Journey of a Filmmaker

I didn't want to skip a day of blogging just because I'm travelling. If I did then there is no use of having a smartphone after all. So what will I blog about today - about the very train in which travelling. While I was travelling in the about 2 months back to attend my final semester exams I had thought that could be my last journey on that train. But it turned out that I have travelled by the same train twice after that. And both these times I travelled a longer distance than I used to while in college. So it's just very ironical that I'm travelling by the same train today. More tomorrow from a new city...

Our college had a decent gym facility to feed the fitness freaks inside us. College going boys usually would have an interest towards building their bodies. May be it was the raging hormones or the natural intention to attract girls or whatever be the reason, being fit always felt great. Until about one month since the gym was opened, so many guys were thronging it in a “welcome attraction”. Well the welcome attraction soon faded away and the gym master became the only one visiting the gym regularly. Soon, My friends Suresh Krishan, Madhan (Maddy Mathan @ facebook) and I started giving company to the gym master at least with our regular visits to gym. We used to do some random exercises and we felt our muscles growing day by day. The one thing that we could not have at home was the all-round mirror arrangement in the gym. We could just look our toned body reflected and this added to the high that we got from working out. As our exercise routine was starting to become more ...

Having attended a lot of interviews in person and via phone and skype, the whole interview thing has started becoming some kind of a boring conversation where I just have to give some pre prepared answers to the most typical interview questions. But lately I attended an interview by an e-commerce enabling company whose name I would better give when I get selected and this was a totally different interview experience for me. May be if I reach a position where I would have to interview people for job, I would certainly re use the questions that I answered. The one very distinct feature of this interview was that it made me to mine the best and positive part from within. The HR on the other side was Nisha and she opened the interview with an introduction of herself. So sweet of her that she made a very long introduction that I became tensed may be she would expect the same kind of an impressive intro from me too. I gave an account my marine studies and then switching to engineering inclu...

Many have this simple doubt – why is a manager paid more than the people under him while all the work is done only by the sub ordinates and the manager simply oversees them? Is it not unfair to underpay a working person and overpay someone who supervises? NO, it is not. The weight of managing people is very high. Only a few shoulders have developed the strength to carry responsibility with ease. Others just have to join the lot which wonders why the hell these managers are given perks. Responsibility is such an important thing. Some people just hate responsibility, some others pass responsibilities by pushing it someone who could well be a scapegoat, and only a few cherish responsibilities as if they were born for it. Feeling responsible for your success is the greatest feeling you can ever get. There are many situations when we succeed at something but we don’t feel it at all. We just sleep like it was any other day. This happens because your heart knows that you are not ...

Ever heard a song on a loop and had that feeling that the song should go on playing and you simply wish that the tune doesn’t end at all? Well, it is second to none. Total addiction to music. Total addiction to tune. It has the power to surmount any soul and that’s why certain music are called soul-stirring. Today, I am in a hurry to write down something to keep up the flow. All I could come up with a list of lesser known songs that could potentially blow your mind away if you are one such lover of soul-stirring music. The first one on the list is “ketenna unnai” from Desham. It was composed by A R Rahman, the Mozart of Madras and no doubt it is a masterpiece of a music. Forget the lyrics and just start listening to the background music and the interludes. Its sheer experimental feel is sure to blow you away. Many of you would not have heard this song at all. It’s from the dubbed version of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘Swades”. The surprise is t...

The whole of the batman trilogy by Christopher Nolan, Batman would abruptly disappear while still in conversation with people often offending Commissioner Gordon and many others. But only when the catwomen does the same thing to him in the last instalment he realises it in an amusing way saying, “So this is how it feels like?” That was when he got the taste of his medicine. I have so many of such weird behaviours like making people wait for my reply in chat (mostly because I used would be browsing with many tabs open simultaneously and often wasting my time deciding whether to close a tab or not – damn you, tabbed browsing) and not attending the phone while my friends call me (well, not intentionally but often accidentally because I used to have my phone in silent mode and wouldn’t mind throwing it away on my bed and go watch the tv for hours and coming back to see a double digit number of missed calls). As hypocritical as it may sound, I want the “typing...

Sometimes I used to argue against God why there are so many gifted people who create magic with their lives and others who spend all their years being just a spectator to other's  show. Even when I am convinced of the fact that there cannot be a show without audience but why is it that the audience is meant to be an audience and why was he not given a chance to be a showman and enjoy the feeling of making a thousand others feel the way you expect them to by your showmanship. How are people chosen for a specific task to be performed throughout their life? Is it just a matter of chance or someone rigs everything from somewhere above? I don't  have an answer to this question. I have to discuss this thought with a lot of other equally interested and ignited minds to come up with even slightly probable axioms. Well, today's post is not going to a spiritual search leading to God but it is going to be about epiphanies. We all know some famous epiphanies of history - the discove...