Back to roots!!

Recently went to chennai,a place which some years back I hated to go.But as saying goes life takes a full circle,it seems same for me.Dates back to my childhood when in every summer holidays i would along with my mom go to my grandmom's house.The excitement of going in train,sitting next to window(that was very important),wearing the prettiest frocks for travelling and getting lot of scolds from mom for that and ofcourse the delicious mangoes all part of memories of going to chennai.Playing with my cousins the stupidest games in the world,getting scared when a street vendor screaming for old bottles and the sweet smell of jasmine.The love and care of my grandmom who is no more with the kindness she would serve all of us food,make delicious sweets and savouries and my grandfather scolding for getting ourselves dirty in mud and the era of songs of illayraja in the background allpart of my memories of chennai. Circa 2008 things are very different but what hasnt changed is the thin but prominent desire to come back to roots,to come back to this place which in no sense heaven with lot of things, issues fitting to my desires but still a place i would love to go now with no reasons in mind but just an indepth desire.

Onbench or out of bunch!!

Well as part of a large software fraternity(useless) to be precise,i now find the word onbench very troublesome and worrying.Well when you get your first job,the pleasure of earning by yourself and ofcourse a life full of aspirations does makes you feel good.But that very happiness goes into drain when your skills are not utilized and kept "onbench".Agreed there can be recession,downfalls in every company but keeping someone idle for almost 1 year and paying them for nothing is something like sweet poison.It is sweet in the beginning but later it is as bitter as it could be!!People may say what you have done to increase your skills.We try our best to be in touch with what we are good at but unless you have hands on experience of something then whats the point in mugging from books.Nothing is better than practical experience.You cant learn cycling reading from a book unless you learn by riding it,falling,hurting and then you learn!!Same for work.Only practical training will help you learn.Ofcourse onbench is an illusive word whose meaning nor does the heads of S/W co. know nor the employees themselves.And thats what makes you out of bunch where you are out of the group luckily who are having some work to do.

NOSTALGIA at its best!!!

Well while switching channels(btw my favourite hobby) i "accidently" bumped in to doordarshan unfortunately and saw the "mile sur mera tumhara" and believe it or not cried because it took me back to the times when i was this young girl in 3rd or 4th standard,with so much of innocence and happiness with which i used to watch this ad and sing along,some of the languages which i even dont know i used to sing with ease because it was kind of bihearted and so much in to our memories that it is difficult to forget.Ask anyone of that era of 80's and they will turn emotional with the other ads of khaitan fans,the dhara ad where the kid jumps on food stuffs,the gold spot ad and many more.I bet if doordarshan rereuns those ads and old serials like circus,flopshow,humlog and many more of that era people will watch it with same enthuaism and it will generate more TRPs than IPL i bet.When the hell doordarshan will realise that it is sitting on the bed of gold with such nostalgic archives with it.I hope the heads of prasar bharati realise this instead of churning stupid new programs it better show rereuns of old ads and serials it has in its archives and see how it will change the very fortunes of its dismal broadcasting!!!

Reality bites!!!

Well since being at home,u just cant avoid the stupid idiot box,and whichever channel u switch on and there is a reality show being aired.Well the very concept of reality has taken a very different face altogether.The first original reality show was probably indian idol,concept ofcourse adapted from american idol but was nicely adapted and moulded in indian context.It was such a popular show covering evry aspect of journey of 1000s of aspiring singers,their journey from rugs to riches,their ups and downs,their sucesses and failures and ofcourse the becoming of ultimate indian idol.All was covered with atmost originality and was hugely appreciated as the TRPs were the proofs.But this success of one reality show gave rise to a whole bunch of reality shows especialy musicals which now obviously has tarnished the very image of "reality" show.Now you can see lot of drama,fights,bitching,favourism,abuses,hatred,groupism and what not.I wonder if this is what we want to see,and i do blame viewers including me who love to watch this bitching and dirty stuff.Ofcourse tv viewing is not a source of social message and evry programe cant be a ramayan or mahabharat conveying good values but some of the shows go overboard and it clearly looks fake most of the time.Broadcasting has evolved in these years very much with coming of plenty of channels,but at the same time this has given rise to a dirty,below the belt competition where the channels are stooping new lows to achieve TRPs and become popular,Same goes for the 24 hrs new channels.they are even worse showing all the stuff other than new,what the hell rakhi sawant supposed to be doing in a news channel.Disgusting!!Well in the era where television is undergoing a major transformation,the owners of the channels get some senses and realise some i mean some responsibility to show sensible contents on television with combination of entertainment,sensibility and resposibility.And same goes for viewers also specially miss.ekta kapoor's die hard fans.please have some sensibility in what you are viewing.

Speeeed Kills!!!

Well this is a post cum social message coz the very reason im writing is because of my first hand experience of how speed in a moment can destruct everything and how hard it is to recover from the damage whether it is a human body or a machine.The fun while driving in the road with high speed,and dash of style and attitude looks cool but when you realise, evrything being out of control thats when that very speed,attitude and style vanishes and what remains is pain,and lot of suffering.Now fortunately if you have done some less sins in this lifetime you are saved and are alive and unfortunately if yamraj is waiting for you might very well end up dying.so dudes and gals please drive slowly,ya me the speedster is giving such advices coz its just not your life,but for many other people around you.so drive slowly,and most important wear helmet!!!

"Shahrukh" the phenomenon

The fact is that there are people who just love him and there are some who love to hate him.But the fact is he is defenitely a phenomenon whether its the film industry or the advertsing market.He is been a consistent player of sorts who has able to manage his career with personal life with pretty much of balance.People say he does monotonous kind of work playing the same rahuls and rajs but now that he is back with a bang in chakde obviously those critic's mouth are shut.But he is one who didnt had any godfather in industry, has achieved all the success by himself and is one of the prominent international figures giving challenge to the likes of tom cruise may be even more popular.And the great thing about his career is that it had not ever any impact on his personal affairs,where there are divorces and separations a sort of norm in the film industry he is one who was not much affected by controversies.People say has in recent times he has become big mouthed by challenging the likes of amitabh bachan but he has never personally targetted him and infact always respected him as a legendry figure its the media which has wrongly potrayed him in bad light.One thing as his huge fan i would like him is to quit smoking because he is such a icon especialy among youngsters he just can be more responsible.Apart from that shahrukh will truly remain the badshah of bollywood for many more years to come!!!!

Great indian directors

I am not really a big film buff,but there are some filmakers i realy admire especially someone like hrikesh mukerjee,mani ratnam,and in recent times nagesh kukunoor.The works of a great director is visible at the very first onset when the visuals,the way a particular scence is being coordinated and narration of story is done,for instance if you take mani ratnam especially if you see his earlier works in tamil the prime importance is given to the script rather than other aspects,even a certain silence in a particular scence has the power to express a lot!!Ofcourse every director has his or her own way or genre of work.If you take for instance hrikesh mukerjee his way of filmmaking primarily focussed on the simple instances in life which we all miss out and human emotions and mostly tapped the natural character of human being.If you take someone like karan johar which some may not include in great directors but his films of genre entertainers do have some niche audiences who are very much happy with the film he makes and may be called as "paisa vasool" films.Even the very likes of david dhawan and priyadarshan who basically create comedies which may be seem sometimes senseless ones but are able to make people laugh and reliev them of stress.Or the more creative director like sanjay leela bansali who creativity and sets are more of focus than the film itself.but his khamoshi was hugely appreciated even tough not accepted by audiences.All and all every film maker is born with certain special talent which he tries to convey thru his work and some are expertise in that and win accodales but what makes the director special is when his/her film becomes a superduper hit,then he is automatically termed a great director from both critics and audiences side!!