This Thing called Love...

Ok... i know this might sound weird or crazy or post-insanity stuff or whatever (BlahShit!!!) Lets call it "Compromise"... or even better, lets give it a phrase..." The Barter system"... but (Please! Please! PLEASE!!!) lets not abuse it by calling it as "Love"....!
"Love" - How often do we use this word in our daily lives and end up literally, physically, practically, well almost in everyway abusing, degrading, distorting, crapping, killing, raping, murdering the very meaning of it!... Without most of us even knowing the true meaning of "Love" We talk about it as if we know what love really is! How many of us really know the true meaning of this word?
According to Dante, he writes about Love in his master-piece 'The Divine Comedy', "The day that man allows true love to appear.. all things will fall into confusion and over-turn everything we believe to be Right and True"
Makes sense?
I asked my best friend today over a cup of coffee, "What does Love or a Relationship (now that he is "committed") mean to you?" and he smiled and said without even giving it a second thought, "Responsibiltiy.." "But do you think Love means Responsibility?", i asked him back and he looked at me with a weird, hard to define expression and said, "Well relationship and love are both different stages.. Let's not compare the two" "But don't you think even a Relationship is born from love... then why didnt you say... Love? You didnt even mention it as a by-product of a relationship.. Why Responsibility and why not Love??" I had got my answer. His silence answered my questions. And its not only bestie but many others whom i have known...
We tend to forget the true meaning of love... We loose the spirit of love somewhere in transition and translation of our needs and desire... and fail to achieve and know the pleasure... the joy... the true meaning of love..
What we know is... Desire!... Needs!... Wants!.. and we still shamelessly call it Love!
Love.. Love is Unconditional... It's like when you love someone so much that all that matters is the happiness of that someone, regardless of that someone being with or without you! That is love! But do we have the courage of seeing this someone we love into the arms of other.. Happy.... Satisfied and in "Love"... Do we have that courage? Do we have the power to Love?
Well We all do infact we are born to do so, but Are we ready to Love someone truly? Im not talking about Compromises that people very effortlessly term as a "Relationship" which is conducted on the principles of Barter...!
Im talking about Love... Unconditional Love... Love that is capable of loving without being loved!
ARE WE READY??

BitterSweet Symphony

Well... The Best Thing to happen to any artist is to get inspired!! And hell yeah! I got inspired when i heard the song "The BitterSweet Symphony" while i was driving around Marine Drive with a Friend. I was meeting him after a long time but as i heard the song playing in his car... Everything around me just froze! I stopped talking to him (which got him really really REALLY Frustrated!) and kept on playing the song over and over again! I ended up listening to the song about 20 times in those two hours that i spent wid him :) The next thing i knew was i was @ Planet M to buy the C.D and then i ran home and got it on my Pod! I heard it about a 100 times in the past one week and Guess what?? I ended up writing a short film script. I read the script to one of my Mentor and she "looooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeedddddddd" the script and asked me to shoot it asap!! I shot the movie on Saturday,12th april,2008... Gonna edit it asap and then show it to my Mentors and faculty and Friends! The rushes seem to look pretty amazing! and yeah... the song is the HERO of my short film!!! :) Kudos to the creators of the song! :)

Me, Cash & Cruz...

Well, lucky i was to get the special preview passes to Rahul Da Cuhna's new directorical play titled, 'Me.. Cash & Cruz' which is a tribute to Mumbai and Mumbaikars. The play was staged at N.C.P.A Experimental on 11th april,2008. Rahul's amazing skills as a writer and his unbelievably believable characters takes the audience on a journey of the city from Bombay to Mumbai! It starts in 1984 and ends in the Millenium... what was really impressive about this show was the artistic sets that complimented the soul of the play and the impressive transitions used to leap years and emotions! Rajat Kapur and Amit Mistry were as impressive as ever! Ofcourse there were the cons as well.. Neil Bhoopalam, who played Kash(yap), at times overdid his part and that stood out like a sore! At times, his perfectly polished diction did not flow with his acting skills! He failed to communicate the chronicles of the character... The lights could have been done in a much better and creative way.. there was so much of scope to play with the characters just by using the lights! But all is well that ends well! The show got a standing Ovation for the audience which it deserved to the core! Hats off to Rahul for writing such a amazing play! Kudos to Amit and Rajat and Yamini for bringing that extra zing to the play!

"True Love"

I Believe in one saying that has been born somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind, heart and soul... "When we find true love... it's almost the end...." As ironic as it is, it's stands true if we deeply close our eyes and ask ourselves, our inner being.