Saturday 24 November 2012

Coca Cola India!


No I’m not going to endorse the addictive-unhealthy-caffeine-product Coca Cola here?

There is nothing that is needed to promote this product anymore; you see I have termed the majority of our Gen-x, the Future of India as Coca Cola products!
Thus, the title Coca Cola India!
Cynical much, does that sound? Unapologetic enough to break your expectations.

WELCOME TO THE YOUNG INDIA- THE GEN X’s INDIA!
Smart, techno-savy, quick, adaptable, innovative, ummm… you have any more words to pamper this Coca Cola India? Let me clarify I belong to this is generation too, but I cannot deny the realities of my mighty confused fellow beings.

You call us innovative? Walk down a youth joint and you might not be able to recognize an individual by a mere glimpse from the back, courtesy- uniform hairstyles (coming out of the latest bollywood film), uniform clothing (again heavily influenced by bollywood icons, fashion magazines and the latest heavy stock availability at Link Road or Fashion Street), uniform lingo ("i hd tld u den! I am right 'na' sweetheart?") and uniform tastes (Yes, yusss! I am talking about everything from pasta italiano to marlboro lites)
Where is the innovation/ Where is the originality?
You call us smart? Oh! Yes, we’re not great on general knowledge, but we’re google loyalists! We look up the key words that complete our project and copy paste the first few results on the search results.

You call us mature? Yes! We’re the instant hook-up generation. Everything in our relationships follows the express way, except genuine emotions. PDA and making out in public places is pretty normal, yeah? Thanks to the fact that most relationships begin on facebook and end up with a text message.
Yes, yes! I'm talking about that couple making out in the auto! Then had issues over giving time and finally broke up after 2 months cause they thought it was not working out. You know them? Errr..well common story these days.
Yes! We live our life with a set of weirdly arranged punctuation marks, calling them smileys-

J:/ L:S :P K:@ :* ^_^ ({})
The most handy tool while flirting and flattering :P
We’re so buzy being career oriented (as we pretend and say) that well we don’t have time for real humans. Laptops and Smartphones are our priorities you see!
Don't we sleep with our phones under our pillow and check it each time we wake up?
Facebook, twitter, whatsapp, BBM! Our world would have crashed without you!!! I swear!!!
Because if you take away flirting, chatting and gossiping from our lives- We are lost and left out with nothing! Venue check ins, picture uploads, statuses, likes, comments, wall posts are religiously necessary!
Our values our more westernized, our judgments more practical and trendy, not necessarily far sighted or wise, though. Ironically, we’re the lot that is easily influenced (specially by western concepts) courtesy- we’re not aware of the richness of our age old values and cultures, or at least believe that they're so “uncool” and “outdated.” You see, in totality the time concept or the contemporary theory is of much significance in every aspect, be it the choosing Subs (Subway sandwiches) over puri-sabzi or drinking Coca Cola over nimbu paani- we’re trendy and majorly contemporary- not stringed with tomorrow or attached with yesterday.


Honestly, wearing a traditional Indian dress is such a task! Can carry it on occassions, to click pictures but my jeans and tees, shorts, skirts,dresses keep us happy enough! Jewellery? accessorize us with trendy fashions, or there's nothing less than diamonds that we'd settle for!
And by any chance if you are calling us visionaries? We are call centre bound too, “Jaha Quick Money, Waha Hum Bhi”.

We can sing, dance, party, walk with confidence, openly abuse and criticize our critics, our elders and our government. But well we can do practically nothing?
The motivation to do something shall probably take another 5-9 years.

But atm, (at the moment!) we are living the Coca Cola life! The fizz shall be gone before we realize the reality of a short sighted life!

Not all of us are so lost, scattered, directionless& living in a bubble! Some live with entrepreneurial dreams, IAS aspirations, Investment banker jobs, stock trading, and a big ticket ambition list.

Par hum sab ek hi hai, ek jaise- Assembly line produced Coca Cola bottles hoping to change our mould someday hoping to make a substantial person.
Eventually, all that we all truly crave for is A BETTER life!

Struck hard?
Chill harder- THANDA MATLAB COCA COLA ;)
 
 



Friday 23 November 2012

With Love -Love!




 

“Cuz every living person in this world would trade anything for the sake of Inner Peace:”



Irony often dominates situations, and this one is one such instance.

No matter what your age is, but the day you start understanding life, life often bewilders you with the existence of such vast range of emotions, experiences and explorations.

Heartbreak is the most uniform feature of them all. A failure that broke your heart, a loss, an unfulfilled promise, a shattered hope it comes with a blank cheque of pain.

Most of us, (at least 97%) people reading this have undergone the wounds of a heartbreak, but what next?

Nothing guaranteed a short cut to getting over people. I mean NOTHING AT ALL.

And it gave rise to the important question of not “how to move on” but what next!

Irony is, in the revolution of & communication, we’re no more in touch with our own needs and emotions!

You realize your need for sex, but fail to admit how much you crave for love!

And why not? After all accepting and acknowledging the importance of love & emotions that tag along with attachment are so not the cool thing to be boasting of!

Just like women in our society, have been synonym to emotions their trait of being physically weak has been attempted to equate & thus, confused with the strength & need of emotions.

But tell me-

When did crying while missing somebody become a crime?

When did appreciating & acknowledging emotions become a sin?

When did demanding love & giving back more love wrong?

Being unemotional & strong looked easy? Didn’t it?

Honestly, yes! It is way easier and less complicated and also less meaningful.

Admit it,

There is always a story, a book, a song, a movie that never fails to trickle down  tears. And well, you cry alone, to sleep.

The problem with us is that we’re very scared about the nerve wrecking uncertainties of acceptance of our emotions.

Because emotions are too strong to break down for us, love is strongest of them all. But they are stronger in every sense to make us break down.

The tears, the fake-false smiles, the cigarette butts, the glasses of alcohol, the pages of your diary, the stained ink, the strained mind and the mixed emotions come up knocking to each door defining the breakdown of denied emotions.
strength lies in living beyond the cynism of the judgementalists!

And you still want to live caged by frozen walls of emotions, as you demand for strength.

“When did hill provide the strength, I’ve never known.

I always thought it was a job warm alone.”

Why would a hug heal the pain?

 Why would a smile ease everything again?

Why would you look for solace in your mother’s lap?

Why a kiss could touch the soul?

May because you’re still humans, meant to love each other.

With that technological revolution already over taking, I can see the stoned moment coming.

Everybody craves for love, everybody is greedy for love.

And yet you think giving up on it can keep you happy?

Giving up on something you crave for the most?

Why give up on something that actually are, for something you think might give you the benefits of profit? *short term profit

“Yes, love is plain stupid! Now do you realize how important stupidities are in our lives?”

Let that “STRONG” person battle with strength, and not weak outlooks of emotion.

Let that strong person let go off his guard, to live and earn happiness with not the fear of wounds but the love for happiness!

“Emotions are immortal! You can’t kill them with even the best of your attempts, but kill yourself instead by denying a life of peace”
Let the emotions breathe free...


Keep loving as you keep living!

Cuz love is the virtue of the strong hearted!
with love...

Friday 2 November 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KING KHAN!

             HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MAN WHO TAUGHT US TO BELIEVE IN THE ABSTRACTS OF LOVE, HAPPINESS & DREAMS!!!
                                                                                                           


DIL SE...



“Woh Kehta Hain Main Us Jaisa Nahin
Phir Kyun Mujh Jaisa Woh Lagta Hain”





Writing an introduction for a man, whose name, whose look, whose voice, whose work is introductory enough to create a global stir, is quite an uphill task! But to not write about someone who I love, respect, admire and look up to, on a day as special as his birthday would be a big enough sin!
While the Bollywood Baadshah- SHAHRUKH KHAN turns 47 years young today and is all engaged in accepting the love that his family, friends and fans are showering over him from world across, I sit before my laptop writing a few words about him. Today as I sit as an unknown admirant of the Khan, unable to meet or wish him personally, I write this blog in the hope that SRK shall read it on some random day!
47! Or 3 short of 50 and still young! 
20 years and still spreading the bollywood fever!
I wouldn’t anymore talk of his self made career and stardom, but what has earned him all of it is his Warmth and that Enviable Incredible Energy!
Yes!!! Shahrukh is not just young, but redefines energy! Shoots, Ads, Promotions, Matches, Business, Wedding Appearances, he does everything all round the year through to keep one and all entertained!
Undoubtedly, he is media’s favourite child! Through news, rumours, promotions and well controversies, two things sell the best- SEX & SRK! And as the Khan himself claims, “Aren’t they the same thing?”
Yes, at 47 too… when our fathers and uncles are inching closer to retirement, getting their hair greyed and losing out easy on energy, King Khan continues to be “SEXY & DESIRABLE, undoubtedly.”
See him romancing like a 20 year old in Jab Tak Hai Jaan, see him do the cartwheels to entertain the crowd at his team’s IPL matches, see him speak up his witty best in his interviews, see those filmfare award shows that he so effortlessly pulls off, see him come out to thank his fans on his birthday! And well, who can forget the dream of being his Chhammak Chhallo?
With a broken back, shoulder injuries and all the excursion that adds to the efforts, he stands there smiling, uncomplaining, spreading his arms with love to contain the world with goodness!
While some brag of “Him Bragging” about kids, about values, about himself…doesn’t all that he speaks make sense and adds enlightenment!
Whether or not an SRK fan, sit some day, watch any of his interview from the beginning till the end; it’s a promise that you shall end up with a mix of smiles, tears, inspiration, motivation and a lot of learning to carry forward! Its typically an SRK thing!
While most women love him for the cliché`s of Raj and Rahul that they fell in love with, he displayed versatile shades through his films like Darr, Baazigar, Chak De, Swades, Paheli, Ra.One, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and many more. His experiments have often been tagged as flops, but the thought and guts behind the experiments, the difference that they carry were none like any other. Shahrukh, a highly intelligent and well read person remembers an important advice from one of his early directors, Lekh Tandon-“When you are out there to act, forget what makes sense and what doesn’t. Script is the God”. Perhaps that’s exactly what Khan has been doing over the years, but his desire to experiment and make better films reflect in the projects that he takes up as a producer with drastically distinct films like Asoka, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Ra.One which were far ahead of their times.
For the famous Bollywood flavor that Shahrukh carries and his famous for worldwide, I’d like to share a recent interaction with a German Film Critic. When asked of the liking for Bollywood in Germany he reverted, “It was Raj Kapoor and now it is Shahrukh Khan. We love the Bollywood culture, the dance, the music, the drama, the dialogues, the color, the culture. When Shahrukh Khan comes to Germany fans are all eager to meet the charmer. They wait outside his hotel even at midnight just to get a glimpse of the superstar. In popularity, Shahrukh beats George Clooney too!

In fact, on his recent visit to India last month, he revisited Maratha Mandir, to watch Shahrukh’s longest running film DDLJ, which he defines to be perfect!
And well! We wouldn’t disagree :) 

“Woh Kehta Hain Main Us Jaisa Nahin
Phir Kyun Mujh Jaisa Woh Lagta Hain”


He denies being a role model, because he believes he hasn’t done anything worthy of being a role model. But Shahrukh- for all the smiles, happiness, love and entertainment, values, goodness, the inspiration, motivation and positivity and all the little things that you add to our lives by your films, your words, your life; you are worth all the respect, love and admiration!
About Shahrukh and his qualities I could probably just go on and on ranting! But probably here is where I end, eagerly waiting to watch more and more of SRK, Yes! Jab Tak Hai Jaan better release soon!
And come sooner the day when I shall work with the King of Hearts himself!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAHRUKH!!! May that smile get wider, may those eyes always twinkle, may the happiness keep coming, may the hearts keep loving! Wishing you a life of Kingship and a Kingdom of love, happiness, health and successs to you JAB TAK HAI JAAN!


Much, Much, Much love and regards!
Parampara