Tuesday, June 07, 2005

i think..evam indrajit

in my extremely busy schedule of settling down in my job i went to watch the evam play evam indrajit this sunday. besides being an extremely huge fan of karthik k i genuinely like their plays.. i have never missed even one. but this sunday was different. they were doing a play that was not funny- written in the 1960's by my standards it was from the last century!!!! :-) the second reason was that i was taking along a frnd who had never watched a play before. i was not too sure if this was the right choice for a first play but watever!!!! i dont want to go into the story of the play. but watching it sure set of a train of thought some of it relevant to the play and most of it not.. but anyway here goes...
i am a human being. God created me as one coz He wanted me to go through the emotions that He Himself put into his most wonerous creation ADAM. happiness,jealousy,sadness,anger,hatred,exhilaration,exhaustion,dejection and so on so forth. i have been opposed to the thoughts which say that i shud transcend to a higher plane. to hell with a higher plane i am happy here. wat is the point in being a human and not going through it. i could have been born a buffalo,giraffe or even zebra for that!!! hey i donno, maybe they are capable of emoting too and i just dont get their emotions... but yeah ok.. i think u get the point..

evam indrajit just strengthened my idea. it talks abt amal,kamal,vimal and indrajit!!! it symbolizes every other individual and u.. it talks abt the circle of life and the 3 parts in it namely youth,middle age and death. it ends with indrajit realizing that running away from the normal will not help and its best to accept that. wat is the point in trying to unserstand something that is in comprehensible or in the least open to a wide interpretation. indra as he is called ends up loosing the grl he loves and settles down with another grl.. another manasi.. oh by the way every grl is a manasi..(how chauvenestic can one get man!!!)

ok ok by now u must be wondering wat is she trying to talk abt.. well i am trying to type with my colleagues doing java,oracle and discussing orkut sitting 2 feet from me ,hampering my already chaotic,confused thought process.. yes this is youth. where one sits and talks and gossips, grls on guys and hrithik and brad pitt and guys on grls and cars and cricket and who has the hugest biceps or the hugest pay checks.. this is youth!!!!! ur frnds are ur world, ur love is heaven and home and mom and dad are the things that bring u down to earth when u absolutely dont need it.
by the time one moves out of this stage u enter the grihasta or married life. u are a householder meaning that as a spouse u support,love and care for ur husband/wife as the case may be.for better or for worse..in sickness or in health till death(or lately divorce) do u apart.. long walks on the beach, burnt dinners, saving and scrimping on the salary, overtime and all.. then kids come into the scene.kindergarden to car pool to karate class and so on.. oh wait i almost forgot sibling rivalry :-)

death???? its a question mark.no one knows wat one it is and i appreciate the those who can explain it. but i dont want to think abt it and i dont want to be taught abt it..let it be.. will find out as it comes..

so like the play said i think that i shud go through the stages and go through the circle and as the sang in the play 1-2-3.3-2-1.4-5-6.6-5-4 and so on..

all in all the play was gud. my frnd loved it. and i got to check out the guy my frnds and i call "cute karthik!!!" it set of a train of thought and it set of this blog!!!

Friday, June 03, 2005

waaaaaaaaaat di?????

ok this mite not exactly make sense to most ppl but its a sort of brief sketch of one of my dearest frnds div.
div was someone i met in my engineering college. in a sense we are both complete opposites of each other. no two ppl could be more different then div and me. she shy and silent and me the person who talks nineteen to a dozen and has no qualms accosting a person.(my classmates would vouch for this)physically too she and i are absolute opposites of each other. div is one of the most petite and delicate grls i have ever known and most guys in class fell for her.on the other hand i was round and considered a guy's frnd and not someone you would want to impress. but like the saying goes unlike poles attract..
i can talk my mind with div.. she would come on my innumerable walks around the college. on most of these occasions i would stop to socialize and this wud bug divya no end. but she wud patiently stand. i always made it a point to introduce divya but she never came out and spoke to them. i think that i have lost count of the number of trips she made to the canteen where she ate absolutely nothing but just came coz i asked her to.
it was only towards the end of the 3rd year of my 4 yr degree that i started to turn to her and have serious conversations.it was then that i realized that div behind the immature facade was a serious human being.
i think this is the pt where i tell u that inspite of div being shy in public was an absolute nut when she was with ppl she knew and liked..
i realized during our talks that she was a very mature human being with a very strong personality.she just chose to give the impression of being a baby!!!
by final year i almost bulldozed divya to become like me- partying with me,watching every movie that came to satyam theatre etc.
guess we started of as unlike poles but now have become birds of a feather..(OK i couldnt resist the mokke :D )
and in case u wondering y this is titled as it is .. tatz wat div says to me every time she calls me..

Thursday, June 02, 2005

the confused desi

i have always been extremely bothered about the way the indians are represented in the "crossover movies"
mom with pickles and coconut oil,dad permanently clad in his khadi kurta and his thick glasses behind his newspaper and the son/daughter who is trying to cope with their parents and the confusion of cultures. for crying out loud!!!!
Bride and Prejudice was one such movie that was made to the point of ridicule. Gurrinder Chadda made Indian moms look like the only thing on their minds was getting their daughters married. please there is far more to mom's than that.
The Kumar's at No.42 is another case in example. The entire family thinks its their duty to make royal fools of themselves and Sanjeev. Its gone from the point of being funny to getting on my nerves.
American Desi with the cliched "krishna gopal reddy" insisting on being called "kris"!!!!

The only movie of late in this spate of films that is atleast a little close to reality is Flavors.The way in which the parents will accept their son's foreign wife and the wedding and all,the girl who just wants to spend time with her husband. All these characters are believable and nice.

I strongly feel that Indians are not as they are portrayedto be.Making a mockery of our culture does not count as comedy. After all we dont see Greeks making jokes on their rites, or the Red Indians making spoofs of their smoke signals and for that matter the Americans making comedies on the non-existance of a history or tradition.
ok thatz a lot of desi bashing!!!
will stop now
cya.