The lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar.
...dekhiye to lagta hai,
zindagi ki raahon mein,
ek bheed chalti hai.
sochiye to lagta hai,
bheed mein hain sab tanha.
jitne bhi yeh rishte hain,
kaanch ke khilone hain,
pal mein toot sakte hain..
ek pal mein ho jaaye,
koi jaane kab tanha.
dekhiye to lagta hai,
jaise yeh jo duniya hai,
kitni rangeen mehfil hai,
sochiye to lagta hai,
kitna gam hai duniya mein,
kitna zakhmi har dil hai..
woh jo muskuraate the,
jo kisi ko khwaabon mein,
apne pass paate the..
unki neend tooti hai..
aur hain woh ab tanha.
dekhiye toh lagta hai
zindagi ki raahon mein
ek bheed chalti hai
sochiye toh lagta hai
bheed mein hain sab tanha
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Saraswati Vandana
NAMASTE SHARADE DEVI
SARASWATI MATI PRADE
VASATVA MAMA JIHVAGRE
SARVA VIDYA PRADA BHAVA
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
My First Paper in SPIE.
Room temperature multi-wavelength operation in Er:YAlO3
Finally, my "First Paper" got published....my first thanks to my advisors, Prof. Stafsudd and Dr. Shori.....and my friend, Chris Vergien.
It can be read at...
http://spiedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PSISDG00645100000164510Q000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
This happenes to be my MS thesis work at UCLA also...!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
old dd serials: part 3
i copied this for my reference: all credits to orignal writers etc.
Old DD serials - A trip down memory lane
-by Anusha Sarathy Saturday, December 30, 2006
The other day a friend of mine and I were talking about the Mega Serials which are churned out tirelessly every now and then and telecasted on the leading television channels in India which leaves the audiences tired and frustrated.These days serials are about women weeping, conspiring, marrying and re-marrying, in short about them turning from angels to witches or vice versa... There were a couple of hindi serials telecasted on Doordarshan in the 80's and early 90's which educated and entertained the audience. They were really good unlike these days 'K' serials.What made them so good was the storyline, dialogues, screenplay, and identifiable characters! Who can forget the Devki in Humraahi( it was played with charisma by Himani Shivpuri)? Devki played the vamp character with splendour and we could not help liking her inspite of all her plots and gossips... Then there was Pavan Malhotra who played "Junior Station Master" in Intezaar.I even remember the name of the character he was in love with in that serial...Nia! The senior station master was played by Rajendra Gupta, another good performer. The DD guys then also ventured into making historical classics...Mrignayani with National Award actress Pallavi Joshi doing the title role with Mohan Bhandari playing the Rajput king who falls in love with Mrignayani...The two set the screen on fire with their on-screen chemistry! I remember the BGM of the serial whenever someone was carried in a palanquin "Gun gunaa...gun gunaa...gun gunaare gun gunaa". Then there were Buniyaad, Mr Yogi, Circus, Udaan, Mongeri Lal Ki Haseen Sapne...Nukkad and Naya Nukkad were wholesome entertainers... Then there was a mischievous romantical serial called Farmaan with Kanwaljit Singh playing a naughty and haughty nawaab... Doordarshan left no territory unexplored. Rajit Kapur played the lead role of a detective to perfection in "Byomkesh Bakshi" which made every viewer grip with curiosity. The lead character was inspired by Sherlock Holmes. There was another serial called "Tehkikaat" featuring Vijay Anand (He is actor Dev Anand's bro and an accomplished director himself. I remember him well for his Kora Kaagaz movie) and Saurab Shukla unravelling mystery after mystery...Vijay Anand played the lovable Sam D'souza with Saurab Shukla as his assistant...If I am not wrong, Shekar Kapur directed this serial! 'Pachpan Kambe Laal Deewarein' was a good one too with Aman Verma and Meeta Vashisth. It tackled the story of a young man falling in love with a woman who was older than him and was a professor cum hostel warden... Who can forget "I say chaps" mouthed by Abhimanyu Rai in Fauji? Every school gal then fell in love with SRK then...Shah Rukh Khan won the heart of millions of young girls by playing the role to perfection. I even remember a scene where he frantically searches for the sandals of his lady love (Fauji Doctor) just to dance with her... Then there were classic epics namely Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana and B R Chopra's Mahabharata...They rocked! Infact the gulutis are known to prostrate whenever they see NTR potraying Lord Krishna on screen...The northie audience were not any lesser than that. Everytime Nitish Bharadwaj (Lord Krishna) came on screen, they knelt on their knees and almost worshipped him... In short, the serials of those days had good story line, catchy and well meant dialogues, stellar performances from every actor, fewer commercials and more important a reasonable duration unlike the ones telecasted these days. In a concluding note, how I wish the entertainment industry starts giving serious thoughts about providing whole and clean entertainment to the common man! How I wish Ekta Kapoor and Sun TV serials stop portraying Women as Vamp in their serials!
more on this....
Who can forget the Devki in Humraahi( it was played with charisma by Himani Shivpuri)? Devki played the vamp character with splendour and we could not help liking her inspite of all her plots and gossips...Then there was Pavan Malhotra who played "Junior Station Master" in Intezaar...I even remember the name of the character he was in love with in that serial...Nia! The senior station master was played by Rajendra Gupta, another good performer.The DD guys then also ventured into making historical classics...Mrignayani with National Award actress Pallavi Joshi doing the title role with Mohan Bhandari playing the Rajput king who falls in love with Mrignayani...The two set the screen on fire with their on-screen chemistry! I remember the BGM of the serial whenever someone was carried in a palanquin "Gun gunaa...gun gunaa...gun gunaare gun gunaa".Then there were Buniyaad, Mr Yogi, Circus, Udaan, Mongeri Lal Ki Haseen Sapne...Nukkad and Naya Nukkad were wholesome entertainers...Then there was a mischievous romantical serial called Farmaan with Kanwaljit Singh playing a naughty and haughty nawaab...Doordarshan left no territory unexplored. Rajit Kapur played the lead role of a detective to perfection in "Byomkesh Bakshi" which made every viewer grip with curiosity. The lead character was inspired by Sherlock Holmes.There was another serial called "Tehkikaat" featuring Vijay Anand (He is actor Dev Anand's bro and an accomplished director himself. I remember him well for his Kora Kaagaz movie) and Saurab Shukla unravelling mystery after mystery...Vijay Anand played the lovable Sam D'souza with Saurab Shukla as his assistant...If I am not wrong, Shekar Kapur directed this serial!'Pachpan Kambe Laal Deewarein' was a good one too with Aman Verma and Meeta Vashisth. It tackled the story of a young man falling in love with a woman who was older than him and was a professor cum hostel warden...Who can forget "I say chaps" mouthed by Abhimanyu Rai in Fauji? Every school gal then fell in love with SRK then...Shah Rukh Khan won the heart of millions of young girls by playing the role to perfection. I even remember a scene where he frantically searches for the sandals of his lady love (Fauji Doctor) just to dance with her...Then there were classic epics namely Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana and B R Chopra's Mahabharata...They rocked! Infact the gulutis are known to prostrate whenever they see NTR potraying Lord Krishna on screen...The northie audience were not any lesser than that. Everytime Nitish Bharadwaj (Lord Krishna) came on screen, they knelt on their knees and almost worshipped him...In short, the serials of those days had good story line, catchy and well meant dialogues, stellar performances from every actor, fewer commercials and more important a reasonable duration!
In a concluding note, Madame Radhika said in the Selvi Kondaattam show that these days serials are about Women Empowerment...Are wheeping, cursing, conspiring route(s) to empowerment?Raam Jaane!!!
Old DD serials - A trip down memory lane
-by Anusha Sarathy Saturday, December 30, 2006
The other day a friend of mine and I were talking about the Mega Serials which are churned out tirelessly every now and then and telecasted on the leading television channels in India which leaves the audiences tired and frustrated.These days serials are about women weeping, conspiring, marrying and re-marrying, in short about them turning from angels to witches or vice versa... There were a couple of hindi serials telecasted on Doordarshan in the 80's and early 90's which educated and entertained the audience. They were really good unlike these days 'K' serials.What made them so good was the storyline, dialogues, screenplay, and identifiable characters! Who can forget the Devki in Humraahi( it was played with charisma by Himani Shivpuri)? Devki played the vamp character with splendour and we could not help liking her inspite of all her plots and gossips... Then there was Pavan Malhotra who played "Junior Station Master" in Intezaar.I even remember the name of the character he was in love with in that serial...Nia! The senior station master was played by Rajendra Gupta, another good performer. The DD guys then also ventured into making historical classics...Mrignayani with National Award actress Pallavi Joshi doing the title role with Mohan Bhandari playing the Rajput king who falls in love with Mrignayani...The two set the screen on fire with their on-screen chemistry! I remember the BGM of the serial whenever someone was carried in a palanquin "Gun gunaa...gun gunaa...gun gunaare gun gunaa". Then there were Buniyaad, Mr Yogi, Circus, Udaan, Mongeri Lal Ki Haseen Sapne...Nukkad and Naya Nukkad were wholesome entertainers... Then there was a mischievous romantical serial called Farmaan with Kanwaljit Singh playing a naughty and haughty nawaab... Doordarshan left no territory unexplored. Rajit Kapur played the lead role of a detective to perfection in "Byomkesh Bakshi" which made every viewer grip with curiosity. The lead character was inspired by Sherlock Holmes. There was another serial called "Tehkikaat" featuring Vijay Anand (He is actor Dev Anand's bro and an accomplished director himself. I remember him well for his Kora Kaagaz movie) and Saurab Shukla unravelling mystery after mystery...Vijay Anand played the lovable Sam D'souza with Saurab Shukla as his assistant...If I am not wrong, Shekar Kapur directed this serial! 'Pachpan Kambe Laal Deewarein' was a good one too with Aman Verma and Meeta Vashisth. It tackled the story of a young man falling in love with a woman who was older than him and was a professor cum hostel warden... Who can forget "I say chaps" mouthed by Abhimanyu Rai in Fauji? Every school gal then fell in love with SRK then...Shah Rukh Khan won the heart of millions of young girls by playing the role to perfection. I even remember a scene where he frantically searches for the sandals of his lady love (Fauji Doctor) just to dance with her... Then there were classic epics namely Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana and B R Chopra's Mahabharata...They rocked! Infact the gulutis are known to prostrate whenever they see NTR potraying Lord Krishna on screen...The northie audience were not any lesser than that. Everytime Nitish Bharadwaj (Lord Krishna) came on screen, they knelt on their knees and almost worshipped him... In short, the serials of those days had good story line, catchy and well meant dialogues, stellar performances from every actor, fewer commercials and more important a reasonable duration unlike the ones telecasted these days. In a concluding note, how I wish the entertainment industry starts giving serious thoughts about providing whole and clean entertainment to the common man! How I wish Ekta Kapoor and Sun TV serials stop portraying Women as Vamp in their serials!
Who can forget the Devki in Humraahi( it was played with charisma by Himani Shivpuri)? Devki played the vamp character with splendour and we could not help liking her inspite of all her plots and gossips...Then there was Pavan Malhotra who played "Junior Station Master" in Intezaar...I even remember the name of the character he was in love with in that serial...Nia! The senior station master was played by Rajendra Gupta, another good performer.The DD guys then also ventured into making historical classics...Mrignayani with National Award actress Pallavi Joshi doing the title role with Mohan Bhandari playing the Rajput king who falls in love with Mrignayani...The two set the screen on fire with their on-screen chemistry! I remember the BGM of the serial whenever someone was carried in a palanquin "Gun gunaa...gun gunaa...gun gunaare gun gunaa".Then there were Buniyaad, Mr Yogi, Circus, Udaan, Mongeri Lal Ki Haseen Sapne...Nukkad and Naya Nukkad were wholesome entertainers...Then there was a mischievous romantical serial called Farmaan with Kanwaljit Singh playing a naughty and haughty nawaab...Doordarshan left no territory unexplored. Rajit Kapur played the lead role of a detective to perfection in "Byomkesh Bakshi" which made every viewer grip with curiosity. The lead character was inspired by Sherlock Holmes.There was another serial called "Tehkikaat" featuring Vijay Anand (He is actor Dev Anand's bro and an accomplished director himself. I remember him well for his Kora Kaagaz movie) and Saurab Shukla unravelling mystery after mystery...Vijay Anand played the lovable Sam D'souza with Saurab Shukla as his assistant...If I am not wrong, Shekar Kapur directed this serial!'Pachpan Kambe Laal Deewarein' was a good one too with Aman Verma and Meeta Vashisth. It tackled the story of a young man falling in love with a woman who was older than him and was a professor cum hostel warden...Who can forget "I say chaps" mouthed by Abhimanyu Rai in Fauji? Every school gal then fell in love with SRK then...Shah Rukh Khan won the heart of millions of young girls by playing the role to perfection. I even remember a scene where he frantically searches for the sandals of his lady love (Fauji Doctor) just to dance with her...Then there were classic epics namely Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana and B R Chopra's Mahabharata...They rocked! Infact the gulutis are known to prostrate whenever they see NTR potraying Lord Krishna on screen...The northie audience were not any lesser than that. Everytime Nitish Bharadwaj (Lord Krishna) came on screen, they knelt on their knees and almost worshipped him...In short, the serials of those days had good story line, catchy and well meant dialogues, stellar performances from every actor, fewer commercials and more important a reasonable duration!
In a concluding note, Madame Radhika said in the Selvi Kondaattam show that these days serials are about Women Empowerment...Are wheeping, cursing, conspiring route(s) to empowerment?Raam Jaane!!!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Spectra Physics....the solid state laser company, base in
Mountain view, CA. The last 6 months from June to Dec. '06, I have been here as an intern working at the Advanced R&D.
" It has been a blast working here"...that is the American way of saying things....but truly it has been educating...a real learning of the things that are happening at the frontier of science...without saying much....seeing a pulse of light that exists for a femtosecond (....for most of us a femto second is 10 ^ -15 sec or in math 0.000000000000001 sec) and then controlling it .... it was amazing....i will miss this place...but i hope to come back here soon......!
people here very very nice and every week ended with a Friday seminar and a lunch...really loved that part.....I hope to be as knowledgeable as the these guys...Jim, Alan, Dave, Ching-Yuan....all the others....thank you all.
now back to UCLA....!
wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year '07
:-)
Monday, July 24, 2006
Simulation Is Not The Answer
Simulation Is Not The Answer: "...The answer lies in two areas. First, we must admit that we simply don't understand. And, second, we must pursue understanding; Not answers but understanding."
Saturday, May 13, 2006
A quote...
I think that no one has said this before....
So I guess this is my statement....
"Cheer up: Success is always over-night, it just takes some time to reach the night before..."
saurabh
:)
So I guess this is my statement....
"Cheer up: Success is always over-night, it just takes some time to reach the night before..."
saurabh
:)
...says Naseeruddin Shah.
very well said....
If 'Man proposes, God disposes', was not such a common cliché, I would have named my film, that. There is another line from John Lennon's song which says 'Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.' We actually have no control over our lives. We attach too much importance to our own existence and dreams. There is always a higher plan. Many years ago, I was driving down Worli Seaface and I saw a double decker overturn over a Maruti 800. The car had three children in it. Try asking God what is the meaning of something like this? There is no meaning. Life is a series of accidents. Whether you have a successful life or not depends on how well you can cope with these accidents.
from an interview with Naseeruddin Shah...
http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=14203153
If 'Man proposes, God disposes', was not such a common cliché, I would have named my film, that. There is another line from John Lennon's song which says 'Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.' We actually have no control over our lives. We attach too much importance to our own existence and dreams. There is always a higher plan. Many years ago, I was driving down Worli Seaface and I saw a double decker overturn over a Maruti 800. The car had three children in it. Try asking God what is the meaning of something like this? There is no meaning. Life is a series of accidents. Whether you have a successful life or not depends on how well you can cope with these accidents.
from an interview with Naseeruddin Shah...
http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=14203153
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