Terrorist Attack D16 (10/18/2012)

I have to go some where and have limited options. I am walking and suddenly an alternative short cut striked my mind, i turned in that direction and found a sewer canal filled with kids playing some ball game. I felt sick and got onto the road diagonal to the canal. A typical mud road with houses on the both sides. Suddenly a dog came running towards me. I was scared but it was friendly, though it caught my leg with its jaws without hurting me. Then my friend Vj came and told me that its a nice dog. Now i had to  go somewhere and i was geared up. It was like a mission. I had loaded guns with me in my jacket. I asked my friends to drop me off somewhere and they were just walking without any response. I told them that i would fill up their tanks but still they didnt. And suddenly we were at a restaurant and started eating food. We were three of us. From the window of the hotel we were able to see the traffic on the road and a police busting some criminal. Two cop cars and the suspects car. Little of a mess on the road and inconvenience to the traffic. Then we had some conversation.

All of the sudden we heard some disturbance out on the road like people shouting on the road and running. I walked towards the window to find that the police were being attacked by the criminals by hand granite explosives and machine guns. It was terror all over the place. Someone beside me told me its going to be worse. But the intial feeling of terrorists or criminals attacking the most strongest force we believe in to be safe i.e police was terrifying and horrific. These terrorists were ruthless and started blowing up whoever and whatever came in their way. Strangely they were approaching our building. It was much more of a shock and terror now. The hotel we were in had only one way connection to the main road i.e a wooden shaft placed as a bridge between the hotel and the road which were divided by the back waters of the sea. One lady terrorist was trying to cross the shaft followed by numerous terrorists with machine guns and explosives.

I dont know what happened but suddenly i found myself with my friends on the sands of the shore. we were able to look at the hotel far away.

Scheme- Sitting D15(08/24/2012)

Some 5 years ago i used to regularly move with a group of friends who compromised of Rajesh, Niranjan, Viddhi, Adi, Candy, Raghu, DK, Ashish and Raghu.

This was during a scheme or sitting we call it. e all were sitting at a table and having our drinks. I could see everyone present at the table and we were cracking jokes and having fun. I dont remember much of what happened but i surely remember that something in the sitting pissed Adi who usually gets pissed off easily or else is a nice guy. So everyone was trying to cool him down.

P.S: I am in Newark, DE at Ujwals place.

Sports Chronicle D14 (4/2/12)

I was walking to a sports ground and to left was a hut inside which my childhood friend Tinku was telling some people about how tribals behave. I was dresses up in sports clothing, a red t-shirt and a red short to be specific. As i approached the ground i could see the sportsmen teaming up to start the play. I could hear them shouting to one another by encouraging each other. Even i felt the spirit up inside me and i started jogging and flexing my muscles as i approached the ground. Once i entered the ground i found Ramohan sir playing referee with a whistle in his mouth. He was making them exercise by showing how to do it.
Then i came out of the ground as the match already was starting so i didnt want to disturb them. Then i entered the ground from a corner where there was a telephone booth filled with children not letting me in. But i made a way through them and entered the ground. Once i entered i found my friends playing badminton/shuttle. They were holding two rackets in single hand doubled up and playing on one side and other side players where playing with single rackets. As turned around the arena i found Jeevan and he was laughing and greeting me pleasantly. he was actually winning. I also found my friend Vijay on the loosing side.
I told Vijay to stop playing the same old games and try something new. Then Vijay in a sarcastic tone replied to me saying, Why dont i try to excel in Chemistry rather than just always fucking around with Maths. I told him i already exceled in that subject and challenged him to beat me in it. Then another badminton player i think it was Naveen, handed over his Nikon camera to me and asked me to hit some snaps and i did. Then i wanted to leave the premises. Suddenly i found my friend Dhamki Vijay in police uniform. I greeted him saying Wassup Colonel. Then we both laughed and i handed over the camera to Nikhil who was sitting just beside me on a bench. End of IT.

Florida - Key West Trip

The trip itself was not well planned but we managed somehow to go Florida. The reason for all of us not sure of going for this trip was that mainly due to Suresh and myself. I was out of project in Nov 1st week and the trip we wanted to go was on Nov 23rd. I expected that i would get a job by Nov 23rd but i didnt get any. Also Suresh was looking for a job so he was also not sure. And mainly Bharat dropped out due to his personal reasons.

But finally on Nov 22nd me Stanley and Suresh firmly decided to go Florida along with Vijay who already booked his flight to Miami. We started from Richmond on Nov 23rd Wed night at around 10 o clock. Stanley, Suresh and myself rented a car from budget and left to Florida. We got a Crown Vic which looks like a cop car. We had fun in the journey which was for 15 hrs. Stanley drove first next Suresh, next myself and final touch by Stanley made us reach Miami, FL to Naveen's place. Vijay was already at Naveens apt but he wasnt.

We freshed up had some food and left to Miami hotel resort on Miami beach. Before we started to Miami we changed our car Crown Vic with Chrysler 300 at Ft Lauderdale Airport. We logged in the hotel at Miami and went out on beach in the evening. It was also dark. We went to a near by beach restaurant had some beer and quesadillas. That night we went to Night club and drank a lot of alcohol and came home at 4 am.

Next day we checked out of the hotel room and went to Miami beach. Stanley was sitting in Starbucks and me Vijay and suresh were walking along the beach side which was actually little boring. Then we had some beer. After Stanley finished his work we went into the beach played for sometiime which was also boring.

After the beach we freshed up somehow on the road and beachside restrooms. Then we left for shopping. We were already tired and sleep deprived. Shopping was fun on the Miami beach straight outlets. I bought a AIX jacket and others bought some other stuff. After that we went to Aventura mall some 15 miles away. There we spent something around 2 hrs till the mall closed. We started from mall went to Pizza hut who made horrible pizza but we ate it. We changed clothes in Pizza hut parking lot and again went to Miami South beach for Pubs/Night clubs.

We didnt had any room to stay so we parked our car in a parking lot and stanley decided to take some sleep since he got to drive to Keywest in few hrs.

Me Vijay and Suresh went out at 11.30 AM to hit night clubs but no one allowed us in. Vijay was dissapointed and i felt sorry for him, but i was doing alright just that i was tired i cudnt do anything but to relx and have some beer. Vijay tried a lot to get us inside atleast one club but the effort was wasted. Then me and suresh some how convinced vijay to go to Ocean Dr to have some beer.

We went to ocean dr and it was lot happening over there. We went to Clevelanders bar which was open bar and also lot happening. Vijay got involved and got into the groove. Me and Suresh had fun chatting and having some beer. Then we went to Mangos Tropical restaurant which was a very good place to drink and dance. Vijay had fun throughout though he was not satisfied. Finally we finsihed out clubbing and then returned back to parking lot woke up stanley and drove to Key West at around 4 AM.

We reached Key West at around 8 AM in the morning, and i didnt belive my eyes how beautiful Key West was. I liked Key West more than the Miami itself. It was fun seeing the blue waters and whte sand.
We freshed up at Mcdonalds and then started directly to the boat for rides as a package.

We went on a cruiser into the middle of the ocean for water sports which was lot of fun. We went into ocean at 10 am and came back at around 5 pm. We did Kayaking, Snorkelling, swimming, Banana Boat ride, Ate on the cruiser, smoked and had beer, went for para sailing and finally came back.

At 5.30 pm we went back to the hotel at Key West and checked in and slept for 3-4 hrs. We woke up at 10 and went to Subway and ate. At 11 pm we went to Duval St in Key West which is one of the best streets in USA acc to me for offering wide variety of Carribean style bars and pubs. Special mention would be Schooner Wharf for its authentic raw natural cheap style of the restaurant which attracted me towards it.
I felt as if iam in carribean actually i really was. Next best would be Ricks and list goes on. We did clubbing till 4 am and left to hotel and slept. We woke up at around 10 in the morning and drove back to Miami for dropping Vijay at Naveens place.

We reached Miami at around 2 pm had lunch at indian restaurant and met Naveen. It was nice to meet Naveen after many years. He was as it is when i met him last time around four years back. Good guy good humor and we had fun. Then we said good bye to Naveen and Vijay in Miami on Sunday at 4.30 pm and drove back to Richmond. Stanley drove first then Suresh and last myself. We reached Richmond at 7.30 AM on Monday.

End of the Trip.

Dishkiyaav Experiences !!!

My project ended on April 28th, 2011 and i landed in virginia on April 29th. Now i was flying to India on May 6th and we got a time gap of around 4-5 days. I had this buffer for shopping while i planned the trip but i didnt want to waste my time in relaxing. So i proposed an idea of shooting a shortfilm which will be really short. Our original script and project of Dishikiyaav was tuff to implement as we thought its a bigger project and it involved comedy in it. We wanted something which can be winded up really fast. So i used the characters which ive build for Original Dishkiyaav and created a another version which is lil bit serious in narration and decided to shoot it.
The problem was our DOP Suresh was in India and the worst part was our camera was along with him. But as everyone knows it just takes pure will to do something but not physical entities. I researched a lil on the DSLR's and chose Nikon D5000 as our camera for our new project. We bought it and i decided to shoot it myself now playing the role of a DOP.
We started shooting immediately and it took us around 3-4 days for the shooting to complete (80%). But the problem i faced was to handle the camera were i came to know how important a DOP is for a movie to look good. I screwed up the footage a lil bit in the form of focus errors but though the locations and framing were appreciated. I was dissapointed not only becoz of some errors but also becoz of the sound. Nikon wudnt record the sound so efficiently hence i decided to re-record the voices for the talkie scenes.
I flew to India and did some major editing work whenever i got time and this time moving a step ahead. After i came back to US on June 20th, we designed a trailer and put it on facebook for which we got good comments. We have also re-recorded the voices and shot the rest of the scenes.
But to my irony, everyone thought that the shortfilm which we shot was Dishkiyaav itself, as i also posted some messages saying that our next project is Dishkiyaav, but it was not. Even me myself submitted to the thought becoz there was more firing of bullets in the second untitled shortfilm than in the original script.
Though i didnt do it with all my heart, upon various suggestions and discussions we named our second project as DISHKIYAAV. This is almost ready except the BGS.

My Shortfilm - Once Upon a Time In Fairfax (OUATIF)

Direct link :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj18uk_ouatif-mus-dir-720p-25fpsx264_shortfilms

Being a Coward D12 (04/23/2011)

I was driving the car and my friend is beside me in the passengers seat. We were in a very difficult situation so as to escape from the dangerous goons chasing us like hell. My friend was firing at them by peeping out from the window. Even they were firing at us. I was stuck in the traffic at typical junction on indian roads. Goons also were stuck 2-3 cars behind us in the traffic. Suddenly i have seen on the face of the goons through my rear mirror and recognized him. I asked my friend to stop firing and got down from the car to walk towards the goons.

They were around 20-30 goons chasing us who got down from their cars. I spoke to them as i knew them somehow. They were shouting at me and wanted to kill my friend. I took them into a side street away from the main road as we were stopping the traffic. I negotiated with them but they were not in a mood to listen to me. They had knives and guns with them. I pleaded them to leave my friend. I also told them that my friend would come and accept his mistake if any and sorrify for what ever mistake he did. They said ok and asked me to bring my friend to them.

Now started the real drama. I was about to leave the side street then i over heard from them who were discussing themselves to finish off my friend right away when he arrives i was scared suddenly and didnt react at all. i kept walking to my friend, who was very furious over the goons who were chasing us. I pleaded him not to be violent as they are in plan to kill him. So i requested him to be calm and accept his mistakes and just say sorry to them. I dont know why and how it happened but my friend out of anger ran towards them to teach them a lesson. He was not ready to accept his mistakes.

I ran behind him but by the time i reached the entrance of the street. My friend was already walking into the goons. They did not allow me to go inside the side street, but i was able to hear the knives tearing the flesh out of my friend and i would clearly hear the death screams of my friend. I was terrified and jolted in shock. I somewhere knew that my friend was dead. Goons kicked me out of the street like a dog. I fell down on the mainroad. Got up in shock. Walked back to the car. Drove home.

I went into my friends house and found his mother working in the kitchen. I took the stairs and went to the first floor to my friends room and suddenly i heard loud screams of my friends mother saying " He is dead. He is dead. They killed him. All my life i have told him not to interfere with goons. But he never listened to me. He is now dead. Look how they killed him. Without any mercy. They cut him into pieces". I understood that the goons had thrown my friends body in front the house.

These screams travelled through my spine like drugs and made me electrified. As i turned around to step down stairs to go down i found my friends grandfather in front of me whose eyes where filled with tears. He said to me, " He used walk as if he was a hero always. Never listened to our words". Saying that he wept like a child by holding onto my shoulders. My eyes filled with tears now and i realised how coward i am/was at that moment.

By the time i was thinking of the revenge i woke up.