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..

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

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....

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...

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....