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Hey world,
An interesting thing happened today… we were in the middle of a story meeting about a new show we are developing… as we were through with the discussion with the top boss and all was agreed upon, we decided to take a break and then get back to discuss the characters…
all was going well and then my intelligent boss decided to prove his mettle… he dragged us into a needless argument regarding one of the characters. everyone besides him has a consensus on it and he simply refused to budge form his black and white world where everyone had to be at the extreme end of the spectrum…pitch black or spotless white…
we all refused to give up and kept holding our fort till he gave in…
basically the point he was trying to make was that every character should have a great motivation in their life or he is a useless… our point was that there are many such characters who are happy like they are and dont necessarily have a great plan for life…but that is what makes them interesting and complex characters to work with…especially when we are moving away from stereotyped characters..
what is your opinion???
Cheers till later…
RSK
Hey World,
its been a few weeks of a happiness for me and my colleagues at work…yes our dear boss was away on a much deserved holiday…
and now he is back…and the minute he stepped in, the air in the office became sickly…
wonder what he is composed of…just refuses to be reasonable at any stage… and it just becomes more and more difficult for anyone to work with him…
to begin with he has a lot of baggage of being a so called experienced hand and having been there done that… he is very adamant about his point of view and cant bear someone making a suggestion that does not endorse his own point, an attitude that only lead to frustration and stagnation in a creative process. to add to tha, he is abusive and disrespectful, has poor memory so conveniently forgets what he tells others… and finally is very insecure about everything and everybody…
just this weekend, he made us run around to send him some documents sent to his house… but when we sent them he very conveniently forget about them and on the monday morning he declared that he had not received any documents… then he wanted me print it promptly just then and there… so ridiculous i must say…
in my organisation they think i am the one who handles him best but after three and a half months and many conversations later… I can easily say that working with a person like this is a serious problem and can be a very painful experience…
Cheers!
hey world,
its a sunday afternoon…fast approaching evening in fact.
my room mate noticed my land lord walking into the gate of the building from window overlooking the sea of our seventh floor apartment. he warned me as i took a swig of beer and lay on the couch…i told him that he must have come to collect some bills from the society office and brushed aside the possibility of his knocking at our door…
we have been ideating on one of our film scripts… it seems like moving in the right direction…
just then the door bell rang… in a jiffy we had to ensure that the beer bottles and the cigarettes are removed so that he could be saved from a culture shock…all this without continuing with our conversation that he could hear from outside the door… the smooth transition involved me carrying the bud bottle and the ashtray to the kitchen and my friend opening the door…
once in …he gave us the bad news… the society has increased the parking fee for our cars and he wont bear it for us… we welcomed him with our affection and spent the next few minutes convincing him that our finances are as stable as they were the last time he visited us… he refused any our offer for water etc and ensured he communicated the essential point he had in mind before stepping our in a hurry…
while on his way we reminded him about the repairs due for the window shed… he agreed hesitatingly to send someone before leaving…
once he left, i got back the beer and the ashtray and sat down to write this post… need to write regularly if i want to make this a viable option…
hey folks please do post your comments…its gonna be important for my retirement plans…lol
Cheers and have a good Sunday evening…
RSK
its kinda late in the night and im about to hit the sack…
feel like its been a longish day and yet its not over…
life is a funny experience… many a times one thinks its coming to some sensible resolution and then yet again it makes a strange twist to reveal a new dimension…
never the less… it seems many of us are living it up and feeling good about the same…
wonder what the greats would think of it…
guys like arnold toyenbee, karl marx, and other such greats…
im sure they would respect our individuality and not bother too much about the subjective analysis…
but hey!, do we do the same???
do we live and let live???
i dont think so…we are constantly in the midst of proving our own righteousness and in the process demean some fellow humans …
dont think it is right… we need to be more tolerant of others views…
so thats a germ for a thought for everyone visiting here…
till later…
do leave behind your thoughts…
Cheers!
RSK
Hey World,
yesterday was India’s sixtieth Independence Day. Its been that long since we found our freedom from the British rule…a feat unparalleled in history till date… a lot of debate goes on if we truely have emerged as a nation or are we off course…
i wonder if there is one answer for that one… and who is to evaluate that?? the people who truely sacrificed their lives for this independence are either not living anymore or made redundant by society and our governance… and the younger generations are pretty much on their own trip…
through various phases, we have today reached a situation where we have seen the extremes of joy and sadness as a nation…many times over… and yet we are not united as a nation… this is a fact that is reflected across many cross-sections of our country… political/ social/ economic/ our policies and interests are always at loggerheads….maybe that is the perfect democracy too… and maybe we would always be like that… united on the surface and disunited underneath…
my wish is that we reverse that trend…even if we are divided on the surface, we must unite deep down…its this unity that has kept us together for centuries… and some day we are the pioneers of this philosophy of universal brotherhood in this part of the galaxy… India must become independent of anything that stops us from uniting …that for me is true independance… and this feat would add to the glory of our nation and also show the light to the rest of the world…
CHeers!
and Happy Independence Day!!
RSK
hey world,
today was a big day for my team…we had to pitch to a channel with a show… all three of us- vats,sri and myslf are the creators and thus very passionate about it…in the end it went of well with me butting in at crucial points as vats narrated …sri was very quiet as the he is unwell with food poisoning…
it all boils down to selling…it seems the world is one big sales organization…and all of us are salespersons…selling to survive…make a living…find some occupation…satisfy our existential cravings…other desires…and then one fine day we die…and a whole lot of selling happens to ensure we get a good farewell… strange but true…where does it end???…like some one said:” how many miles must a man walk…before you can call him a man?…the answer my friend is blowing in the wind…the answer is blowing in the wind…”
a large part of our lives are spent fulfilling these needs and by the time we realize, life has gone by…the same holds true if one wants to own a house in a city like mumbai… the rates are so high and out of reach that a large section of -even the professionals- never end up being a home owner… if you do take the plunge…you must end up paying a hefty sum for the rest of your life… and in turn you are ensuring that you have a lot of stress constantly hounding your mind and life-stress to cough up an E.M.I. every month- regardless of what situation you are in, unwell, disaster-struck,alive or in coma…lol … and just imagine – at the end of your life, you are left with nothing but a house to show for all that you have been able to achieve in a life time…its so humiliating…so small to write home about…but that little pigeon hole is the greatest objective for a majority of us common people in this maximum city. and like it or not…im dreaming about it too…some day i want to have a little home for myself in this city where i dont have to worry about moving out at the end of 11 months and no one hounds me with increase in rents…but it may take some time friends…considering that no one really gives a loan to media professionals and one has not had a great amount of fortune coming till now…so may be i will /maybe i wont…”
till later…cheers!!!
one of India’s most path breaking films… the story of three childhood buddies…their journey..their coming of age and finally coming back together…
rushing in for a meeting…
will be back for more folks…
Cheers!
RSK
welcome!!!
