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...

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....

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....