विजेता - The Winner

Degrees of change in life...or change of degrees!!! Well, I lost my bachelor's and she gained her master(s)
And the PARTY just got started!!!!!!!

Sweet Guitar (S)kills

Men are separated from boys in an acoustic setup...in this case the boy outshone the man though (no offence to the master though)



This is recognition enough for the guitar-sage of this era to have accompanied Clapton on guitar rather than vocals who has redefined guitar playing when I had given up on any new kind of sound in these times.

Many mistake Mayer for a choclate pop star, and I don't care for the rest, but true music lovers must listen to his live solo acoustic or even electric blues performances (check out crossroads with Clapton again on youtube)

Down the road (less travelled)

Well, ahem...had my first quasi-professional performance at Goa, "Down The Road", Pub & Bistro!!!!!!
Given my hectic schedule, had to restrict the song-list to only three songs
- Evenflow (Pearl Jam), with a little niggle that I completely forgot the song & lyrics after the first two lines, old age you see
- Knockin' on heavens door (G'n'R version), yeah 'coz it still is a coupla years before I become old enough for the Dylan version :)
- Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) - Well, this was on popular demand (within my soul i.e.), messed a little bit on the high-pitch part, but in all the Van Morrison style suited the song better than I had thought

Crowd response stopped just short of a mass hysteria, especially amongst the ladies, they controlled themselves by only clapping i.e. and also the fact that about 20% of the population in the pub comprised of friends (Refer pic on top: The PAL, The ANT, The PUNK!!)

And as much as the monetary bit is concerned, it was that I paid for my drinks....
IT WAS A KAROKE NIGHT, hehehhehe
But it was fun nonetheless, as it always has been performing on stage in college days, hmmmm...Life keeps on calling (in short bursts), where the fcuk am I???

P.S : The date in the snaps are backdated for some reason

Thif fuckf, ferioufly!

"Past performance may not indicate future performance" I thought this was only applicable to mutual fund industry. It breaks my heart to apply the same to my current favourite director Vishal Bharadwaj. Can't imagine the same guy who made the wonderfully refreshing & innocent "Blue Umbrella", the dark siblings "Maqbool" & "Omkara" each one of which left me mentally heavy coming out of theatre, makes a loosely put together "Kaminey".

Till the first half, this seemed like an attempt to make a run-movie where random plots come together ending in a chase, something like a "Lock, stock & two smoking barrels". But the next half reveals the story seems to revolve around the redemption of "Charlie". It surely would have been better if the director would have stuck to either of these themes.

Apart from "bhope bhau", none of the actors did anything outstanding, mostly average performances. Marketing the movie about lisping and stammering of the two lead characters seemed interesting in the promos but in the end was just plain tacky piece of generating a buzz.

Mr VB, I still haven't given up on ye', get back to doing what you do the best, which is focusing on making movies seriously than marketing them.

Face the book

I have this uncanny knack of being like a fresher. And one day, I will get a hike!!!
Currently trying to gather my feet on this nu-age thingy called facebook.

Till I conquer this beast...

"Arranged Marriage" ends with an "Affair"

Well, that's the last story in my maiden (read) novel, and maybe my own affair with books has just begun!!!

This was a collection of stories by Chitra Banerjee, all revolving around diasporic sensibilites. Though my understanding of literature is quite amateurish as of now , the stories score very well in building up emotions in a very sensitive manner. One cannot but admire the capacity of a writer to understand human sensitivity, put it in the context of a cultural sensibility and then create an imagery to which the reader can visualize and relate to.

An interesting point is how writers create the imagery; it is the seemingly unimportant detail e.g. "the waitress was wearing a light-blue dress..."; now, this helps a reader create the whole plot in his mind while she reads on, and the story is so much easier to hold on to.

Anyways, am just hoping that this habit which I had been trying to inculcate for a long time lasts for as long as possible, and I can do justice to being the son of a literature professor!!

Comfortably dumb

Do I need to have point of views on life? Am I allowed to be self-centred all my life, interacting with the world through the windows on my floating cocoon-ed life, and being well ensconced in there, without caring to come out, Do I need to know what am I looking for, and the best part, is it ok if I still don't care much :) ?

Hello, hello.........is anybody in there........

....you may feel a little sick.......I do believe its working.....a distant ship's smoke.....

.......when I was a child.......okay...just a little pin-prick....aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............

"Ze kya bakwaas hai, bhai?"