October 05, 2013

Chotusing on Flickr

Photographing and Writing must occupy two different planets in the web universe. Realization dawned too late. Photographs taken by these hands don't say much. Sometimes, they don't say anything at all. Sometimes they are saturated with colours of stupidity. Brain colours. But these hands are determined to take photographs that speak. They must. Baby steps and murmurs will graduate to whispers. Hope they start making drawings on walls. Hope they start screaming someday.


August 28, 2013

Little Ghosts





Office Office


'Official anything is bad but official films are the worst'

-- Donald Richie


August 26, 2013

PIKA MIKA



[Ram Ram]

SHE: Surba! Woh kausna gaana aata tha 'pardesi pardesi saath chhod jaoge'?

ME: Dadu kaunsa?

SHE: Woh jo Urmil sunke roti thi?

ME: Hmmmm...tum toh thehere pardesi, saath kya nibhaoge?

CUT TO

ME sings:  'tum toh thehere pardesi, saath kya nibhaoge!
subah peheli gaadi se, ghar ko laut jaoge'

SHE sings: tum toh thehere pardesi...ghar chale jaoge!

ME: Jaoge nahi dadu, ghar laut jaoge!

SHE: Haan haan. Kiska gaana hai? PIKA PIKA?

ME: PIKA kaun hai?

SHE: Arre woh jo jisne gaana gaya hai. pardesi chale jaoge!

ME: PIKA? hahahahahahaha. Dadu PIKA nahi MIKA. Mika toh acha singer hai

SHE: MIKA? Nahi. PIKA!

ME: Nahi dadi MIKA. Chalo kuch nahi hota. PIKA MIKA same hai

SHE: Acha! MIKA hoga

CUT TO

15 minutes later. ME siting in the room looking at the computer screen

SHE enters

SHE: Surba. uska naam MIKA nahi hai.

ME: PIKA toh bilkul nahi hai dadu!

SHE: Uska naam. Altaf Raja hai!

And then suddenly Altaf Raja's face appeared before ME's face.
And she immediately youtubed the song.

ME: Hey Dadu! Thanks for bringing the legend back into my life!

This one's for you dadu!

SHE: Shakal toh dikha uski!