Ideas!!

Its raining for the past 10 days; and I am busy exploring food stalls in Hyderabad!! Must say everything is at its best.. so ideas are in full flow!!
Yesterday I met some professional bloggers at one place and my next meeting was after 2 hours and it was raining heavily!! I just sat at a sidewalk and kept watching people crossing the road for two hours.. that was an awesome experience.. its one of the ways I know to empty everything in mind and just sit there and enjoy the rain.. remembered the days when I used sit in a small bench opposite main building in ISM and watch everyone walking in the road!! That’s Awesome aint it!! Just to sit there and ponder on new ideas which you wanna explore…
Getting back to the topic … this blog is all about ideas.. I was recently taking to a friend of mine!! I was telling him that I am working on a Chak-de kind of movie!! Dea is to explore 2 generations as the story flips present generation story writer and a previous generation badminton player!! He replied me “ everyone has ideas and the are good; but exploring the total idea and finishing it is the tough part”.. well sad bro.. I completely agree with you; even I too feel the same; I too have loads of ideas but I put very few on the paper; may be I started writing this blog just to put those unfinished ideas too on the paper;
Now that the movie is done!! I am totally working on its promotion. Technically speaking this is not my cup of tea; I wish I could stick to the creative aspects of the movie making; but working on promotion is also cool; I am travelling places and screening at different places!! And I am exploring new ways and ideas to promote the movie to get back my returns. One of my friend told me “ you were talkin to your self in your sleep yesterday. You were saying” that’s a very good idea!! We must try it””..lol I am totally involved in promotion. After all it gives me a chance to meet some business people and to understand there thoughts!!
Life is all about learning..
One freaky idea; if you are really in need for money ; try writing the following books ; “ 10 effective ways to mange your parents” .. this will be a block buster hit among students!!
I did hear a complaint on my movie; that my movie has no plot!! Don’t expect any plots in my movie; I just try to depict life; they will be slow and will be realistic.. that’s the only way I make movies
But then I did make many mistakes and there were some constraints too.. will definitely try to improve for my next movie.. cheers
Keep rockin
3 cheers
Urs
Srikanth

To Life With Love!!

1) I think I must start thanking each and everyone who were present at the screening of ‘song of life’. Thanks a lot guys; cheers !! Mitruka ; alwar and siddarth!! 3 cheers to three of you..
and ofcourse thanks to a junior of mine who particularly gave me this point “Sir ; how come you start your blogs saying that this blog is going to be particularly lengthy and expect us to read it ”.. lol.. one more big blog for u buddy ; dedicated to you...
okay getting back to the topic; I always said “ Life is an Odyssey of beautiful anecdotes” its a collection of those memories!! Last 5 days in ISM gave me enough anecdotes!! I got back those lonely walks in the main back road!! And I did caught hold of a bicycle one night; and roamed around the total campus and especially riding it on the upper ground on the green grass full of dew... man; i can never forget that! ( for all those who didn’t visit ISM recently; they arranged permanent flood lights n upper ground and now students are happily playing at mid night!!)
And thanks to every singer whom I tortured for songs especially shailendar for the awesome songs he sang on sapphire terrace every night!! You seriously rock and I wish you will have bright career in singing bro.. and the list also includes Pele;Praveen; kumar ; saurabh and santosh and swarna.. thanks for all the songs. And thanks to sagi and vidyadhar for all the jokes ..You guys filled me with loads of energies.
Screening the first full length movie itself was an unforgettable experience ; and many guys really loved it!! But some did complain that it pathetic and some said average!! All the same I need to learn a lot and experiment a lot!! Good or bad I need to move on!!
I just wonder sometimes are both audience and film makers brain washed!! If so who brain washed whom? If you see the interview of any director ; he says “ we have all the ingredients in the movie which audience expect” and most of the audience say “ i expect some fun in the movie and some time pass nothing else from the movie”. Both are sitting in a box and refusing to come out? What the heck!! If you just fix up I need this only you can enjoy a better feeling or a better emotion and if you fix i need this before you start writing you can never make a better product either!! Can India give a better professional work? Page 3; Swades; Sankarabharanam;... and the list has very few independent works!! Wish i could add some among the list!!

2) My father and me travel a lot together actually I must say I learnt many things from him!! Ofcourse we have our differences; he is orthodox when its about studies and discusses a lot with kids about their studies ( not to mention that he gave up on me) and I am absolutely opposite to that!!All the same if are free all we do is to plan a new trip and hurry there.. ha ha. One fine day we visited ‘Antharvedi’ .The place is a confluence of a river and sea and the boat ride was awesome!! On our return journey I met an assistant of my father (my father wasn’t sitting with us) and he started praising my father. Ha said “ I never met a person like your father sir; there are some where 200 tte’s (ticket collector’s) in vijayawada division and your father is one who never accepts a single rupee from anyone. I personally saw him helping many people ; He helped a semi blind man to get a better seat and he offered him a five hundred bucks!! And your father said it is his duty and didn’t take anything from him. He is a very good person sir; you are very lucky”. Indeed I am very lucky; I felt so proud ; Somewhere I know he set me some moral standards and that helped me in being a better person!! When my principal asked me to use PH so that I can easily get a seat in good IIT( for all those who don’t know; I suffer from nerve hearing loss) I just laughed and told him that I am going to write in general quota!! I know my father wouldn’t have liked it if I had opted for a short cut. And he all the way came to my screening in ISM just to watch my movie. Cant ask anything more..

3) I met this fellow Siddharth. He composed a yaadein song for us; guys used to wake me up at midnight and used to play me the improved song; it was real fun; He asked me a question some days back “ Sir; I want to enter music field after working for 2 years like you!! But sir i am afraid that there are so many people already there what is the guarantee that I can establish myself?” .. I did encourage him that he got some good talent .. but the only problem with that question is its ‘unanswerable’!! People will say you are superb if you make it big and the same fellows will say you are an ‘ass’ if you loose.. anyways other people never matter.. what matters is what we need!! You can carry on with your job and keep extra efforts in weekends till you get a break; or just say “to hell with everything’ and jump into it what ever!! Everything is upto you; no one can say anything on your behalf and it is you who need to choose because it is you who will face the consequence..
Ha .. ha.. loads of heavy stuff.. just thought of writing something serious...
PS: So called hindus and muslims; if you are fucking foolish enough to fight in the name of god neither you can understand god nor you can enjoy your life!!

Keep rockin
3 cheers
Yours
srikanth

Black n White!!

Well , well I am back!! .. and it seems my previous blog “ Dreams work n love “ made some good points on work but very less points on dreams n love!! Thats what the reviews I got for it. I will accept all of it; I am not that good at it; but the point is my dream and love is my work.. ( as of date). So criticisms are well accepted and next time i will treat every subject well.. cheers..
I am writing this particular blog as a memoir ; so that after some years I can look back and Iwill know what I thought after completing Song of Life.
Everything has its own blacks n whites ! and lets just start with blacks!!
A junior of mine asked me right after dubbing!! “ how come you have so much of patience ; you work on everything but never displeased?”.. I promptly replied him; that I am a very impatient fellow; I took extra work because i cant afford any one else for it!! i need to do it by myself .
I pretty well know when i started the project itself; that i might have to put in these efforts!! After all u cant expect kids to rush for my work!! Waking up people is something i wont enjoy much or making those calls to everyone to reach the shooting spot either. I Just wish; i would never enter into a venture like this again!!
Not to forget the drop outs and those phone calls that went unanswered at most important times!! Man it was hell and there times i thought ; lets forget everything; just run off from this place thats the only way you get some peace of mind.
Add to this the creative part; its the most energy consuming and the juicy part of movie; the more time i spent on it the more joy i would get!! When its ur first veture ; you need to all your time spent on it; keeping 2 hours of story in your brain isn’t that easy and its the main thing I was worried about.
That job interview scene;when none turned up after my repeated requests for 2 total days!! and the times nisheshji left and especially the days when i had to fight with a girl!!

Whites!!
Well ; I learnt to face it and learnt to move along!! After all I kept in my best efforts and completed it.All this hard work ; i can treasure that; Its a life time experience!! May be I learnt some practical lessons; on whom i need to depend on work. There are people who called me up at mid night to update the work!! Man I loved it; I take it as an honour to work with you and I consider them always in my team!! No doubt about that!!
Thats what after all we need to learn ; just keep working on target and forget about the results!! And I did get some some positive reviews for my efforts and may be i can get some better oppurtunities to!! Lets see... Hope and Hope!!
An ofcourse the lessons on running the story; watching it again n again I learnt new ways to improve my technique of stoy telling!! And i also learnt what i need study more
No more blacks and no more whites!! When at work neither i like to pamper nor prefer getting pampered!! Once out... its all about nature .. and getting pampered!! My mom still complains in home why the hell i took up some private work!! You can even do your properly!! Well well thats a very good compliment!! Lets lose caps; pens combs who really cares if u r good enough to forget ur good enough to live!! Not to mention those drenches in rain!! And to enjoy those drives with father!! Listening to music!!
Must say its a treat to watch people !! its just so beautiful..
I was walking through a place where a ganesh idol was kept!! Songs are in its full flow!! And this small kid is dancing for sometime and then praying for sometime and dancing again!! Definitely she cant think !! and some people may complain thats brain wash.. but still it was such a beautiful thing to watch the small girl dance!!
One more !! one more!! I was walking to my training centre when i was working in IBM. I saw this small girl in school crying not to go to school!! Well well i wanted to tell her; if u cry ur mom will listen ; if i cry everyone will laugh!! Haha.. after all who doesn’t want to be pampered ;
Just met some of my friends of college !! we were the same old asses absolutely no change!! Raj as usual talkative; vijay ji man with jokes; myself sometimes dumb and sometimes full of energies and rahulji.. same old fellow!!
It seems i find very funny and interesting people where ever i go!! Lol
Always a pleasure.. and add to this start reading a PG Wodehouse (esp Psmith)// u will find yourself in heaven!!
3 cheers
Keep rockin
Yours
srikanth

Dreams , Work and Love!!

This blog is a pure experiment!! May be I just wrote this here to read it again after some years and to understand my thoughts at this time!! Comments are absolutely welcome.
I am in absolute peace!! Almost an year’s work is behind me; and to think that its ready and I was there almost in every part of its making; its such a beautiful feeling!! Yes I need to work on promotion and all for some more months; i am working on it. But once done —all I dream of is a big break!! I want to stop everything (writing;thinking ,dreaming or any other thing .. i just wanna travel and feel the beauty of nature for some days and listen some good music.. before I start with a new project!!
Dreams:
I love them. As a Kid He-man fascinated me; I dreamt doing all those adventures myself; when i grew up a bit i dreamt of scoring 1800 runs in a one day match; i used to take a small bat swing it everytime imagining hitting a six for every ball. After that i really started observing my surroundings and my love changed .It was movies and books..I literally live in my stories almost dreaming of them always!!
Work:
I was talking to a friend of mine; an aspiring film maker like me who completed his shooting part of a movie. He said “Isnt this frustrating; the gaps in between; we need for long gaps either waiting for money or proper dates to start our post production? Its tyring me!!?”
I clearly understood his point; I myself suffered and still am suffering from the same troubles!! I need to wait for some days just for the post production house to gimme a date to work; low budget means less importance ; that too we work from evening 6 to afternoon six!! Similar probs with capital too. Worst thing is you cant even plan a trip in between ; because you have to be ready when you get a call to start your work!! So only thing you can do is to keep on waiting; with your cell phone next to you dreaming expecting a call everyday till you start off. Working on promotion especially is a waiting job; you need to wait till someone will come up with a contact and wait till he responds to you once you contact him!! But then this is what life is all about; learning to get the best of everything and getting prepared for everything!! Thats where the fun lies ; finding solutions to everything; may be to work on new stories in the free time or learn some technical stuff or just to have some fun. Looking back the best moments weren’t the times i spent carelessly but the times i really thought for myself and came up with something!! I loved the moments when spent in the nearby houses to make a documentary for Kartavya and the times I spent on writing the scripts of Anecdote and Song of life. Of course shooting times are the best; because you see the result out there of what you planned till now!!
All I wanna do now is to sell ‘song of life’ to a reasonable price and to start up again as an asst to some director; so many things to learn!!; what particular lenses must be used for a particular shot ( not to mention that you need have the dimensions of the set in your mind!!) and what colour lighting to use to get the best emotion and whether to use a close –up or semi close –up in the particular shot; Oh my god; I feel like a kid entering high school, so much to learn. It almost takes me three more years to learn the basics of this work and the ability to remember the total story in mind sequentially .
If you can keep this much of effort you cant compromise your story; and with your narration ; it had to be what you really wanna show there not what others tell you to do!! And you expect a team equally dedicated. I just hope I will do it like this..with an excellent team!!
Love:
Getting to the other topic; its one of the topics I never wrote about; even now I prefer not to write anything on ‘Love’ because thats one of the complicated things I have ever seen; but I was very much inspired to write something on love after reading ‘one hundred years of solitude’. Anyways I would have written something on it someday; let that be today itself.
If some calls me asks me for my welfare and my projects ; that’s acceptable love; I will be very happy for that .may be thats love.. i could accept. If someone calls me and says “ your friends are earning like hell; and you are doing nothing except roaming” i can understand he is thinking about me for my welfare; but that’s unacceptable.
passion . Most of the things associated with passion doesn’t have a logic.
Let me start with a story I read; Guy studying MBBS fell in love with a girl; she too loved him; everything happy; girls parents came to know about this ; so thought of marrying her to some other fellow; the pair try to elope; the girls parents caught her and married to another fellow; finally she wrote a letter to the guy “ I cant fight any more; but I loved you a lot; promise me one thing !! you would never forget your goal; you study well and become a doctor!!”. He did become a doctor and he wrote the story dedicating his degree for her.
When I read the story; I thought its absolutely hilarious. Because I cant imagine a guy who study for his girl friend ; thats just not my kind of story.
But then there is something about passion in this story; they liked each other a lot . and this happens very occasionally. As i said it never follows a logic.
We can dig deep into this; but i take it as a starter; and continue it some other time!!
Keep rockin
3 cheers
Urs
srikanth

Poem!!

A junior sent me this poem!! superb one ....

A mother's dream
As I slept one night I saw this dream
Which further increased my vexation

I dreamt I was going somewhere on the way
Dark it was and impossible to find the way

Trembling all over with fear I was
Difficult to take even a step with fear was

With some courage as I forward moved
I saw some boys as lined in nice array

Dressed in emerald-like raiment they were
Carrying lighted lamps in their hands they were

They were going quietly behind each other
No one knew where they were to go

Involved in this thought was I
When in this troupe my son saw I

He was walking at the back, and was not walking fast
The lamp he had in his hand was not lighted

Recognizing him I said "O My dear!
Where have you come leaving me there?

Restless due to separation I am
Weeping every day for ever I am

You did not care even a little for me
What loyalty you showed, you left me"!

As the child saw the distress in me
He replied thus, turning around to me

"The separation from me makes you cry
Not least little good does this to me"

He remained quiet for a while after talking
Showing me the lamp then he started talking

"Do you understand what happened to this?
Your tears have extinguished this"!

Monsoon Chit Chat...

When I started from Howrah to Hyderabad I decided to take a break atleast for 4 -5 months before working on anything except marketing ‘song of life’!! But I think writing is something I really got addicted to and here I am back again working on my new blog!!
Of course all credit goes to the weather in Hyderabad!! Its raining here for the past ten days!! And its real fun. I am absolutely replenished. And work is also going great!! So no complaints on anything.. All I do in my free time is to sit on the cement bench next to the road and watch people walking on the road near banjara hills.
As I am in a perfect happy mood ..let me write some jokes ( request : if u think they r PJ’s; plz don’t blame me)
1) Mom: - Son, go downstairs and pay the rent to owner
Geek: Lemme call him and take his account number; i will transfer it online!!

( Copyrights belong to me.. lol)

2) I watched a movie named ‘Darling’. As the name says this a love story; hero is playing tantrums to impress heroine ( girl is from Switzerland) So this fellow starts talking some crap about Switzerland to impress her. This girl turns furious; she reaches him and seriously teaches him how great india is ; when compared to Switzerland .. that therez lot of effection and love in india which you don’t find any where in the world n all that stuff. And hero seriously starts liking her more.. ( no personal statements here ; i am giving a third person narration)..
And guess what .. the scene fades to a beautiful location in Switzerland.. and a song starts between hero n heroine... lol.. lol..
Come on guys!! I know film making is all about money for many people; but still you must atleast respect ur characters.. you must atleast know what exactly you wanna show on the screen..!!
3) This joke is about myself; I am a very absent minded fellow and most of my friends know it.. well well.. some people still remember me as an ass you couldn’t expand CPU in a job interview.
So I started from howrah to hyd with a bag and a big cover stuffed with my clothes. I happily forgot everything about the cover got down in secunderabad station and directly went to swati tiffins nearby to have some breakfast!! And only after half an hour I understood that something was wrong!! And after five more minutes I understood that I left my all my clothes in the train !! I literally ran back to the station.. and the train left long back!!

So here I am ( with a single dress) and my mom told this to all our relatives and every one called me to know how I lost my dresses!! Cheers to life..


I am staying in Hyderabad in a hostel with my friend!! And all these fellows are preparing for civils!! And its real fun ... we can see those posters with writings like
“ Guidelines for next month: 1) No time waste 2) No unnecessary discussions 3) Complete seriousness!!.. needless to say what really happens is completely opposite !!
I see typical student gang here; playing cards all night and some dancing happily at night 11.30 dressed up in bunions and towels!! Not to mention those gossips on girls all night. If you are unlucky enough to receive a message from a girl saying “ good night and sweet dreams!!”.. consider yourself dead!! Not to mention those small biryani and thumps up parties they arrange at nights..so much of energies.. man I love this place!!

And let me end the blog with some of the discussions I had with a junior of mine regarding music!! A bit lengthy.. follow if ur really interested..

swathi: veena is going good; im all excited about it these days
me: excellent;i think i too must learn some instrument
lol
swathi: welcome to the club
me: sure sure
so; tell me more about veena
all technical stuff if ur free
swathi: oh yeah
veena has seven strings
four for notes, and three for rhythm indication
rhythm in music is called talam
and ragam is a unique selection of notes, which will be used all over the composition
each string plays two octaves
and a total of eight octaves can be played on the veena
me: slow slow; what are notes?
i mean lay in terms
swathi: note is a select frequency
me: okay
octaves?
swathi: every note is separated by a frequency of 16th root of 2
me: awesome; resonance stuff right?
swathi: yes\
see, sa and ri are separated by a frequency of 16th root of 2
if sa is played on x, ri is played on x into 16th root of two
me: oh god; this is superb
swathi: so, there are sixteen notes, between the lower sa and higher sa
but we play eight
hmm
it seems to rain here also
me: excellent
swathi: so, when you play from sa, as ri, ga, ma pa da ni sa,
you double the frequency
me: we will up the frequency
swathi: ya up the frequency
me: and the beauty lies in giving the right frequency change?
and then get down?
swathi: yes
the frequencies you choose
see, in music
esp instrumental
me: oh god; its great even to listen this
swathi: there are two kinds of instruments
one is discreet, like the piano
the diff between indian classical music and western classical music is that in indian, we emphasise on continuity;western ppl emphasise on discreteness
string instruments and vocal instruments are the continuous treads
indian music is very elaborate, btu so poorly documented
me: what r vocal instruments?
swathi: flute
me: okay
swathi: drums, piano are discrete
you cant generate continuous music in them
me: okay
yup...i see more continuation in veena;but in piano
we go part by part
swathi: yeah;veena is said to be a divine istrument used in ancient time for tapasu ;it has been given a lot of significance in the vedas
if you knew, sama veda is about music.. completely..so it is said to have that concentration increasing and stress relieving ability in its music
me: okay
swathi: it is a combination of math and physics to play the instrument;you remember the string problems we used to do in 12th
me: yup
swathi: we basically change the effective length of the string to change the frequency of the note
by pressing it onto a wedge
me: okay; same is the case with guitar
swathi: yeah;all string instruments mostly
so...
i dont know all that, but it is really good after you play
me: cool.. stress relief aah
swathi: like something reverberating in your mind... about three four hours, you can feel the reverberations around you
yeah
i play for an hour, and feel that for three four hours
me: excellent
i am going to learn one after some years
swathi: im sure you will love it
but be careful about the instrument you choose
me: oh; why?
swathi: you must like the music of it;then the experience is best
you will like to play all the more and you get to be all the more
me: okay;how i will know what will be good for me?
swathi: listen to various instruments and see
me: oh okay; the most mystifying for me was flute
swathi: :)
my committment to veena has been serendipity..but im loving it
classical music is a whole discipline in itself;no wonder ppl pursued it academically
me: absolutelly correcti feel; we will learn right manners in this
swathi: yeah
but it is good to see the physics behind things also
me: yup
swathi: it is so intellectually engaging, trust me
me: yup got it
swathi: hmm..
im eating off ppls brain with this infactuation these days
:P
me: We will be waiting for your concert then!!
swathi: :) nt really learning for a concert
but yes, i can play for ppl, not for fame
me: thats the best reason to give a concert
exactly
swathi: but the art is great you know..i am getting realy engrossed into it
me: awesome ;glad to here this;to tell the truth; i dont know about music much;
swathi: my teacher is awesome
me: great...but classic music ; i always sit n listen
there is that peace in it

Keep rockin
3 cheers
Urs
srikanth

Experience!!

As I said ; I am going to keep some good works of my friends in my blog.
This particular blog; is written by Vishlesh.. 3 cheers to him!!
In the past few months, I have been bombarded by series of illogical questions that are unending and boringly repetitive. I have answers for all these questions, but I wanted to keep them for myself, it makes no point for me to propagate my ideology or to convince the speaker that I am right in my choice. They wanted me to go for my further education, to add value to myself, frankly at age of 23 you are pretty well molded into an organization, that any education that comes in the future has to be felt with the soul and heart, you cant go on pursuing something just for a future or for career or for money. I never had any kind of attachment or planning for future, whatever you plan, things are going to happen as they are bound to happen, life is just like flowing river and the banks on the either sides are experiences you gain from the past. Just as the river passes through a fertile soil carries this soil to other bank and makes it fertile. They always put two options before me, going for management education or going for technical education. I always found them unworthy. What is the need of pursuing management? What were you doing before that?, For me my life is my business and I have been managing it properly, we talk to people and manage getting our work done, we manage our time, we manage our relationships, we manage to understand psychologies of people and try to deal with them in their way, what more can management teach me, if its just finance or just other things just give me good books I will learn for myself, why do run after degrees?? If u get a degree from a prestigious institute, you become product of that brand and lose the brand value which you have had for yourself.
And for getting into technology there is a much better option than your college way, get you lot of books, this technology is just unpredictable and ever changing, so the things you learn today are just going to be obsolete in a few days, and the knowledge you have gained wouldn’t help you in anyway. Don’t pursue a degree rather pursue knowledge. I want to experience knowledge, I want my experiences to drift like feathers in the wind, let my eyes see the beauty and my heart feel the sensation of beauty, for me this is what life is meant for pursuing experiences rather than degrees. Experiencing is a phenomenon that happens before an invention, a scientist creates his model in his mind and then replicates that in a mathematical model and supports his view, so the first step to this comes from experiencing. When I was reading about aromatic nature of benzene, the scientist had a dream of serpents moving in a circle with each of its head attached to its tail. Experiencing is predecessor of understanding a subject, every subject has a frequency to which a student has to adapt to. When it comes to art, experiencing is knowledge, and experiencing is everything, In case of arts and philosophy, what is true today holds life long, there are no rules and regulation; a man can follow his free will.
After the blog conversation!!
bandla: check this one out
challa: yup
on my way
bandla: after a long time i wrote something
:)
challa: good man
keep writing
if i like it
i gotta keep it in my blog
fine?
bandla: ok fine
Sent at 10:33 AM on Wednesday
challa: superb one man
rockin
bandla: thanks sir..
i felt like words gushing out like water from hot springs.......so i just started writing something.....
after a long time i felt good
by writing
challa: good
bandla: too serious stuff to be put on a blog
:P
challa: its our blog man
we write whatever we like
bandla: yeah thats true.