Tejaswita

new addition in the family...my love....my jaan....

Forwards - earlier I always used to avoid and ignore reading forwarded mail specially just the text ones.....images are great....jokes used to be boring............but recently as the year began, i started reading them....and to be in touch with all my freinds i joined the chain of forwarding mails.....most of my freinds were surprised but they were happy just to see my name in their inbox regularly.........

One such maiil that i received and would like to share it with u.....

Coffee...????

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university Professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the Prof went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups:
porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you Consciously  went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."
"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change.”
"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So friend, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.

Have a good day !

An after thought-Life of a Film Director

I read interview of veteran film maker Prakash Mehra
in a recent issue of a daily tabloid from Mumbai which
was quite heartening and touching. Along with Manmohan
Desai, Mr. Mehra was the top film director of 1970s
and 80s.  He is though fortunate for being a producer
too as atleast he is getting royalities and rights
from the resale of his films and songs.  Films are
known to be director’s medium.  In context of the
same, I like to draw attention to some startling
facts. Apart from, Yash Chopra, Ravi Chopra and
Subhash Ghai, there is no other director left from the
times of 70s, who is active in direction.  Now let’s
do a simple exercise.  From the facts, it can be
assumed that career of successful film director is now
hardly stretched to some 30 plus years on an average
though that too in extreme cases. Now in present
scenario, it took a lifetime to become a film director
especially if you don’t have a film background.  On an
average, it took four years to come out with a new
film for a director.  In 30 years he can hardly direct
7 films that too if everything goes well.  Except for
some big names, Indian film directors are not very
highly paid.  Not just that if the person is just a
director and not a producer, he only gets a
remuneration depending on the scale of the film and is
not entitled to any other source of income viz.
royalties etc.  There are no supporting Govt.
schemes/policies existed for such creative lot of
people, whose creation (Films) results in generating
revenue worth crores every year.  Mostly, they are not
capable of doing any other job if they don’t have any
other business to fall back on.  Remuneration from
seven films is hardly enough to sustain a lifetime.
This brings us to a shocking picture of the state of
Indian film directors as to what happens to them once
their respective career is over?  It is an issue that
needs to be addressed.  More so because let me talk
about the present and the future. To become director
is the ultimate goal of almost everybody (besides may
be actors) who joins the industry.  It is being
further fueled especially by the media so often to
take it up as a career that it results in thousands of
film-making institutes that have come up at every nook
and corner of the streets in every town of the
country, in a scenario where the success rate of
direction graduates of the top institute is also not
even 10% in the industry.  In the year 2005 alone, if
we just count A grade films, 53 new film directors
made their debut.  How many will get a chance to
direct their second film, I wonder?  Mind you, I am
not talking about the TV serial directors as their
conditions are even worse.  Is it a viable career or a
plain obsession? I hope somebody is listening?

Sandhir Flora