The Grass And the GrassHopper ...!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First Things First LOL ........

Four Years since i posted anything and today when i was just randomly searching to pass my time I thought why not search for my Blog and see if it is still existing. And VOILA I found it.. And then i was thinking why not post something in my blog , I have lots of Free time. Then i realized that i did not post anything during my Entire Tenure with my Previous Org , I did not find time there at all. So i thought why not blog about why i switched and what i feel about my old org. and the new org. Incidentally It's been One Month Since i quit my Prev Company.(Today is the World Coincidence Day) ... So Why this Title ???? It's very Simple as the Old Saying Says " Grass Is Greener on the Other Side " (My Version "Beer is always cooler in the Other Mug")...

Whats the Grass ???

Well there are two entities here :-

1) My Current Company   :- I shouldn't name it so will give you a Clue (BheeeWoohYeaah)
2) My Previous Company :-  I have already spent my Final Settlement so the clue is (WIPRO Tech .)

The GrassHopper ???

Yaa yaaa it's me .............

So yes why do i even want to compare both of them ??? I have resigned from my previous company  on my own very will... Well the answer is very obvious somewhere i miss it.. But that does not by any means speak anything bad about my current one..

I chuck the idea of comparing the two and i will try to generalize this topic and see if i can analyze the psyche as to why people switch companies...

So what possible reasons do people switch companies ?????


1) Monetary Reasons :- This is the single and most common and important reason why people hop . However materialistic this may sound but yes MONEY IS THE REASON WHY PEOPLE DO JOBS. But i don't think 99% of companies keep their employees happy money wise for more than 2 yrs. Which is why most of hop syndrome occurs.

2) Bad Friends :- Well Enemies are never the reason you wanna get out. It is because you have people around you who make you feel uncomfortable which is why you wanna leave . This however is very rare reason for leaving a org.

3) Either you are incompetent or your Manager is :- Well the whole world revolves around curves. And if you don't see your Growth Curve the way it should be then you have no reason staying there. But also on the contrary with a nice Growth Curve and No Money seldom do people stay back.

So for all the reasons one may give or feel and switch between Companies is there really any difference in the GRASS the GRASSHOPPER EATS ????

Well there was a time when few companies were said to be great places to work at. They said the work culture is awesome and blah blah blah... But now this sentence is not being heard so well ... except for a very very few companies all the companies are now somehow getting normalized with respect to this very abused word "WORK CULTURE" .Why ??? How is that organizations are changing in this direction which is not how they are supposed to go .. Well the answer for this is at a very micro level rather than at a Macro Level.. Its very simple "EVEN MANAGERS CHANGE COMPANIES" . That's it  simple . if you have a manager who is from a background of a not so good for work company there is 90% chance that your current company is also gonna be the same . So according to me you changing a company for a better work environment or work culture does not hold water if you are working with a company with 1000+ headcount because Manager is like your parents you cannot choose them/him but its the vice-versa .

I wont be speaking about Money being a reason for change because that's an obvious reason why people change . But i will speak about does money help in making the grass look or feel any better ?????

Well lets say you are switching from Wipro to Infosys . For an increase in salary of 50%(Nice Hike). Now lets say you are above avg. working employee and know your stuff well. Now There is no difference whatsoever in the HR Policies of the two companies. No difference in the Processes in the two and also no difference in the way work is going to be done and also the amount of work that would be done. So does a 50 % hike justify in typecasting yourself into the same kind of jar but a different one ???? How does 50% make this grass better ??? and also speaking of which you wont have a hike for 2 yrs in your new company so even by modest hikes you tend to gain only 25% of hike . Well then next in your new company you need to start from base zero and do all the hard work again and easily you work 30 % more sincerely than your prev company. Now who stands to be at loss ??? If you are switching from your current company to its direct competitor ( Same category) you stand absolutely no chance of gaining anything that's worthwhile and also the grass is the SAME.

We are so messed up with our instant coffee thinking that we don't see anymore long term solutions. We are all concerned with instant benefits and instant solutions to problems and it is this  thinking methodology which has created a scenario where we have become grasshoppers and just keep jumping from one grass (Not only Jobs but Situations in General) to another in the hope that it WOULD be better . There is very little rationale in our thinking (if at all) and this attitude has got us into situations which we rather need not be . Simple with respect to the Job Scenario most of the Companies budget is allocated to acquisitions rather than retentions . Well if we all are not so short sighted in our thinking and rather the market attrition was at acceptable levels then the shift in the balance would have occurred to retention which definitely would be the right path . But now the thought process has all changed we are moving from the FILTER COFFEE generation to the INSTANT COFFEE one . Our decisions and thoughts are based on analysis(quick) of facts and figures rather than the rationale thinking and sound judgement based on Experience and thorough analysis. No wonder you don't find people getting clothes stitched(Men) or waiting in the line for Movie tickets or taking time for making or taking decisions. That's not a good sign and it will definitely get us into trouble because you will eventually run out of GRASS to hop on to. But who is to be blamed ?? Definitely not NESCAFE and definitely not DEEPIKA . Rather people who adopt them are to be . Take time and go slow ... Don't Run until you have completed walking. .. The World is getting Smaller but the Clock is not so #Keep Walking

And i leave you with the QUOTE FOR the post ....

TAKE TIME TO DO SOMETHING BECAUSE EVEN SHIT TAKES TIME TO GET MADE...............

ThE StraIGHt LinE------______--------__-----_---_--

Well well long long long time no blogs ,hmmm srry was very preoccupied with some wonderful changes in ma personal life that have kept me away from bloggin all dese days .hmm so wat brings me back to blogging well its nuthin more than simple joblessness in an IT shop tht drives me here and brings out this from me.
Now that i have all the time in world i am here to blog about one of ma fav topics that keeps runnin in ma mind for the past 6 yrs . It is about the word "STRAIGHT" this dumb word has been teasin me , amusing me and questioning me since all dese years and still i dnt have an answer for it .PLease please dont take me in a wrong sense though its not at all got to do with any recent legal amendment that has been passed or dealing with any ones sexuality.. I have always been confused about this word and its meanin so here i am pennin down rather typin down few observations and opinions i have to offer hope u guys find it usefull .........................
Well the other day i jus bumped into the idiot box after a long long time and there was this television show comin on "SACH KA SAMNA " and few mins into it i knew wat to expect.Then few days later i see a huge hue and cry being made about the show .Then ma age old dormant thoughts were woken up and i started to think again ......
I have always believed that "No one is perfect and nothing is straight" . To prove myself wrong i have always been tryin to find the perfectly straight creation of nature or put it in another way anythin thats perfectly straight naturally . I want it to be straight 100% straight . I have tried and tried but have never met with any sort of positive result. I have never come across anythin that is naturally "straight " infact not even a single thin came close to being straight .
Hmmmmmm There is ma biggest question . Why are we so obsessed with something that is not even a natural phenomenon ??????????? Why did we ever create a benchmark for somethin that does not occur naturally or that cannot be achieved in a natural process why ?????????? Why is the human race always obsessed with straightness and perfection when the nature itself is not why ????????????????
We always want straight forward and perfect people in our life . We want our friends , family and partners to be "straight " or perfect in their nature. WHY WHY WHY is ma question when no one ever can or ever has been straight. To err is human feelings and emotions that we experience dont have a sense of judgement of wat is right and wats wrong . Hence they never fall in the category or either right or wrong . So why do we make such a big hue and cry wen someone expresses his/her true feelings or emotions ??? Is it jus because they have just expressed those feelings or they have experienced them ??????
Now coming to the point of the reality show . Well wat it does is tries to find the darkest spot in our heart . Why should one have a problem with anyones feelings or emotions ????? why ? Feelings and emotions are one aspect and actions and reactions are another aspect . We are responsible only for our actions and not our feelings and emotions if people say that feelings are the true determiners of action or they decide the actions performed then i have no problem in sayin that i should have been roger federer by now seriously am not jokin .We are movin so fast in life that the thin barrier existin between feelings and actions is often so skewed up that people always tend to end up on the wrong side of the judgement.
Everyone is unique & everyone has feelings but to question and find one guilty for having experienced emotions or feelings is absolutely baseless. We have been developing so far and fast but have not been able to truly understand each others feelings that is why we have not able to replicate feelings in robots or capture emotions in a code because they donot have judgement and the binary code of 0's and 1's cannot be applied.
Each individual has a level of skewness and that is what makes them special not the level of perfection that sets them apart . Accepting people with their qualities makes the realtion all the more special rather than finding out the reason for feelings .Hence friends i request you all to stop understanding emotions and thereby misunderstanding people and then standing alone in this MAD WORLD.
Enjoy life with a level of skewness . That moment of madness makes life all the more special . Stop correcting yourself and start enjoying your emotions . Express experience and expect skewness from this world thats what makes it special . Perfection is not for a person , relation or quality it is jus for the sheer experience and nuthin else . Hence take care and take yourself away from the unwanted shackles of life then u tend to grow faster better and straighter cheers to life and all d best

"JUST FOR HIS 7% PROFIT"???????????????

Well wen i started this blog i never ever wanted to write about current affairs.Let it be terror strikes or politics or anything current affairs was not ma cuppa tea.But today as soon as i woke up i heard d news about Ramalinga Raju's confessions and den fr may be a couple of hours i was deep in thought about the Australia vs S.A series but in d Evenin wen i contemplated on dis issue and googled about some facts i did conclude some points and there is a disclaimer dat views here are purely personal and conclusions drawn by me are only for me and i am bloggin dem because to jus express ma views and not to create any sort of controversy .
(If any one wants to take legal action against me den all cases will dealt wid the the honourable court of justice zimbabwe and do meet me dere i am waitin wid ma lawyers (PUN INTENDED) )
For starters Ramalinga Raju has been d only corporate face of hyderabad for many years and later many have come up.But still he remains the face of satyam for all dese years and still all he has is only 7% stake in the company and i am not sayin dats his fault or something but just to tell evry one that mathematically raju has returns of only7% from satyams profit dat still going by the stake holders in the company is still very less. The major stake holders in the company are there in America who hold almost 70% and are not even according to them responsible for even 1% of blame taken by Mr.raju . Well fine here i come to my first conclusion that Mr.raju is an overenthusiatic investment banker who wanted his company to do very well so that he can get 7% of the pie .Well within 2 mins the argument falls flat as he is worth few billion himself and dese profits do mean a little to him as his sons company is enough for a man who has worked hard for a generation so there is one clear point he was not greedy for money as he had as the sayin goes "JUST 7%".
Then i start ma second line of thought "WHAT WAS HIS CRIME" facts presented to us byt the media and Mr.raju himself make it very clear that he injected "INVISIBLE MONEY " into satyam's balance sheets.Well den the next question to ma mind is why? and the reason is also given so that satyam has a green patch in the market and it bag more deals and contracts and in turn grow into a better company and make more profits and earn a good reputation(i make it clear a fraud is fraud and i am not supportin the above action).Umm ok a bad action but for a good result and what does Mr.raju get for this "JUST 7%"??????????????.Here i start getting suspicious and read Mr. rajus statments carefully and dere is one line which he says "has been going on for years"..ummm y?y?y?y?y?y?"JUST 7%"??????....i find myself after this answer ma self in a very confusing and perplxed position and was not able to move any further..
Then i start to take a note of all events that happened and it started wid the maytas deal.
fine so how much was the maytas deal worth well 7000crs right and this figure seems all to familiar isnt it well yup the scam is worth 7000crs that Mr.raju has committed..well well wowowowwow how so very accurate dat this could happen and this is not a mere coincidence is it?Very clearly no how can it be so well satyam was runnin invisible money worth 7kcrs and accrding to me Mr.raju wanted it to take over maytas so that the transaction could virtually convert satyam's "INVISIBLE MONEY " into solid assests well and maytas was not a loser here it also was goin to profit from this deal and also satyam would also get not 7kcrs but 14kcrs relatively with dis deal and now i would ask some of you was this all done for "JUST FOR HIS 7% PROFIT"??????????????? He bloates the companys reserves so that the company can prosper and he den staked his sons company so that his company could do well i am not sayin he sacrificed his sons dreams but still he wanted satyam as a companyto grow and make profit by stakin his fame and name for his company's sake ................."JUST FOR HIS 7% PROFIT"???????????????.......Well here the topic takes another turn and this is the time for one more paragraph
To begin with satyam is mr.rajus baby and i dont think such an intellectual will kill his baby for his fame or name or his reputation or for his fuckin 7%profit all he did which is obviously wrong was for his company's sake and for his baby to do more and grow more and i dont think that anyone wud deny about dat fact....It is not the fault of mr.raju or anything else it is the basic fault of we INDIANS .From the very beginning we are made to earn for others and so work here so that foreign people can earn profits it has been comin from centuries and we cant do anything about it and even today watever mr.raju got out of this whole deal was nuthin but 7% and not only him 20% indians work here or overseas just to make profits for "others" and dey get all the profits and accolades of materialistic kind and we get the name and also all the blame and today i would strongly ask the govt.concerned to look into the matter if a person of 7% stake has committed such a crime den do people wid higher satke have no hand in it ???The answer will be a straight NO because the ZAMINDARS of corporate world stayin oceans apart from us dnt get d blame but only the money because it has happened before during fuedal raj and more recentl in HARSHAD MEHTA'S case that all we indians do is to earn money for others and in the process if we are bending the rules and are caught den we are the black asses of india other wise we are the FACE OF INDIA.
Mr.mehta was invloved in a very major scam and he was the most hated figure of india in those days and wat he did was wrong and again he was not earnin profits only for himself but for every one and he is solely responsible for one of the best bull runs in our stock market history and he is now facing wat evry one calls LAW OF LAND.well he is the main culprit agreed den do people who have gained or made profits from deeds done by people (raju and mehta) also not responsible for the same???????? well a crime is crime and it should be punished and i say punish evry one who has benifitted from the crime and not only people who get just 7%...... there is politics and corruption involved in evry step of corporate india pyramid and i am not blaming the system or abusing it i am just sayin beacuse of one misdeed of the person i say dont brand him as "VILLIAN"because all that they were doin was for their babies to grow and nuthin more and i can surely tell u because of wat Mr.raju has done in the past by creatin satyam his leagacy of job creation will go down for generations to come but some where down the history line his name will be lost in anynomity beacause of this one misdeed and all i do is appeal to everyone not to swear or abuse him for this because he has given many thousands of people a lot to cheer about and yes few tears will roll down because of his actions but still for all the good he has done just dont tarnish his name he has done enuf to be remebered a life time and let him be given wat he deserves........this is an unbiased and honest appeal to every one.........






ps: WELL I AM NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF SATYAM AND I AM NOT PAID A SINGLE RUPEE FOR WRITING THIS AND WATEVER IS PUBLISHED IS THE CONCLUSION OF THE EVENTS THAT I CAN CONCUR AND IT IS NOT MEANT TO HURT ANY ONES INTELLIGENCE AND SENTIMENTS AND COMMENTS ARE WELCOME AND ALSO ME BEING FROM ANDHRA PRADESH HAS SERIOUSLY GOT NUTHIN TO DO WID DIS AND PLEASE DO OBSERVE RESTRAINT IN ABUSING PEOPLE AS TODAY WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT VISIONS OF PEOPLE ARE THE ONES WE ARE SURVIVING ONN....................

The title of dis post will be put up later please do bear and read d post...........

Ummm yaa this little piece of literature below is very very special to me and i dedicate it to ma wife ( still not found believe me) and it is written in d thought of somethin i would like to sat to her after we were together for ever somethin very personal but still wanted to publish it because it is very close to me and i adore evry single word in this and belive in wat i have written and stand by it for ever...........( well again sorry for not havin a title i will edit it after i get a good one and suggestions are very much open for titles.. i am releasin d post early so dat a stupid friend of mine can read it now )


Every second i spend with you ,
It is in a hope u will embrace me in my death bed
Ninety minutes of passion ,
seems burden of 200 yrs of life in my heart.
A few minutes of lookin ,
A few in fear , A few in hugs of tears.
and a few in blind senseless passion!
Every second i spend with you ,
It is in a hope u will embrace me in my death bed.
Neither of us knew the right or wrong,nor day or night,
Who was to begin or end ? no path wasclear!
Both of us began with glithces and none so far!
I removed fear to your love ,
and clothes to your shyness!
As everything seems a mirage to me,
Your tears of passion sting me !
Every second i spend with you ,
It is in a hope u will embrace me in my death bed
Every second i spend with you ,
It is in a hope u will embrace me in my death bed...................

StuBB tHE bUTt.......................................

I could here the sound of traffic clearly but i was confident dat no one was watchin me. So confidently i started , but there was a conscience within me sayin that wat i was doin was wrong but i never cared to listen to it. And all of a sudden there was a pang of gulit that engulfed me and i was thinkin am i doing the right thing?????? Not only guilt but also fear wat if anyone watches and complains???? If i am handed over to the police den wat???? The lump in my throat was jus refusin to go down and sweat started but i never ceased as i said to my self one more time.. But this was different it has been almost 900 days since i started but today was somethin different, i was never so conscious about doin it.... hmmm i thought am i goin to change for ever thought...? this was the first time ever i was so fearful of SMOKING.......
"With a cigg in my hand i feel like a MAN " this quote is followed by almost 120 million people in this country and i don't differentiate myself from them.
OCT 2 2008 this day holds some significance in my life . Wat that significance is will be known in time to come . Well it had to do with the very much publicized ban on public smoking.
hmm i had jitters down ma spine for few days before the date arrived it gave me goosebumps and also some nightmares on how to react to the ban. I am very honest here in sayin dat i would have done atleast 30 SWOT analysis of the ban,the rules and the loopholes in it so that i could reduce the effect of the ban on myself.
The day arrived and i was very conscious about smoking that day and finally my resistance broke and i had a butt fr the heck of it and i felt relived , proud guilty, pity and also amazed all at the same time when i finished it ... the reasons being different for each one of dem but still it was somethin that made me think again ........
hmmm the government here has been acting very smart i tell you reagrdin this whole issue. If you cant stop anything then ban it very simple and effective...there are rules to prevent minors from smoking and here the govt. has been acting very foolish to enforce a ban on public smokin in order to motivate people to quit smoking . Well here i put my first point forward how many time shad the government organised workshops or healthcamps in order to help smokers and counsel them to quit smokin and nowadays i dnt find any antimsokin ads by the govt. in any channel except the doordarshan.so here there is basic fault with the govt.which has taken a very aggressive move in banning smoking in public places. Well if i do agree that this point does not validate as a very strong argument then why has there been no proposal or thought to ban the manufacture and sale of ciggs altogether i know that is not possible and the govt. has issued a statement that it will done so in a phased out manner so that the tobbacco farmers are given other modes of employement . Well that is bull shit for matter of fact any guess the revenue of ciggerette industry is today well for very conservative estimates it is 50000 crores a year and that s the revenue govt. will loose out if they do .. Do ban manufacture and i will happily quit smoking this is a promise for sure (C'mon i wont have any other option).
Ok now for my second point of argument . Well before making this point i am very happy and glad that the govt. has sucessfully done away with all the terrorists and their oraganizations and henceforth we will not be having any more attacks... If this is not the case well can anyone please justify why the police are out catching smokers and not after these guys??? ok if they do there are 122 policemen for every 1lac people in india and very basic math tells u that there is one policeman for everry hundred smokers. now the inference from the above axiom is that if there is any one who is goin to be benifitted by this ban then it has to be the policeman and no one else and this is not a vague statement .. 3 days since the ban and every one in my grp knws that if ur caught smoking then the fine is 200 or else it is chai pani wrth 100 cmon here is another superb masterclass stroke by the govt. to reward the policemen so that they donot strike like the army peoply over the paycommission and now the cops are a very happy lot no need to satnd in hot sun for hours since the butt is more lucrative den the helmet.......... to hell with these policemen every one knows it and there had been no serious enforcement of the law or rather no enforcers must say....
Now for the next one . Rather then go for new rules and sanctifying people the govt. must first put its house in place . There are so many issues that have warranted attention for long and are still goin strong even though there has been a "BAN" on them.. prostitution and drugs the facts of these two are so unnerving and disturbing that makes you think twice whenever you meet a stranger and analyse him almost 1 outta evry 7 has been very heavily addicted to atleast one of these and seriously to this point accrdng to me there has been no headway made in to these except that the addicts keep growin by the day. So instead of concentrating on completing the current to duties to the desired level why does it care about doing other thins and creatin more ruckus for nothing ??? If there was a concentrated effort by govt. in controlling any of the above two given cases and there have been desired results put forward by them and people really get shivvers while doin any of them . Then i am sure the new rule swould have been followed with utmost respect but that is not the case to be and so is the rules effect........
Now comes the last one and easily the boon in disguise. The defintion of "PUBLIC PLACE" . To be very frank i have never ever heard a more abnoxious defn of the word elsewhere. seriously the definition given itself is so hazy and lacks any intent that it seldom completely stops a person from smoking in any place because for very place mentioned the rule itself carries so many "RIDERS" along with it that it makes it perfectly legal and illegal at the same time at that very place t be smokin and well what the police say and what u say might be different but the point i make here is if there was serious intent on the govt's. part then after such a long discussion and analysis why does it fail to deliver something so that the results of the ban can had in some materialistic and fruitful manner . But the answer is a sad "no" because forces behind anything to be made a rule in this country are beyond the comprehension of the average mind so the rules are convieninetly moulded for your convininece,..... Then comes one more explanation saying that passive smoking is harmful hence this rule has been formed .. I mean what the fcuk what u say is stop smoking in open areas and smoke in your homes so that ur family members can be happily be "cancered". even common ettiquitte says that when the person besdie you has some propblem with you smoking then politely move away or stop doin so and as fas as i know this has been generally followed but what the govt. has come up with will very clearly increase the number of "passive smokers" cmon there are smokers in every alternate family and forcing them to smoke at home will only make the matters worse and not help the cause (ask me)................
72 hours since the ban has been enforced every single person knows where to break and where not to break and the only complain every one have is why the fcuk do you make a new rule so that it fills the pockets of the cops again ....... i think there are many rules already provided by the constitution for the same motive and y get a new one and that too before elections and make the people even more frustruated.........





PS: WELL THIS ARTICLE IN NO WAY HAS ANYTHING TO SHOW SMOKING IN GOODLIGHT OR GLORIFY SMOKING OR PROVOKE PEOPLE TO SMOKE . IT IS JUST A CASE IN POINT ARGUMENT OT RATHER A OPINION ABOUT HOW THE ENFORCEMENT OF INDIA LIE IN VERY STRONG AND RESPONSIBLE HANDS.... PLEASE DONOT READ THIS ARTICLE AND START SMOKING ON THE ROADS BECAUSE A COP IS NOT FAR AWAY AND GET YOUR 100 BUCKS ..... HE HAS COME NOT TO COUNSEL YOU BUT BRIGHTEN HIS CAREER PROSPECTS...........WELL IF ANYONE DOES THINK TO QUIT SMOKING AFTER READING THIS ARTICLE I THINK THEN SERIOUSLY I SHOULD STOP BLOGGIN AS MY WORD WILL NEVER REACH THE CORRECT WAY ( PUN INTENDED)

REVIEW : ROCK ON..............

Well i have been thinkin of postin for a long time but nuthin serious motivated me or if anything did it was branded as too serious. So here i am with my first review of a movi on the net hoping to do well.

          Before this i wanted to tear apart singh is king in ma review but even dat was not a serious inspiration to do so but yaah dis movie deserves a review . I donot mean it deserves only acclaims but also a type of movie where even ramblings are recieved with equal grace.

          Well for starters I am a serious rock music fan and dat too heavy metal and i also luvvv movies so the stage is set.

          The story of the movie is not new nor old it just a old track which has been presented in a new format. It is about 4 friends who form together a rock band and when they are on the verge of making it big they fall apart. Then it is about how they re unite and sing once again.

           The basic story board has some resemblance to DCH but there ends the resemblance.. only to the thread of seperation and reunion that is all......

          This movie is a very serious contender for the " change of the year " award because it never follows a formula tried or even pretends to do so and also d treatment meted out is very original with respect to the Indian cinema .

         The whole cast should be complemented for coming up with not extraordinary but very honest and subtle performances. Each and every one lives upto the mark. Then come the performances : 

1)Aditya :  A very mature and subtle creation by the writer and it is very well etched for any person starring in a debut film ( cmon u have scope to perform , romance , screen presence and dat too in a so called multiplex film wat more to ask for)

2) joe :Finally arjun rampal has been doin roles which he wants to his latest films are a testimony to dat (OSO,DON,I C U) well not superb films but still he has come a long way from deewanapan . he surely does show that he can carry some weight of the film on his shoulders .It would be gr8 for him to work with anurag bose or kashyap or a vishal bharadwaj for the audience to have a complete view of his repertoire. 

3) KD : Well for starters he's a gujju and we are like no not again but wait dere are no such unwanted comedy threads relating to his origin. so there is one example of the change used in this film .Well he was given the responsibilty of the not so well scripted comedy track of the film but still he managed to do a good job considering he had the weakest written character in the entire film. His 2 cents to fame are the anger in the changing room scene before climax and also the solo performance in the climax and he did very well in both of them.

4)ROB: Here is the firang of the movie but again u donot have ny immaturely written dialogues or comedy based on that rather this guy along with KD have the most honest sensibilities in the whole film. He has done very well in the underplayed and not so glamorous character in the whole movie...

          well i wud have a special mention for DEBBY for her sincere and earnest performance in the film hope she makes the right choices in the future...

         Now comin on to the directorial department : Has to be said a risky experiment to start your first film but u had all d essential backin ( producers and music) to be given a safer platform to handle such scripts. The  direction of the movie reminds you of the english movies made in 90's where the scenes spoke a thousand words and not the other elements like camera or sound or for that matter lighting used. It is very rare for some one to direct a movie now a days without a commercial thread (not evn 1) . His ingenuinty lies in the way he made the whole movie not slow ( even though it is a bit slow but dats d script's fault) and not monotonous by having the screen play come back and forth so that ur not filled with neither too much melodrama nor rock music ( must say that if not done this movie would have fallen flat as there would be nothing to make u sit and watch). He used the background score to minimum effect and also the camera and lighting are so very well thought if dat u seldom tend to observe that these two elements are also present in the frame...a pat on the back for the director has shwn some mettle but it could have been done in a more complete way........

        Now comes the soul of the movie : MUSIC : shankar and co. have come up with wat i must say easily the most sensible and true rock album in the indian industry by faar and think it will be very difficult to produce better album ( rock) even for them or the rock bands of this country. The credit should go to them for using very authentic rock instruments and also stayin true to the rock flvour to be present in the songs . They are very original and also very soulful. 

   Now for ma ramblings on the movie 

     1)  Before the climax  joe has been shown to be with the band all along and all of a sudden does a u-turn without even informing his mates about his decision even though he knows that his mate might not be there wen he comes back he does not even care to say a good bye ( very weal characterisation) which essentially goes against the whole flavour of the movie which shows all these guys bonding like gel.........accepted that he does not have the courage but still that act does make him a bit too selfish ... as he is the culprit for the band's previous downfall....

    2) The band name is MAGIK cmon where are u guys........ are u producing a remix album of bangle ke peeche or somethin ur a rock band for heaven's sake and they donot have such names by any stretch of imagination . Given that it was 10 yrs ago but still rock bands has some flame in their names ( chakravyuh used in the film for exmple). Also with that kinda name it also makes the band sound a bit bollywoodishh ( magik kaam karega and all dat stuff ). i am not complainin but seriously feel it should have been better . complacency on the part of the writer...

  3) CLIMax : cmon wat happens to guys when they think of a climax man . Every one now a days makes the climax so scripted and formulaic that it jus kinda takes a zing out of the movie in the last moment .Like joe runnning from taxi to the venue or the act of joe directly coming on to the stage holding a guitar ( cmon mate that's an  electric guitar and needs some workin) the director should have shown an behind stage shot of joe before his plunge........

              Here are my picks which according to me are the best things about the movie...

  1) The band does not win the event and their life is changed ever after no kudos to writer for adopting a more realistic approach.

2) robs death scene is not picturised in the movie but the effct is made in the audiences mind good work by the director for good hold on the script and screenplay..

3) Very original performances by the actors as rock stars cmon man show this picture to an unknown and surely he wont be able to tell u that these guys are not serious musicians..and also the way these guys banged their heads and also their make ups ( both parts ) were very good..........

          BOTTOM LINE :  Well if u like GADAR , CHAMKU , VEERZAARA,SINGH IS KINNG or those kinda films then this one is surely not for u as u wont understand and even if u do u think that these guys are crazy and for others yaah recommended with sincerity for encouragin a new wave or brand of indian cinema ( HOPE YASH RAJ CLOSE THEIR SHOP SOON AND ALSO ANEES BAZMEE)

MiNORITy ConSCience................

Well finally my first post on my blog thinking of it for a long time. Well the current circumstances might have Just about have even inspired me to add some thing more...( i was thinking to write before the blasts took place..) ....... So not difficult to guess the topic is it.....
India has been by far the 2nd most affected country in the world after Israel and Palestine (both treated as 1..) . Now whenever blasts occur in any part of the country the immediate attention is turned as to where the blasts have occurred....?.. As not the geographical or the Administrative location but the religious affiliation of the blast site....My first reaction to this has always been y......? well if u look at the history of all the terrorist attacks that have happened on our land u will notice one strange relation.... OK first let me list out the states that have been affected in category 1 according to me....(cat.1 explained later on...)....

1. Bihar : Well the terror attacks in history of bihar have been not done ny any sect of people but they have been done by "groups". Groups like CPI-ML, Peoples war, MCC,Ranvir Sena and Balbir militias.. these are groups not of terror origin but naxalite origin...So they generally have been against the governance doled out rather than any "superior" objective..
2. North eastern India : These states have also been under fire of attacks by grps such as the ULFA and other Maoists so difference between these states and bihar might be only in the opinion of the groups and not their nature.
3 . Andhra pradesh ( excluding hyd.) and Tamil nadu : Well in the case of A.P its naxalites who have done the major damage and Tamil nadu it was done by LTTE so these were regional groups for concerns at state level ..

NOW there is one more state which has been subjected to terror attacks but the objective of the attacks are known even to the layman so mere the state name shld be enough to know the objective it is : JAMMU AND KASHMIR..

OK done with terror prone states of type 1 they are the states which were prone to attacks by a local groups which had people from all walks of life and their concerns were on administrative level and not beyond DAT so that is what sets them diff to the other category and let me tell u terror of this type is also highly despicable......

Now category 2 the first state in dis is : PUNJAB: Here the attacks were done by groups of one religion against the government and vice verse .. The Operation Blue Star conducted by Indira Gandhi was one of the Major reasons for terrorism to take roots in the land of GREEN REVOLUTION.. which still has put a question mark on her legacy...the terror attacks were carried out by Babbar khasla and other Sikh "revolutionary " groups in order to take revenge against the treatment meted out to their religious sect...now this was the first instance of "RELIGIOUS TERRORISM" in India and still Blame the Congress Party for being the reason for it....
now the secoond region which comes into our category 2 is very easily identified by one and all because it has been repeatedly hit on its heart for the sake of revenge well the second state is :
INDIA UNITED : Well when i have put this whole country into the second category then i must also make my stand clear because i don't think only blasting bombs is categorised into terror attacks but also i would also like to categorise the reason for these attacks according to me also into the category of terror attacks.................
well terrorism in India can be categorised into 3 time zones because mainly the attacks have occurred very "curiously" after when the people or group have been attacked or sentiments without any provocation from their side.. so the time zones acc. to me are :
1 . 1992-1999
2. 1999-2002
3. 2002-2006
4.2006-


1992-1999 : Well let me list out the various attacks
a)December 6, 1992 : well this was carried out by VHP and BJP in a very planned manner .... It is very obvious that i am referring to "BABRI MASJID DEMOLITION" .well how on earth could any 1 just bear such an atrocious attack on a particular group in a democracy and how could the government sit through this ................. well dont u think or even expect people to keep silent after such an act and not to forget the attacks on the Muslim community in mumbai after the demolition ....... well there will be people who have been shattered by those attacks and there will be people whose blood will boil and there will also be people who will take advantage of these people............................ well the course of events that would follow very so destructive that they would cripple the democratic fabric of India for ever ...... and solely blame the govt. at that time and also the BJP for this atrocious act of terror which is making us suffer even now..
b), March 12, 1993.: Very well known to every one as "BLACK FRIDAY". A very well planned attack of terror for vengeance that had caught the whole administration unawares. first time in India that it had been hurt where it hurts most ....... well this time the attacks were carried out by a Muslim group in retaliation to the attack carried out as in the above event....so this was first major terrorist attack in India according to many which falls into category 2. but many don't care Wat was the abbetment here in this case . Well i am not justifying these Attacks dey were barbaric acts of sadistic pleasure in order to satisfy ones ego..
well after these attacks the government was suddenly "angered" and an immediate crackdown was carried out breaking the back bone of terror group....

Well after these attacks were carried out INDIA was relatively insulated terror attacks from fundamentalists apart from J&K.....
well the second time zone according to me is 1999-2001 :
The reason for this time mainly being that the recent victory of India over it's neighbour in the war at Kargil.. which infuriated quite a few people living across the border that they planned to attack India to disrupt it's peace ... they carried out the following acts which have been in response to India's War victory according to me...
a)December 13, 2001 : The attack on Parliament of India which jolted the govt. thereby standing off all bilateral relations.
b)September 24, 2002: Though the attack is beyond the time zone the sophistication involved in the attack made me categorise in this time zone.... well this date signifies the attack on akshardham temple there by killing 31 people.....
well the reason for having the above time zone and isolating the terror attacks because the reason for the above attacks are mainly targeting the democracy of our country rather than anything else...
Well coming to the current time zone and the final and most destructive time zone of all . well this one is particularly made me think over my self over and over again regarding my beliefs because these have occurred at the time when i have the capacity to analyse the situations and also at time when i was asking and answering questions about my self..............

well the time zone of 2002-2006...........................

a) February 27 2002 : well briefly this was the burning down of the sabarmati express at godhra in gujarat...
b) the retaliation : The riots that ensued in Gujarat as a retaliation to these attacks have made every one hang their heads in shame in one of the most planned attack on a particular group ever in India's history what had ensued was ruthless massacre of human sadism at a new high which made India and the whole world to re-think about themselves....A very interesting point to make out here is that the groups that were held guilty for organising this attack of terror were VHP and BJP again...........

this again led to a series of terror attacks that were planned in retaliation around the country at various places killing scores of people..... and again i ask who is to be blamed........................??

Then coming to our final time zone 2006- current.... well for having another time zone now has been because the terror attacks carried out in this time zone have been very particularly targeted at Muslim places of worship of places where the community has a stronger hold and also at places which are witnessing a very strong growth rate owing to emerging India....
Well this time zone is used for the entry of International terrorist groups into India.. i would like to question one thing while all these years India has been having cross border problems why did these group of people not attack so openly at Muslim places of worship before. Agreed that these organisations did have a hand in the earlier attacks of terror they have never openly targeted these places before..I think this is due to the fact that the current govt. has been very soft on terror and the recalling of POTA act also dint make matters simpler or the time more apt for these groups to enter India and have there way as they would have wished ....
well now the govt has a very serious problem up it's hand to answer why has there been a new brand of terrorism infiltrating the country right now..................?

Well now as i plan introduce another aspect to my views i would like to ask y is dat people always remember the bombay blasts as and act of terror and not the babri masjid demolition as one...? well if killing people is a crime then killing views and sentiments is far greater crime because it leaves the victim alive and wounded.... i am not justifying any of dese gore acts but just asking the basic question as to why do we always perceive the minority groups to be the major threat to secularism and how do people of the other group are always made the victims of terror and not the major causes for them are the activities of the BJP and VHP totally justified in both the cases and if not y are their leaders not tried in the court of justice and y is it dat only the followers are tries for in the one off cases.....? as the great man had said " AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND"...well are we not responsible in any form for the atrocities that our friends in d minorities have had to bear over all these years ...........? Are we not found guilty because they are suspected each and every time there has been a blast or an attack .....? Is the government not responsible to make them equals with every one in the society and not only the Law....? Does the Minority live in a Different India where there is no poverty and hunger..?Do they not suffer from lack of opportunities or at least underdevelopment ? It is very clear that they do face the same problems as the 70% of the country faces and in some cases their condition is said to be even worse ...Then why do every one in India have a lopsided opinion about them when it comes to treating them as INDIAN ... why do every have a glitch in their thought or a scorn on their face when it comes accepting them whole heartedly ..... i do not say that every one has the same opinion but all i want to put forward is why do even 1% of India treat them not as one of their own because they are here with us .for such a long time they were with us thru the earthquakes and the cyclones and the Tsunamis they were never immune to them or Will ever be then y this opinion.....? why do we always have to give them dis feeling that they are a "minority" every other day......? are we Hindus not as responsible as them for the attacks.....? can u defend Ur self or isolate Ur self from dose activities ...? if u Say that they were done by some radicals then y cant the same be followed every where and for every one .....?Why is that deep inside our conscience we need to remind ourselves about the fact that they are as equals as even we all are....? why do even need to find out the basic fact that we even need to think or even categorise them as a minority.....?
well i personally believe that people who still think that there still exists a community in our country which needs to be treated differently from the rest of the country because they are immune or responsible for the problems of the country or even those people who think they do not face the same problems as very one in the country is the TRUE MINORITY in the country. They are the people who are a minority in their thinking. They are a minority in this world where brotherhood is the required to achieve . They are the people who need to be held in question every time India is questioned about it's secularism ....they are the true suspects and threat to the security and development of the country.....THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO BE TREATED AS PEOPLE WHO ARE A MINORITY IN THINKING AND THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MINORITY IN CONSCIENCE... they are the MINORITY CONSCIENCE