Saturday, April 26, 2008

born to die????


Every morning I sip up my milk with newspaper as my companion. The news headlines frequently shooting the dart on females in India.
There I go thinking crazily how people can do this?how can they just so heartlessly , silently and with a war-soldier –killing-its-enemy outlook and confidence screw a life to hell when it has just arrived? How can a lady~ more importantly a mother ever dream of FEMALE INFANTICIDE?!
I am on a holiday back home.when I tend to leisurly flip through the pages of the newspaper I get my eyes quickly catch up the header of INDIA POISED-SAVING A GIRL CHILD( a times of India initiative). With a follow up of news related to injustice to this sex(and most of them heading with female infanticide and feticide).I really abhor such activities….
Before I start it off.. my full day gets tumbled with this thought..now what else can be more sour?i mean I am a girl and am still alive! And am doing pretty good by now with everything my acads, my passions, my relations EVERYTHING!! Then why don’t u people take my example (that’s the most average and “no-risk” one… after all I am not souring high like sunita Williams or fighting hedious crime,which no doubt requires guts ,like kiran bedi!.. I am just being the most normal which can be carved out of the clay). That’s what I feel like spitting at the society… India is advancing towards being a stronger nation, towards being a world power; towards being a better place with all these SKEWED up ratios and farther more a greater public which enhances all this silently. (hats off to all of u! you doing a great service for this country and above all man kind…by just trying to lower the world population by an easy in hand trick of calling us, the women “burden , family fight introducer , a sinner to fall in the ecstasy of love blah blah blah”)
But what most of us would say at the above statement--“No I don’t agree with you! Because the upcoming families are mods..they never differentiate(atleast my family) it hardly matters today. Girls are capturing the bank of fame, good earn and social praise faster than guys..it doesnot make a difference as at the bottom line BOTH OF THEM earn a living today" and I hav a few honey points….
1. The ratio among children up to the age of 6 was 962 girls per 1,000 boys in 1986, but 20 years later the inequity was actually worse: 922 girls per 1,000 boys.
2. Infanticide is illegal in India (though never prosecuted), and laws are also in place to stop sex- selective abortions. But in some places, national rules don't hold enough sway to overcome local religious and social customs - which remain biased in favor of sons over daughters.
3. Abortion is a lucrative business that many doctors do not want to see curtailed. Right now, it is used to save 1 out of 20,000 fetuses and kill 20 out of every 100 because [it reveals that the baby] is the wrong gender.
And here the most basic fact(an article in a newspaper)-
This is for all you unnatural thinkers that only poor are carrying this activity for such “unnatural number” of sex ratio-
".... if the first-born was a girl, the number of girls born subsequently fell off precipitously. Among second children, only 759 girls were born for every 1,000 boys, and among third children, there were 719 girls for every 1,000 boys.Although anti-girl bias is usually associated with the rural poor, the study shows it is far more widespread among more well-to-do urban dwellers.Households where the mother had a better education -- and presumably an income that would allow her family to afford testing -- were significantly less likely to give birth to a second daughter if their first child was a girl.
The study did not find differences among religious groups.”
now you got anything to dispute? If still then check out the papers and the web for your own help… its just such an abstruse situation to which still many Indians are capitulating and I stand up to castigate it….
I ridicule it… I disgrace it….and above all I HATE it.
How can the civilized behave barbaric on such conditions?how can the humanity fall to such chromatic lethal levels? How can Indians act so fatuously callow?
(I know that steps have been taken and situations are further improving but still I would like a pinch of my own efforts in the relief because the dark side is that the flood of this grave truth is still not tormented in areas like rajasthan,tamil nadu,orrisa and above all the state where I presently belong-gujarat! And I know that I can make a difference because I know that all the people who glance through this will definitely not let the plight rule because WE ARE THE GENERATION TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE)

Friday, April 18, 2008

share a thought

share a thought of love my friend,
a thought of care,
a thought of fantasy which can make us sour high in the air,
a thought of hapiness filled with wizardry,
a thought of fasion , art and flambouancy,
a thought of perfection for being a hip...
a thought of passion for companionship...
a thought of understanding which will never be ending,
a thought of joy which is always pending,
a thought of freedom of which we keep on dreaming,
a thought of disputing and still believing,
a thought of your mind which can unroll,unravel me!!
a thought of memories which last for eternity.
A THOUGHT OF YOUR HEART
WHICH WILL ALWAYS STAND NEAR
WHEN EYES HAVE TEAR AND DEFEAT I FEAR
DO SHARE A THOUGHT MY FRIEND WHICH CAN
MAKE ME GAIN STRENGTH AGAIN!!!

never give up


sometimes failure feels like the end of the life....
you close your eyes or open them its DARK everywhere,but dear , failure is not final. first you set your goals,then you give your best and keep your fingers crossed;you try,you fail, but you keep on trying,thats how it goes....
failure is the best teacher.. that even a success cant teach you... it makes you realise your dreams,your strengths , your power, it helps you dream higher...
if failure bothers you anytime.. you should never give up...
i know you can and you will... nothing can stop you...
besties sweetheart!!!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

mughals-aur-aaj-hum part I

ohkas here i am sitting and writing a very informal stuff-my time and experiences during the making as well as performing of mughals-aur aaj-hum. well to start with i just dont know why is it so damn glued to ma heart walls. probably becus it had lot of great times (and i just love capturing great moments either by pen or by photolithographic agents) and alternatively the amazing mishappz(ma cells misplacement... ma digicams heart-breaking-and-brain-tensing sudden dissapearance).



well the play is a great achievement because it opened my doors to theatre.. from where i walked off 2 years back, and the most deliberate reason of its being there .. right there deep inside my heart are ofcourse my college friends.. the entire crew of the show.... i call it a show because it was more of other things too than just mughals aur aaj hum!!! so comming up to the skeleton of it all-the story line. well its a very light one that demonstrated this century- jodhas dominance on akbar, anarkalis flirtacious nature, salims homosexuality with who else but birbal, durjans love for dolls(proving men too like stuff toys) , tansens luv for music but in an altogether different form where he prefers singing the minus lyrics and the "darbaaris" modern outlook towards the "darbaar".. thts all .. a very light hearted and delicately well acted play... now comming to the most exciting part ..the making....



here it comes .. a difficult task to handle 11 guys who are no less than hulligans.. but in a very purely devilish manner... yea u correct the guys who were the actors are real nuts.... they are awesome pieces of fun when they are around, together they just some how made all these moments special to me , by either jabbing on any silly topic with the most unbelievably silliest notion... or picking up music like "bum bum bole.." and foottapping or else i shud say jamming (let me clearify its not the oxford jamming... its pushing, throwing , kicking sort of a jamming)... also their sense of logic to answer your queries will just leave you with one expression,which is gonna be an aghast look on you and a loud voice from right inside your soul sayin-fuck man!!! they got ME speechless!!!!!! and how can i forget by making me shout and behave as a nerd who is really sciencere(yikes....man when am not)



the practice was a nuciance though with absurd timings and only half the crowd turning up in maximum of them and the other times of the so-called sciencere practices the interupption by some holy soul outta them with any hediously wanderous topic or action!!and that is why it is tempting me to define and introduce(though they are just my manipulations...and manipulations are never fixed forever) the cast individually to all of you -



1. rohit (akbar)- well he is a great guy with intelligence and a god gifted art to sing... and practicing for the play made him shout aloud.. tearing apart his voicebox as a result misfrequencing his voice. for the drama he was the pillar to great ideas and great acts and a person who many a times caught my sensetivity towards minor points which are just not visible by people if they are my surface friends.



2. aboli (jodha)- words outdo me for her.shes one of the greatest friends mumbai had to offer with many philosophical thoughts of ours tuning in on the right note. and as an actress she is superbly mindblowing..the whole act of jodha ruling akbar came just so naturally to her.



3.gaurav(salim)- a feeble guy(physiological description) with a strong heart(pshycological description) . m ascertaining this because he got the threat of the dismissal from the play due to the underperformance on the role by him but he stood strong and proved me wrong.and after that his silly monkey steps on hoth raselay is the best thing that i remember.



4. durjan(shijo)- nnnnaaaaaaaahhhhhhhiiiiiiiiii..... and aa bhiisshhoomm are the two words with actions which come to my mind when i look back at him as a character of the skit. hes huge and clicked the right contrast to the appearance of salim (short,thin and feeble) to that of durjan(heavy,heafty,lovable and high-here i remember the hi5z for me). teady-bear (as i address him) was the greatest punch of the show. he acts well and also organises everyone for the practice sessions.



5.birbal(robin)- tissue paper cconversation immediately clicks on his thought. a guy who has always been there as a helping hand and a person on whose moves and intentions you can blindfoldedly rely on-this is robin.yea a guy with gurly characteristics to fix the puzzle of salim-birbal mating :)... but dude should say that i really respect him because he is of a really pure heart.



6.tansen(shashank)-wello he fitted just too well for the role and i dont think he is bad at singing(thats what he says). shashank has always been the himesh reshamiya and has given me a great knowledge for the one-stop-cheap-food-shops of mumbai.





Tuesday, April 8, 2008

mughals-aur-aaj-hum part - II

shashanks a guy who tries to show himself to be sarcastic bt thn sumwer hes cot by me(remmbr the anshu mam gi g)hehehe bt ovr all hes anothr cute chap whos caring nuff.nd the grtest thing of all he xpcted ma blog to be full of piks of couples( for wht holy reasons only he knoes!!!)



komal(anarkali)-shes a very sweet dame... i used to find her wierd.. yea .. weird bt thn shes a sweetheart.. a very straight frward gurl with to the point feelings nd yea as anarkali she roked bt thn her chakkars only with sameer(no zammeer... no salim.. no durjan... no tansen). nd how can i furget she really piked up the play fast nd jus fitted the role despite many controversies(hope u undrstand wht m tokin abt). thanks a lot sweets fr being so kewl with it..



now comes the most amazing part of all... the colors of the show,the confusion and the chaos all in 1 the darbaaris...they are the chak de team of the mughal empire.and yea on the note of the darbaris the dance on honth rasiley is always gonna remain evergreen in my mind and heart!!! that was the greatest gig of the show....



abhijeet and sameer(chak 1 and 2)-"chak 1 and 2 accrding to them the darbaar is totally faltoo" these two are the full faltoo darbaaris(accrdin to the play) othrwise abhijeets a nice guy.. always been very shant sorts and a pain in the ass wen it cums to the praktise of the play cus he nevr used to turn up... hehehe.. despite ma verbal blowings he nevr used to cum up!!! hehehe and yea hes super pakkau... can make u laff on the gravest situatuion cus he has the most funniest logic fr them.

sameer(sammy as we all address him) is a very sobr guy.. i owe a lot to him... he agreed fr the komals gig as anarkali --thanks buddy!!! hes the only chaks who is around ma height(tho a bit taller boohoo) and a real confusion on stake!!! hehehe he is just damn lost in himself and komal off course ;) but as a actor hes superb with chest hits and sympathising on durjans condition..



gautam and aniket(chak 3 and 4)- "chak 3 and 4 our hip hop to the core"

tum-tum,gotti are the various synonyms for gautam.. a grt mind at work with sarcasm and a jabber... an ultimate one(he surprised me with his capacity of yapping and made me understand that guys too love talking) hes also a grt writer (nd dude u gotta show me sum of ur pieces) a vry down to earth guy with whom i kinda mixed up fastest... and yea as a darbaari-yeh darbaari!!! iski much leek karti hai ( well durin the reharsals his mustache came off due to the sweat) and obviously he is one of the gandhijis monkey with extra-sensetive ears!!!

aniket is one of the greatest eminem fan so he wus a grt rapper(tho a mute one) nd yea how can i forget the dialogue which came to him by default as--"saare paise shehzadee salim ne USS ....." a very sweet guy at heart and a kiddo soul.. anikets always been the damn caring guy amongst them all...when it comes to handling the background he has many ideas and all are cencered ones!!!

afiz(chak 9 ) - "chak 9, michael jackson in mughal style"
well... he gave me tit bits of suggestions for the play.. our discussions on the play online are still remembered.. the most cutest chak of the mughal empire and the most patient one too. By nature hes a next-door-guy who cares in his own special way and is really trustworthy(well the third day of the fest proved it!!he swallowed all my frustration in a very gentle manner) as a chak he wus a hard core durjan supporter..
harsh(chak 5)- "karni padti hai inko hawa se ladai... aa rahein hai chak 5"
yea the last bt not the least... is chak 5... harsh the thinnest guy of the group who carried the chak team flag... and he wus the refree of the fight between durjan and salim(tho it wus a pseudo fight)
he blew the wistle and both of them hit him with the maxo force thus making harsh fly flat to the extreme corner of the stage... by nature hes a down to earth guy whos there at your service at any hour of the day...

this was all the main actors not to forget the greatest backstage contributor... shruti... she had been like my greatest support.. i nevr miss ma family in her presence!!!..
these people helped me realize that mumbai is not that shit of a place and the people here not that 0.5-otta-10(as i graded them) and i seriously mean it.. they just unknowingly enough helped me unveil back the dead parts of me... the parts which i just cocooned because mumbai made me do so!!and so this comes not like my other written pieces... imaginarily philosophical but a piece of writing which gives them my tribute.
these guys all togethr made mughals a great success... here this is dedicated to all of them speaking aloud that i really miss that time and i reallyy treasure each one of them... directly or indirectly they have made all these moments al the more special in my life...
thank you guys... you all really rock... and yea i hope that the friendship (with each one of you and amongst each one of you) that took shape during this time period strengthens by the years...
and as for me... well it would be the best that the crew speaks up ....so btta gt bak to them!!!
and as i always say...love you all guys and rock on!!!!