Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Yes they can!!!....Y cant we????

Firstly congratulations Mr Barack Obama, President of US of A! What a ceremony to inaugurate the beginning of your term! Mighty impressed! The fat opera singer sure was a treat to the ears and was the star of the show for me!!!! :P...lol!!!...And the poet said such wonderful things in praise of the American land! I almost fell asleep....But the best was yet to come. The show stopper as expected was the speech by the President! What emotions! What feeling! It almost got me stand up and say.....'I could never mug up a speech so well back in school! How on earth did he mug all that up??'...I say this from the bottom of my heart Mr Obama....I am a fan of your mugging skills already! And some of the lines there in that speech were so inspiring! I quote "Greatness in never given..its earned".....like a BOURNVILLE CHOCOLATE!!!.....now he wants to "remake America".....and he says the reason why the markets crashed in America was because there was nobody watching them...so from now on he's going to watch CNBC Business news for an hour everyday..."We need to watch the markets"!!!...lolz!...."We are a friend of all countries".....dont we know that!!!!!!!.....and...."We are yet again ready to lead"....who ever asked them to do so?......Bleedy Democ-RATS and Re-PUBIC-ans (last line courtesy: Nikhil Bhagat:) )
But the whole idea behind the event was magnificient! If nothing else every kid in America now knows who their President is! Unlike India where in the young generation finds it cool not to care about all that anymore!! A reality show called Roadies once had a quiz competition where they discovered that the contestants dont even know the name of the president of India (psst: they now host a show on MTV...lolz!) I dont blame them really...If at all the swearing ceremony of the President of India was like what Obama got with 2 million people attending the ceremony....then I bet nobody would not know Pratibha Patil's name(btw all those wondering...she is the President these days!). I dont say do what ever they do but sure do something atleast!!! Other than scolding Pakistan that is....this is one thing all Indians do well!!!


Btw Australian open has started and Roger has made a decent start!...I hope he wins this slam!!!....:)

Friday, January 9, 2009

Luck by chance!

Well this is the story of a narrator and a wannabe narrator. The narrator of a very popular mad ads team was in hell lot of demand after securing the best narrator award at various college fests. Hence he was on cloud nine ever since. Once a debutant director after shooting a short film came up to the wannabe narrator and asked him for the narrator's phone number. Helpful wannabe gave it without hesitation, even after realizing that it was for the voice over of the director's debut movie! Director calls the narrator only to realize that cloud nine is too far and he cant afford his travel fares and hence settles for the wannabe instead! Thanks to the peanut butter and chocolate pastry and some dialogues by a friend, the wannabe does the voice over just in time. The time allotted was one night btw!:D. In a night's time the 2 friends finish scripting and recording, much to the pleasure of the director. Needless to say the director won accolades and some prize for that video he shot. The treat for which is still pending!
So when the new movie was shot, the wannabe was again considered a natural choice. This time in local language Kannada for an All India competition online. Job happens again in the last minute(I am used to that now after being part of last minute tension!) And now see where that landed the wannabe. THE VIDEO WON THE NATIONAL LEVEL COMPETITION. WE ACTUALLY GOT THE BLEEDY NATIONAL AWARD. Accolades and praises are coming down quite heavily!
No prizes for guessing the characters right! Narrator played by Avinash M V(narrator of my mad ads team LAST MINUTE TENSION!)
Wannabe played by MEEEEEEEEEEE!
Director played by Sandeep V (aka Sandy or Bandli :) )
Friend played by Harsha Kudoor
thank you
Please do watch the video and tell me how it is!
:)

Link below will guide you to the page where the winners of the competition are announced

Senses of an Incense by Sandeep.V | PFCOne 2008 Competitive Section
Link below is the link to the video on Youtube
Video by sandy
Thank You once again
:)