3 years down

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Its been 3 years … I still remember the day, around 2000 candidates appeared for the first round to get selected into this IT company which was held in my college itself, somehow cleared the first round, and somehow cleared the Technical Round where the interviewer was asking random questions from UNIX, Operating Systems, C, JAVA, Database etc.. , I really don’t know what I was answering …the subject mentioned were part of my Computer Engineering Curriculum but as you know… who gives a damn about studies when you are swimming in the pool of engineering life?.. After the technical round I was allowed to enter the HR round… Krishna Rao Pasupuleti with all the wisdom which he gained by his engineering days FAKES almost every reply to the questions asked by HR. I came out of the room which was like an oven for me as the Q and A with the HR were deciding my career; it was around 10:30 pm ….Yet to have my dinner, dragged myself into the cafeteria, had some food and was roaming in my college campus, security guards warned me not to roam in the campus as even snakes talk a walk at that time. I went to the Ganesh Temple which was recently built and I was thinking “What IF I screw this one too? ..It would be a HATTRICK..3 in a row” …. Slept on the marble floor of the temple till 2:30 am and something woke me up… results are announced at 3:00 am. I am selected to work with this IT giant.

--------Fast forward---------

My Engineering is completed. The joyful days are over.

Here comes the uninvited guest Recession, some call it as the worst financial crisis after the great depression. Thanks to the U.S.A and its clients, the Indian IT Industry receives a Mohammed Ali punch. We were totally bewildered … I didn't tell you that we are yet to hear about an another IT company which is going to make news …yes …the SATYAM Scam. Suddenly the Software Industry which is full of shine to outsiders now seems to be a black hole to many. Guys like me who have no other choice other than to join the company and earn bucks to fill the stomachs are in –(Cloud 9). Everyday I was asking the same question ‘What is my future? Why the hell did I choose Computer Engineering?’…

A confession (not exactly a confession..) tasted C2H5OH and Nicotine for the first time.


-----Days get passed--------

By the way…i still have the same passion, love, craze for movies which I had in my engineering days...in fact my love for movies multiplied, i was literally watching 3 movies every day...let's call them as Morning, Matinee and Second Shows. Now ORKUT is my Ex-lover, Dating FACEBOOK & flirting with TWITTER. After flirting with TWITTER I felt that it was not for me and left it. Movies, Movies and Movies are my world, now almost officially movies are my life. Middle class life is not an easy one, now I have to search for a job till I get a call from my company. Attended 15 interviews to find a job in BPO filed, there were 2 things common in all the 15 interviews which I attended, 1) I was rejected in all the interviews. 2) I was rejected in Voice/Accent round . The BPO trials were a learning experience for me…It didn’t make me improve my English language but it made me feel that I would never try to improve my English…come what may.

Being a movie-buff I read a lot about news related to films. Never liked the Telugu Cinema websites for various reasons…I accidentally find a place where all the film lovers meet … it www.passionforcinema.com.. It took me 4 articles to be an author at PFC, came to know about OZ, his real name is Pankaj (was very much impressed by his blog, which is not active now), and WB, real name is Ranga (Used to call me from Australia just to talk with me on Telugu films) and had a lot of fun at PFC-Club. To be frank I was a very bad writer and it is very much reflected in articles which I wrote. Journey with PFC was good and there was break to this journey to some reasons which I don’t want to disclose here. In the mean time I used to meet Satish Kasetty garu, talking with him increased my knowledge on films, his views on films were a bit different from mine, met some Assistant Directors, Editors, writers who live in Krishna Nagar, these guys are very hard working people, Shiva is one of them, he took me into Annapoorna Studios, it was my first time. I hope Shiva gets a break as a director very soon…. Ram Gopal Varma and Aamir Khan were actively blogging. Aamir was talking about some dog and Ram Gopal Varma says that we all are dogs.

26/11 happened. Ram Gopal Varma is seen in Taj and Vilas Rao is fired by Madamji, etc.. etc… we never learned from our mistakes. Indian Journalists and Media were practicing true spirit of journalism as always. The largest democracy in the world goes to polls and I am witnessing the whole tamasha on TV. Chiranjeevi enters politics, Chandra Babu brings Jr.NTR and Balayya for the TDP campaigns, YSR brings Supers Star Krishna and Krishna tries to bring Mahesh Babu. Mahesh Babu says ‘I don’t know the difference between MP and a MLA’. YSR is back to power, I was preparing myself to my state to be renamed to ‘Rajiv Pradesh’ the media said Singh is King (really?). Rahul Gandhi is close to 40 but media still says that he is young, Sachin is 36 and the media says that he is old.

-----Days get passed--------

I am back on twitter, deleted the only tweet and posted my first tweet ‘Back to Twitter’, the special journey has started, now Twitter is my new crush, met a lot of interesting people .. Celebrities on twitter were growing like mushrooms, met a lot of hyderabadis and attended the Tweetup meets which were held on the weekends. Good things for me is that I found few movie-buffs like me, even though i met many people through i would like to mention Vemana and Hemanth as we used to meet regularly and they were film lovers like me, I liked their passion for films, Hemanth occasionally used to talk about the last days which he is spending in SATYAM, Vemana is tech geek and movie-buff like me, he doesnt like Woody Allen though… Now Vemana, Hemanth and I planned to do something which was related to movies….nothing concrete was happening due to some reasons… I am asked by my company to report at Chennai for training.

End of Part 1.

One Shot that defines INCEPTION

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Lets say 'What is Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION to you?' . Nolan's INCEPTION is not a path breaking nor a trend setting film. For me its just a film which increases my love towards films. Many film lovers like me started comparing the complexity of 'Inception' with 'Mulholland Drive','2001 A Space Odyssey', '8 1/2' etc.. i would disagree to view INCEPTION on those lines... its a film with a different meaning and different substance. For me one shot in the film defines the whole film and it is ....


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