My Invisibility Syndrome
Tue, 2006-08-08 16:19 — India Whining
I tend to become invisible when I am in a restaurant or on a flight. One of my recent brush with this phenomenon occurred on a Jet Airways flight from Singapore to Mumbai.
Read more here http://parikrama.blogspot.com/2006/08/but-why-me.html
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Goodness! I had missed
Goodness! I had missed these priceless gems- Thankz a lot- Atra’s piece- The ringing bell - I had read before- but the Khataarnaak Hindi phillum ishtory and u’r sequel- I got to read only now- and i had a phantashtic time reading both-
small suggestion- no phillum ishtory is quite complete, total and wholesome without the blind “maa’ who regains her eyesight after a ‘wham’ on her head- in fact most phillum hospitals have wards catering exclusively to blind ‘maas’ - where they may even receive blood transfusions from the hero, comedian and villain simultaneously if the situation so demands…she has also the important role of praying/scolding The Almighty to save the life of her beta who loves Gaajar ka halwa!
pradz! u’r penchant for conjuring up names is still very much active I see
Ardra
hi PK! too good! enjoyed
hi PK!
too good! enjoyed reading this a lot- hope u write more often..
ardra
p.s: cud u pls provide the link to the story that u posted based on a dream inspired by atra’s story? pls?
Ardra
LOL Ardraa, aap bhi
LOL Ardraa, aap bhi ein bacche logon ki baaton mein aa gayi
Dunno if the story would sound good or make sense now. Hope it does.
Herez the link to Atraa’s original story..
Khatarnaak Hindi Fillum Estory
And herez link to my addition to his story..
Who Let The Dogs Out ? WOOF WOOF WOOF
Thanx for Ur comment. I am having problem accessing my blogsite page from Office. The comments section just refuses to open properly so have not been able to respond to comments there.
:-(
am able to view atra’s page- but I’ve been denied access to u’r story
Ardra
Ardie I think his story
Ardie
I think his story is showing as a comment in Atra’s blog itself.
Ardra
Sorry about the URL mix-up.. Read the 4th Comment from top on Atra’s blog to get to my story.Better luck this time
Now thats a story for you, IW!
How about writing a script about this dude, who goes around insulting people, hoping to inspire them to greatness, dreaming the way pradzie dreams?
And then actually one of the people he insulted does become a great guy, and then the insulter tried to go see him, to see if that guy would remember him. Dream sequence - the big guy comes running in slo-mo to fall that this dude’s feet, and says - sab tumhare karan!
But when he comes face to face, big guy mistakes him for the local bhai who has come to ask for his extortion money.
They both talk to each other (both on their own idea about the other person), and walk away, feeling happy how the other treated them with such love and respect.
But then, the real bhai gets mad…and then, you know what follows, don’t you?
Now THAT story, your story
Now THAT story, your story atra is simply great! You should write, bhai! Seriously you have some real talent!
Simply great storywrite, you are eh! IW, forgive me, he is better than you! Sorry, you have to live with that! Wah wah!
IW, don't listen to this Pradzie fellow
IW,
Pradzie represents the force in your life that holds you back. Don’t you give in to that nagging voice that says, “your destiny is to become a mere couch potato”!
You are meant for greater things than being a couch potato and drinking tea. In fact, I am of the firm opinion that if you try hard, you could one day even be a chair potato and drink coffee instead.
So, think about what a waste it would be, if you listened to characters like pradzie!
Atra, Pradz - Stop fighting
“The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything - like a mirror it responds equally to all.” - Chuang Tzu
. Pradz, I dunno whether to read between Ur lines or to just take Ur words at face value. Somehow I feel Ur comment is more loaded than it appears to an untrained eye. Maybe U are trying to play some reverse psychology trickery to get me all worked up. If thats not the case & U are just being honest, then I must say I really appreciate Ur honesty.
So there, fella’s. Stop fighting amongst yourself over me
Atra, Would look up the script-o-rama thing that U mentioned. Actually its editing which has always intrigued me, rather than scripting or any other thing. Something inside me tells me that I would be quite good at it. Well actually I did get a chance (about 8 to 9 years back) but kinda blew it, coz i didn’t realize how badly i wanted it or how lucky i was. Back then when nobody had heard non-linear editing, i use to work in a set up which had the AVID Media Composer for doing post-production work. Although the main editor never allowed us to get close to the machine, still just standing there in the editing suite & watching him work was fascinating enough !! My job was to carry the beta recorder from the shoot back to the studio.. Connect the bloody thing to the AVID machine. Put the tape for digitizing . Then the editor would take over . After he was done, I was to carry the tape to another studio to do the “beta mastering”.. and then carry the tape and hand it over to TV Channel Offices ! From rolling off the script over the manual tele-prompter.. to maintaining the shooting log where one marks whether a shot was “OK” or “NG”.. to paying electricity bills of director for whom I worked & running other petty errands.. I did it all. In short i was doing the “struggle”. For all of this, my name use to be listed under the “Asst. Editor” category when the credits rolled up at the end of the program. Blink & the name was gone. But it was good fun. Just don’t know if i have it in me to do that all over again. Once bitten, twice shy.
Anyways, i think i got bit carried away here. Over n Out for 2nite.
Eye Doob,Ab tumhaar se
Eye Doob,
Ab tumhaar se kaa chupaana, babua! It is my flawed contention that a person exceedingly does well in the face of adversities. If i’d said “iw, you can’t complete a four word story if your life depended on it, forget writing a script for a movie”. Besides you coming after my life to thulp me with whatever you can get hold of, you could/would’ve taken it up as a challenge and said “F****r, i’ll show you” and who knows few years down the lane, a bharadwaj/johar/chopra banner with your script. Imagine the possibilities!
And perhaps in an interview with IBN’s Masand you would humbly reveal “because Pradzie said this…”. I guess it was for this selfish reason i said all that, so that a few years later i could say “Hey i got a scriptwriter for a friend in B’wood”
IW - a suggestion
bhai, you should seriously try your hand at writing film scripts.
Do some study of existing film scripts, like at Drew’s script-o-rama site, and see how its done, and just sit down and write something.
Even better, take your laptop to some cafe, and sit there and write.
Again, I am not kidding. You will be able to do good scripts.
After that, plan on taking it to some decent director. Or, maybe you could first try to do scripts for theater and see how it goes. Look up some local theater group.
IW, Don’t listen to what
IW,
Don’t listen to what people say write scripts, stories, publish books, become director, then an actor. Don’t let this get to your head which will then swell up and you’ll have a haemmerage. Kaaiko all this jhanjat. Sit back araam se ghar pe, drink chai, relax karne ka!
This piece was ok and it did make me laugh, but your best is far away from this, thats all!
IW bhai
hermit life is by choice, isn’t it? Who is stopping you from going going out and doing stuff after work, and having cool experiences of all kinds?
What you say is true - it is quite helpful to keep getting fresh inputs all the time, to be able to write well.
But if you can write this well without stepping out, I think you should be able to do a superlative job if you went and did some weird stuff to get writing masala
Good One
IW,
You’ve got a great eye for detail and a memory to match. It shows in all your writings. I can relate to a lot of your observations as a fellow Mumbaiker who went east (except I could chew gum where I was!). As good as this piece is, IMHO your best was your take on the Bollywood Story where you merged in the pavlovian dog from another of Atracus’s stories.
T.O.T.C.S.
T.O.T.C.S,
Thanx buddy for Ur appreciation. I totally agree with you about that Bollywood story being the most “fun” piece so far. It was really an “inspired” piece of writing. I remember going off to bed pondering over Atra’s story-line & I actaully dreamt of how the story would progress ! Come morning, I just typed out what I had dreamt the previous nite. Bizzare as it may sound, thats how the story presented itself to me !
Thanx Atraa..
Atra bhaai.. Thanx for leaving comment at both places. To be quite honest I wasn’t quite happy with this post. I am really (pleasantly) surprised when you say I outdid myself ! I thought the masala part was bit over the top in this post & it was making me bit quesy when I hit the publish post button. But hey I am not complaining !! My battered self-esteem can do with some soothing praise
LOL @ About trying my hand at writing professionally, it took 2 whole months for me to come up with a post since my last blog. I have a social life of a hermit. My day-to-day diary (including weekends) would read something like this - Went to work. Surfed Net. Came Home. Cooked Dinner. Surfed Net. Went to bed (clutching pillow in my arms).. and the story repeats for 365 days. I certainly don’t see anything interesting there to write & share on regular basis
again
well, I wrote a comment on your blogsite anyways, but its like, I liked the piece so much that I thought I will write it here, too.
First when I read the preview lines, I thought it was like one story I had read once. But when I read yours, I was astounded at how good it was.
You should try your hand at writing professionally, my friend.