A Pink Wife

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful wife. She wore a pink frock, pink lipstick & blonde hair. Everybody who saw her would scream to buy her. Everybody who bought her would play with her. Slowly, she changed the people she lived with. They wanted to become like her. They wanted to become pink. They wanted to become The Wife.

The Wife was carved by a beautiful woman named Gratis who spend her days writing words in the barks of the mango tree her mother had planted 20 years ago. One day, her mother asked her, 'Gratis why do you hurt trees?' I don't hurt my mango tree Ma, I draw with powder on its brown canvas'.

Days passed when her drawings were rubbed & removed by the blue rains. It looked as if the words were melting snow. Slowly removed, drop by drop. Her mother's tinkering laugh sounded like bamboo's flute to Gratis until she said, 'your words are not permanent.' 'But my happiness on carving them is' thought she.

Another day in her forest brought lightning along with a family of 3 rabbits under her mango tree. Her mother opened her mouth & said a meaningless word, 'aww'. Inspired, Gratis decided to write it on her tree. Her actions made her mother angry. 'Gratis, these words are not permanent. Look at those rabbits. Pink ears & a pair with a kit. They are a family. Their happiness is permanent.'

Gratis was hurt. She decided to make something pink & permanent & happy. She picked up the wood her mother had kept for making fire & carved her own self. She used all of her mother's wisdom. 'Its time for you to get married; don't wander or you will be lost; If you lose your way home, you will forget me...'

Her creature was pink like their ears, white like their fur, soft like their eyes & beautiful like their walk. A few days later, when the rabbits left, she gifted the doll to her now, a sad mother. 'You look like a wife', smiled her mother. She placed it on her kitchen window sill & started crying.

Author's Note: Original Story;  Available on UC News as STORYTELLER. No reproduction is allowed without the author's express & written consent.

HICHKI - Hollywood class in Hindi

Copy ke last paper p apna dar likho, ghar ki chat p jao aur plane bana k uda do

Bachpan me kiya hoga, aaj firse karo

Jo seekh bhool gaye ho, us chapter ko fir se padh lena chahiye

Jo baatein yaad nahi rehti, vo bhooli nahi jati

Kitab fir se khul jati hai

ही - ही - हिचकी , गले  से  उभरती  हिचकी

कही  जुबां  पे  आते  लफ्ज़ो  को , लगाम  देती  एक  हिचकी

तो  कही  उड़ती  उड़ान  को  देख , दिल  में  उठती   हिचकी

कभी  एक  कहानी  को  पढ़ , आँसू  बनके  बहती  हिचकी

तो  कभी  एक  लड़ाई  में  ही , भाई  से  भाई  की  होजाती  हिचकी

दिल  में  तूफ़ान  है , पर  आँखों  में  है  हिचकी

ये  जिसकी  होजाये , बर्बादी  है  उसकी

छत  पे  जाके  उड़ा  दो  फिर  से  सपनो  को

कागज़  बनके  उड़  जाएगी  हिचकी

ही - ही - हिचकी

Deepak Sehgal deserves a national award

At the end of the movie, when everyone was walking away, these words fell on my ears & I stopped

my feet but my determination started walking.. again...

When Deepak Sehgal fills the ink in the words of Tanveer Ghazi, 

it made my dead heart, 

beat.

This poetry ends the movie PINK -

Tu khud ki khoj me nikal

Tu kis liye hatash hai

Tu chal tere vajood ki

Samay ko bhi talaash hai

Jo tujhse lipti bediya

samajh na unko vastra tu

Jo tujhse lipti bediya

samajh na unko vastra tu

ye bediya pighaal kar

bana le inko shastra tu

Tu khud ki khoj me nikal

Tu kis liye hatash hai

Tu chal tere vajood ki

Samay ko bhi talaash hai

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/mind-rocks-delhi-2016-pink-amitabh-bachchan-tapsee-pannu-shoojit-sircar/1/766561.html

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A story told by Sir Amitabh bachchan at Mind Rocks 2016:

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/mind-rocks-2016-amitabh-bachchan-kbc-contestant-women-empowerment/1/766560.html

I host a show called Kaun Banega Crorpati and on the hot seat one day I had a young lady about 23 years old  who had reached the hot seat. I asked her where she came from. She said, "mai ek chote se gaav se ayi hu"(I come froma small village). I asked her, her life story. She said, 'after the 7th standard, her father stopped educating her. Because he said, ' tumhare upar mai aur paise, waste nahi karna chahta hu kyunki uske baad tumhari shaadi ho jayegi'. (I dont want to waste anymore money on you because after that you will get married)

'Apne paise zaya kyu karu tumpe?' (Why should I waste my money on you?). That is hurtful. This girl never listened to the parents, she revolted. She was thrown out of the house. She went to her grandmother's house, vaha bhi uske sath, aisa anyaay hua, tarah tarah ki uske sath badsalooki hui. (She suffered the same injustice there as well & was abused in various manners). But she continued to study on her own. And she landed up on the hot seat.

And I want to tell you, (insert audience clapping including me listening to his words), at the end of the game show, she won 25 lakh rupees. And when I asked her what she is going to do with this cheque? She said, 'I am going to take this cheque, to my father, and tell him, that even a daughter, is an asset to the family.

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I have words of my own to write but so much beauty, calls to be spread -

Bras offend

So do breasts

And what do you know? 

So does a flat chest

Skirts are a no-no

Because legs are bare 

Jeans bhi mat pehno 

Because legs are there

(What about a long skirt? 

Dilemma, yaar! 

Brb consulting my book of sanskaars)

What if I cover myself 

From head to toe?

*cough* secularism *cough* security *cough*

Sorry. But no.

Enough! I renounce clothing

From now I will be nude

No way! What do you think you are –

A dude?

Credit - Shruti Ambast - https://www.facebook.com/shruti.ambast/posts/1163304763733215

PINK is BLUE - BLUE is PINK

human expectations are different

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil - Karan Johar's love life

This trailer earned me a self made degree in C.I.D.

I had my eyes & ears snooping the entire Internet for any word on the movie apart from 'Bulleya', which not to forget, is OH MY GOD WOW !

If rumours are to be believed, Aishwarya plays the role of an older woman whose husband (Shahrukh Khan :) ) dies. An attractive & lonely mystery is a thing of dreams & Ranbir Kapoor gets this dream.

But will this dream lead to a happy ending?

Whose one sided love is it? 

Watching the trailer leads one to believe that Ranbir loves Anushka but Anushka has a boyfriend in the film as confirmed by the actor playing it. She rejects him. Later a bearded Ranbir is seen romancing Aishwarya. In a particular shot, Ranbir is seen looking at Anushka who looks back at him while Aishwarya sees this.

This is what Karan Johar said about the rumours, 

"Ranbir does not have a double role at all. To the people who have seen his two looks in the film, I just have to say: ‘People shave, dude.’ There’s so much speculation. The other rumour I’ve heard is that it’s a Doosra Aadmi remake. It’s not, it’s not a film about infidelity at all. The ‘morality’ is not questionable, so to say. Just because a film has four characters, they wonder if it’ll be like Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. Not at all."

FAWAD KHAN

He confirmed that he will be playing a DJ, his character becomes a backbone for a certain conflict of a character in the movie." 

IMRAN ABBAS

Abbas will be seen as a boyfriend of Anushka's character.

CHARACTER NAMES

Ranbir Kapoor - a Hindu boy named Ayan 

Anushka Sharma - a Muslim girl named Alizeh. 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Saba Taliyar Khan

The lucky mascot Kajol will ofcourse put her wit in with the beautiful Lisa Haydon.

My last word - Karan Johar has been in love twice, unreciprocated.

Karan was quoted saying, "I told Ranbir that on some level, in some way, you are playing me." He added that ADHM is an unabashed take on un-reciprocated love which comes from his own life experiences.

"Normally I make films through observations that I filter through a dramatic, a cinematic palette. Not this time. I've been in love twice in my life and it's been un-reciprocated both times," Karan said.

Does Ranbir Kapoor fall in love twice with a failure both the times? 

A story about heart break but which heart will break?

Awaiting release..

Just Think It Once - Play

Just Think It Once Play |  At Divya Bhaskar House | Akshat Drama Group  ...

On World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe. The day is further intended to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to nearly 6 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.^[1] The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. In the past twenty years, the day has been met with both enthusiasm and resistance around the globe from governments, public health organizations, smokers, growers, and the tobacco industry.

To mark the day, Akshat Drama Group in association with GCS Medical Hospital & Divya Bhaskar created & performed at 4 locations on the occasion:

GCS MEDICAL HOSPITALAHMEDABAD MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
DIVYA BHASKAR HOUSE
KALUPUR RAILWAY STATION

The play was based on effects of tobacco & smoking in resulting cancer. 

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death.Lung cancer is also the most preventable form of cancer death in the world.Besides lung cancer, tobacco use also increases the risk for cancers of almost any & every organ of the body. (mouth, lips, nose and sinuses, voice box, throat, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, uterus, cervix, colon/rectum, ovary) 

Watch the play & let us know how do you find it :)

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