Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year -09

To think bad and negative is Sin to God
To think good and positive is Worship to God!

These were the first and foremost thoughts came to my psyche at the eve of this new year!!! felt wonderful and euphoric,and would try to inculcate it more in coming NEW YEAR! or for that matter in every coming moments!!!!. does it sound like a resolution ?? Oh c'mon, not at all. I want to give some sweet intimate kisses to this beautiful year '08, it had been a phenomenal calendar for me which laid the foundation for much gorgeous years coming ahead!!! Thank you ;)

I know there were so many things which could have turned better in our lives, in days bygones but may i propose to stop brooding over them and sit down in unison to welcome the coming new Year with a prayer for ourselves and our community!!

Lets strike a common chord
with peace and love for one and all
in lip sync can we try to sing?
the melody of an almighty king!
if all of us,  could join hands
and send millions of love errands
the dark clouds will have to go
to give way to a new rainbow.

and with this solemn prayer , i wish all of you a very Happy new Year!!!.
May God bestow you a lot of success, happiness, love and peace in every moment of it!
So,Raise the toast and welcome a new chapter of ours Lives!!!!

© Ajay kr Saxena

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

BigB blogs BigTime!!

We all have seen him, heard him ,but ,i doubt, if most of us have read him, I am talking about Mr Amitabh bachchan,the star of the millennium.its been some 6 months when he picked up blogging at BigAdda and is blogging big time day by day.So many stars started their blog in recent years, most of them for promotion of their movies only (nothing wrong in that) and to give a notion that they want to be in touch with the public, how i wish that was true ?

Two months back , luckily I got introduced to Mr Bachchan's Blog (http://bigb.bigadda.com/),read it and felt overwhelmed, joyous, proud and yes of course connected to him through his posts.No doubt , his writing is lucid , emotional,inspirational,honest,down to earth, bold and beautiful and definitely reflects a glimpse of his great father, Mr Harivansh Roy Bachchan.Like millions of his fans, I always loved Amitabh bachchan, the actor, but now, as i religiously read his daily posts,am developing a great sense of respect for him.Its really amazing that in this age (read 66) , he still has a vigour, enthusiasm ,determination and a very positive attitude towards his work and life, obviously he has nothing more to achieve ,and hence rightly so , trying out radically different genres and roles with mixed results.

Coming back to his writing, first thing i liked the web page of his blog, very aesthetic theme and color composition,Blog opens with a larger than life picture of Big B (which keeps on updating time to time),and a very sweet line from one of the writings of his legendary father. He writes without unnecessarily showing any mastery on language or any tantrums of a STAR but pens down very casually .....rather naturally , elucidating very mundane experiences on his sets , expresses his view  on life and happening around the globe, whether its Obama's election, 26/11, Indian's historic win against England or any other news of common man's interest. And there lies a trick , he simply passes some words of wisdom , a soulful insight on the life, or some very important tips for everyone , in those trivial and casually appearing articles, and , that's the beauty of his writing.

When I started visiting the blog , I was a bit apprehensive with its authenticity ,and can still not guarantee for the same, but as i read more and more , posts looked consistent , sensible and definitely written by someone with loads of experience and amazing personality and i believe its BigB himself, and within just 2 months i have become an avid fan of his writing style too , it daily comes in small doses and is quite nutritious to me at least , most of the times i could relate to his articles, feelings and his experience's. If you start reading the blog (.. if  you at all) , initially, it might appear to be a diary of day-to-day work of Mr Bachchan, but mind you it could be a great supplement for one's soul , a gentle guide or an energy booster for so many of us and if nothing at least it deserves to be read for its simplicity and beauty.

© Ajay kr Saxena

Sunday, December 14, 2008

First intercourse!!!



First intercourse ..... ya first intercourse.... and all you Virgins..if you think is awesome..think twice,it's tedious,confusing and at times could be frustrating too. Think of an eternal horny guy, who one fine day gets it right,at the peak of hornyness meets his beloved ,jumps upon her immediately and .. f**k then he realises , how difficult is the first intercourse. He tries hard , more hard ,get confused ,astonished and all the hornyness evaporates in a sec..... A fascination meets the reality.

I had my first intercourse last month, yes my first intercourse with CINEMA and felt the same. For eons, i was having fascinating dreams about cinema, the medium excites me like anything and gives me a high even Tequila shots fail to meet. In my short-term film-making course in Pune, all the theory classes on direction, editing,sound,shots, scenes etc were adding enthusiasm into already brimming soul and i was dying to grab the opportunity to write and direct my first (short) movie ,and finally we all were called to submit our project.I  stumbled on the very first step, took the maximum time to submit  my story, reason , i had a rush of stories inside my brain and none of them were concrete. i was swaying my imagination too much and was presenting so many ideas ,alas,none of them were feasible in the given time slot,So when i finally submitted my story, others had started writing the screenplays.

Next task was to convert the story into a 10 pages(i.e. 10 minute) screenplay , which definitely gave , writer inside me a chance to explore the human psyche and behaviour. i sat down almost for 2 nights and finished a beautiful screenplay with some great lines , but next day most of my colleagues didn't vouch for it, for they felt it had philosophy. I agree, philosophy comes natural to me while writing and i took every one's critical comments with positive spirit but loved my screenplay for its content and dialogues, and i stick to it.

Once you finish you script, you look for the cast, and i tried to bring FTII graduates,and went the institute to persuade them , wandered the whole campus to meet a few aspiring actors, but timing was bad and none of them was ready to commit for a full day shoot and also most of them were leaving for Goa film festival, starting the same weekend, but thanks to a local friend in Pune, i finally managed to find actors just a day before my shoot day. After finalizing the actors, i came back to my lappy to work on shooting script ( the way scripts will be shot actually) . It again proved to be a overnight task and i got it in around 50 shots( Now i realise that was less, and i missed out on some very important close-ups).

And then came the D-day , when i was going to cap the director's hat ,i had planned the shoot to start from 8 am and whole crew was ready to be at my command. I reached the shooting location, drawing room of my friend and with great hopes, i framed my first shot, fixed the paraphernalia,explained scene to the artists and other things and as soon as looked into the camera, gosh .. it was dark , silhouette everywhere, room wasn't properly lit for camera, i meant room was full of natural light but camera needed more light to capture the scenes and before panic could have appeared in the atmosphere, i made a call for artificial lights , though its difficult to find a light man at eleventh hour, thanks to one of my local friends, he arranged for a light man with POTA lights, the light problem got solved in 3 hours only and shoot resumed. But there was more coming up and another problem popped out, so many scenes , which i had conceived in my shooting script,were not possible in the room and shoot got stalled once more, i had to rush to think of new shots and angles before i could resume. It was tiresome and time was flying quickly and i improvised some impromptu shots , there was no other way around to get back to shooting.

Everything was sailing smoothly now and i had completed around 25 shots when power cut hit us hard, it was already post afternoon and light was fading and we encountered the power cut, okay , we looked to each other and tried to smile, for it was something out of our control , luckily, i had a patience and understanding crew, so they took it sport and waited for the power. Power came after 3 hours around 6 pm and it was getting too late for all of us and i was left with almost half of the shots. Nevertheless, the team encouraged each other and we shot all remaining shots as quickly as possible.The shoot which was supposed to start at 8 am , started  at 11 am and eventually finished at 8:30 pm, after 9 hours, just for a 10 min movie, that too in one location.

Pack up call gave me breathing space and i sat down at my laptop, introspecting the whole day, feeling good that i could finish the shoot after quite a few glitches and analysing what went wrong , a few shots didn't come as good as i was expecting.I said good bye and thanked everyone single person on the set for their extended support ,thanked GOD , for he kept supplying energies to the crew, and then  took a beer and jumped into the bed for a lovely sleep, one, which brings you closer to yourself.  

It is so beautiful to have a crush, it's even more grand to set yourself out for achieving your Love, its more important to face the realities and asses yourself , its of greatest importance to talk to yourself that ,yes, in spite of inevitable hurdles, you are passionate for making love and eventually its an absolute necessity to have Erections after every intercourse.

Luckily, I am still aroused :-)

© Ajay kr Saxena