The Child Who Never Grew Up

Why do you sometimes not fit in?
How does it feel to be like a child to never grow up?
Is there a purpose to it? or are you just born useless?
Will you ever amount to something? will you ever amount to ANYTHING???.........
This is the story of a child who just never grew up. The story of his weird journey called life.

Written, Directed, Illustrated, Edited and Sound engineered by Pushkaraj Shirke
Voiceover by Manoshi Nath
Soundtrack - Twilight OST

WhiteBoard Screaming!

The year has been psychotic. But what a learning experience! (well that's the shit you say when a year has not actually given you any substantial measurable benefit)
Anyways, it is now almost over and my whiteboard is screaming out to me!

Only 30 days to go and so much to do! Am gonna have to carry some stuff over the the new year on a blank slate. And complete what i can before the 31st!

Let's go!
Things to do before the 31st of Dec 2009:
1. The Child Who Never Grew Up - Final cut by 6th Dec
2. Emotional Attyachaar - Music Video - Before 12 Dec
3. The Puzzle Experiment - film - by 15 Dec
4. Bleed - Screen Trials and Pre Production - 25 -25 - 26 Dec
5. Aamchi Mumbai - Script - One more chapter by 20 Dec
6. Karma - Graphic Novel - Linear Story by 25 Dec

And for the rest, (setting up HSW and shifting to my new house mainly) im gonna have to push it over into the next year :D

Cheers!

The Child Who Never grew Up - My short film - First cut

Title: The Child Who Never Grew Up
Voiceover by Manoshi Nath
Written, directed, illustrated, edited and sound engineered by Pushkaraj Shirke

My CV - 2009

Full Plate Reddy!

Don't really know what is it with me, but every year i turn into FULL PLATE REDDY!
whats that? well actually a term developed from Shri. Quick Gun Murugan, but contextually, it means having too much to do and too little time!!!!

Here i am again. with the 2009 episode of Full Plate Reddy!
At work, there's work to be done. And then there's pro-active work to be done for the KRA's!!!!

Besides that there's my book/script that i have to complete. Need just 30 days to do that and yet havent found enough time to find those 30 days within my weekends!!!

Then there's my bike that has blown its engine and just dosent seem to get repaired - Bloody TVS!!!! Already spent 11,ooo on it!!!! I'm so never buying a TVS again!!!

Which reminds me, i need to re-organise my finances - too many investments all over the place!!! need a good CA to look it all up!!! Don't even remember where i kept all my investment papers and all the idiotic cheque books of the n-number of banks that every salary account brings along!!! Shitty Axis bank i'm stuck with!!!

That's not all!!! need to see a lawyer for some copyright issues and shit like that. When do i do that? Weekends? no they are busy!! Weekdays?? no, im at work!!! Crappp!!!

And then there's my little pet Film Direction project - need to keep that going too!

And then ahead still there are my idiotically trivial pursuits of trekking, painting, short-film making, pampering my dog, gymming and travelling. When???? How??? Damn I need to organise all this!

I'm so going and getting one today itself!!! Enough - time to pull these reigns and set them straight - time to put FULL PLATE REDDY to rest!!! Let's start by taking it one day at a time -on a brand new Alarm Clock and a sparkling new WHITEBOARD. (and maybe about a hundred POST-ITS soon!)

Phewww!

To a road less travelled

Pic: Going with the gravity. The rock waterfall trail down the fort.
It didn't take much. Just a weekend, a few calls to some old old friends and the will to go just anywhere the road took us. No plans. No reservations. No formalities. It's surprsing how anything you do with friends who are comfortable with your crazy side just turns out to be way more amazing than expected.

Pic: Water-fallinngg!!!! ah joy!
We trekked out to sudhagad fort - the other way round. Not the path that tourists take, but through the jungles, the rock faces and the waterfalls. One hell of a trek -all the way up, the overnight stay at the temple of the fort and the perilious way down. Catching an Indian Rock Python in the wild was obviously a topping on the madness of the whole journey. And so was getting lost in the fog at night. And finally the attempt to cross a river without a safety line. All in all, if a sane person or most of the other people i know had been on this trip, it would have been a hell less fun. The "ah no", "yeh nahi", "woh nahi", "this is too uncomfortable", "cant you behave yourself", "are you nuts???"etc etc etc. Pisses me off!

Pic: Going up the crazy rock walls.
The thing is, it feels good to be back. Back to the old madeness of being yourself. Feels good to know that you are still the crazy creature you always were - and that your friends have remained the same too. Its god, no, GREAt to know that your friends, are still your crazy friends, no matter how whacked out insane you may be.

Cheers guys!
To many more insane trips and escapades ahead!
-Pushkaraj Shirke


Pic: The Indian Rock Python. Which btw, we didn't harm. Just caught it, studied it, made a video of and let go back into the wild :) we named him 'Cutie' :)