The two parts of the topic are not related...by themselves.....except that one constitutes 5 days of my week, and the other is an example of a creation from an industry that keeps me alive the other 2 days to withstand the boredom from the first part....
I realized that there was no post in moi blog on my work.....it's specifically general. generally occasional, occasionally heavy....usually confusingly simple....and rarely simply confusing....
this many words plus that 2 word description "Strategic sales" are sufficient to describe...Moi work.....
A recent component of my work is decent....it involves getting into the dirty, stinking shoes of a private sector bank credit card salesman, who says "Sir, we are calling from $#@# bank...."
It's an experience in itself, that a so-called pampered kid who had it all easy in life needs to go through atleast once in life...Approaching people for appointments and going through repeated rudeness from pretentious PA's who say "He's in a meeting, why do you waste my time with all your calls!"...and finally on the fifth attempt, getting to speak to the senior manager who says "Why don't you contact me 4 days from now", and after subsequent subjection of the poor chap to repeated torture, a fifteen minute appointment.....
Traversing the trafficky roads of Hot Chennai, and quickly wiping the face of truckloads of sweat that flows as freely as freebies by political parties in chennai....before meeting the customer....with a faked "fresh and ready to go" look on the face, and a feigned smile that does Miss India aspirants proud....My god...respect to all the salesmen of this world...
The syriana part of my week is seriously good for me...cus I get to be me during that time...and what more could one ask for....
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those last 2 lines (especially the last one) could be an amazingly simple, but powerful concept for our next short film...
dint get ya son..mail me the concept...
simple concept. unnoda kadhai maadhiri. some guy in life, doing so many things, achieving so much, earning so much, but he is not being what he is.
ippo "harish" apdinnaa yaaru. ellaa padippu kidippu ellaathaiyum mudichuttu, vervai ellaam sindhittu, saayangaalam veettuku povaan... padathoda last scene-la simple-aa oru moolai-la oru kadaila oru dum, oru glass tea adichunde, "dei, idhu dhaan da sorgam" apdeenu soluvaan..
"finally i get a chance to be me" apdingara concept.
@girish
excellent concept. scripting the same should be a challenge....the starting trouble for our next film is due to not getting a spark to propel working on one solid script...build on this...lets see if we get lucky
lets chronicle everything here..
so as to "immortalise the making of the film"...
okay..
how about 2 people, like we were talking on the fone yesterday?
One fellow who earns less and is some wannabe music composer (at home most of the time), and who earns like nuts and is some Mckinsey consultant or so? Can 2 guys like this be roommates?
How about the music guy is tired of being a nobody, is absolutely discontented with life (esp. coz he sees his hi-flyer roomie do all sorts of things).. and the converse with the other guy? 2 halves to the film from each other's perspectives? voice overs? same incidents from 2 perspectives in 1st and 2nd half?
Rama and you cast?
The Grass is Greener?
Just a thought.... reading through the comments i figure out that initially it was abt a guy who was discontented inspite of earning do much ...or whatever... for the simple reason that he is not what he is .... Now I find the second story deviating from the first thought... is not better to have the music guy (prolly an idealisitic person) deriving more satisfaction at times than the other guy some ten years down the line while the big guy feels he has not acheived anything he wanted in that time???
do reply...
@Anon,
Could you also leave me ur name?
btw,
that script is still in the nascent stage..so, a long way to go.....
the whole point of anon is then lost:P....
btw, how many films have u directed.... or scripted or done....If u dont mind answering
@anon,
interesting..
but deviating from the 'original' concept is no crime, is it? 10 years down the line i wud probably not want to bring in.. its a toss up between 'the grass is greener' on a heavy note or 'not being what i inherently am' on a laidback note.. Over to u J...
and to answer ur question, we have done ONE experimental short film about a year back.. have been a part of 2 other small productions..
@girish...
few things prolly u can think of
1. What do u define as success in life ... contentment or what
2. Logically speaking.. the other person may be jealous or " grass is greener " types but for how long... I am sure ANY MAN will not allow himself to be frustrated more than a certain point. It is human tendency to accept life after a certain point ....
3. At any time , atleast for me, if I do a small thing(inherently what i am ) close to my heart is much much bigger than even a gold medal....
4. Think abt it .... any 2 ppl living together and if one seems to be jealous(this is prolly too strong a word) of the other... it is natural tendency that the other person will move awaay... u might not want to write a whole script when the idea might not be that logical
and to ur question changing the idea.... i jus felt that the 'original ' concept was much more stronger and different ... thinking into the mind types
Ok...The wannabe music dir is an Ad-jingle composer, who is waiting for his big break...and spends the nights working on his musical....
The Mac Consultant is someone who drinks all night to catch up with the lost fun...Each one knows they cant give up their current profession and be the other..hence they end up supporting each other to the hilt....
But somehow I liked the Kamal-Maddy idea too much da...why not bring in a mid twenties crisis to both of them and see how they can turn the tide...I would prefer it if the Mac guy is thrown outta work due to his lack of commitment...and he decides to work with the Music director as his manager/ consultant types..and how DREAMS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN DOLLARS....A meeting point between the ideal and the real....
am i allowed to comment on the above... or i did too much of talking!
u are not making more comments before revealing ur name!!!!
ok fine.... u guys continue... good luck !
ok , my name is punithi aka garbiii
hee hee ROFL ROTFL ... lol... I can leave any name how do u know I am not lying !!!!
two days am off radar and i see J's post with 16 valid comments!! cha....still i dint miss all the fun...
good stuff going on here...aana J...kamal maddy inga kondu varaatha... two room-mates in their late twenties is fine for the concept. and avanga readu perukulla... no jeleasy kinda... yenna thats a strong feeling... avanga rendu perum friends thaan...athuvum romba naal friends...jus taken diff paths... and antha Mac guy is the one to do the real soul searching... paatha avana thaan namba a bit jelouas apdeenu kaamikkarome... like... he wants the internal satisaction and the 'peace' the other guy has. and looking at the Mac guy... this music fellow..though he wants do stuff sometimes.. is relatively 'peace' with himself... so the movie is basically abt ...
'ENNAI THEDI'
am i doing what i want to...like u said... am i being me only!?
innum extend pannanum na... instead of being harsh on Mac and firing him... avane finds...what he wants to do .. and follows his passion...quits job.. and does 'something'....that something... G and J gimme ideas...
enna solreenga???
dei or adiyey anon! siru pulla thanama irukku! for this discussion y shud u be anon i dont see...its u'r choice alright... and u can see that we cud buy u'r idea... so better out with the name.. and a healthier discussion!
and ippothaan post-ey padichen!! 1st read the comments! :P
anyways...Syriana 'can' movie! DVD vaangitten... good stuff alright!
dei or adiyey lam romba too much ....
i have a better idea!:P but with respect to the idea... I shall not comment after this !
Truly i like the idea of "discovering myself"
People @ the end of life is satisfied if they achieve what is close to therir heart or if others remember them for something!
This is the clue to my version of this script!
Hi ppl ...
Adding to all ppl's contribution...
Just came across the blog through girish's pointer :
Reflecting my thoughts:
Naam Yenge Selgirom Endru Ariyamal
Selgirom selgirom
Paadhaigal maara payanangal maara
Nammal Ulagathirku prayojanam Unda
YEnru ariyavillai Puriyavillai
Sindhikum Azhangalo Mudiyadha Pudhir
Pirakirom Vaazhgirom Selgirom
Ethil yethai vettu selgirom
Nammal Ulagathirku prayojanam Unda
yEnru ariyavillai puriyavillai
Ulagirku Yennai Arpanipen
yENDRU Sabadham eduthal
Yendha vazhiyai edupathu yendru ariyabillai Puriyallai
Namal Ulagathiruku prayojanam Unda
Yenru ariyavillai puriyavillai
@anon girl - the script is now coming along nicely..it has ideas from Makki n u also...but still at a nascent stage...
@makki - dei, obly kamal maddy concepts wont be applied per se. correctaa thaan apply panuvom...
and wait on..for some reasonable script outline to be posted in sometime in this space.
this is random :-
yeah, 2 of them friends since whenever.
there has to be scenes where music guy goes to mac office and looks around..
and the converse where mac guy enters the music guy's "Studio room" at home and looks around..
stil not sure if it shud be an intertwined film or 2 separate narrations from their perspectives..
wat say junta?
and i figured too that the anon is a girl.. in fact, i guess i know who it is actually...
and i am guessing J and makki might not know her..
afterall.... not a big discovery and its pretty evident even ur friend figured out !
I am damn bored out here ... last week of SMA with things v.v hectci and wanted to have some fun .esp during nights .. thats it ...
But saw ppl scolding and all... so jus wrote of my name for obvi figuring out. Ya it quite random reading out myself....sorry abt that
Ok, official announcement : anon was me Srilakshmi....
Jayesh... I like the blogging style abstract and thinking types
@Srilakshmi - thanks for ur compliments. And yeah..mosta my blogs are rambling abstract pieces of my mind....but I am Harish a.k.a Jay. Jayesh is my dad....
@Girish - two narratives is not on for me....a narrative from a third person is what I prefer...
amen @ J... two perspective laam venaamda... narration of thier story is better. appothaam there will be enuf space to show both perspectives... and also say what we want to say abt it also.
and ...kamal madddy-um ithayum kalakaathey... athu let it be. rendu character vechu nariya kathai sollalaam.. so let that be that. athuvey nalla line of thought thaan. inga we talk abt similar aged protaganists...
vanakkam madam @ srilakshmi
@ G
yes...we dont know her! ippo theriyum, anyways.
@ all
seri innum nariya expand pannunum intha concept-a. mebbe u both might say no need... but rendu character-kum oru female interest irukkanum...even if we jus mention and not show...like a KB movie. eppadi na...'dei she thinks ippadi da' illana... 'she says i shud consider this' antha maariyaana dialougue exchanges. this 'cos i envision it as two upper 20-somethings as i said earlier.
approma.. rendu perukku backgrnd eppadi? meaning... if he says somethings... it shud come from years of such a thought process... atha naala... veedu, schooling...antha maari elaam if put down in the character build, it might help in writing the script/dialougues.
innum yosicha approma will put it down here...
simple point is, they both have the same background..
its because they have had different opportunities/interests that they are leading lives as different as they are.
adhaane point.
two people who are inherently same leading different lives in front of each others' eyes...
Hi all...
Few other suggesstions:
1. Please dont bring girl concept and all.... deviating ...guess will lead to triangulation.
2. I think the narration should be like how life's taking them ... in the sense... idealism taught through realism...(life as the 3rd person)
3. Natural realization of the Mac consultant will be the appropriate flow I beleive...not any climax...
Prolly something like ...In the consequence the other guy realizes chasing the dream also does no good .... striking the balance probably...
4. Another possibility is each knowing each other and inspired by each of them and the above consequence leads to the alliance bet them....
just a few thoughts....
Srilakshmi
In short... I have spent sometime on writing a small flow of the concept... If you wouldnt mind .... will pass on it and prolly u can have a look :P
@Srilakshmi
ofcourse...pass it on...
and seriously, thanks for ur views...will help us a lot in our film...(when it happens)
hee hee .... truly a nice concept... it has given me great pleasure thinkign abt this ... a deviation from my routine... thks for that...
thou i had enuf fun too...;)
beautiful sri.
and this alliance thing is something that we also have been thinking about seriously.. thanks a lot!
and do pass on watever u have penned down!
ennaga yeppadi erukkinga... soukiyama ... hows HLL... sounde kaanum!
will take sometime.... i am changing changing ... too many ideas da.. ;)..
nee thane ezhuthina idea... neach po!
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