Misal Pao

Well... Here i go just to satisfy the strong feeling that has gripped me to write an entry on this.
After reading my previous entry a lot of people must think that i am insane... as in not in the right state of mind. Well.. you are not exactly wrong.... Even i sometimes feel the same.. :)
But as a few of you must have imagined me to be... Let me dispel their misconceptions. No... what you think is not true.... Even i sometimes do enjoy life.... Today was one of those evenings thanks to an awesome performance by Nitesh Pandey, Sudha Chandran, Pooja Ajinkya and a couple of other people to whom i owe a sincere apology because i am not able to remember their name. The play was named Misal Pao- after a famous dish in Mumbai which is like a mixture of a lot of things. The play however was not so.... It was heavily flavored with comedy. The anecdotes and one liners, though very common, were delivered very well to make the audience laugh. I do not think that anyone in audience could have kept a straight face for even a minute during the show. Except of course the ten minute break provided in between. The performance of the actors, except for a slur and a fumble at one occasion each was spotless.

I was especially awed by Sudha Chandran. I had read about her in a very old magazine when i was a kid. The magazine dated around 1986-87 i guess, and had an account and review of a movie "Naache Mayuri" which was inspired by her life in which she herself was in the lead role. The review was not very good though but the story truly was inspiring. What i read was that she lost a leg in an accident. Even after that setback she went on to pursue a career in acting and is also a great dancer. Even today she infact looked the most nimblefooted person on stage and depicted a character around 20 years younger than her perfectly.
All in all it was an awesome performance by everyone and an evening i would remember for long.

Am i me??

As each day passes by i find myself more and more distant to me. No i have not made any error in the last sentence. This is perfectly true. The people who have not talked to me for the last couple of years would remember me as an idiot. As someone who did not care for anything. As someone who did not listen to anyone. As someone who had most idiotic theories of his own. As someone who talked only to talk and most of the times to be laughed at. As someone who never took tension of anything. As someone who didn't care a bit about disturbing anyone. As someone for whom sleep was the top priority and no force on the earth could displace the priority.
But when today i think about how i was and how i am i find a total alien. Yes, I am an idiot today too. But a totally different one. Today's me tries to listen as much as possible and does not talk much apart from a couple of remarks. Today's me gets a maximum of 6-7 hours sleep everyday. Today's me has gone on to become an almost pessimist though i call it a "Tragic Optimist" meaning that he will optimistically believe everything to turn into a tragedy. This me instead of theorizing about idiotic things now thinks everything very seriously and takes tension for something which doesn't even concern himself. Just like the topic it is currently writing an entry for. And a lot of other questions one of which someday eventually i may discuss....