What's on the Bollywood Platter this month ???

Zzzzzzzzzz…………..is all I could hear in the theatre hall while the film Karzzzz was being SUPPOSEDLY “watched” by the minimal audience. I really thought that the “minimal audience” formed a part of that lukha population who either had too much of wasteful time or were born with silver spoons in their mouths to waste a whole Rs. 350/- for listening to HR’s ‘nasal twang’ or watching HR’s “Chinese Hair Cut” makeover and yet another new babe relentlessly trying to make it big in the Bollywood Circus…After these comments of mine, if u r in the pensive mood of asking me why I was in the theatre hall, well that day I belonged to the first category of the afore mentioned two kinds : didn’t have too much work to do that day, and my ticket was being sponsored by someone else……so, I didi’t mind…. Or atleast I thought so. I hated myself for falling in for the free ticket and weekend outing. Couldn’t I do anything better for those (now seeming) precious 3 hours? I could have well seen Dil Ka Rishta, Shaka Laka Boom Boom or Good Boy Bad Boy rather than see HR donning the Rishi Kapoor style, trying harder than ever to make it look genuine.

‘Fashion’ is a film I really want to see….ahem ahem… I have wanted to see over a million other movies in the past one week but none of my ideas have really materialized. The same goes for this Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Harman Baweja starrer. I don’t know how successful the film would be….Lets just say the “madhur Bhandarkar” tag promises a return for value.

‘Hello’ has already proved out to be a disaster, more like th book that inspired it viz. A Night @ the Call Centre….’EMI’ sounds decent, but I’m seriously in no mood of taking a chance this time…. I am waiting desperately….where are the reviews and ratings yaar????

PS : For those relatively ignorant about who HR is, well it obviously does not stand for ‘Human Resources’ (DUHHH…..) If you yet have the craving to know, he is one of the finest and best nasal singers (actually the only one India proudly has)….. The best thing u can do to a person you violently hate, is give him/her a DVD set of Aap Ka Suroor and Karzzzzzzz…… However, if you are found dead, ascertained to be murdered by that same person for the mentioned gift… the blogger and any of her allies are under no obligation or cannot be held responsible for any piece of advice provided herein.

DAY : Wednesday
DATE : 08/10/08
TIME : 2:30 in the afternoon

OCCASION : Not something too special, just that a minor ‘Hurdle’(if I may be allowed to say so) of my life has come and gone by…..My SYBCom. Exams for the first Semester are over.

STATE OF MIND : As usual…blank. Partied with friends after the exams, a small brunch party. Everyone’s back to office. I too, am stuck with a nasty Tax Audit of a ‘Late Latif’ client under my charge who suddenly wakes up to submit his documents, details and software backup in the first week of October, only to highly oblige the Income Tax Department.

FEELINGS : Great and immense hatred for the concerned client. Longing for the clock to strike 5:45 so that I may leave office on the pretext that I have some lectures to attend at some non-existent coaching centre (I use this excuse atleast twice a week to get rid of office work).

CONSTANT PROBLEM : Video cameras placed almost all over office which constantly survey all movement in the office premises (now now, please don’t get any clichéd and lukha thoughts into your mind…….saying this only because a couple of wasteful friends of mine who I told this to reacted with raised eyebrows, open mouths and an ‘ooooooooooooh’.)

SECOND PROBLEM : Articleship (Internship is the synonym…. For many of my Science counterparts who do not seem to understand what ‘articleship’ would be). Does it really have to be as long as 3.5 years at a stretch? Is it really aimed at making us (to be) successful professionals of the near future (my fingers are kept crossed)? And worse, are we really believed to be superhumans? We ‘bechara bachchas’ run from classes to college to office and back home all set to make optimum use of all our books (well, studies actually is usually a mere ritual carried out atmost once a week for not more than a couple of hours, simply out of sheer obligation to our parents and professors). All of us seriously deserve a break from our 48 hour days.

YET ANOTHER PROBLEM : I sometimes really feel like sponsoring the whole of the tuition fees to the office boy so that he may learn how to make decent tea/ coffee (we sometimes even fail to realize which is what !). he desperately requires some help in this department.

BIGGEST CURRENT ISSUE : My boss might just be eyeing me for hitting the keys of the keyboard so mercilessly and depreciating his computer at a rampant pace. High time that I get back to cursing my client and proceeding with his $#!@%^* ITR 4, while waiting for a pathetic tasting coffee to arrive at my desk……..

There are moments in life when we look at someone and say, “He is what I wanted to be.” Be it Sachin or Elvis or your class topper. It is very natural and healthy to feel so especially when our career grounds are to be laid. Everybody assays, but not many make it to the top.

Success is more of a journey than a destination, demanding time, tide and talent. The secret of success is practically unveiled in all motivation books and seminars. While the formulae are different, the results converge at perspiration and perseverance. What go unsaid are the simplest, yet the most efficient tips of all.

That 1-degree separation between the men who land on stars and those on the moon, is the small, unseen compromises that they readily make. Going to the top does not mean sleepless nights, but conquering the 5 minutes of sleep after the alarm. Success is not the harvest of doing nothing else but working, it takes doing everything else with work as the backdrop. Ideas and solutions need not be necessarily be devoted as table work, but should be allowed to flash anytime, while we eat or walk or bathe. It is even said that the greatest of ideas spark in the lavatory! Living the dream realizes it.

Achievers were not trouble free; personal, pecuniary and social, they had it all. Just that they shed it before envisioning their purpose. Problems are a handicap only to those people who do not know the meaning of a hurdle. And most essentially, as Vivekananda stated, “concentrate on the game, not on the trophy.” The trophy may be tempting, but it is the game that requires a strategy.

Success is an attitude of mind. When the mind is the aggressor, it certainly commands caliber. While the big secrets get focused, the small ones often go unnoticed. Mastering these basics is one definite prodigious step. It is true, big men make small, yet judicious compromises.

PS : The ‘Gyaan’ shared above is not something I follow myself….I have read the saying ‘Practise what you preach’, but have myself not been able to conquer those 5 precious minutes of sleep after the alarm. My parents have been highly unsuccessful in teaching me this(or lets just say, I have been highly reluctant to accept it), and they till date have to mercilessly kick me out of bed. The most challenging job that my parents indulge into in any single day ranges every morning from 5:30 to 5:45 am when I am supposed to be woken up…...