume some of his gyaan....soon..
Its hence at the better interests of mankind that I sign off......
Sunday, October 16, 2005
A blogger who entertains and enlightens...
Read this blog guys...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sonataindica/
Its full of satirical humor....and the dude who writes it happens to be my classmate...Mukka..
WTG Dude...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sonataindica/
Its full of satirical humor....and the dude who writes it happens to be my classmate...Mukka..
WTG Dude...
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Gajini - Review
I was delighted wen my iimb frnds called me to prarthana for a sat evenin Gajini show...I was lookin fwd to this movie from ages and a car ride to the theater was a welcome bonus...We picked a prime location from which to watch the movie and waited sincerely for an hour and a half for the movie to start...Ok on to the review...
Gajini started well and for those like me who dint see Memento (its english inspiration) the first half an hour was enjoyable. Surya was lookin very ominous with all those tattoos but I was disappointed seeing the spelling of "Cartridge" in one of the shots...
The surya - asin romance was contrived but again watchable. The irksome part was the ad-film maker and asin sequences..but it was bearable...
Songs sucked big time...Asin looked yuck in her intro song..."Oru maalai" song was also not well picturised...Very disappointing show by Harris Jayaraj...Summaa pazhaiya kaalathu re-recording pottu ob....
The switch of scenes between past and present was well conceived and i was lookin fwd to the second half over dinner durin intermission...
But..the second half sucked so badly that it got ridiculous beyond a point...the villian double action fundae was uncalled for and shitty....it was confusions galore beyond the first 15 mins after the interval.... Nayanthara made a royal fool of herself...and i was relieved wen finally the confusions came to an inevitable end....Surya, his presence, his charisma, his hardwork...in spite of all this, the movie fails to pass muster.
A watchable movie...but one expected much more from this promising director, actor, cast and crew...
Harris better do some justice to his projects.....so too Nayanthara...
Rajasekar was not noticed much...not much scope for him but for the residence shots...
I was disappointed to say the least after gajini....
Gajini started well and for those like me who dint see Memento (its english inspiration) the first half an hour was enjoyable. Surya was lookin very ominous with all those tattoos but I was disappointed seeing the spelling of "Cartridge" in one of the shots...
The surya - asin romance was contrived but again watchable. The irksome part was the ad-film maker and asin sequences..but it was bearable...
Songs sucked big time...Asin looked yuck in her intro song..."Oru maalai" song was also not well picturised...Very disappointing show by Harris Jayaraj...Summaa pazhaiya kaalathu re-recording pottu ob....
The switch of scenes between past and present was well conceived and i was lookin fwd to the second half over dinner durin intermission...
But..the second half sucked so badly that it got ridiculous beyond a point...the villian double action fundae was uncalled for and shitty....it was confusions galore beyond the first 15 mins after the interval.... Nayanthara made a royal fool of herself...and i was relieved wen finally the confusions came to an inevitable end....Surya, his presence, his charisma, his hardwork...in spite of all this, the movie fails to pass muster.
A watchable movie...but one expected much more from this promising director, actor, cast and crew...
Harris better do some justice to his projects.....so too Nayanthara...
Rajasekar was not noticed much...not much scope for him but for the residence shots...
I was disappointed to say the least after gajini....
Thursday, September 29, 2005
A AA...Review
Well, Don't fall for the track record at providing cheap humor that the director SJ Suryaah has...And don't even read this review beyond understanding that THESE KINDA MOVIES SUCK....
My points of concern read alarm
1. WTH is ARR doin in this movie...
2. How are junta actually standin such movies...vigadan gives it 41...i will give it 1 mark
3. The idea of live in partners is depicted in the cheapest and crappiest of ways...every scene in the first half had me uneasily, restlessly looking for the exit...
4. WTF does SJS think he is? a superman or what...his sense of impunity and lack of sens(itivity) is unparalleled...
For the record...i walked out for the first time in my life durin the intermission....
Anticipating better fare in Thotti Jaya, Gajini
My points of concern read alarm
1. WTH is ARR doin in this movie...
2. How are junta actually standin such movies...vigadan gives it 41...i will give it 1 mark
3. The idea of live in partners is depicted in the cheapest and crappiest of ways...every scene in the first half had me uneasily, restlessly looking for the exit...
4. WTF does SJS think he is? a superman or what...his sense of impunity and lack of sens(itivity) is unparalleled...
For the record...i walked out for the first time in my life durin the intermission....
Anticipating better fare in Thotti Jaya, Gajini
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Yamunaa theeram....Moksha...Bliss....Salvation..
Song of the decade.....
Ok i jus wanted to tell the world that this is the song i love the most.....and ok
in other news...exams got over today....Term 1 at IIMB..is a thin of the past....14 days at home from tomorrow. I hope i dont get too hostel sick.....yeah...i will miss this place..that makes me work and realize that Life is challenging...
"E 317" adieu for 2 weeks...I will miss u....
Hmmm..lots songs and movies to fall in love with....
so dudes....watch out for a post soon from chn....my home away from home....
Ok i jus wanted to tell the world that this is the song i love the most.....and ok
in other news...exams got over today....Term 1 at IIMB..is a thin of the past....14 days at home from tomorrow. I hope i dont get too hostel sick.....yeah...i will miss this place..that makes me work and realize that Life is challenging...
"E 317" adieu for 2 weeks...I will miss u....
Hmmm..lots songs and movies to fall in love with....
so dudes....watch out for a post soon from chn....my home away from home....
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Kadavul Returns.....
This aint the title of an arbit sequel to Anbe Sivam....To put some fundae on why i chose this shady and cuppax title for this blog...This is jus to let junta know that I am back to life.....After being mothered by the mid term results and cupping in quant....life seems good....results and CG thankfully don't hit me hard....Sorry to admit it...but the grades dint hurt me one bit...i am gonna put fight and see what happens....Que sera sera....
Ok...after some 3 nite outs..and again gettin raped by a quant quiz...i am back to watchin some movies....a days break later the nite outs and the fight starts....the next 20 days are crucial and votha...i will go down fightin;) But Music rocks.....
The songs that keep me going...and drive my floor guys mad....
Yamunatheeram from Anand...a gult movie...this song is like maajor stud level...
Uyire en uyire...From thotti jaya...Harris showin the bledy critics that he is capable of puttin fight and givin god level music....
Kandisa by Indian Ocean,....amazin song and i am MAD of this too...
Thee Pidithu from Arindhum Ariyamalum...this song is made for listenin after a shot of Vodka;)....atleast that's what it seems hearin from what junta here seem to say....
In the End it doesn't even matter - Linkin Park....Votha it's got hazaar attitude...... wenever an assignment or a test seems to psyche me out...this song enables me to put fight and get back the enthu....
Poongatru thirumbuma - Malaysia Rocks.....Edho en paattuku naan paattu paadi.....Line of the century,..
And much more.......
Life goes on;) Stayin close to the Average is the mantra...
The fight starts from tomorrow...
i hav 3 bunks left in all subs almost...so thats a chance to get back some lost sleep...and yeah...chennai will beckon in 3 weeks....not lookin fwd though...i am afraid i will get hostel sick;)
and today we had Pizza...after ages...
This post is one totally arbit piece of crap...
So i stop the ranting....
and hopefully i will be updatin the place with some sense soon,....Junta hoosh me for my nonsense..
Ok...after some 3 nite outs..and again gettin raped by a quant quiz...i am back to watchin some movies....a days break later the nite outs and the fight starts....the next 20 days are crucial and votha...i will go down fightin;) But Music rocks.....
The songs that keep me going...and drive my floor guys mad....
Yamunatheeram from Anand...a gult movie...this song is like maajor stud level...
Uyire en uyire...From thotti jaya...Harris showin the bledy critics that he is capable of puttin fight and givin god level music....
Kandisa by Indian Ocean,....amazin song and i am MAD of this too...
Thee Pidithu from Arindhum Ariyamalum...this song is made for listenin after a shot of Vodka;)....atleast that's what it seems hearin from what junta here seem to say....
In the End it doesn't even matter - Linkin Park....Votha it's got hazaar attitude...... wenever an assignment or a test seems to psyche me out...this song enables me to put fight and get back the enthu....
Poongatru thirumbuma - Malaysia Rocks.....Edho en paattuku naan paattu paadi.....Line of the century,..
And much more.......
Life goes on;) Stayin close to the Average is the mantra...
The fight starts from tomorrow...
i hav 3 bunks left in all subs almost...so thats a chance to get back some lost sleep...and yeah...chennai will beckon in 3 weeks....not lookin fwd though...i am afraid i will get hostel sick;)
and today we had Pizza...after ages...
This post is one totally arbit piece of crap...
So i stop the ranting....
and hopefully i will be updatin the place with some sense soon,....Junta hoosh me for my nonsense..
Friday, August 19, 2005
Why does Life go on?
“Why does life go on”
When Death is not an option…
It’s a decision of choice…
But when pained hearts are hands …
Which don’t and won’t let you go…
You have no choice….
When tomorrow is not an option…
But a reality you don’t want to face,
When sleep is an illusion that doesn’t help much,
In delaying the inevitable….
You look at the past in the eye…
And close your eyes…
In the hope that your eyes stay closed when that dawn comes….
If it still comes…
you close your eyes and wait for the day after…
Until Tomorrow ceases to exist…
If tomorrow does not come….
When prayers are not an option…
At seeking salvation, because love has duties attached…
You pray others will go on without you…
Knowing very well they can’t…
But that is what a prayer is…
And a prayer is not an option…
When pain is not an option…
It’s a cherished companion…
You spread the pain without knowing you do….
And your near and dear share it
even though you like enjoying it alone…
The pain must stop…albeit only for the others…
When tears are not an option…
But a matter of free flowing thought…
Words are powerless…
But tears fail you at keeping others happy…
Why are they for?
If they can’t ease one’s pain…
And multiply others’ pain to manifest in their eyes….
They are not an option…
Life shouldn’t go on…
But it will…
Damn It…
Harish Jayesh
18.8.2005
When Death is not an option…
It’s a decision of choice…
But when pained hearts are hands …
Which don’t and won’t let you go…
You have no choice….
When tomorrow is not an option…
But a reality you don’t want to face,
When sleep is an illusion that doesn’t help much,
In delaying the inevitable….
You look at the past in the eye…
And close your eyes…
In the hope that your eyes stay closed when that dawn comes….
If it still comes…
you close your eyes and wait for the day after…
Until Tomorrow ceases to exist…
If tomorrow does not come….
When prayers are not an option…
At seeking salvation, because love has duties attached…
You pray others will go on without you…
Knowing very well they can’t…
But that is what a prayer is…
And a prayer is not an option…
When pain is not an option…
It’s a cherished companion…
You spread the pain without knowing you do….
And your near and dear share it
even though you like enjoying it alone…
The pain must stop…albeit only for the others…
When tears are not an option…
But a matter of free flowing thought…
Words are powerless…
But tears fail you at keeping others happy…
Why are they for?
If they can’t ease one’s pain…
And multiply others’ pain to manifest in their eyes….
They are not an option…
Life shouldn’t go on…
But it will…
Damn It…
Harish Jayesh
18.8.2005
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Ilayaraaja at his Rustic best - Thiruvaasagam....
Kiss the Laptop vendor who delivered my laptop today...that meant i cud access the lan and swindle all kinds of good music...my music db grew boundlessly in 3 hours and among stuff i lapped up hungrily in my lappie were thiruvaasagam, a aa and rising....the latter two dint get the keypad click...(no mouse yet)....thiruvaasagam was mindblowing...riveting,..inspiring....tear inducing, it took me into a realm of bhakti...yet was so mellifluous and brilliantly simple.....reach is raaja's forte...and reach he did...he touched the deepest chords in my inside and something was so simple yet divine in the music....pooerukanum purandharanum...by bavadhaarini and raaja is my favourite....balumahendra's movie style song...yet a bhakti rasa filled song...thats raaja for you...a close second is "putril vaazharamum anjen" brilliantly orchestrated and rendered by raaja..."ammanaam anjum aare" that line takes the cake.......
guys zikr is no longer where the search for divine music ends....raaja has some answers....
Brilliant.....Tamil Nadu is freakin fortunate to have 2 gods composing magical songs on 2 gods....
guys zikr is no longer where the search for divine music ends....raaja has some answers....
Brilliant.....Tamil Nadu is freakin fortunate to have 2 gods composing magical songs on 2 gods....
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Need for Sleep
I know one guy who will gloat in sadistic pleasure reading this...my fellow wannabe B school grad in Vastrapur, Ahmedabad.....Yes sab, you finally got what u wanted....This foolish grad at B also has succesfully fallen trap to the "Lose sleep, Lose sense, Try and gain RG....But lose that also" syndrome..... Its been a while since lady luck bestowed a recharge card with sleep time of 480 mins on me....But then no cribbing...Drinking pepsi at midnight drives me high......And there is a group study mode here...so it aint bad after all...
The grind takes a day's halt today and i thot what better time to fill some space that i know will delight my large group of (yeah i included all 3 of you!!!) readers.....Wanna watch sarkar and catch Mangal Pandey's music soon....Sarkar btw was a great movie to watch...AB and AB rock...and i officially join the "Godfather and movies based on Godfather" fan club....Nayagan and Sarkar are worthy imitations of GF....And yeah...Watch out for Ance Sitco's next productions....The next Girish-Harish Film will take off soon,....the oneliner is ready,.. ;)
And nothin much else to say except that Chennai food rocks and atleast our mess food sucks....
Here's wishing all my readers a merry christmas and a happy new year......
Ok i will shut up and go to sleep now...
The grind takes a day's halt today and i thot what better time to fill some space that i know will delight my large group of (yeah i included all 3 of you!!!) readers.....Wanna watch sarkar and catch Mangal Pandey's music soon....Sarkar btw was a great movie to watch...AB and AB rock...and i officially join the "Godfather and movies based on Godfather" fan club....Nayagan and Sarkar are worthy imitations of GF....And yeah...Watch out for Ance Sitco's next productions....The next Girish-Harish Film will take off soon,....the oneliner is ready,.. ;)
And nothin much else to say except that Chennai food rocks and atleast our mess food sucks....
Here's wishing all my readers a merry christmas and a happy new year......
Ok i will shut up and go to sleep now...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
B days....
Its been 4 days since i landed in the place i never imagined i would have a chance to spend 2 yrs in,...IIMB...
its fun being here and in campus life rocks..the seniors give u a complex...chilled out,nerdy,witty,voluble,knowledgeable...were they like me when they entered...or were they in leagues of their own,,,is it really possible to gain so much over a year....absolutely mind blowing achievers....
my batch too is full of achievers...I have my cup full...am lucky to be in such exalted company..and hopefully the wave shall carry this clearly ordinary guy thro....
God be with me...may your prayers be with me....
Cricket,Tsepak,Basketball are the sports....
Food is good...variety fare..am sure to cross 110...;)
Ok...will update more as the grind intensifies...
its fun being here and in campus life rocks..the seniors give u a complex...chilled out,nerdy,witty,voluble,knowledgeable...were they like me when they entered...or were they in leagues of their own,,,is it really possible to gain so much over a year....absolutely mind blowing achievers....
my batch too is full of achievers...I have my cup full...am lucky to be in such exalted company..and hopefully the wave shall carry this clearly ordinary guy thro....
God be with me...may your prayers be with me....
Cricket,Tsepak,Basketball are the sports....
Food is good...variety fare..am sure to cross 110...;)
Ok...will update more as the grind intensifies...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
The Making of ABCD
Ance Sitco Presents.... (All three screens in black..text in white, a red underline is there of course)
A Girish-Harish Film
ABCD (America Bound Confused Desis)
Feels good to read these lines aint it....
Actually this was the motivation to make ABCD...to see that screen "A Girish-Harish Film"....
But these kinda crazy motivations are infact very important in life...its been an amazin experience making ABCD..donno how it will shape up as a watching experience..feedback from viewers so far have been thankfully good..
Ok..no more crappin...straight to the making of ABCD...
Makki has to be thanked eternally for providing the spark in bangalore to Girish when the last thing Giri was supp to do was thinkin of scripts for a film(He was there for an IIM intvw)....but strange situations have significant outcomes.....
Then, that spark was harnessed into something that vaguely resembled a script...Of course we preferred to call anything that had dialogues and scene descriptions running over 10 pages a script....
These, I must tell u happened in the last week of April...we have to thank GMail for providing us the mechanism to do reviews of scripts from our locations...me in hyd and Giri in Chn,...
Ofcourse half, infact most of the scenes were conceived over the phone...so god bless BSNL too....
Then....
As always we went idle for a fortnight....for no particular reason,,,thats why I said "as always"....
Giri's vacation, my release formalities, laziness, lack of equipment and other lame excuses.....
But ok...we somehow regained our senses and Giri with Prasanna,RR and Sriram (The average age of these three should be 17!!!).... we started shooting ABCD... (How valuable these 3 young fellas were, words cant describe....)
Oh yes the cast was decided sometime before that...
Till june 4 we dint have much to show as progress in the movie...but then suddenly after I finally reached chennai....Thanks to divine intervention,. we managed to muster enthu and to shrug off our laziness....Yes, June 5-Jun 18 were thirteen days of frenetic activity for the crew and cast of ABCD....
We shot at Fruit Shop on Greams Road with Swetha..
At Somasundaram Ground Road,T.Nagar (Barath,Anurag,Prasanna)
At Sapthagiri Roadside Restaurant,T.Nagar(Raama,Vasanth)
At K.V.Colony West Mambalam(Mrs Mohanaa )
At A temple in T.Nagar...(Vasanth)
And some more shots indoors....(suraj, His mom)
And shooting was wound up on 15th Jun...
the next three days were as much a learning experience as three days can manage to pack for u....
somehow these novices turned editors and sound engineers..God bless the viewers....
but all in all we were happy to learn by doing...and that in itself is for us..a victory...
6.18 am on June 18 ....ABCD.avi was ready.....
June 18 and June 19, ABCD was screened at friends' and relatives' houses....and we must say they liked what they saw....
June 19 evening ABCD Cds were burnt....to be circulated to our outside chennai well wishers...
June 20...Girish Boarded Nav Jeevan express...a contented co-director of ABCD......
To those who see ABCD after this..please pass on ur feedback to us.....we appreciate it lots....
God is great...as always....
A Girish-Harish Film
ABCD (America Bound Confused Desis)
Feels good to read these lines aint it....
Actually this was the motivation to make ABCD...to see that screen "A Girish-Harish Film"....
But these kinda crazy motivations are infact very important in life...its been an amazin experience making ABCD..donno how it will shape up as a watching experience..feedback from viewers so far have been thankfully good..
Ok..no more crappin...straight to the making of ABCD...
Makki has to be thanked eternally for providing the spark in bangalore to Girish when the last thing Giri was supp to do was thinkin of scripts for a film(He was there for an IIM intvw)....but strange situations have significant outcomes.....
Then, that spark was harnessed into something that vaguely resembled a script...Of course we preferred to call anything that had dialogues and scene descriptions running over 10 pages a script....
These, I must tell u happened in the last week of April...we have to thank GMail for providing us the mechanism to do reviews of scripts from our locations...me in hyd and Giri in Chn,...
Ofcourse half, infact most of the scenes were conceived over the phone...so god bless BSNL too....
Then....
As always we went idle for a fortnight....for no particular reason,,,thats why I said "as always"....
Giri's vacation, my release formalities, laziness, lack of equipment and other lame excuses.....
But ok...we somehow regained our senses and Giri with Prasanna,RR and Sriram (The average age of these three should be 17!!!).... we started shooting ABCD... (How valuable these 3 young fellas were, words cant describe....)
Oh yes the cast was decided sometime before that...
Till june 4 we dint have much to show as progress in the movie...but then suddenly after I finally reached chennai....Thanks to divine intervention,. we managed to muster enthu and to shrug off our laziness....Yes, June 5-Jun 18 were thirteen days of frenetic activity for the crew and cast of ABCD....
We shot at Fruit Shop on Greams Road with Swetha..
At Somasundaram Ground Road,T.Nagar (Barath,Anurag,Prasanna)
At Sapthagiri Roadside Restaurant,T.Nagar(Raama,Vasanth)
At K.V.Colony West Mambalam(Mrs Mohanaa )
At A temple in T.Nagar...(Vasanth)
And some more shots indoors....(suraj, His mom)
And shooting was wound up on 15th Jun...
the next three days were as much a learning experience as three days can manage to pack for u....
somehow these novices turned editors and sound engineers..God bless the viewers....
but all in all we were happy to learn by doing...and that in itself is for us..a victory...
6.18 am on June 18 ....ABCD.avi was ready.....
June 18 and June 19, ABCD was screened at friends' and relatives' houses....and we must say they liked what they saw....
June 19 evening ABCD Cds were burnt....to be circulated to our outside chennai well wishers...
June 20...Girish Boarded Nav Jeevan express...a contented co-director of ABCD......
To those who see ABCD after this..please pass on ur feedback to us.....we appreciate it lots....
God is great...as always....
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Time flies....Memories are Permanent...
Its been an absolute super fast express ride....Life at hyderabad....and to actually end up learning so much at a place that was intended to be fate's punishment for Harish Cribbing Jayesh, is another epitome to that great law of nature "Every second presents a learning opportunity"... I totally totally enjoyed reliving the highs and lows in Hyd during the Journey back home in a not so comfortable APSRTC Bus...Man, hasn't hyderabad and TCS been the blessing in disguise God had in mind...His arrangements and moves are all perfectly orchestrated and have the larger picture in mind...To learn and practise Emotional independence and exercise financial independence and to enjoy living life doing work that you dont like and still learn... are MUST DOs for any 20 something pampered kid from the world that is in the other side of the US of A...
These last few weeks at home before commencing the next leg of my journey at IIMB, are so damn blissful...To chill heels in the cozy realms of parental affection...and to indulge in all the collegiate "chinna chinna aasais" one more time...I am blessed....
Chennai hasn't changed...So hasn't Hyd in my absence....Life goes on for those there...So does life for my parents...they still do the same things they used to do when I was at SVCE, or for that matter at PSBB.....Again...I have a lot to learn...how many times will this be reinforced....
Radio Mirchi, The mega serials, Noon shows at these theaters in chn, Our eat - out spots, dreams net, books,FRIENDS....My average day is so damn well composed out of these.....
BTW am reading To kill a mocking bird...have watched chandramuki now...and so too Ullam Ketkume....Waiting for Anniyan...
Kumari song from Anniyan is a key to attain BLISS..Shankar "genius" Mahadevan....man, is he a divine singer.....
So long then....
These last few weeks at home before commencing the next leg of my journey at IIMB, are so damn blissful...To chill heels in the cozy realms of parental affection...and to indulge in all the collegiate "chinna chinna aasais" one more time...I am blessed....
Chennai hasn't changed...So hasn't Hyd in my absence....Life goes on for those there...So does life for my parents...they still do the same things they used to do when I was at SVCE, or for that matter at PSBB.....Again...I have a lot to learn...how many times will this be reinforced....
Radio Mirchi, The mega serials, Noon shows at these theaters in chn, Our eat - out spots, dreams net, books,FRIENDS....My average day is so damn well composed out of these.....
BTW am reading To kill a mocking bird...have watched chandramuki now...and so too Ullam Ketkume....Waiting for Anniyan...
Kumari song from Anniyan is a key to attain BLISS..Shankar "genius" Mahadevan....man, is he a divine singer.....
So long then....
Friday, May 27, 2005
Bye bye Hyd....
TCS released me last week from duties officially...but am still sittin in my cabin n typin this a week after that....some duties need not have the official stamp on them...
i loved every moment of life this week here....and this like all good things is gonna end...
tcs won't prob have me ever;)...unless ofcourse some time after mba i return...which i wont rule out....
thanks for life at tcs for makin me learn lots....and all the ppl here....
Now am gettin to chn to spend some time with our(g and mine) pet project;)
and hopefully rest for the grind thts ahead..
No more unlimited comp access....that means Dreams net here i come every day....
Among other thins BOSE i wanna see...
Sachin I saw...not too impressed...time pass....
Kanaa Kanden...that Moolai thirugum song is splendid...decent movie...should hopefully run for 100 days...
Chandramuki and Mum Exp have not seen..will see soon...i think am one of the few tams not to have seen superstar's latest movie...dont curse me for that...
what else....am bugged of travellin but can't help it i guess....cus travellin is the only way of gettin from and to hyd and chennai......
i loved every moment of life this week here....and this like all good things is gonna end...
tcs won't prob have me ever;)...unless ofcourse some time after mba i return...which i wont rule out....
thanks for life at tcs for makin me learn lots....and all the ppl here....
Now am gettin to chn to spend some time with our(g and mine) pet project;)
and hopefully rest for the grind thts ahead..
No more unlimited comp access....that means Dreams net here i come every day....
Among other thins BOSE i wanna see...
Sachin I saw...not too impressed...time pass....
Kanaa Kanden...that Moolai thirugum song is splendid...decent movie...should hopefully run for 100 days...
Chandramuki and Mum Exp have not seen..will see soon...i think am one of the few tams not to have seen superstar's latest movie...dont curse me for that...
what else....am bugged of travellin but can't help it i guess....cus travellin is the only way of gettin from and to hyd and chennai......
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
A trip back in time....
April 29th 5.30 pm - A bunch of Nine guys and girls left TCS Hyderabad for a tour to places in and around the Mangalore area in Karnataka. The reason for the genesis of the trip is that Chaitra , my frnd , lives in that area and she nursed an idea like "Let's all explore the areas around my house....and were there a few places worth visiting....
April 29th 7 pm - Boarded the APSRTC bus to Mangalore.
After a good munch of Lays, Kurkure et al, Stopped at hoysula for a quick dinner. "Fiza" the movie was played and yours truly enjoyed "Piya haji ali " lots and was touched by Bose in the ear phones and Fiza in the screen....good BGM for riveting scenes in the movie.....
The next morning Jay the strong man atleast when it comes to travel became "Pukey"Man... The Shiraadi ghat in the Western ghats gave me a very stern welcome - Yours truly puked 4 times with sound effects as ppl here try to remind me...and apart from that "Nausea"stalgic event our landing at Surikumeri village in Dakshin Kannada District was peaceful...Chaitra's house is called "Kuvekodi" and is in Surikumeri....After what was a nice bath and an even better lunch for famished souls...we went aboard the Toyota qualis to "venture" into the woods towards Thala Cauvery....The route we chose to take was not the usual one and was in every sense "The Road Less Travelled". From Chaitra's grandpa's house "Gaalivana" in Thodikana which is as deserted and rocky as villages can get, we took a very sinuous and rocky road that joins miraculously at Thala cauvery - birth place of the bone of contention of TN and Karnataka....After what was a "rock and roll" ride in the open back of a "Jonga" (Jeep for the less knowledgeable) we reached Thala Cauvery at sunset time and was it a sight to relish.....
After what were 45 mins or so of absolute bliss at thala cauvery we came down the same road lesser travelled at night singing songs from movies ads and even mega serials....;)
A sumptuous dinner and intro sessions at thodikana grand pa's house later....Day one April 30 came to a halt....
Day 2 - May 1 2005...
Early rise at 6 am, then we all proceeded in another of those jonga's with our super parthasarathi - Gowreesh Maava - to Devaragundi - a waterfall that sadly had very little water but super sceneries around it....After lettin our feet dip in the water, we went to a fish pond "Meenagundi" where ravaging fishes ate all that we offered them, right out of our hands....Excellent feeling that being bitten by a toothless fish;) Then a visit to a temple later we proceeded to a hanging bridge "Aranthodu " on payaswini river...Yours truly rocked the hanging bridge and scared a few innocent tourists;)....After what was a long long ride....we went to St Mary's Island near Udupi in Malpe Beach.....The speciality of this place is that the beach has an island which is a 40 min boat ride from the coast....Brilliant swades like boat ride it was and ofcourse in that island's beach I took the plunge only to spoil my cell phone but still had a whale of a time....
Dinner that night was at "Diana" - famous for its ice cream variety "Gud bud" a Mangalore special...So that and a drive later, we reached "Patrame" another village where one more uncle of Chaitra "Prasad Maava" stays....it was a super place "Panchavati" their farm had a camp fire waiting for us...A nice camp fire later we all slept tired souls....
Day 3 May 2 2005 -
The water day....after a good breakfast ....the swimmer in me proceeded with all others towards "Shishila " River...where we all had a great time teaching, learning and performing various strokes in swimming...I was a hippo in water both in size and nature;)...That was essentially it that day ....we came back to surikumeri to catch a bus back to the bustling city life.....What a trip it was.....The villagers and chaitra's relatives were a revelation...they set me into deep thinking mode of how life should and can be....Keeping things simple, offering hearty help..I take my hat off for all of them..the entire family....All in all lots to learn from the trip...What ? that's a post in itself....
The cast - Sandeep,Chaitra,Manu,Bops,Chaitanya,Dharani,Anupama,Ice and urs truly.....
Life is good.....
p.s : the return bus journey was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....14 hrs of sleep...contented hearts, tired bodies, dreamy souls........
April 29th 7 pm - Boarded the APSRTC bus to Mangalore.
After a good munch of Lays, Kurkure et al, Stopped at hoysula for a quick dinner. "Fiza" the movie was played and yours truly enjoyed "Piya haji ali " lots and was touched by Bose in the ear phones and Fiza in the screen....good BGM for riveting scenes in the movie.....
The next morning Jay the strong man atleast when it comes to travel became "Pukey"Man... The Shiraadi ghat in the Western ghats gave me a very stern welcome - Yours truly puked 4 times with sound effects as ppl here try to remind me...and apart from that "Nausea"stalgic event our landing at Surikumeri village in Dakshin Kannada District was peaceful...Chaitra's house is called "Kuvekodi" and is in Surikumeri....After what was a nice bath and an even better lunch for famished souls...we went aboard the Toyota qualis to "venture" into the woods towards Thala Cauvery....The route we chose to take was not the usual one and was in every sense "The Road Less Travelled". From Chaitra's grandpa's house "Gaalivana" in Thodikana which is as deserted and rocky as villages can get, we took a very sinuous and rocky road that joins miraculously at Thala cauvery - birth place of the bone of contention of TN and Karnataka....After what was a "rock and roll" ride in the open back of a "Jonga" (Jeep for the less knowledgeable) we reached Thala Cauvery at sunset time and was it a sight to relish.....
After what were 45 mins or so of absolute bliss at thala cauvery we came down the same road lesser travelled at night singing songs from movies ads and even mega serials....;)
A sumptuous dinner and intro sessions at thodikana grand pa's house later....Day one April 30 came to a halt....
Day 2 - May 1 2005...
Early rise at 6 am, then we all proceeded in another of those jonga's with our super parthasarathi - Gowreesh Maava - to Devaragundi - a waterfall that sadly had very little water but super sceneries around it....After lettin our feet dip in the water, we went to a fish pond "Meenagundi" where ravaging fishes ate all that we offered them, right out of our hands....Excellent feeling that being bitten by a toothless fish;) Then a visit to a temple later we proceeded to a hanging bridge "Aranthodu " on payaswini river...Yours truly rocked the hanging bridge and scared a few innocent tourists;)....After what was a long long ride....we went to St Mary's Island near Udupi in Malpe Beach.....The speciality of this place is that the beach has an island which is a 40 min boat ride from the coast....Brilliant swades like boat ride it was and ofcourse in that island's beach I took the plunge only to spoil my cell phone but still had a whale of a time....
Dinner that night was at "Diana" - famous for its ice cream variety "Gud bud" a Mangalore special...So that and a drive later, we reached "Patrame" another village where one more uncle of Chaitra "Prasad Maava" stays....it was a super place "Panchavati" their farm had a camp fire waiting for us...A nice camp fire later we all slept tired souls....
Day 3 May 2 2005 -
The water day....after a good breakfast ....the swimmer in me proceeded with all others towards "Shishila " River...where we all had a great time teaching, learning and performing various strokes in swimming...I was a hippo in water both in size and nature;)...That was essentially it that day ....we came back to surikumeri to catch a bus back to the bustling city life.....What a trip it was.....The villagers and chaitra's relatives were a revelation...they set me into deep thinking mode of how life should and can be....Keeping things simple, offering hearty help..I take my hat off for all of them..the entire family....All in all lots to learn from the trip...What ? that's a post in itself....
The cast - Sandeep,Chaitra,Manu,Bops,Chaitanya,Dharani,Anupama,Ice and urs truly.....
Life is good.....
p.s : the return bus journey was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....14 hrs of sleep...contented hearts, tired bodies, dreamy souls........
Monday, April 25, 2005
The Tied Rubber tube/Telephone wire made "ball" Incident and BOSE
Weird topic...I know...But when I was taking an evening 3.5 km walk alone to Hyderabad Central to buy BOSE, I saw nine guys engaging in a entertaining activity that held my attention for 10 mins....and anything that is worth my attention is worth a blog entry...Ofcourse there are other thins also that mite be discussed in this entry...
Back to the Small black ball incident...The location was a small mud shuttle court thats jus in the entry area of a road side park in SriNagar colony.....Nine small bags were hangin in trees that shelter that area from the sun durin daytime but ....the time was 6.15 in the evenin and the trees' primary role was to be a holder for all the bags of our protagonists....the nine guys were standin in a circle and a small black ball made of telephone wire/rubber tube was the object of their and a whole lot of "watchers from the sidelines'" attention....and man were they talented....
kickin the ball to each other and keepin the ball in "play", their ball skills were downright amazing.....One fella particularly was dexterous in the way he received the ball with his stomach area and nursed it like a baby before transfering it to the back of his leg and kicking it precisely to the person he intended...all of them were born entertainers and yours truly had a great time seeing the guys enjoy the game and the attention they were getting....But boy these guys deserve their place under the sun....
Bose was purchased finally...(Girish was particularly particular that I buy the album) and man it's one of the albums of the year....
Aazadi...is absolutely the patriotic song of the year...The orchestral style "Jaya Hinds" are brilliantly supplemented by our man ARR singing his lines....Especially brilliant is the way he says "Lok tere ek vatan" and "Azadi" and "Lakhon dilon ki"....excuse me if the lyrics aren't spot on....
And one more song that evoked a "play-tears on the eye, replay-goosepimples" routine some seven times was Zikr...Again by ARR..man is he the FEEL singer.....Absolutely the man to deliver songs that have feeling...And the Allaah Hu....chorus and the mantraic repetitions are mind blowing...ARR and the lyricist Javed saab are absolute geniuses in complementing music and tune with rhythmic lyric...
Sonu was at his lilting best in his two songs and "Des ki Mitti" was brilliant and reminded me of "En kaadhale"....
Guys if you haven't experienced Bose yet....please....It's a journey into our Indianness...Patriotism as girish said is an even better feeling to experience than Love;)
Back to the Small black ball incident...The location was a small mud shuttle court thats jus in the entry area of a road side park in SriNagar colony.....Nine small bags were hangin in trees that shelter that area from the sun durin daytime but ....the time was 6.15 in the evenin and the trees' primary role was to be a holder for all the bags of our protagonists....the nine guys were standin in a circle and a small black ball made of telephone wire/rubber tube was the object of their and a whole lot of "watchers from the sidelines'" attention....and man were they talented....
kickin the ball to each other and keepin the ball in "play", their ball skills were downright amazing.....One fella particularly was dexterous in the way he received the ball with his stomach area and nursed it like a baby before transfering it to the back of his leg and kicking it precisely to the person he intended...all of them were born entertainers and yours truly had a great time seeing the guys enjoy the game and the attention they were getting....But boy these guys deserve their place under the sun....
Bose was purchased finally...(Girish was particularly particular that I buy the album) and man it's one of the albums of the year....
Aazadi...is absolutely the patriotic song of the year...The orchestral style "Jaya Hinds" are brilliantly supplemented by our man ARR singing his lines....Especially brilliant is the way he says "Lok tere ek vatan" and "Azadi" and "Lakhon dilon ki"....excuse me if the lyrics aren't spot on....
And one more song that evoked a "play-tears on the eye, replay-goosepimples" routine some seven times was Zikr...Again by ARR..man is he the FEEL singer.....Absolutely the man to deliver songs that have feeling...And the Allaah Hu....chorus and the mantraic repetitions are mind blowing...ARR and the lyricist Javed saab are absolute geniuses in complementing music and tune with rhythmic lyric...
Sonu was at his lilting best in his two songs and "Des ki Mitti" was brilliant and reminded me of "En kaadhale"....
Guys if you haven't experienced Bose yet....please....It's a journey into our Indianness...Patriotism as girish said is an even better feeling to experience than Love;)
Thursday, April 14, 2005
July 2003-May 2005 : A Journey
It's been a while since a very pleasant storm struck Girish's and my life....and We are sure that it's a life transforming bit of news..Girish and myself saw the gods granting us our long yearned for wishes - A seat in the IIMs and has it been a windfall...Girish has made it to the best of them all- IIMA, and yours truly will by his grace go to IIMB....I just wanted the "sinking in" to be completed before attempting a post..hence the delay...
It all seems like a blur- the years of effort, the disappointment of not making it last year, the pressures at work that almost made me stay in office the last 48 hours before the exam, a potentially dangerous accident that I survived with the least damage possible, the hours spent reading Business World and stuff I was totally unbothered or simply unaware of, the early morning 10 km drives in semi asleep state to the GD PI classes, the numerous chat sessions with Raama, the thousands spent in the phone discussing anything vaguely related to CAT and B-Schools with Girish, the hours spent analysing SIMCATs, the hits made to Pagalguy.com hunting down any bit of gyaan related to MBA, the pep talks of Hyd junta, the numerous times Self doubts almost got the better of me and threatened to consider calling it quits, All in all I must say God has been very very kind to me and that I am one of the most fortunate fellows on Earth...
It all started when on July 3 2003, My joining date at TCS got postponed from July 16 to October 6 and I was suddenly left with nothing to do for the next three months....That's when Raama and Kaushik Rajan asked me to consider preparing for CAT 03...Strange to note that this was how a passion was finally given the go- ahead....Something had always stopped me from writing or rather preparing for CAT....I needed that bit of "goof-up" from the TCS-HR to convince me to shrug off the laziness and put my head down....
For some strange reason, some one decided to cancel that CAT, which I had done very well ( infact that still remains my best ever CAT to date), and the re-test was a flop mainly because I just could not digest living away from my mother in Hyderabad when she was undergoing a surgery in Chennai....Well, No excuses but that's the truth.... and I still remember the LONG train journey from Chennai to Hyderabad after messing up that CAT on Feb 15 2004....BK and Vatsa were there at the station and I cried as much as I have ever...I still remember BK calling me from home that night and I spoke for 45 mins from the train toilet;)
Numerous mails, phone calls, and a needless depression later, I started to stop fooling around and face the truth and start all over again...That has to be the best decision I have made....God has carried me from then....May 04 - April 05...this entire year has been centered around the CAT...and I am delighted and thankful to god to be where I am....
Girish flying down after an MS to join my "dream chase" was a piece of magic that God decided to enforce....and our journey together has been as it always has been...
The moral of the story is something I have made a part of my Belief set...."GIVE 100% to whatever you do WITHOUT FEAR OF FAILURE"...It required this episode in life to reinforce that....
Sorry People if this was a bore to read, or too "me-centric" but I thought some readers might draw inspiration from an example of the fact that God's grace, a dream, honest effort and good guidance from family and friends can lead to that dream being realized.....
GOD IS GREAT...Hope he carries me in my future endeavours as he has so far.....
It all seems like a blur- the years of effort, the disappointment of not making it last year, the pressures at work that almost made me stay in office the last 48 hours before the exam, a potentially dangerous accident that I survived with the least damage possible, the hours spent reading Business World and stuff I was totally unbothered or simply unaware of, the early morning 10 km drives in semi asleep state to the GD PI classes, the numerous chat sessions with Raama, the thousands spent in the phone discussing anything vaguely related to CAT and B-Schools with Girish, the hours spent analysing SIMCATs, the hits made to Pagalguy.com hunting down any bit of gyaan related to MBA, the pep talks of Hyd junta, the numerous times Self doubts almost got the better of me and threatened to consider calling it quits, All in all I must say God has been very very kind to me and that I am one of the most fortunate fellows on Earth...
It all started when on July 3 2003, My joining date at TCS got postponed from July 16 to October 6 and I was suddenly left with nothing to do for the next three months....That's when Raama and Kaushik Rajan asked me to consider preparing for CAT 03...Strange to note that this was how a passion was finally given the go- ahead....Something had always stopped me from writing or rather preparing for CAT....I needed that bit of "goof-up" from the TCS-HR to convince me to shrug off the laziness and put my head down....
For some strange reason, some one decided to cancel that CAT, which I had done very well ( infact that still remains my best ever CAT to date), and the re-test was a flop mainly because I just could not digest living away from my mother in Hyderabad when she was undergoing a surgery in Chennai....Well, No excuses but that's the truth.... and I still remember the LONG train journey from Chennai to Hyderabad after messing up that CAT on Feb 15 2004....BK and Vatsa were there at the station and I cried as much as I have ever...I still remember BK calling me from home that night and I spoke for 45 mins from the train toilet;)
Numerous mails, phone calls, and a needless depression later, I started to stop fooling around and face the truth and start all over again...That has to be the best decision I have made....God has carried me from then....May 04 - April 05...this entire year has been centered around the CAT...and I am delighted and thankful to god to be where I am....
Girish flying down after an MS to join my "dream chase" was a piece of magic that God decided to enforce....and our journey together has been as it always has been...
The moral of the story is something I have made a part of my Belief set...."GIVE 100% to whatever you do WITHOUT FEAR OF FAILURE"...It required this episode in life to reinforce that....
Sorry People if this was a bore to read, or too "me-centric" but I thought some readers might draw inspiration from an example of the fact that God's grace, a dream, honest effort and good guidance from family and friends can lead to that dream being realized.....
GOD IS GREAT...Hope he carries me in my future endeavours as he has so far.....
Monday, April 04, 2005
Animal Farm...Parable beyond compare
If there has to be a book that enlightens, entertains and keeps you riveted to the end that too in a matter of 100 mins and 120 pages...it has to be this book by George Orwell...
The best example to cite for "Short and sweet"...the same can be said of "Love Story" and "Alchemist" too...but this one has to rank number one jointly with The Alchemist...
People who know what it is to be in a work environ, this is one book that you can relate to, in every page and every little detail. Ofcourse, for the fresher too, it will go down as a very informative and will teach the keen reader some things to be wary of in the workplace...
What Power can do, and what egos do to an organization, and how the managers manipulate the workers, the power the voluble talker commands in any organization, and the naivette of the lower middle class....All these are brilliantly depicted in a fable par excellence...
"All animals are equal but some are more equal then others" - though this has been oft repeated...the truest truism of all....
How every noble cause is vulnerable to manipulation and how important regulation is and how dangerous over regulation is, the plus and minus of democracy, the leadership styles of managers, why a workhorse is called a WORK HORSE..Great for readers who like to go the inferential route after reading books..I would defly want to read it again and extract more gyaan...
The best example to cite for "Short and sweet"...the same can be said of "Love Story" and "Alchemist" too...but this one has to rank number one jointly with The Alchemist...
People who know what it is to be in a work environ, this is one book that you can relate to, in every page and every little detail. Ofcourse, for the fresher too, it will go down as a very informative and will teach the keen reader some things to be wary of in the workplace...
What Power can do, and what egos do to an organization, and how the managers manipulate the workers, the power the voluble talker commands in any organization, and the naivette of the lower middle class....All these are brilliantly depicted in a fable par excellence...
"All animals are equal but some are more equal then others" - though this has been oft repeated...the truest truism of all....
How every noble cause is vulnerable to manipulation and how important regulation is and how dangerous over regulation is, the plus and minus of democracy, the leadership styles of managers, why a workhorse is called a WORK HORSE..Great for readers who like to go the inferential route after reading books..I would defly want to read it again and extract more gyaan...
Thursday, March 31, 2005
"Music" Reloaded (into moi life)....
Man..Life at home is different with continuous music in the background. No wonder I can't pat myself enough on my back for my decision to buy that CD MAN at last....Thanks to lesser work in TCS and a renewed interest in reading..I rush home to get hold of any piece of literature(The Hindu qualifies for this as well;)) hidden motive being - listen to the amazin music that I play on the CD Man....It used to be walk man before...but the continuity and quality has improved since Walk became CD....;)
Bryan Adams with his "Cloud Number Nine...", "The only thing that looks good on me", "Inside Out" etc and ofcourse "Summer of 69" is high on my playlist....
As far as Rajaa is concerned...there are some 120 songs from the 80s that are all Beauties...some chupaa rustums that I look for being..."Pon Maane Sangeetham", "Naan Paadum Mauna Raagam" and "Vaan uyarndha solaiyile"..
Out of the ARR wonders "Mudhal murai killi" and "Oru poiyaavadhu sol" were recent addictions...
Comin to Latest stuff...My respect and awe for Vidyasagar is growin by the day...Man
that "Vizhiyum Vizhiyum" from sadhurangam is abso-bloody-lutely the victory of good ol' melody....So too his "Konja neram" from chandramukhi....His "Vamba velaikku" from Ji had me dancing yday;)
Kaadhal and its "Unakkena iruppaen",Kaadhal theme, and ofcourse " thottu thottu" made me realize one thing...Haricharan is the next big thing in Tamil music...absolute bliss each time i listen to these three songs....Taht female harini sudhakar is very cute in singing that "Kaadhal" last line of saranam....
Among other favourites..."Kaadhal Valarthen","Kan pesum vaarthai", "ninaithu ninaithu" get the psycho in me going...Especially, hats off to Karthik in "Kan pesum vaarthai"...;ROFL remembering the mimicry session on singers that we had in Giri's place this weekend in chn....
So much for my Musi-Mania....and my musing mania on my musi-mania....
Suggest more such songs which i can load and enjoy my evenins....
p.s
Check out the side bar of my blog.,..It now contains the latest books I read...
Bryan Adams with his "Cloud Number Nine...", "The only thing that looks good on me", "Inside Out" etc and ofcourse "Summer of 69" is high on my playlist....
As far as Rajaa is concerned...there are some 120 songs from the 80s that are all Beauties...some chupaa rustums that I look for being..."Pon Maane Sangeetham", "Naan Paadum Mauna Raagam" and "Vaan uyarndha solaiyile"..
Out of the ARR wonders "Mudhal murai killi" and "Oru poiyaavadhu sol" were recent addictions...
Comin to Latest stuff...My respect and awe for Vidyasagar is growin by the day...Man
that "Vizhiyum Vizhiyum" from sadhurangam is abso-bloody-lutely the victory of good ol' melody....So too his "Konja neram" from chandramukhi....His "Vamba velaikku" from Ji had me dancing yday;)
Kaadhal and its "Unakkena iruppaen",Kaadhal theme, and ofcourse " thottu thottu" made me realize one thing...Haricharan is the next big thing in Tamil music...absolute bliss each time i listen to these three songs....Taht female harini sudhakar is very cute in singing that "Kaadhal" last line of saranam....
Among other favourites..."Kaadhal Valarthen","Kan pesum vaarthai", "ninaithu ninaithu" get the psycho in me going...Especially, hats off to Karthik in "Kan pesum vaarthai"...;ROFL remembering the mimicry session on singers that we had in Giri's place this weekend in chn....
So much for my Musi-Mania....and my musing mania on my musi-mania....
Suggest more such songs which i can load and enjoy my evenins....
p.s
Check out the side bar of my blog.,..It now contains the latest books I read...
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Sachin...Who are you?
As the little master trots towards his tenthousandth run i was tempted to take a tour down memory lane...I thought Sachin Tendulkar must have read "Who Moved my Cheese" by Spencer Johnson...Sachin merits being studied as a case in top b schools as an example of a successful professional who changed with the times...The causes that necessitated the changes being....Himself, his team, his fans, his opponents, his critics, and fate.... Change is a permanent entity and there is no one who is not a victim to change,...but whether all adaptation is positive is a question to ponder over indeed....
In sachin's case, A fast ferrari encountered a small traffic jam in a race track, and had some riding to do in a crowded street, but the changes made to the engine and the car were such that it drove the same way even after the track cleared and the conditions perfect for high speed driving. This sums up the effect of change on Sachin the master blaster....
With no offence meant to sachin, He needs to take a feather out of Sehwag's book and rediscover the joys of batting, that he gave to millions worldwide. Making batting a laborious exercise is a compulsion of lesser mortals, and they dont resort to it by choice, So when someone as ridiculously gifted as Sachin bats like a worker bee, it is a loss to world cricket...
One sincerely hopes and prays that once the self inflicted burdens of the 35 centuries and the Top scorer in world cricket are off his shoulders, he again makes a symbolic debut in world cricket and starts as he did as a cherubic teenager who was a stealth bomber with bat in hand. Setting and beating Records don't merit genius, but delighting crowds and scaring the s**t of bowlers requires GENIUS...and when a genius bats like a overworked factory labourer struggling to make ends meet, One can only pity the vissicitudes of the human psyche...
Sachin...You know yourself like the world knows you...That's what we all want....
In sachin's case, A fast ferrari encountered a small traffic jam in a race track, and had some riding to do in a crowded street, but the changes made to the engine and the car were such that it drove the same way even after the track cleared and the conditions perfect for high speed driving. This sums up the effect of change on Sachin the master blaster....
With no offence meant to sachin, He needs to take a feather out of Sehwag's book and rediscover the joys of batting, that he gave to millions worldwide. Making batting a laborious exercise is a compulsion of lesser mortals, and they dont resort to it by choice, So when someone as ridiculously gifted as Sachin bats like a worker bee, it is a loss to world cricket...
One sincerely hopes and prays that once the self inflicted burdens of the 35 centuries and the Top scorer in world cricket are off his shoulders, he again makes a symbolic debut in world cricket and starts as he did as a cherubic teenager who was a stealth bomber with bat in hand. Setting and beating Records don't merit genius, but delighting crowds and scaring the s**t of bowlers requires GENIUS...and when a genius bats like a overworked factory labourer struggling to make ends meet, One can only pity the vissicitudes of the human psyche...
Sachin...You know yourself like the world knows you...That's what we all want....
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Life is Good- Tour diary...
Man...Spending the supposedly last three months of life at tcs is peaceful...the withdrawal process has slowly started...i have started to dream of life beyond the confines of the crowded cubicle and life beyond coding...well, there is a lot of unknown about my life in the b-school and am looking forward to an exploratory and insightful journey...BTW...
Yeah...I had been to delhi and mumbai for my IIT B and NITIE interviews..and more than the interviews i enjoyed the trips...man..here goes a tour diary...
Saturday 5th Mar....
Alarm set at 5.15 got up at 5.40 and pedal eduthen first thing in the morning..Great article on Budget in the bathroom....Then...Rushed in the bike to pick up my call letter from my aunty's house in sec'bad 20 kms from my house and realized i was running out of time cus it was 6.40 and i had to check in before 7.30 cus the flight was at 7.50....
finally i drove 20 kms in 15 mins...god saved me...was drivin at 80 mosta the time...but all was well...i made the airport after parkin my bike in her house and the auto guy was fast....
The flight to delhi was spent reading, finishing the last 100 pages of "The IITians" and devouring jack fruit chips that chaitra had got from her home town...Good book and great chips...
Rohit (My cousin, Jayant's bro) was in the airport in his car and we raced to their house where i idled the rest of the day...chattin and browsin...that evenin we went to a top college cultural fest where I realized that Bombay was not half as good as delhi in the ABI (Averabge Beauty Index).."Had a good time;)"
Sunday 6th Mar...
Got up reallly late for the interview...was at 2 pm...arnd 9 am i realized i had no SOP...so wrote one down in 30 mins and then read statistics in the car while goin to IITD...GD was more a parliament meeting and managed to butt in a few times and spoke well...
Interview expectedly was on Statistics...did ok and had meals in an IIT canteen...Man it felt good and i missed studyin in an IIT for the nth time...
That evening was non descript...and so was the night...
Monday 7th Mar
Got up late rushed for the airport and reached the boardin exit at 8.45 for the flight which was to leave delhi at 8.50...i missed all the buses and they had to drive a qualis to take me to the flight thru the runways...;) and after a round of apologies slept off the flight journey and was rudely awakened by the pretty air hostess Anne..she asked me to fasten my seat belts and prepare for landing...and at 11 reached mumbai..where my periamma had been waitin with the car....Went to their house...slept and arnd 3 pm walked out to have a feel of mumbai...
was damn happy seein the 100s of doves flutterin away to glory arnd a tree and a fence and inspired me to take a movie like Nayagan;) Mani touch na summaavaa...
Then browsed to post a comment on that;) and ofcourse went to eat Chaat...,and spent 2 hrs readin The Week in a park....Felt good bein my own companion and wanderin in the streets..After a temple visit after months....came back home to sleep and prepare for NITIE...
Tue 8th Mar
Got up reasonably in time at 6 for an eight am interview.and after a delicious aloo paratha breakfast which ate into my time....I still was jus in time thanks to a great drive by my cousin to the insti...Met Bk's cousin Bala there and had a good time relishin the feeel of bein the only 2 guys not in ties....After a good PPT by the NITIE guys and a Nice GD, had a long wait for my interview...Did some time pass with a tvm class mate and a few TIME batch mates...Interview was fine and rushed in the suburban trains to catch Balalee run thru the Paki tail....
Again had a flight to catch to Hyderabad...this time it was very irritating to see the plane do a girivalam around the run way for an hour awaiting take off...Finally wat was supp to be a 1 hr ride turned out to be a 3 hour agonizingly boring journey...and thankfully reached Hyd before the auto guys start askin for dugna lagaan;)
The day had a perfect finish with a telephonic crossword session with sab at arnd 11 pm...;)
All in all it was a nice tale of 3 cities and 3 flights and 2 interviews..and ofcourse ME
Yeah...I had been to delhi and mumbai for my IIT B and NITIE interviews..and more than the interviews i enjoyed the trips...man..here goes a tour diary...
Saturday 5th Mar....
Alarm set at 5.15 got up at 5.40 and pedal eduthen first thing in the morning..Great article on Budget in the bathroom....Then...Rushed in the bike to pick up my call letter from my aunty's house in sec'bad 20 kms from my house and realized i was running out of time cus it was 6.40 and i had to check in before 7.30 cus the flight was at 7.50....
finally i drove 20 kms in 15 mins...god saved me...was drivin at 80 mosta the time...but all was well...i made the airport after parkin my bike in her house and the auto guy was fast....
The flight to delhi was spent reading, finishing the last 100 pages of "The IITians" and devouring jack fruit chips that chaitra had got from her home town...Good book and great chips...
Rohit (My cousin, Jayant's bro) was in the airport in his car and we raced to their house where i idled the rest of the day...chattin and browsin...that evenin we went to a top college cultural fest where I realized that Bombay was not half as good as delhi in the ABI (Averabge Beauty Index).."Had a good time;)"
Sunday 6th Mar...
Got up reallly late for the interview...was at 2 pm...arnd 9 am i realized i had no SOP...so wrote one down in 30 mins and then read statistics in the car while goin to IITD...GD was more a parliament meeting and managed to butt in a few times and spoke well...
Interview expectedly was on Statistics...did ok and had meals in an IIT canteen...Man it felt good and i missed studyin in an IIT for the nth time...
That evening was non descript...and so was the night...
Monday 7th Mar
Got up late rushed for the airport and reached the boardin exit at 8.45 for the flight which was to leave delhi at 8.50...i missed all the buses and they had to drive a qualis to take me to the flight thru the runways...;) and after a round of apologies slept off the flight journey and was rudely awakened by the pretty air hostess Anne..she asked me to fasten my seat belts and prepare for landing...and at 11 reached mumbai..where my periamma had been waitin with the car....Went to their house...slept and arnd 3 pm walked out to have a feel of mumbai...
was damn happy seein the 100s of doves flutterin away to glory arnd a tree and a fence and inspired me to take a movie like Nayagan;) Mani touch na summaavaa...
Then browsed to post a comment on that;) and ofcourse went to eat Chaat...,and spent 2 hrs readin The Week in a park....Felt good bein my own companion and wanderin in the streets..After a temple visit after months....came back home to sleep and prepare for NITIE...
Tue 8th Mar
Got up reasonably in time at 6 for an eight am interview.and after a delicious aloo paratha breakfast which ate into my time....I still was jus in time thanks to a great drive by my cousin to the insti...Met Bk's cousin Bala there and had a good time relishin the feeel of bein the only 2 guys not in ties....After a good PPT by the NITIE guys and a Nice GD, had a long wait for my interview...Did some time pass with a tvm class mate and a few TIME batch mates...Interview was fine and rushed in the suburban trains to catch Balalee run thru the Paki tail....
Again had a flight to catch to Hyderabad...this time it was very irritating to see the plane do a girivalam around the run way for an hour awaiting take off...Finally wat was supp to be a 1 hr ride turned out to be a 3 hour agonizingly boring journey...and thankfully reached Hyd before the auto guys start askin for dugna lagaan;)
The day had a perfect finish with a telephonic crossword session with sab at arnd 11 pm...;)
All in all it was a nice tale of 3 cities and 3 flights and 2 interviews..and ofcourse ME
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Self Destruction Made easy...
An Indian urban youth with access to his needs, and with a bit of money and feeling of financial security inevitably falls into satan's most lethal plot. the last bit abt financial security is an optional condition...
Invariably he believes there is some one who was manufactured "customised to suit his requirements" and was hidden from his eyes for so long...and God deemed it appropriate to show the girl of his dreams at a juncture when he basically has nothing else to think about...;) Love is an Idle mind's greatest creation.... And a weapon of mass destruction which bull dozes many a budding career and truncates the stretch of imagination of many more....in a few cases it does manage to titillate and inspire though shortly...If god were to ever create a balance sheet of the good and the bad experienced by the head over heels lover....it would be ridiculously lopsided...and an idle mind and a young mind which otherwise unleashes great ideas also wastes hours thinking about bull crap...The key to the great indian institutions being great are that they load the student's with so much work that the mind wanders less and the careers hence meander less...
All the ABC College of arts and science devdasses bunk classes to make passes at lasses...Ofcourse the Five point someones from the IITs also are "Love Girl", she aint after me...so i want Grass" types...but the link among all these guys are they possess an idle mind which is an ideal environ for hell to break loose...
The movies glorifying the art of using the great young mind to generate trash and bull crap...are key players in the Catch them young..throw them down the drain phenomenon..
The great Indian college goer needs a better deal... India is lost in the trance that the internet and cable television has created...Our youth rarely have burning ambition and most achievers are products of the rat race and peer pressure phenomenon...The only burning ambition in the minds of most are to WOO an opposite sex human being....
Harmones rather than grey cells drive the youth.....That is god's mistake...But someone somewhere in power can do something to reduce the extent and frequency of the
havoc created...
India needs to grow as a country...for that the youth need to grow up and fast....
Invariably he believes there is some one who was manufactured "customised to suit his requirements" and was hidden from his eyes for so long...and God deemed it appropriate to show the girl of his dreams at a juncture when he basically has nothing else to think about...;) Love is an Idle mind's greatest creation.... And a weapon of mass destruction which bull dozes many a budding career and truncates the stretch of imagination of many more....in a few cases it does manage to titillate and inspire though shortly...If god were to ever create a balance sheet of the good and the bad experienced by the head over heels lover....it would be ridiculously lopsided...and an idle mind and a young mind which otherwise unleashes great ideas also wastes hours thinking about bull crap...The key to the great indian institutions being great are that they load the student's with so much work that the mind wanders less and the careers hence meander less...
All the ABC College of arts and science devdasses bunk classes to make passes at lasses...Ofcourse the Five point someones from the IITs also are "Love Girl", she aint after me...so i want Grass" types...but the link among all these guys are they possess an idle mind which is an ideal environ for hell to break loose...
The movies glorifying the art of using the great young mind to generate trash and bull crap...are key players in the Catch them young..throw them down the drain phenomenon..
The great Indian college goer needs a better deal... India is lost in the trance that the internet and cable television has created...Our youth rarely have burning ambition and most achievers are products of the rat race and peer pressure phenomenon...The only burning ambition in the minds of most are to WOO an opposite sex human being....
Harmones rather than grey cells drive the youth.....That is god's mistake...But someone somewhere in power can do something to reduce the extent and frequency of the
havoc created...
India needs to grow as a country...for that the youth need to grow up and fast....
Monday, February 14, 2005
Chennai Weekend...
Well, Thanks to TCS, my friend and quiz partner Chaitanya, and a lot of other associates, I had the luck of travellin to chennai, fully sponsored by my company...well..to attend the regional finals of a tcs wide quiz;) that the quiz turned out to be a not so great event is another story...;) but flyin to chn and back is worth a mention....yours "fool"ly has travelled by air on only 2 other occasions...so LAGEY RAHO;) i said to myself...
Comin to the chn trip...it was not a great trip and all;) but VOKEY...and most importantly...I had the privilege of listenin to a gr8 mimicry session by RR...the next Balamurali Krishna or even more...Absolute senseless stuff..but who cares...fun is at a premium these days...
Two sessions of cricket are worth a cursory mention....my batting is not as bad as i thot it was....
and my left arm spin is surprisingly DECENT;) i managed to pitch the ball most times and thats an achievement;)
Black the movie was also part of the two day package and so was a 4 hr chat session discussin somethin that has no solution;) some people see no problem to find a solution...but one's eye sees a problem where another sees opportunities...so lets keep things complex and leave it at that....
Finally my frnd from hyd came home and we proceeded to fly back to andhra pradhesam...in the flight I met one GOOD OLD man with classical views on Globalization and merger of nationalized banks,....it was at the end of a 30 min conversation that bordered between enlightening and fascinating that I found out thro' his visiting card and a brochure that he casually gave me that...He was the Gen Secretary of the All India BankEmployees Association..Mr Venkatachalam..or CHV...Big man, great knowledge,....Humble nature..Well, humility is a commonality that links all great ppl aint it;)
Well, after an expensive auto journey I reached home in Hyd to sign off a not so great but not so non descript either weekend....
PS: this was inspired by a long and earth shattering account at inbetweengap.blogspot.com;)
Comin to the chn trip...it was not a great trip and all;) but VOKEY...and most importantly...I had the privilege of listenin to a gr8 mimicry session by RR...the next Balamurali Krishna or even more...Absolute senseless stuff..but who cares...fun is at a premium these days...
Two sessions of cricket are worth a cursory mention....my batting is not as bad as i thot it was....
and my left arm spin is surprisingly DECENT;) i managed to pitch the ball most times and thats an achievement;)
Black the movie was also part of the two day package and so was a 4 hr chat session discussin somethin that has no solution;) some people see no problem to find a solution...but one's eye sees a problem where another sees opportunities...so lets keep things complex and leave it at that....
Finally my frnd from hyd came home and we proceeded to fly back to andhra pradhesam...in the flight I met one GOOD OLD man with classical views on Globalization and merger of nationalized banks,....it was at the end of a 30 min conversation that bordered between enlightening and fascinating that I found out thro' his visiting card and a brochure that he casually gave me that...He was the Gen Secretary of the All India BankEmployees Association..Mr Venkatachalam..or CHV...Big man, great knowledge,....Humble nature..Well, humility is a commonality that links all great ppl aint it;)
Well, after an expensive auto journey I reached home in Hyd to sign off a not so great but not so non descript either weekend....
PS: this was inspired by a long and earth shattering account at inbetweengap.blogspot.com;)
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Page 3...
Well, this is the third consecuitive movie review type of article in this blog and not much of a surprise cus i dont write blog entries until somethin or someone impresses me..so Again it was a case of an off beat movie throwing me in raptures...and set my mind thinking and for a fleeting while my heart racing towards the reformist path...ofcourse the mind took over and postponed any reformist streak for later cus it had more pressing demands to be met in the next month..
Ok goin to the movie review....
Outstanding Treatment of a topic which has not been seen in Indian cinema, about a Page 3 journalist and her journey seeking meaning in her profession....The movie is a parody on the lifestyles of the rich and famous and how hollow their lives are...How values take a backseat on the pretext of doing "business" and how some journalists ARE meaningful....
Man, the scenes are bound to create a lasting impact on the viewer and some disturbing incidents shown in the movie set me thinking on whether a few of our own people mite bite the perilous path to fame and slip on the road to so called success...
Well, if you got 2 hrs time jus rush and watch the movie...u wont be disappointed...
Man, This Madhur Bandharkar rocks...so too Atul Kulkarni....short but a memorable role...
Hope I see quite a few happy viewers of Page 3 in this blog....Once I get some more views on this...I plan to write a long post on the crux of the movie..and my comments on the same...
Ok goin to the movie review....
Outstanding Treatment of a topic which has not been seen in Indian cinema, about a Page 3 journalist and her journey seeking meaning in her profession....The movie is a parody on the lifestyles of the rich and famous and how hollow their lives are...How values take a backseat on the pretext of doing "business" and how some journalists ARE meaningful....
Man, the scenes are bound to create a lasting impact on the viewer and some disturbing incidents shown in the movie set me thinking on whether a few of our own people mite bite the perilous path to fame and slip on the road to so called success...
Well, if you got 2 hrs time jus rush and watch the movie...u wont be disappointed...
Man, This Madhur Bandharkar rocks...so too Atul Kulkarni....short but a memorable role...
Hope I see quite a few happy viewers of Page 3 in this blog....Once I get some more views on this...I plan to write a long post on the crux of the movie..and my comments on the same...
Monday, January 17, 2005
Swades....A ray of hope for Indian cinema
Yesterday, I just realized how much my priorities are screwed up, I was doing things that border on mundaneness at best...and eventually missed out on something, which as a film buff , I should have done without any intellectual effort whatsoever from my side....How the hell did I miss Swades for so long..
Hats off to Ashutosh for reiterating the power of simplicity...the depth of emotion and the profound it can convey...A classic specimen for those who need a lesson on keeping things simple..
ARR clearly has scored the best bgm of his career in Swades...The title music is unconventional and addictive...typical ARR stuff,...The "village house scenes" are elevated to a higher plane by the BGM...i haven't seen any ARR movie Packed with so much bgm that too so many different moods....The highlight being the BGM that creates a sense of expectation and excitement when the turbine generates power...
Yeh Taara gave me goose pimples and had me crying in the middle...And Shahrukh tellin the class "Main chalta hoon" was a leaf from the mani book...
Understated,Simple,Honest,Purposeful,Clear....A movie Ashutosh has made at his own terms with none of the cliches that continually pull down mainstream cinema from Great to good...The length is a clear indicator of the director's intent and his "no compromises" delivery...Lakshya and now Swades are cases in point of the ineptness of the Indian audience...A dangerous trend that should be bucked at the earliest...Murder,Khwahish...Well..the indian youth prefer lip service of a different kind...but thankfully Ashutosh and Farhan still exist...there lies the hope for indian cinema...
Hats off to Ashutosh for reiterating the power of simplicity...the depth of emotion and the profound it can convey...A classic specimen for those who need a lesson on keeping things simple..
ARR clearly has scored the best bgm of his career in Swades...The title music is unconventional and addictive...typical ARR stuff,...The "village house scenes" are elevated to a higher plane by the BGM...i haven't seen any ARR movie Packed with so much bgm that too so many different moods....The highlight being the BGM that creates a sense of expectation and excitement when the turbine generates power...
Yeh Taara gave me goose pimples and had me crying in the middle...And Shahrukh tellin the class "Main chalta hoon" was a leaf from the mani book...
Understated,Simple,Honest,Purposeful,Clear....A movie Ashutosh has made at his own terms with none of the cliches that continually pull down mainstream cinema from Great to good...The length is a clear indicator of the director's intent and his "no compromises" delivery...Lakshya and now Swades are cases in point of the ineptness of the Indian audience...A dangerous trend that should be bucked at the earliest...Murder,Khwahish...Well..the indian youth prefer lip service of a different kind...but thankfully Ashutosh and Farhan still exist...there lies the hope for indian cinema...
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