Hadd Kar Di Aapne......

Immediately after writing the story of meeting and getting closer to Mishraji, the next picture that comes into my mind is none other than DJ......and this strange story of meeting DJ, which is known to most of you by now, but still for the records and for the sake of narrating the whole story I would take the pains to recollect the whole thing again...........

I believe the most entertaining thing I always do after exams is - watching cinema, and that too alone. Well I remember it clearly it was raining after the CET Karnataka exams got over (it usually rains in the month of May in Bangalore), so the challenge I had was to reach my hotel after the exam and then take some money and then do some shopping and then rush to any cinema hall (it really didn't matter to me that which film I am actually going to watch or with whom). So, as per the chellenge I had set for myself - I rushed to the hotel in the Majestic area (almost all the CET applicants manage to stay in some or the other hotels in the Majestic area of Bangalore) kept the question paper safe into the bag, and took out some money. Now was the time to do some shopping. And if you really think that my shopping would have included any kind of clothes then you are wrong. My definition of shopping was entirely different from others. I was only interested in buying the CDs of Movies and Softwares (as these were lesser known things in Ranchi in those days), and also some electronics items and anything else which catched my attention. Once all these things were met, the next target was to watch a cinema, than have dinner, sleep and catch the next day's train back to Ranchi (and since the train was from Chennai, so it meant that I will have to start for Chennai in the morning itself).

So I spotted the cinema hall ... got the tickets and entered into the cinema all drenched and with a number of polythene bags and a carry bag only to find that the whole cinema hall is almost empty. And only some seats are occupied in a scattered manner. I chose to sit on the seat number written on the ticket and watch the movie. In the mean time I have forgot to mention the name of the movie - it was a Govinda & Rani Mukherjee starrer Hadd Kar Di Aapne. Without any doubt the movie was an absolute bore but I believe in deriving interest and some meaning in anything where I have invested the money. So despite realizing that the movie is a killing bore movie I decided to sit in the theatre till the movie ends (as it is I had nothing better to do after leaving the cinema hall). In the interval I spotted two guys sitting in the back row and talking something in Hindi, and after a few moments I did realize that these guys are here in Bangalore for their CET exam and are also from Ranchi (as they were talking about things related to Ranchi). Those guys were Mr Deep Prakash and Sameer. 

Well its still a scene to have talked to them, I guess I initated some weird discussion by asking some questions. And needless to mention that their expressions spoke just one thing - Abbe, kyun dimag kha raha hai? Anyway.....I asked some questions, they asked some questions. Thats it! Coversation over. Faces captured. And thats it.......next time we met each other was again during the BIT interview day where it was no surprise for each other to have recollected that we have met somewhere earlier, and then we recollected the same cinema hall. (Later I also got to know that DJ and Sameer had come to the cinema hall after seeing off Vartika from the railway station, as they also had nothing better to do after the exam was over.)

We have recollected the same cinema hall and the same movie on more than 100 occassions till date, we have cursed each other for being there at that point in time, but for me it would remain to be a moment where we met and we are still in touch. So don't you guys think its not always a bad idea to watch movies alone and its certainly not a bad idea to try to talk to other audiences in the cinema hall. May be you could end up making a life long relation :)

Mishra ji!

This being my first post.....I have decided that I will start writing about how things happened, starting from the first interaction with people and then reaching till date and further.........so here I go....

I believe my interaction with the so called Bakar Group would date back to the days when I was doing BCA.  the Bakar Grp was yet to be formed after 2 long years but then the foundations stones are always much ahead of the date of the opening ceremony.

I got to know that there is one guy in the class who is a Mishraji......and he comes to college on his raapchik Bajaj scooter (and I had this Kinetic Honda.....wo gear waala bike nahin chalana aata tha na)......Mishra ji was a damn active guy, and this degree of his activeness was actually superlative as compared to my level of activeness....more because I was almost dull and dead when it came to any sort of activity in any field. So there was a clear contrast between us, and I wonder that in the starting days Mishraji would have even thought of me for a moment, in one whole month. I was as usual silent and used to watch things from behind and just entertain myself by the self-assumed 'useless' activities and gossips of the whole gang which Mishraji used to lead.

I remember that Mishraji used to smoke and also used to talk about boozing and stuff, trust me, it was all beyond my imagination and a level which always looked unattainable to me, for myself. No wonder, I used to feel that - Mishraji aadmi mast hai, lekin bahut badmash hoga ye launda! And then, whatever doubt was there in my mind for removed by those stories where Mishraji used to chase the girls and then in the process used to wash so many guys (wo aisa tha ki Mishra ji sabko dho daaltey they naa)......

I mean one thing was sure ....  yaar ees ladka se agar maar nahin khaana hai to theek se mila karo...aur uske baad kalti maar lo.....else pata nahin kab kis time pe ulta latak ke maar khaa jaayein.

At a time, when I used to talk hardly to 5-7 guys in the whole class/batch, it was interesting to listen to the meandering gosspis of the group headed by none other than the Mishraji and his fellow friends  (Niloy, Kalra, Bunty, and few other people), they talked all possible things related to girls maar-kaat, movies and every other possible non-sense on the earth. And I somehow was enjoying the whole non-sense :)

it would be difficult for me to give a date when I started liking Mishraji and his talks and his outlook, but was definitely a slow process, but I somehow (and out of no reason) started getting into things to an extent that I even started visiting Mishraji's place and started to meet him for no specific reasons. All this would have sounded bizarre and illogical at that point of time, but then this was how things were developing. I believe it was more than liking for Mishraji that I wanted to invite him to my Didi's shaadi (which I did for a very few guys of the whole batch). {Its a different story that Mishraji still laughs over me because of my dressing that day as I was wearing a Coat in summer, ans I still say that people do wear summer coats :) , and realizing my style quotient even this day you could very well imagine that the first and the last thing which came into my mind those days was a cost when it came to something called a good dressing.}

I believe I got more and more closer to Mishraji when I was all set to leave Ranchi for Karnataka CET after my didi's marriage and just before the time when end-semester exams were to start. His tensions with exams used to make me chuckle over the whole matter, I mean yaar koi itna tension kaise le sakta hai, but then Mishraji exams ko le ke bahut hin jyada tension lete they. I really remember his plans and herculean measures taken only for studying for the exams, like getting the phone answered by someone else, running away to friend's place for group study, not attending classes in the name of self-study, making all possible efforts to get the paper disclosed just the day before the exam, contacting all the students who have passed the paper in past to get some clues on clearing the paper, and if possible meet the professor himself to get a feel of the paper. Mishraji did all.....just to make himself little comfortable.

God knows how else to end this post other than this incident where I truly felt that Mishraji has some strong stuff with-in  him and at that very moment I felt that this guy wont stop here - He will definitely go long in his life. There was some event in the Mesra campus where all the students could have participated (I guess it was BITOTSAV), and while the rest all of us were reluctant about even thinking about it, Mishraji wanted to participate with a group from the extension center and also wanted to win the event. Mind you guys, even thinking about such a thing needed a lot of courage and a strong belief in oneself. And somehow Mishraji had this feeling that we should participate and win the event. Mishraji leaded from front to form a group from the batch and did all possible things to participate in the event. Had it not been some delay because of something (which I really don't remember) it would have been a great achievement for the extension center, even today.  I truly remember seeing Mishraji making all possible arrangements for makings things happen. And if not others, at least I was impressed at the very moment, and till date I am.

All I can say today is that - Mishraji's capability is still not seen by all, he is still taking baby steps to match with our steps; the day he realizes what he is actually capable of, he would be running at a much faster pace and would be gone far beyond anyone of us. I mean it!