December 2010
31 posts
Day 985 (i)
Goa Dec 30/31 , 2010 Thu/Fri 1 : 50 AM
Back again with you like a bad penny ! But it is inevitable, forgone conclusion and definite. The post at night has a flavor of its own – like it or not !! And so here I am again ranting and informing and describing the varied activities of the day, thoughts for the moment, impressions that need...
Day 985
Goa Dec 30 , 2010 Thu 9 : 35 AM
My conscience does not allow or permit me to have escaped from my routine last night. Well … routine is not the correct word … it is too matter of fact and managerial sounding … my desire, my commitment, my obsession now is perhaps closer … my reason to breathe and the oxygen that I...
Day 984
Goa Dec 29 , 2010 Wed 10 : 53 PM
For some strange reason the eyelids close voluntarily, demanding sleep. I have struggled to keep them open as I find my way through a chinese meal at a restaurant within the premises that I stay in. And now as I connect with all of my family in...
Day 983
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 28/29 , 2010 Tue/Wed 12 : 31 AM
When I had visited Shashi Kapoor ji in hospital the other day and written about it, a member of our FmXt raised a point of ethics in doing so and objecting that there is a certain code of conduct in the medical profession and a moral code in society where such...
Day 982
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 27/28 , 2010 Mon/Tue 12 : 47 AM
I just remembered as I shot for my commercial today on the Film City floor No 1, that I had inaugurated this floor and indeed started the entire shooting process of this Government run organization in the 80′s. The film was ‘Barsaat ki ek Raat’ being directed by...
Day 981
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 26/27, 2010 Sun/Mon 1 : 16 AM
Back from a wedding – a friend’s daughter getting married. Tonight was the ‘sangeet’. The boy’s side and the girl’s side get together on a common platform and dance and sing to the bride and the groom to be. A warm affectionate ritual. Relatives and friends of both parties...
Day 980
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 25 , 2010 Sat 11 : 59 PM
Time and tide wait for no one. They move within their designated realms, irrespective of consequence. They care not for what their consequence may generate, they move in an unstoppable rhythm, to reach a destination that we can never aspire to reach, or have no inkling of. But what they leave...
Day 979
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 24 , 2010 Fri 11 : 56 PM
Merry Christmas and a very happy New year 2011 !! To all my extended family, may this day and all the coming days be full of just unlimited happiness and joy. May all your wishes come true, may family and friends remain out of harm and...
Day 978
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 23, 2010 Thu 11 : 07 PM
A moment of creation is a moment of divinity almost. Where it comes from, where its inspiration and where its final destination is still a mystery – at least to me ! What is it that provokes a painter to pick up his brush and paint a green figure, a red background or even a blank white...
Day 977
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 22, 2010 Wed 10 : 36 PM
My sincerest thank you’s for your kind words and affection for my Mother, in remembrance. It was endearing loving and most family like, even if extended. To have knowledge of the fact that there are many among us that share their feelings is by itself such a huge force. One...
Day 976
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 21, 2010 Tue 11 : 27 PM
आज पूजनीय माँ की पूर्ण तिथि . आज तीन वर्ष पूर्व उनका देहांत हुआ और विश्व की सबसे सुंदर माँ हमें हमेशा के लिया छोड़ के चली गयीं .
सुबह से ही उनके ख्याल, उनकी यादें मेरे साथ रहीं . हनुमान जी की उपासक , और गुरु ग्रन्थ साहेब की श्रधा भक्ति में डूबी रहेने वाली , माँ आज हमारे साथ नहीं हैं .
बाबूजी के प्रति ,...
Day 975
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 20 , 2010 Mon 11 : 40 PM
The entire day has been spent in trying to attend to millions of sms on the mobile asking me to join in at a discussion cum debate on the television, for the reaction to Sachin and his 50 test hundreds ! And I have deliberately and I feel judiciously remained away from it and not...
Day 974
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 19 , 2010 Sun 11 : 54 PM
Sachin Tendulkar scores his 50 th test century and this is an unbelievable landmark in the history of the game ! There is no doubt that this record will perhaps remain for eternity. No other cricketer is any where near this phenomenal achievement, and shall perhaps never be. The media...
Day 973
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 18, 2010 Sat 11 : 49 PM
Back home after a short and award winning trip to Dubai – ‘Vihir’ our Marathi film won the MIFTA and a Life Time Achievement Award from Masala! the equivalent of a People magazine from the UAE. Meeting up with Karan and Hrithik and Manish Malhotra and Urmila Matondkar, all of whom were at the...
Day 972
The Atlantis, Dubai Dec 17/18, 2010 Fri/Sat 12 : 40 AM
We are prone to recognition. Recognition of any kind – material, physical, metaphorical, abstract, finite, infinite. And when there comes an opportunity to receive it or be recognized for it, we seldom refuse it.
I am in Dubai for just that and more …
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Day 971
Jalsa, Mumbai Dec 16, 2010 Thu 11 : 20 PM
Dear All … a prominent member of our FmXt, Reshmi, lost her sister after a prolonged battle. We had prayed and wished her well, but she has passed on. On behalf of all our extended family I wish to express our deepest grief and extend our condolences to Reshmi and the family in this difficult...
Day 970
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 15, 2010 Wed 11 : 57 PM
Routine has such an impressionable effect on others. Or should I say that one persons routine becomes another’s pain. Those that cannot contend with a disciplined routine of someone else will work ceaselessly to prove that the other is so incredibly wrong. The weakness or handicap of one...
Day 969
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 14, 2010 Tue 11 : 50 PM
There is great haste in giving a response to the question I had asked about the pictures in the previous post. Here it is :
Look closely at the picture of the tree. Two prominent trunks show up in V shape. The trunk on the left, just below the dark region which is an opening in the tree,...
Day 968
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 13 , 2010 Mon 10 : 45 PM
Back in Mumbai and home, but the heart and mind still wandering in the forests of Pench and among the excitement of the campaign for Save Our Tiger. So much to learn and get knowledge of during this short stay. I went into this venture as another celebrity endorsing another cause, much like what we do...
Day 967
Pench National Tiger Reserve, Baghvan Resort, MP Dec 12/13 , 2010 Sun/Mon 12 : 33 AM
What an incredible day ! Just back from the Telethon for Save Our Tiger campaign. 12 hours non stop live television. Collecting funds for the most important and noble cause. Thoroughly excited with what transpired. Collected approx 5 crore Rupees. Gave personal belongings for...
Day 966
Pench National Forest Reserve , MP Dec 11 , 2010 Sat 8 : 47 PM
Pristine and clean, silent and mysterious, natures bounty in varied hues – Pench National Forest – a tiger reserve ! Here for the Telethon tomorrow the entire day for Save the Tiger Campaign for NDTV. Set in the middle and heart of the jungle, this unique resort Baghvan,...
Day 965
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 10/11 , 2010 Fri/ Sat 1 : 10 AM
With my Father at Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s with his wife and Raju Hirani. The joy and pride in narrating to them incidents of his life and times with a comprehensive recitation of his poems, applauded and appreciated by all present. A rarity in today’s times. Where do we have the...
Day 964
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 9 , 2010 Fri 11 : 35 PM
KBC ‘s last episode of this season played out today and I have to admit it left me heavy hearted ! Those moments of happiness and joy, the poignant breaks from routine, lives and images of those that struggled through personal hurdles, all came rushing back in one big uncontrollable flood .
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Day 963
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 8 , 2010 Wed 11 : 18 PM
At a friends wedding last night at the Parsi Agiary I am surprised to see so many well wishers for KBC. I would have thought that language being a problem with the community, they would refrain themselves. But no. Elders and the young all seemed so excited and complimentary. It...
Day 962
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 7 , 2010 Tue 11 : 51 PM
A blast at the sacred Varanasi on the banks of the river Ganges during the MahaArti and several grievously injured. One child of 2 years dies !
We grieve at the ordeal that those that suffered have to bear and pray for the soul of this little 2 year old, innocent and unaware, on why this could have happened...
Day 961
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 6/7 , 2010 Mon/Tue 1 : 50 AM
The final serial of ‘Tudors’ over, a splash of water on the face, into bed and onto the blog … It is coming to 2 : 00 AM in the morning … never too late to get back to the FmXt !
What a glorious Tv production. Rich, authentic and with such great amounts of expenditure that it looked...
Day 960
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 5/6 , 2010 Sun/Mon 1 : 26 AM
Happy Birthday to little Navya-Naveli .. she just turned 13 at midnight .. enters her teens .. not little any more … was just born in front of us the other day, and now … time flies ..
Have been glued to the Tv and ‘The Tudors’, a fascinating tele serial on the history...
Day 959
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 4 , 2010 Sat 10 : 17 PM
Overwhelmed by the kind of response that Shweta’s piece on KHJJS received, I cannot but feel proud of her and her abilities in giving the film a perspective, that really has stirred many. Two of the journalist critics, Rajeev Masand and Anupama Chopra, who trashed the film were sent Shweta’s...
Day 958
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 3/4 , 2010 Fri/Sat 1 : 41 AM
Three issues have occupied my mind today, all of them important, and worthy – the digital universe, the media vs media war on BarkhaGate and the review my daughter Shweta wrote to me personally on the film ‘Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Se’.
The digital world was fascinating and complicated and expansive....
Day 957
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 2/3 , 2010 Thu/Fri 3 : 34 AM
Ok … ok … I know its late … but what can one possibly do ? Have just returned from the premier of KHJJS and could not possibly have called it a day without dutifully writing in to all of you, who perhaps have been waiting with baited breath ! Apologies for this !
The...
Day 956
Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 1 , 2010 Wed 11 : 34 PM
Gym, the sun, the Vog … and an endless debate on the media gate … the latest and the most talked of topic among all the electronic and print. Some and most of the senior and respected journalists of the country, coming up on their own respective mediums to express themselves and what...
November 2010
36 posts
Day 955
Prateeksha , Mumbai Nov 30 , 2010 Tue 11 : 21 PM
Greetings and gracious thank you’s for the kind words on the pictures – in particular those of Shweta ! Nothing could give greater joy to any Father than to receive such words of praise for their progeny ! Pride in our children is one of the greatest blessings that can ever be bestowed upon us and no...
