ಅದಲು ಬದಲು

ಕನಸು ನನಸಾಗಲಿ ಎನ್ನುವರೊಳು
ನನಸು ಕನಸಾಗಲಿ ಎನ್ನುವರೆಸ್ಟೋ
ಕಹಿ ಸಿಹಿಯಾಗಲಿ ಎನ್ನುವರೊಳು
ಸಿಹಿ ಕಹಿಯಾಗಲಿ ಎನ್ನುವರೆಸ್ಟೋ
ಜೀವನದ ಅದಲು ಬದಲುಗಳೊಳು
ನಿನಗಾಹುದು ಹಿತ
ಅದಲೊ ಬದಲೋ...


……Shilpa

ಹಾಗೆ ಒಮ್ಮೊಮ್ಮೆ

ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ ಕುಳಿತಿರಲು ಬೆಚ್ಚನೆಯ ಹೊದಿಕೆಯೊಳಗೆ
ಕಿವಿಗಳು ಇಂಪಾಗಿರಲು ಗಾನ ಲಹರಿಯೊಳಗೆ
ನಲಿಯುತಿಹುದು ಮುಂಗುರುಳು ತಂಪಾದ ಗಾಳಿಯೊಳಗೆ
ಇದೆಲ್ಲಾ ಇದ್ದ ಮೇಲೆ ಸುಮ್ಮನಿರುವುದೆ ಮನಸು ?

ತೇಲುತಿರುವುದು ಮನಸ್ಸು ಕನಸುಗಳೊಳಗೆ .... :)

……Shilpa

Should I bother ?

From many days I was feeling to write about something which is very important in ones life as they grow on. The topic on which I wanted to write about was "Critics".

I often hear from people saying

• If I share my opinion what they may think, they may throw bad comments, they may laugh
• Few have very good talents but scared to showcase in public assuming people might not like it
• Few say everyone used to like my performance but I have stopped performing because people didn't like my last performance
• I am scared to loose, I cant listen to any negative words

Most of the people are scared of critics. I was no exception. But I have managed to come out of it to a great extent. This change didn't happen in a day. It takes time in understanding which critics to accept and value and which critics to ignore. 

For example, consider when I write an article on a topic and post it in my blog, a person who reads it first, comes and tells to me  that the article is very bad. Later many people come and tell to me that the article is very good. If I was worried too much about the comment thrown by the first person and removed the article from my blog I would have lost the interests of rest of the people who liked it. What doesn't liked by one may be liked  from someone else. You should be satisfied of your work, that's the greatest feeling one can have.

As one grows to great height managing critics become very crucial. Think about film stars, politicians, cricketers, business people, whatever they do people have a comment on to it. If they care too much on every action they cannot survive. If one is scared about critics he/she is the looser, it will not benefit in any way.

Finally a one liner about this "Value valid critics from Right people and ignore rest"

                                                                                                                    ……Shilpa

LUCIA, The Movie

I have often come across debates over movies while planning for a movie or during usual conversations. During these conversations I would generally feel bad if anybody comments about kannada movies. Though there are lot of flaws in kannada movies or the quality of the movies, I always tend to support kannada movies. But at the end reality speaks. Though there are very few exceptions, it’s always the majority that catch the eyes. But it still does not change the fact that kannada movies can be made better in future.

Some of the questions that would arise are: why is it so? Why many remakes? Why are the stories not good? Why is there lack of talents? Why are good movies not making success? Why do people comment negatively? And many more Whys..  We get angry when someone comments on kannada movies, but when the question comes about changing it by making better movies, many of us step back for various reasons and come to a conclusion that, it’s better to accept things the way it is than changing.

The main reason behind accepting things without changing or fighting against it is mainly due to lack of confidence, interest and dedication. If we have confidence, interest and dedication, we can definitely achieve our goals. And this is proved by LUCIA, The Movie Team.  

The makers of LUCIA have come out with their innovative and unique ideas that have now raised the standard of our regional movies. Plenty of reviews are available online and I will be happy to put down a few facts here.

• LUCIA- A Catchy title
• LUCIA is produced by Audience
• LUCIA has been produced with a budget of 51Lakhs
• LUCIA Cinematography has been done using Canon 5D DSLR Camera by Siddhartha Nuni
• LUCIA is a unique story line
• Through LUCIA artist Neenasam Satish has turned into a Hero and talented actress Sruthi Hariharan has been introduced.
• Through LUCIA Software Engineer Poornachandra Tejaswi has turned into a Music director
• Singer search was initiated for the LUCIA movie song “Thin Beda Kammi”
• LUCIA has introduced talented singers Naveen Sajju, Rakshith Nagarle, Bappi Blossom, Arun M C, Ananya Bhat, Udith Haritas., Sangeetha Rajeev, Dr.Nitin Acharya and Sparsha R K. 
• Orchestra singer Naveen Sajju has turned into a playback singer
• Audience has got LUCIA on-line distribution rights via hometalkies
• LUCIA has won best Audience Award at LIFF
• LUCIA movie team gave an opportunity to people to watch premier show through an on-line singing contest via Karoake garage.
• LUCIA has English sub-titles.
• For the first time I see Director of the movie clarifying doubts about LUCIA to the people on a live streaming in you-tube.
• LUCIA in Oscar’s race. 

Now you can watch this movie online by clicking on the below video.

 

 

I would like to congratulate Mr Pawan Kumar and his team for making a daring attempt. Wish all success to “The” Audience films. I am eagerly waiting to see many more good innovations from Audience film production house. All the best. 

 I would strongly suggest everyone to go and watch LUCIA to experience the difference. 

 Well if you don’t understand kannada, you can still watch it and enjoy it. I mentioned this in the facts, it has English Subtitles.

……Shilpa

3 Books at 1 Go!

Recently I finished reading Shiva Trilogy’s final book “The Vayuputras”. I enjoyed my journey while reading the 3 books of Shiva Trilogy. Unlike other novels which I had read earlier these books are very different. The reason for this is may be because I am not a frequent reader; I never explored different kinds of  books myself, I always relied on the feedback from friends or books in library. Anyways thanks to my friend Bhavya Reddy for referring this masterpiece.

For those who are unaware of this Trilogy, it is all about God Shiva. If you think it’s the same as we have heard stories about God Shiva, you are wrong. These books say much more than that. How a normal person become a God to the people? Is it by his capability? Or Is it by blind belief of people? Or Is it combination of both? Indian history is Interesting, Can a book be written in this way too was the first few thoughts appeared in my mind when I started reading first book of Shiva Trilogy. You start connecting history while going through this book. This book is a combination of Love, Belief, War, Angry, Jealous, Selfishness, and Sacrifice. The love towards Shiva’s soul(Sati) has been wonderfully expressed. While reading the lines about Shiva’s love towards Sati a girl wish for a husband like Shiva! I was very emotional while reading the conclusion of the Trilogy, but I won’t reveal the reason behind it. You better read it out, you may feel the same. Thanks to Author Amish for this wonderful package.

After this I felt the urge to read more books on Indian history, I explored for a while and found Chanakya’s chant by Aswin. This book was awesome. Do you like Politics or Do you hate Politics? This books suits completely for both.

I took back myself from reading after I read Chanakya’s chant because I was overloaded with many things. Now I am back on form.

Day before yesterday at 5.50 PM sharp I opened flipkart website and quickly clicked on Best Selling Fiction and Non Fictions section. I felt like ordering yet another history related book and found a book named Jaya by Devdutt. I clicked on BUY NOW button, when I did so it took me to cart which said Delivery charges 50 Rs :O It’s very common that girl’s like to order things online with No delivery charges :D.

I thought if I buy one more book there won’t be any delivery charge because something similar had happened earlier. But it didn’t work out and I was in hurry to catch my cab at 6PM. I told to myself “Anyways I am in form now, let me order two more books now itself and save further delivery charges ;) ”.  So went back to best sellers section and randomly picked “Life is what you make it” and Can love happen twice”. That’s how the name 3 Books at 1 Go!

Flipkart is very fast. Next day 11AM sharp I received the order. Thanks FlipKart :)

                                                                                                                    ……Shilpa

ಕನಸು

I have tried to narrate a scene in this post. Thought of giving a different try. Here it goes.

ನನ್ನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೊಗಬೆಡ, pleaseee. ಬಿಕ್ಕಳಿಸಿ ಅಳುತಿರುವ ಶಬ್ದ ಕೇಳಿ ಬೆಚ್ಚಿಬಿದ್ದು ಎದ್ದ ಮೋಹನ. ನಿದ್ದೆ ಕಣ್ಣಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಏನಿದು ಎಂದು ಅರಿಯುವಸ್ಟರಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಳಿಯಿತು ಪಕ್ಕದ ಮಂಚದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಲಗಿದ್ದ ಪವನ್ ನ ಅಳು ಎಂದು.

 

ಮೋಹನ ಪವನ್ ಬಳಿ ಹೋಗಿ ಅವನನ್ನು ಎಬ್ಬಿಸಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ.

 

ಮೋಹನ: ಲೆ ಪವನ್ ಎದ್ದೆಳೊ, ಲೆ ಪವನ್.

ಪವನ್: ಬಿಕ್ಕಿ ಬಿಕ್ಕಿ ಅಳುತ್ತಲೇ ಎದ್ದ ಪವನ್, ವಾಸ್ತವವನ್ನು ಅರಿಯಲು ಕೆಲವು ನಿಮಿಶಗಳು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾನೆ.

ಮೋಹನ: ತೊಗೊ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿ. ಕನಸು ಬಿತ್ತಾ?

ಪವನ್: ಹಾ. ವಿಚಿತ್ರ ಕನಸು.

ಮೋಹನ: ಸರಿ ಈಗ ಸಮಾದಾನವಾಗಿ ಮಲಕ್ಕೋ.

ಪವನ್: ಹಾ.

 

ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ.

 

ಮೋಹನ: ಪವನ್, ಅದೇನು ಕನಸು. ಅಸ್ಟು ಅಳ್ತಿದ್ದೆ.

ಪವನ್: ಆ ಬೂಕ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಬರ್ದಿದೀನಿ ಓದು.

ಮೋಹನ: ಏನೋ ಸೂಪರ್ fast ಇದೀಯಾ ನೀನು. ಇಸ್ಟು ಬೇಗ ಕನಸನ್ನ booknalli ಬರೆದಿದೀಯಾ ?

ಪವನ್: ನಿನಗೆ ಗೋತಲ್ವಾ, ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ಕನಸುಗಳನ್ನ ಬರೆಡಿದೋ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ನನಗಿದೆ ಅಂತ.

ಮೋಹನ: ಹಾ ಗೊತ್ತು ಗೊತ್ತು. ಲಾಸ್ಟ್ ಟೈಮ್ ಯಾವ್ದೋ ದೆವ್ವದ ಕನಸ್ಸು ಬರ್ದಿದ್ಯಲ್ಲಾ.

ಪವನ್: ಹಾ.

ಮೋಹನ: ಇದು ಯಾವ್ ತರ ಕನಸ್ಸೋ?

ಪವನ್: ನೀನೇ ಓದೋ, ಗೋತಾಗುತ್ತೆ.

ಮೋಹನ: ಸರಿ.

 

ಮೋಹನ ಪವನ್ ಬರೆದಿರುವ ಕನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಓದಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ.

 

ಕಿತ್ತು ತಿನ್ನುವ ನೋವನು ಎದುರಿಸುತ ಕುಳಿತಿರುವೆನು ನನ್ನ ಕೋಣೆಯಲಿ, ಬದುಕಿನಲಿ ಬೆಳಕಿಲ್ಲದ ಮೇಲೆ ನನ್ನ ಕೊಣೆಗೇಕೆ ಬೆಳಕು?  ಇದೆ ನನ್ನ ಪ್ರಪಂಚ, ನನ್ನ ಕತ್ತಲೆಯ ಕೋಣೆ. ಎಸ್ಟೇ ಕತ್ತಲಿದ್ದರು ಕಾಣುತಿದೆ ಅವಳ ನೆನಪು ಗೂಡೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಯ್ಯಾರಿಸುತ, ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿ ಮುಚ್ಚುತಿರುವೆ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳನು ಅದರಿಂದ ಮುಕ್ತನಾಗಲು.., ಮುಚ್ಚಿದ ಕಣ್ಣೊಳಗೂ ಕಾಡುತಿಹಳು, ಅವಳೊಂದು ಮಾಯೆಯೇ ಸರಿ. ಸಾಯಲು ಮನಸಿಲ್ಲ, ಬದುಕಲು ಬಿಡುತಿಲ್ಲ, ಇದುವೆಯ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ? ಈಗಾಗಿರುವೆನು ಅವಳು ನನ್ನ ಜೊತೆಗಿರಲಾಗದೆoಬ ಸತ್ಯ ತಿಳಿದ ಕ್ಷಣದಿಂದ.

 

ಅವಳ ಕರೆಯ ಕೊನೆಯ ರಿಂಗಣ ನನ್ನ ಬದುಕಿನ ಕುಶಿಯನ್ನು  ಕೊನೆಯಾಗಿಸುವುದೆಂಬ ಆಲೋಚನೆಯಾಗಲಿ ಉಹೆಯಾಗಲಿ ಕೊಂಚವೂ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಅವಳು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು ಕೆಲವೇ ಸಾಲುಗಳು, ಆದರೆ ಅದರ ಭಾವರ್ತಗಳು ಕರಗಿಸಲಾಗದಸ್ಟು ಕಟಿಣ. ಅವಳ ಕೊನೆಯ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಈಗಿತ್ತು. "ನಿನ್ನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾ ಬಂದು ತಪ್ಪು ಮಾಡಿದೆ, ನಿನ್ನ ಕುಶಿಯನ್ನು ಕದ್ದುಬಿಟ್ಟೆ, ಕೊನೆವರೆಗೂ ಇರುವೆನೆಂದು ಹೇಳಿ ಮಾತು ತಪ್ಪುತಿರುವೆನು, ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಬೇಡ ನನ್ನ, ಬದಲಿಗೆ ಮರೆತುಬಿಡು ನನ್ನ.”

 

ಬಿಡಬೆಡ ಹಿಡಿದ ಕೈಗಳನು ನನ್ನ ಒಂದು ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯ ಉತ್ತರಿಸುವ ಮುನ್ನ, ನಾ ಮಾತು ತಪ್ಪುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಇದು ನನ್ನ ಕೊನೆಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ.

 

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ಮರೆತುಬಿಡು ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ ನಿನಗೆ

ನನ್ನದೊಂದೇ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ, ಅದು ಈಗಿದೆ " ಮರೆಯಲು ಹೇಗೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಸಿ ಮರೆಯಾಗುವೆಯ ? "

 

ಇದಕೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಅವಳ ಕರೆಯ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿತವಾದ ದ್ವನಿ. ನಾ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕರೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದಾಗ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ ಉತ್ತರ "ನೀವು ಕರೆ ಮಾಡಿದ ಚಂದಾದಾರರು ಫೋನ್ ಸ್ವಿಚ್ ಆಫ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ."

 

ಉತ್ತರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಕಾಯುತಿರುವೆನು ಈ ನನ್ನ ಕತ್ತಲ ಕೋಣೆಯಲಿ. ನಾ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮೂರ್ಕನೆ ? ನಾ ಒಬ್ಬ ರೋಮೀಯೋ ? ನಾ ಒಬ್ಬ ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದವನೆ ? ನಾ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮನುಜನೇ? ನಾ ಯಾರಾ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೂ ಕಾಣದ ಅಸಹಾಯಕನೇ ?

 

ಮೋಹನ: ಹೇ ಸೂಪರ್ ಕಣೋ. ಯಾರೋ ಈ ಹುಡುಗಿ ?

ಪವನ್: ಗೊತಿಲ್ಲ. ಕನಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ face ಗೋತಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.

ಮೋಹನ: Benzene strcutureನ ಕನಸ್ಸಲ್ಲೇ ಅಂತೇ ಕನ್ಡುಇಡಿದಿದ್ದು. ಅದೇ ತರ ನೀನು ಏನಾದ್ರೂ ಕನ್ಡುಇಡೀಲಿ ಎಂದು ಆಶಿಸುವ ಮೋಹನ.

 

ಪವನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಮೋಹನ ಇಬ್ಬರು ನಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು.

 

 

Dreams are good as long as they are just dreams, if they tend to get real, life gets worse because it shadows the curiosity of tomorrow. Let’s wish for all kinds of dreamzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

                                                                                                                    ……Shilpa

INDIAN ETV Kannada reality show

After BIGG BOSS ETV Kannada reality show, all were curious to know whether it is going to be BIGG BOSS 2 or any other reality show. Later an advertisement started appearing on ETV Kannada channel, and the name said it as INDIAN with a tagline as an impossible journey. It also started showing up VTs [Video tape] of contestants. Except two contestants all looks like Western and still the name says INDIAN! It’s always not good to draw conclusion at the beginning, yet this conclusion has got strong after watching the launch of this reality show yesterday. The very first episode looked very similar to MTV Rowdies show and Suvarna’s Pyate mandi kadig bandru and also it has given a strong feeling that it will continue to be similar.

 

If we ask different people “Who is an Indian?” It will be very common that answers might be “The one who follow Indian culture and value them is an Indian”. “The one who are patriotic about the land and die for it is an Indian”. “The one who believes with peace and love we can win anything is an Indian”. “The one who believes in united we are is an Indian”. “The one who never lets their land down is an Indian”. In what context ETV Channel has named this reality show as “Indian”, is it just because they travel across 7 states? If that is the case it’s not convincing. This is a personal opinion of mine based on the first look. Let us wait and watch how it goes. If this reality show proves my opinion as wrong I would be happy to come and delete this article.

                                                                                                                    ……Shilpa