January 2010
33 posts
DAY 650
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 31, 2010 Sun 11 : 49 PM
A Sunday ! An involved Sunday ! A Sunday of opportunity ! Reassuring Sunday ! Sunday of crowds at the gate ! A lonely Sunday, devoid of company ! A company that normally Sundays bring !
A Sunday that initiates the son e lumiere for Jallianwala Bagh. Just a...
DAY 649
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 30, 2010 Sat/ Sun 12 : 48 AM
Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, first sound in the morning as you drive into Parel to their studios for the music release of upcoming film ‘Teen Patti’. The reception is subdued. Far far more subdued than the visit to the same location for the promotion of ‘PAA’. There were greater crowds on...
DAY 648
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 29, 2010 Fri 11 : 47 PM
How embarrassing to have written an incomplete post and that too with sleep overtones. Worse still to not have completed it the following morning. But .. travel back to Mumbai kept changed times as a hindrance. Weather conditions in the Northern regions of the country with heavy fog...
DAY 647
Sopaan, New Delhi January 28/29, 2010 Thu/Fri 2 : 02 AM
I cannot remember it happening to me in recent times, nor in times past – an audience applause in the middle of my film, at the end of a scene or dialogue. But it happened tonight at the premier of RANN. A thunderous and prolonged applause at the end of a scene that I perform...
DAY 646
Sopaan, New Delhi January 27/28, 2010 Wed /Thu 2 : 05 AM
Apologies… apologies….. its 9:04 am on 28th January and I have just discovered that my post had not gone through. I am activating it now.
And before anything else I would like to pay my respects to Lakhshmi Jag and offer my condolences to her on the passing away of her revered...
DAY 645
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 26, 2010 Tue 11 : 47 PM
At the Dance India Dance with Zee and Mithun … promoting Teen Patti
With the Army and the children from up in the North, Pooch close to the border ..
Pensive and apprehensive at electronic interviews …
Kolkata … Netaji Subhas Indooe Stadium and the school show … memories of...
DAY 644
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 25, 2010 Mon 8 : 53 PM
Bangalore – Bengaluru after the special showing for Paa for the Chief Minister …
And at ‘Lift Kara De’ with Karan Johar …
The common man, the common woman in my country is God’s own child. They are the true citizens of a country ; of any country. Simple, emotional, committed and transparent as a...
DAY 643
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 24, 2010 Sun 11 : 57 PM
Poverty .. abject poverty - penury, destitution, pauperism, pauperdom, beggary, pennilessness, impoverishment, neediness, need, hardship.
Words formed by exulted beings. Beings that had the capacity to describe and give expression to conditions that they may perhaps have never faced or...
DAY 642
Taj West End, Bangalore – Bengaluru January 23, 2010 Sat 10 : 50 PM
Bangalore !! Here after an eternity. Here at the same Hotel where Coolie took place. The room opposite the cottage I was in when that injury happened. Ah ! Keep looking at the room as I drive passed it several times during the day.
From the airport straight into press for RANN. Questions...
DAY 641
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 22, 2010 Fri/Sat 1 : 05 AM
The gym in the morning is the only refresher course for the entire day. Gets rid of early morning lethargy, loosens up the body and mind, fills up the lungs with fresh and hopefully purer air and possesses you with a sense of well being. The body and limbs seem flexible than before...
DAY 640
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 21, 2010 Thu 11 : 04 PM
What is it in humans that builds tolerance. Which section of our complicated brain tells us when our resistance is about to break. When do we develop inside us the value of perseverance. I believe we allpossess small but significant amounts of each – tolerance, resistance,...
DAY 639
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 20, 2010 Wed 11 : 47 PM
There is a certain joy and a sense of fulfillment when you clean up. Clean up your system. Clean up your desk, your cupboard, pending paper work, anything. Clean up and feel the difference. Order is restored, some discipline is maintained. There is a certain clarity, of thought...
DAY 638
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 19, 2010 Tue 11: 59 PM
To New Delhi and back. Non stop movement, non stop attention, non stop interviews .. and back. From 31 degrees Centigrade to 8 degrees, from cotton shirts to woolen blazers and scarfs, from sweat off the brow to a sniffle in the nose … back !
And the greatest joy … a quick visit to hug...
DAY 637
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 18, 2010 Mon 10 : 32 PM
I lost my Father on this day around the same time as I write to you. Today … his death anniversary ! Relatives send in their prayers and remembrances and I send in a prayer as I sit in his room, quiet and in contemplation. There is no one today around me and there is a sense of...
DAY 636
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 17/18, 2010 Sun/Mon 1 : 21 AM
A nippy Kolkata morning, fog and low visibility but a flight to catch back to Mumbai. The early morning routine is the same. Put an alarm for 6 and a minute or two before that you are awake to check if the alarm is working and it springs to life as you examine it. There is time still to...
DAY 635
The Sonar Bangla Hotel, Kolkata January 16, 2010 Sat 8 : 40 PM
Kolkata … lived up to all that I had written about and all that one has always expected from it … passion and love and excitement .. driven to a level where it is difficult to assess how year after year, this attitude never wanes. From the roar at the airport to the roar at the Hotel...
DAY 634
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 15/16, 2010 Fri/Sat 1 : 54 AM
A strange silence descends. There is no need for it nor cause, yet it descends. It quietens the vocals and the mind. Silence is not always golden they say ; sometimes it is yellow. There is a pull that threatens to slobber, to bring action to an otherwise slower countenance. No...
DAY 633
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 14, 2010 Fri 11 : 50 PM
I try desperately to put up some more of the written word from my Father, but the expanse and the variety of his offerings are so immense that it would be doing him and his works grave injustice if I were to pick one over the other. This however is no excuse to not put them up. They will be...
DAY 632
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 13, 2010 Wed 11 : 42 PM
A very happy Lodi to all those that live in the northern regions of our country, and to those in the southern regions, happy Pongal !!
Both festivals celebrating that time of the year when the harvesting is done and over and there is a time for special food to be cooked and...
DAY 631
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 12, 2010 Tue 11 : 44 PM
One of the respondents corrected my blog by pointing out that I had mistakenly put the time as AM, when it could have been PM. I have of course changed it. The continued habit of writing the post way after the midnight hour has accustomed the brain to put AM.
As one grows older one notices many...
DAY 630
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 11, 2010 Mon 10 : 27 PM
मैंने शांति नहीं जानी है ! त्रुटि कुछ है मेरे अन्दर भी , त्रुटि कुछ है मेरे बाहर भी , दोनों को त्रुटि हीन बनाने की मैंने मन में ठानी है ! मैंने शांति नहीं मानी है !
आयु बिता दी यत्नों में लग , उसी जगह मैं , उसी जगह जग , कभी – कभी सोचा करता अब , क्या मैंने की नादानी है !...
DAY 629
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 10, 2010 Sun 11 : 59 PM
There is noting quite as serene and beautiful as the sight of a little baby asleep. If the innocence and the peace of such a visual were to be made permanent in the lives of all humans, the world would be such a better place to be in.
It was the last visual that remained with me as I crept in...
DAY 628
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 9/10, 2010 Sat/Sun 2 : 24 AM
It has happened !! PAA has won 5 awards at the Screen Awards, the first off the season. Best child actor, Pratik aka Vishnu Best supporting actor female, Arundhati aka Bum Best actor female, Vidya Balan aka Mom Best Jodi no 1, Abhishek and Amitabh Best actor male, Amitabh...
DAY 627
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 8/9 2010 Fri/ Sat 1 : 44 AM
It is not always the best of times to write when the brain is sluggish. When it takes time to think, to compose, to interpret and relate. It is also not the best of times to pass opinion and thought, to comment. For, it is then that words though meant in earnest find themselves in a web...
DAY 626
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 7, 2009 Thu 11 : 49 PM
We now have tax exemption on PAA from several States – West Bengal, Gujarat through confirmed letters and Delhi and Maharashtra on the anvil with applications made and awaiting results. Karnataka too has been applied for. The appreciation for the film still keeps pouring in and many that have only...
DAY 625
The Gateway Hotel, Ahmedabad January 6/7, 2010 Wed/ Thu 2 : 49
Naked emotions, devoid of any hindrances presented and expressed as nature designed them for humans, or as many believe God the Almighty may have, have a release that remains unmatched in our recorded or unrecorded history. It somnambulates, drives us in an exhausted drain of energy to slumber. But it...
DAY 624
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 5, 2010 Tue 11 : 38 PM
Up at 6, gym by 6.30, out by 9, in BR Dubbing by 9.15, out at 10.15, into Jalsa by 10.30, with Navya and Agastya the early risers, others being asleep, and their morning cartoons, a quick meet with Abhishek who is setting off to the gym and then Bingo shoot, back to Prateeksha to finish...
DAY 623
Jalsa, Mumbai January 4, 2010 Mon 8 : 06 PM
A sluggish day made more pronounced by a sluggish countenance. The excitement of the grand children though, around and about and over, is the only redemption. Their energy levels are compensating for any loss my end. Their energy is to be envied and one that cannot be matched . Their energy is what...
DAY 622
Prateeksha, Mumbai January 3, 2010 Sun 11 : 10 PM
Lonely hours are the best hours of life Because Its the only time We share our deepest Secrets with the most Trusted person in the world
Ourselves …
The completeness of family is the most joyous moment in any life. Today I enjoy that as I step back from the arid but comfortable winds of...
DAY 621 (i)
The Address, Dubai January 2, 2010 Sat 11 : 59 PM
It is the time of year when predictions come a dime a dozen !
Beginnings have a habit of inviting such desires. A desire to know, to predict what the future holds for us. It has been human tendency from time immemorial to discover the truths behind what is unknown. We get anxious and...
DAY 621
The Address, Dubai January 2, 2010 Sat 2 : 45 PM
मेरे बहुत ही प्रिय और दिल के करीब परिवार के सदस्य ,
नव वर्ष की शुभ कामनाएं और आने वाला हर दिन आप सब के लिए मंगलमय हो यही इस्वर से मेरी इच्छा है .
यहाँ दुबई मे कुछ दिन आ गया था. कुछ परिवार सम्बंधित कार्य थे , और कुछ आराम के लिए समय निकाल लिया . अच्चा लगा. आप सब लोगों से आराम से बातें भी कर सका .
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December 2009
34 posts
DAY 620
The Address, Dubai January 1/2, 2010 Fri/Sat 2 : 35 AM
There is purpose at times in nothingness. Nothing to do, nothing to think about, nothing happening, nothing served , nothing ate, nothing entering the body or mind, giving out nothing, taking in nothing, nothing to see or feel, nothing absorbed or digested, nothing compelling, nothing to object to,...
DAY 619 (i)
The Address, Dubai January 1, 2010 Fri 2 : 25 AM DST
To those that remained with me in happiness and in joy. To those that shared the grief of separation and loss. To those who joined in my exuberance through achievement. To those that silently bore with me my failures and disappointments. To those that wished me success and accomplishment. To those that...
Day 619
The Address, Dubai December 31, 2009 Thu 11 : 11 PM ist/ 9 : 45 PM dst
2010
Happy New Year Happiness togetherness and joy always
