simba

journey ends

I have ended my journey with Animika Studios. Well, it was not easy and simple as I have made it sound here, with lot of difficulty and hassles, and more over with pain, I had to make my choice and have made it now.

Lot many people were in shock and disbelief that I resigned and they couldn't believe, coz as I was one of the partners for the firm and also the creative director, it wasn't easy for most of my clients and friends to get this sunk into them. I cannot and could not explain everything in detail of what made me to go in and throw the towel, but I had to, after coming to know what was happening and how things were changing at a pace that it could slip off its orbit and I wasn't certain of any professionalism and transparency to be seen in the coming days. To cut the long story short, it was time for me to move on and I am kinda guy who stays away from games, plays and politics, thats the last thing on this planet I ever wanna take part, be it at office or outside, heck with it. And, lastly, If the company provides my share of contribution is upto them, coz I am a true believer in nature, hard work and patience has always paid me off, so I guess here too, I would be paid or rather get paid in one form or the other. Thats nature. What goes around has to come around. No escapism.

Hence, choose to walk out and today I am on my own. Feeling the fresh breeze and enjoying the freedom it has to offer. I am and king and I am the slave, all's worth it.

The Bucket List

I am speechless about this movie.

One simple word to describe: Refreshing

After I left the movie hall, these were the only two questions which had disturbed my thoughts for quite a long time, for which the answers which I found was indeed shocking.

Morgan Freeman shoots up these two golden questions to Nicholson during their trip:

1. Have you found joy in your life?
2. Has your life given joy to others?

I guess these two questions sums up all.

first time

when was the first song you heard?
which was the first movie you saw?
which was the first song you sang?
when did u write your first love letter?
When was the first time you said I Love You?
When was your first kiss?
When was your first hug?
Do you remember you first salary?
Do you remember the day you joined your first job?
Do you remember how you spent your first pay?
When was the first time you realised that you have the potential to change things around you?
When was it you hit someone for first time?
When was the first heartiest laugh u ever had?
Which was the first joke you cracked?
When was the first tear?

When?

basics...

Have you ever wondered or actually thought like What is that we really want in our lives?. Are we actually doin what we love or we pretending to be loving in what we are doing. So many times, we are in this illusion of thoughts and deceptions, and we presume with what we are doin, could be in terms of our profession, relationship or even finances, might not be the real thing what we wanted to do. Aint that a surprise? If we ask ourselves once, are we on the right track? Am I in love with my job? Am I in love with the right person? Is my finances doin gr8? We might get answers which might be quite shocking and too an extent very disturbing.

Think about it.

Its time for me to re-arrange and shuffle few things which hav been in wrong places for all the right reasons. Or might be the other way too.

We get so carried away by our emotions, that spur of the moment kind, which can lead us to paths which we never wanted to be or worse which we cant return. It would be too late for some too look back. But aint late for ever. The moment you realise that you are in the wrong lane and u r not suppose to be in the track which u got urself into, its never too late to take a u-turn, might not be that easy or a smooth ride bac, but guess what, it will be worth it, coz u wont have any regrets if u had choosen to be in the same path which was not urs.

Spectacular Video

This one is by George Patterson Y&R, shot in Australia and composed of five videos using slow motion cameras at 10,000 frames per second.

Just Beautiful.

Via AdverBox

this is me

These lyrics are from the song 'Mera Jahan' from the movie Taare Zameen Par.

This is just what I would like to keep humming on and on..

A Little Sweet, A Little Sour
A Little Close Not Too Far
All I Need, All I Need
All I Need Is To Be Free

Chhoo Loon Main
Itna Kareeb
Chal Padun
To Kitna Door

Chhoo Loon Main Itna Kareeb
Chal Padun To Kitne Door
Sapna Ka Buna Sweater Sa Warm
Safed Baadalon Ke Paar
Mera Jahan

Let Me In Without A Shout
Le Me In I Have A Doubt
Let Me In Without A Shout
Let Me In I Have A Doubt
There Are More,Many More
Many Many Many More Like Me

Off late I am surprised to see some great ads coming out from our very own Indian ad industry. It doesn't mean that there weren't any good commendable ad's in the past, but could say very few of them could cross the pointer of "Hey! thats a gr8 ad". But in the past few months, I have come across few commercials which makes u to sit up and notice, may not be for the product or the service, but only for its conceptual and execution space and clearly in terms of the brand recall factor it creates.

By far, these 3 are the best one's for the moment and I am sure all of you would have seen it too:

1. Bajaj's Pulsar Mania.
Never ever seen an bike ad so pulsating and energetic like this one. It just makes u to get out and grab a bike for urself. Its definably remarkable in terms of the stunts and superb background score which adds life and takes the ad to a complete new plane. Just classic. It has got that WOW in it and the music by Paul Norwood (Audio Militia) is just mind blowing. This one is been created by Ogilvy & Mather, shot in Cape Town and stunt team comprises the best riders across the world including AC Farias and Matte Griffin.

2. Virgin Mobile
The two TVC's from their recent campaign has been brilliantly created. Just kudos to the team which came out with so fresh TVC's in midst of the routine and mundane ads which makes u to just look out for a remote to be carried onto a diff channel, just to avoid those irritating ads. This one is an complete 'Out of The Box' ad.





3. Headlines Today
Last, but not least. This one just floored me. So true and so 'In Your Face' kinda attitude. Just remarkable.

facets of simba

This is his 3rd week at my place and he is adorable as ever he could be. Best of all, so much to learn from him. To start," Never Ever Give Up".

tune in

If u get a chance to listen FM while driving, in that case I would be suggesting you to tune into these frequencies, only for the sole reason: the best rj and to keep ur drive smooth:

1. Prithvi on Radioone.
8-11am.
He is the one of best of the best and he makes sure that ur ride is smooooooth.

2. Deepu on Bigfm.
7-10pm.
You would just love him for his comic timing and the josh in his voice.

3. Rapid Rashmi.
Bigfm.
3-5pm.
She is the best female rj in town. I used to love vasanthi a lot, but these days she just aint good at her majic. sigh

4. last but not least, Rohit and Rajesh.
Fever104.
8-10am.
Good fun on air with these two fellas.

P.S: the timings might be not the exact one's, thats the best I could recollect of.

ultimatum

Last week I picked up The Bourne Ultimatum, after having watched it on the big screen, couldnt resist to own the dvd in my collection. One single word to describe this movie - classic.

Its a beautifully created, fast paced and best of all, one of the finest movies in the category of movie editing. Go own it, if u haven't yet.

change

It's time to change:
everything. Outside me. Within Me.

Change is Nature.

adios, my friend.

Yesterday, one of my dear friend, a good client and a great human, had his last breath due to a prolonged illness. I was on my way to off and got this msg from one of his close friend at starting of the day and I just couldn't believe. He was suffering from an illness for close to 2 years, but on one hand when i look at it, its good as he could put an end to it and move on to a different level of life, but on the other, I am gonna miss him. No matter how much I might write here or talk about him, it ain't enough.

Gonna miss u Raghav.

control

'Control'
The dictionary defines it as: to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command, to control one's emotions.

But it so happening that, I am trying to control myself in order of not to approach a person
of my life, but it seems to be so tough and difficult to be in control at all given times, more so, when the person is right in front of your eyes. How can you just tend to ignore? How can we just pretend that we are whom we not suppose to be, and when we want to be ourselves, the mind puts across so many barriers and blocks such a way that it makes the other person standing opposite so distant and inaccessible, and it ensures that the ego rules at the end.

SIGH.

Sad Sad life what we choose to live.

This episode makes me to mention this line from the movie Schlinder's List, where Liam Neeson is having a converse with Ralph Fiennes, where both of them are having series of drinks at a party and the latter is completely stoned, and then and there he pops out this question to Liam
"How can you be in so control?", to this, Liam Neeson replies " My friend, whats power?. Power is something when you have all the rights to punish a victim despite u knowing that he is guilty, but yet, you pardon him, thats power. and thats my friend, is possible by being in control"

This line is so apt more than ever. When we know the other person is at fault, and yet we forgive them, is something where a normal human mind could possibly finds at ease to be done.

Yet, here I am, waiting.

The End.

Its so true.
"Good things never last".

If they were meant to, would we really realize its presence and appreciate it. I aint think so.

Last two months there has been a deadly roller coaster ride which I never ever been thru and worst of all, never wanted it to turn out the way it had to. I don't think so I would be that stupid enough again to allow myself into that roller coaster ride. thats for sure.

Whatever happens, i am truly mesmerized by the beauty of life which it offers. Change is so inevitable. Life goes on. And so shall we. Whether we want to or not, life just carries us ahead to ensure that we keep evolving at every level it throws challenge towards us.

will god ever forgive?

After a long long time, i spent the whole Sunday being at home, no meetings, no work, no office stuff, no parties, no hanging outs, stepped out for a while with mom for basic home shopping, apart from that the whole day was smooth and good amount of relaxation and playing with simba. Nothing like that. it was a complete fresh feeling and was wondering how could i miss this doin this all this while. The entire week we all would be struggling to meet the ends, deadlines and what not, and we never get to be ourselves or spend time alone for few hours. But then realised that its very much essential that we spend good amount of time on ourselves to keep us going further, else we shall burnout and miss out on those special moments and freshness which life has to offer.

Coming to the title of this post, was watching Blood Diamond from my collection and there's this line from Leonardo DiCaprio, which was so profound and had a deeper sense to it. During the conversation with Jennifer Connelly, he says " Will god ever forgive us for what we done to each other" and then he comes up with this brilliant one liner " I think god has forsaken these lands a long time ago of not able to witness the pain and hatred to each other spreading around".

When we look around, the events unfolding on the global scale and the best of all, the changes within us, when we look bac it tends to take over conscious and make us to do what we never intended to do. Is this is what we are here for? When we look at life in a broader perspective, we feel that we are chasing and bothered more about the smallest parts of life which are so mundane and lifeless, leaving out the essence of the true meaning of life and the true meaning of loving each other or making the best of what we have. We are always busy chasing illusions created by the beautiful mind which aint ever satisfied whatsoever.

Time to think.

here he comes....

here are the first few snaps of Simba... hope u all like it..

SIMBA has arrived

Finally, the day of SIMBA has come.
He has Arrived.
He is cute.
He is sweet.
And, he rocks.

so near yet so far

sometimes u come across issues/things/people, for which you can relate yourself to, but yet they seem to be not yours, they never were, for which we get attached, for which we go any mile to ensure that its taken care of. But ain't good tho, or in probability we never deserved it/them.

Life is truly weird. One hand it gives u the stuff's which we always desired for.

But on other hand, it makes it so inaccessible, so not yours, which just drives u insane.

so near yet so far.

the bugle boy

purpose

do we know our purpose?
do we know our point of existence?
are we on the right track in life?
are we doing what we were suppose to be doin?
are we happy?
are we happy with what we have done to our lives? could it be better?
is our life meaningful?

just few questions which stuck me this morning.