A chance meeting with a friend of Ani’s throws more light on the course I should take in making my web series. This was a heavy coincidence of names, the friend of Ani’s was also called Anuj and I am also Anuj. He happens to work for a production house and heard about the title of my web-series I also slept with Rashmi Verma. Anuj is a producer with a production house with a similar name as my lead protagonist Rashmi Verma, who happens to have a real name of Rashmi Sharma. Yes, he works for Rashmi Sharma Productions, and I have a meeting with them tomorrow where I pitch my web series to them .” So it is Rashmi Verma meets Rashmi I Sharma I guess at the end of the meeting I wouldn’t know which one is which .” I laminated as I spoke to Anuj on the dinner points of selling a book and a story to a production house. It seems they are very good at their job and have launched more than half a dozen shows which are doing very well. They have also made great films like Pink and Madari with good actors and stars alike. For me, it seems to be a lucky coincidence to be heard by them. So what will it be Rashmi Sharm productions, Watch the OTT platform or my dear friend Raj Shandiliya currently the darling of Ekta Kapoor with a stranglehold on Alt Balaji? Who will bite the bullet first and gobble up my story, who will back my dream and see it completion?

This bizarre coincidence of names surly will lead somewhere I have a hunch on it. Webbing my dreams as I move from one door to another peddling my bags of stories I have collected from all around the world. That’s all I have is stories, they are my true collections intact there are the only things of real value I have , rest is all bullshit , but my experiences, my observations the people who have touched me and moved me and my collection of stories they are my gold mine and I am looking for people who can evaluate and then fund these stories of mine . Indeed I must spin a web of my stories and entice the production house to make my dream a reality. How far I get god only knows but the journey has begun where I stand on the doorstep of meeting another Rashmi Sharma after more than 20 years. Let’s keep spinning the web and throwing the dice.

We did are usual naming at a friend’s place who played the sitar for hours and I danced to the tune in a rather crazy fashion shaking my head and making large echo-like sounds as if to ape the tune of the sitar. We took some videos, I suddenly realized how fat I had become but the vigorous work outdid me a lot of good, but I must lose weight to get back to my acting and just be fit. The video I have shared with my friends. Mumbai I have got into some action and I am enjoying being active again.

Man selling the web series can be a real spider web. Just got a call from Krishna by screenplay writer, he had managed to get a meeting with the head of an OTT platform called to watch a new Platform still trying to make inroads into the market. It was great I thought but then the feedback I got was,” Yaar yeh tho web series ki ma chod dein ge, the senior producer told me, by the end of every episode Rashmi Verma should get fucked by a new guy. Arey, we are making a realistic film the poor girl came to campus to study how can we show her getting fucked in every episode. She only had five lovers, if we make 10 episodes she will  have to get fucked by ten guys .”  This was really funny , I retorted “ Arrey as it is guys of my batch are pissed off for portraying her in such a demeaning way, on top of that all the female Book Bloggers have trashed the book for being obscene and showing women in bad light and on top of that these guys want to get her fucked in every episode by a new guy .’

Krishna gave his two-bit,” No no on top of that they want me to put two more women in the story and increase the masala and sex bit. I told then that will take away the soul of the book and Rashmi Verma is also strong women after all she slaps Surinder Bawana in the face, she is not just a slut but also a fighter in her own right .”

“ Hey Bhagwan is Duniya ka Kya hoga, I thought I was the only dirty guy around these guys will beat my hand’s down .” I shudder to think that by the time this web series is actually made it might look more like Jurassic Park, rather than a campus erotic story.

But that is then. The key issues that I am having to deal with while selling my book. Everybody from the platform producers to in house writers wants to add their own interpretations to the story and twist and turn it in some way or the other. As the originator of the content I do not wish to make many compromises, maybe new dialogues can be added or a situation or tow can be changed, but you just can’t put new characters and start new tracks that would dilute the concept and the punch in the story. The closer it is to what really happened the better at least that is what I think.

But this is a start let us see what happens as we push forward, how many twists I will be asked to create in the plot and how many sub posts the only god can tell. On top of that, there is this contract business that needs to be signed. Many projects are shelved even after contracts have been signed and token money was taken. For a project of this size there are a lot of variables and a lot of people have to agree with the concept, one has to appease many and that really dilutes the story itself. Nonetheless, I march forward in my effort to web the web-series web.

“My mom always told me to put on a happy face and make the world laugh, well that’s what I had been doing all this while. But this city always treated me as a nobody. I hate being a nobody, I want to be a somebody. They all neglected me the system the people even my dad left me to rot away with a degenerate mother, who abused me as a child and tied me up to the radiator with no food or water for days on end. Put on a happy face  for what mother .”

“ Thoughts fuck I have thoughts, I have only negative thoughts all my thoughts are negative. Put on a happy face well first I need to rid myself of the fucking laughing disorder it always creeps up from nowhere. Ha aha haha I don’t know whether I am laughing or crying some times because I do both at the same time .”

“ Jokes ya I got fucking jokes, it’s all scribbled down on my notebook, but making people laugh is tough, I prefer just shooting them between the eyes, bang bang bang nothing gets more attention than a killing spree. Look at all the mother fucking Psychos and serial killers out their all they do is spray people with a gun  , that gets the attention of the entire city. A rioting mob has more comic timing, why make people laugh when you can just bust their guts or just torch up a fucking bus .”

“ Attention I am the king of attention-grabbing The Joker the freak the Jokes on you Gotham and it’s ruling classes, save your ass if you can, it’s time for me to give Mr. Wayne a bloody nose (put’s the red nose on his nose ) if you know what I mean .”

“ I have had enough of therapy all I get asked is the same old questions all the time by my shrink, I got so annoyed by her questions last time , I just slit her throat instead, that shut the bitch up for life , no more questions no more analysis let the Joker rule and let the mayhem begin .”

“ I am a loner alright I have no friends , my boss is an ass , my collages are dim wits ,  I only have imaginary girlfriends , I walk the streets alone with a plastic bag carrying my cold lunch, the system has failed me and no one cares whether I am dead or alive, my dad fucked my mom and left me in a mental asylum and I am fucking expected to put on a happy face for what ?”

“The life I thought was a tragedy until I realized that it’s a fucking comedy, I don’t need comic timing my laughing disorder does the job for me .”

“ Have I been wronged, ya fucking hell I have been, I am the have not been the so-called scum the garbage the system throws out, well it’s my time now to throw the system out. The joker had arrived and there will be no mercy .”

“ I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian well I got my chance at the talk show and I did well I just shot the host, didn’t get me many laugh’s but it made me a fucking revolutionary .”

“ I was just getting bored so a strangled my bedridden mom with a plastic bag, she is dead happily ever after .”

‘ You know why I paint my face and put on a mask because I can’t bear to see my reflection in the mirror, that’s the state of my fucking self-esteem.”

My first thoughts after watching the Joker were that this was a more real and believable version of the iconic Villain. Firstly the setting of Gotham City was more real and believable in the movie. The Bus rides that the joker took, the by alleys, the subways all reminded me of real American cities, it could be New York or Los Angeles for all you know. The movie starts with the Joker putting on his usual makeup in the morning painting his face putting on his clown mask, as we here on the Radio that Gotham is in decay, the streets are full of garbage , the city is rotting , people are unemployed and every6one seems to be going nuts blaming it on the others or the system . In the middle of all this Chaos, our Central character Arthur is getting ready to go to work. His job is to make people happy that simple and make them laugh. These were the values he was given by his mother,” Put on a happy place and make people laugh .” He sure is on his way to doing that. The Joker. Makes his living by dancing around holding for Sale placards infant of departmental stores that are about to go bust. He is doing his bit to make people laugh by doing his clown act. But then he gets ambushed in a back alley by a bunch of street kids who beat him up and steal his placard. Arthur gets no sympathy from his boss who fines him for the loss of the placards and cuts his wages.

We see he is sitting in front of a social worker who also doubles up as his shrink. She talks to him about his negative thoughts and what he has written in his diary. Arthur has a laughing disorder, he can’t stop laughing when he is tense and he has no control over his laughter. He does it on the bus once in-front of a little girl, and then sticks a card that explains his disorder to the little girl’s mother. Arthur to the vision of his mother wants to be a stand-up comedian, his diary is also his joke books.

We see a strong bond between him and his mother as Arthur bathes her in a Tub, feeds her and looks after her with great care only to find out from his mother that he was the bastard child of Mr. Wayne, yes Batman and The Joker are half brothers in a twisted way. We see a need for recognition in Arthur as he feels he is a nobody,” You see my whole life I thought I never existed, he Telles the social worker .” When he shoots three wealthy investment bankers in a subway, it is this very need for recognition of his that gets fulfilled. He is now a somebody, he is a symbol of rebellion for the have nots, the no body’s the downtrodden unemployed of the city, who feel betrayed by a. Failed system and resent Mr. Wane his rich wealthy friends who live behind closed gates ion Tehri ivory towers. It is this need for recognition that gets Arthur to come on a talk show and shoot the host while the show is on air. Now the world knows him as somebody and the masses love him as a sort of a twisted Vigilante who stands up against the elites of the city. The neglected people of a decaying city have a new icon and the is the Joker.

The crazy tap dancing on the lonely stairways of the tunnels, the time he runs away with the file of his mother in the mental asylum, how he runs through tunnels and moving traffic to avoid the cops all make him a maniac that he gets transformed into. His medical condition worsens as he even imagines having an affair with a neighbor. In one scene he imagines himself sleeping with his imaginary girlfriend just after the subway shooting. There is a physical side to the Joker’s madness as his body structure is as twisted as he is, his arms are thin and crooked, his back deformed and his spine twisted, his limbs loose and crooked. With his constant launching, wheezing he does look the part, rather than his predecessor who would just stick out his tough and stick a blade into everybody’s mouth. Our Arthur enjoys shooting people with his gun.

The movie is dark and at times spine chilling, it has a bizarre sequence when he stabs his old boss who comes to his flat to make enquires and then sits near his body coughing and laughing, blood splatted on his clown mask , we know that the joker is sinking further and further into the depths of madness . But the more insane he becomes the more the rioters and the losers of Gotham identify with him until the burning mob dances and chants his name as the joker soaks in their applause in the middle of the street with blood oozing out of his neck as he waves to them. He has now become a somebody, from a nobody he is now a somebody. The Arthur who just wanted to make people laugh has transformed into the menacing, deranged Joker who shoots a talk show host in between the show just to get his recognition and show people, that it is the likes of him who have been wronged and neglected. The system failed him and he is the result of that failed system. Total anarchy that to get attention all one has to do is burn buses, riot or shoot people in the subway, that is the only way to be heard by the ruling minority and the likes of Mr. Wayne. The climax shows the shooting of the Wayne’s in an alley by a rioter as his sone Bruce ( Batman ) looks on in horror. Yes, the Joker has truly arrived and taken center stage, the rioters save him from the police and surround him in a protective circle as he socks in their chants and applause. No stand-up comedy show this, this is an insane man egged on as a messiah by an equally insane mob, who have wrecked Gotham a city that has truly defended into chaos, neglect, and decay.

Joker wears colourful suits, brandishing a gun, sticking a red nose on his face or painting his face with white, blue and red paint. As the movie progresses his hair and his body seem to distort, so does his walk and his hand gestures. It is all part of the act and the Joker plays it with Elan. This is truly his show however twisted it maybe he is the master of the orchestra. In the end, he tends to his sick mother in the hospital who he suffocates to death. He has no place left to go in the world but the mental asylum. The end is as it was in the beginning, we find him in front of a social worker’s desk. My best like from the film,” At first I thought my life was a tragedy but now I realize that it is a fucking comedy .” I enjoyed the film it was more real then most Batman and Joker films, he was more human to me even if his acts were inhuman. You feel his pain in the first half of the film as he walks across empty and dirty streets carrying his food parcel, all alone a loner in a degenerating city. His dancing in-front of the Tv with his mother gives an even darker and twisted turn to his character. His quest for his father Wayne and his need for a father figure is also a theme of the film at times he sees the talk show host played by Robert De Niro as his lost father, a dad he never had. His neglect and loneliness are evident when he sits huddled up in a corner scribbling away in a diary. Joker is a loner alright and the killing is retribution to the lemons life has grown at him, it is his way of having some fun, with a city which screwed him up so much, why shouldn’t he have the fun he has nothing to lose, absolutely nothing to lose.

The imagery the sets and the cinematography pay homage to the theme and show this slow descent into madness. Instead of telling jokes from his joke book he instead decided to shoot the talk show host himself. The very act gets him of all the Tv channels, what’s the point of making people laugh with your comic timing when you can become the talk of the town by just shooting the host in broad daylight.

I loved the performances and the twisted imagery, the flashbacks and the imaginary dreams of the joker, even his love interest is imaginary.

Two thumbs up, you will be glued to your seats and will not lose attention watching this film the movie does its job keeps your bums glues to the seats as scenic after scenes unfold in front of the audience.

Mumbai is a city where one can buy into any dream one wishes to, it’s a commercial capital alright and without a doubt we’re women can be bought and sold at a price. It is also the acting and modeling capital of India, thus it surely is the vice capital. I wanted to experience the escort services of the city. I never thought getting a fuck in this city could be that easy, all you need to do is google escort services, very bright and colorful sites will open up, with graphics logo’s and designs, with an online booking button and photographs of girls on the website , the website is an open invitation to high class and wealthy gentlemen to enjoy themselves in the city .

A central number flashes on the site, I made a call on the number,” Yes sir how many hours you want the girl for .” An older woman who is the madam of the call girls answered, she had a ghati accent answers. She is the first contact, she asks your name and number and what hotel you are staying in. Through this, she calls up the hotel and confirms that the prospect is genuine and the call true. On having established that the call the true, she starts What-sapping you the photographs of the girls. As a client, you make the choice and ask for the girl menu. Most of the time the girl you choose from the photograph will not be the same as the one that is actually sent to you.  The madam or the central coordinator will check if there are girls on the job near the place where the new client is and then ask the nearest available girl to respond. That creates confusion, you might have asked for a girl x and you may get girly. In my case, the same happened. Most escort girls I have fucked have very common traits, they are all from B and C class towns, wear cheap perfumes and dresses with small cup size bra’s. Most of them have a mobile phone and are constantly messaging even when they are with the client in the room. The rates are standard Rs 15,000 for two hours, Rs 30,000 for four hours and the Full night rate. Once the girl is in the hotel, you have to go and recite her at the lobby, but she will only get an entry when her id has been scanned and approved. Some five-star hotels have a cut off time of 10:30 pm or so for such equate guests that the client entertains. Most know what is going on but you can always get away with the fact that she is a friend.

Once she is in the room, she is yours by the hour. I always find these girls look sad at times, kind of worn out. Some have a strict no-no kissing policy and don’t even enjoy sucking unless you wear a condom. A good whore is only worried about her money, she is not here to fall involve with you, she is here to make you come and make you come fast. I do enjoy some pillow talk before the action starts,” Tum Kanha se ho! Kab is line Mein aye !” These are the usual questions one asks the girls. But it’s a torcher getting them to stop yapping on their mobiles, sometimes they are trying to chat up their madam’s who want to check with them that the payment has been made. Yes, payment is the big issue, the girls want it before you start the act, even if your balls are on fire, payment first sir. Voice messages and instructions are sent by the handlers of the call girl’s that the rate that has been agreed upon has indeed been delivered and cash has been rightly collected.

The girls have their own set of sob stories this chick who hailed from Punjab had become an escort to pay off her family debt’s, her brothers did not work and the family had one home which had been mortgaged off. She said she would do it for a few months till she made enough money to pay off her debt.

To me, it was not a very fulfilling experience the girls speak bad English and some can’t even converse with any kind of finesse. The escort agency said it was an elite agency but there was nothing elite about the girls. In the end, not a very satisfying experience, go for it if you want to experience something different.

Mumbai has taken a strangle hold on me now, I have been here over a month and decided to splurge, I am staying at the Sea Princess Hotel in Juhu all for Rs 5800/night. I got a call from my friend Mayank and he said,” The rates used to be Rs 8000 to Rs 9000 at one time decades back, I use to get my Russian Clients here, you are getting a good bargain, live it up, man !” I sure am living it up, in a luxury hotel, eating the best meals tomorrow I intend to go for a swim to that would be refreshing. I feel lucky and alive again, it is the city and I have something to do finally, we are doing a skit directed by my mate Manish. He has enough equipment to create a nice skit and shoot on Croma. We are doing something called Lift Kara De, its. A scene inside a lift looked funny but one never knows its the scene we created or the dope. Nice to be with people though, you need people. Delhi I feel very lonely at times, in Mumbai I felt alive. Emails putting my posters and doing book marketing with restaurants, sending my portfolio or just getting by e-books and other reviews out, I feel occupied the entire day, my writing is very therapeutic and I enjoy it immensely. I get castigated by my fellow actors for the infuriating habit I have developed of chewing Paan Parag, most of my crew hates it and I am trying to cut it out altogether since I am getting blisters and rashes on my lips.”

The web series second song is getting to be recorded but we have a base sound bed ready, god knows when I will feel fit to record, many have complained about my slurring and a little slip I have developed in my voice. My friend Tiwari has fucked off to Benares ,” The Diwali  period no work Rajan .” It seems Mumbai will slow down the end of October till the first week of November all due to the festival season. When I was in my dark hole in Delhi, I had no clue of these things now I thankfully do. I am trying to make new friends in an old city, which still remembers me all I need now is some good work, someone to bite the bullet maybe even buys my stories from me.

It does get hot in the afternoon and Sujata and Manish are my constant companions in the city, I have also gotten used to doing my daily Riyaz with them, we make loud noises from our throats and practice re-energizing our vocal cords and the ability to throw sound. Sometimes my friend plays the sitar, on other days the guitar and at times even the trumpet, a mad man more like.

I ambush writing and rehearsing skits with Manish and also working on my second song as of now everything seems at ease. The food at the sea princess is A-plus, from Nihari Boti to tangi kabab’s and rumble roti, desserts are cakes, ras malai, Gulab Jamun and what not. I am enjoying webbing my web series web ……

Aroma Cafe Bistro is a modern dinner catering to American, Italian, Mexican cuisines. It has a great interior and decor with a lot of soft lighting used inside the cafe. The cafe has a seating capacity of more than 60 odd and has a great all American breakfast. That is my favorite in the morning, the breakfast is a must-try, with baked beans, eggs, sausages, hash browns, and fried tomatoes.

There is a huge variety of shakes and coffee served throughout the day. If you want something heavy and chunky why not try the Sizzlers at the cafe with vegetables and fries, it all is served to you with the best sauces. Expect to run up a bill now Rs 1000 plus at one sitting, make it more if you are having the chocolate pastry or the blueberry mouse. The desserts are yum yum with pies and choco lava cakes it will get your taste buds giggling. The cafe’s decor, lighting suggest that it is a place for couples and friends to hang out, although it is used by many families for having birthday parties and is also used as a spot to hang out for ladies in the evening. The interiors have been done up tastefully, a lot of wood has been used and textures and wall art has been used in abundance to give the cafe a certain upmarket feel.

You can book a table in advance if you have a large gathering call them up mon 02249739130 or you can order online also and get the food delivered to you, the entire menu is on the net and you can use ZOMATO to do the home delivery. The outlet serves halal meat and there is Wifi facility at all times. At a corner you also have the kids table, no doubt to encourage families to come to the diner.

The seating the sofa’s and even the table would give the caffe a very brown and chocolate kind of a look. The waiters and honest and serve with a smile, they all have their own branded uniform, with the manager in a pinstriped shirt and blue trousers. I could spot him from afar, his name Mustafa, a wonderful man full of pleasing manners and a courteous smile.

With outdoor seating where you can watch the view, valet parking and flat TV screen to watch the latest sports tournament the Caffe is high tech and fully equipped to entertain you. You can watch matches with friends and enjoy a drink. I place for local community youth to hang out.

The grilled fish and sauté mushrooms are my favorite snack, along with fired brown potatoes and minestrone soup. It all makes of delightful food, the outlet has managed to pull the youth as well as the family crowd, that is a great achievement and has almost 80% occupancy throughout the day. So pop into this fine dinner called Aroma cafe Bistro near Oshiwara Police station, who knows this may become your goto much and dinner place when you are in the Lokhandwala area.

Address :-

Shop no-13/14/19, Beside Oshiwara police station, Ground floor, Oshiwara link plaza, Mhada Colony, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400102

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This is going to be my last night in Mumbai and the end of my one-month excursion to Mumbai looking for acting work, do some meetings, meet old casting agents and walked back on the road to Bollywood. I went to see the new RGV office at Veera Desai, it’s aptly called Company, have sent him a mail, this time I am pitching my book Yes Sir I killed My Dad, will the big man Ramu bite the bullet and give me a role, we shall see. I might soon get to meet him one on one. Some mails were sent and some proposal’s sent. Action is the key one must do action to keep moving, no matter what the result action must happen. I now remember the words of my late father when he said,” Keep Busy at all times .”

Manish has been a great help with a full-fledged active studio, I did a stand-up storytelling act where I narrated the story of the great sage Ashtavakra. I enacted the entire thing giving the narration of the Janak Dar-bar and the history behind Ashtavakra’s deformity. Then some of his friends came and I became Dharmendra the other actors one who looked like the mighty Ghatotkach became my interviewer, we tried various acts, as we did our monologues behind the Croma wall, we shoot in 4k HD with powerful mikes and sound recording instruments. Well, at least I get to perform now in-front of the camera it will only brush up my acting skills. Let see what adits me, I have not done a single serious brand audition or otherwise this time. Yes the Portfolio distribution will help and the free lunches at Calcutta Club will pay the bills also at times, free meals are a great way to monetize a blog, free meals and free publicity it’s a simple barter. We have gone slow on the Mama Molester song recording and I will do it when I return to the city next which should be sooner than later, I like the action and the vibe, momentum is good for life. I want to be active and productive again, more than that I want to be alive.

I have two tools now, I will bait people with my storybooks and then get acting work form them, maybe use my books and stories as barter to get more work. The web has been thrown and things will begin to happen, stay positive and stay in a routine, it will all work out I keep telling myself.

Meet up with an old Pal from my corporate days Venkat an advertising man out and out. “ You lost weight man .” He looked skinny to me. Venkat was a honcho in and advertising firm and now has set out on his own. He wanted to get me married off to a spinster or a widow,” But be careful of gold diggers, you have to watch that especially in your case .” He warned me. Meet him at Powai in Aroma a new set of modern cuisine outlets that have opened up in Mumbai. One can have delicious mojito’s and chicken steaks here, not to mention the mad mastery and the cheesecake. Aroma Walk has it on a great ambiance, great decor, and interiors with the right type of soft and sharp lighting. The service is quick and it can seat a large number of guests. Sowed Venkat my posters for the web-series and my new book. Have enjoyed the one month, with rain galore and a trip to Pune, with excursions with Any to the lake at Array Colony. Mumbai beats the boredom of  Delhi any day. Still waiting for a breakthrough and still awaiting some work that will cern et my return to Bollywood.

It was time to let Mumbai know that I had arrived, after Calcutta Club my next stop was Cold Stone Creamery an American ice creams and exotic cakes outlet. They have a very unique way of making ice creams, they toss balls of ice creams in the air and swirl them around, before beating them and then services it to customers for Rs 150 a cups of small, medium and large. If you want you can have the various flavors of ice creams in waffle cones also. They have more than 40 flavors of ice cream with as many types of topping, each flavor has its own topping. The customers can order cakes also at this exotic creamery, which is an American franchisee and had recently opened up near the Oshiwara Police station. A must visit especially for families, it has very bright decor and has a standard look and feel no doubt to give it that American touch. They have a nice hospitable staff, who do a gig and a dance also while serving ice creams to customers, just like the Pizza tossers in Italy they toss the ice creams and do a little Macarena type of dance.

The cold stone creamery is a must for authentic ice cream experience and if you have an extra sweat tooth try their cakes as well, you can always get them packed and take them home to your loved ones. I again spoke about my travel blog and decided that I want my posters here to in. In return, I interviewed the manager and captures their little dance behind the counter. The outlet gets a lot of foreign customers as it is the number one ice cream outlet in the US. The outlet in Mumbai Oshiwara is the first in India and now there are 23 outlets all over India as the flavors are being enjoyed by more and more people.

But the go banana dance that the staff did was the best, the entire staff stood behind the counter and did the gig which is a kind of an anthem for the outlet. I captured it all on my camera and iPhone X is perfect for the jobs. With the manager’s interview and some snaps in the bag, I was ready for my food and poster barter. I explained to the manager that all this content along with a write up about their outlet will go on my blog and in exchange, I want free desserts and posters of my web-series on their wall.

The manager needs to get some permissions being an American outlet one needs to follow protocol since the outlet has a standardized look and feel, one needs to take permission before one puts any posters on their wall. I am sure I will have my posters here too soon. Well, Mumbai here I come webbing the web series web, my food outlets will be a great alley for my blog and Cold Stone Creamery will be a worthy partner and a well-deserved ice cream outlet for me to promote.

Today was good for me, it was a humid hot day but I managed a meeting with an assistant of Raj Shadilya. I spent half an hour explaining to him the plot and the graph of my web-series I also slept with Rashmi Verma. He looked interested as I told him about the lead characters and shared some funny punchlines and dialogues with him. I even gave him a preview of the theme song of the web series. The man is riding high on the success of Dream Girl and could be a potential connection with Alt Balaji the producers of Dream Girl. Dreams and more dreams if not Raj at least we got to meet his assistant. I made sure I gave him enough info about the plot and the twist of Mama Molester at the end of episode five.

Tiwari my man Friday had made ten large posters of my web-series and it was time for us to put them at our favorite restaurants at Oshiwara. The first one to give us permission was Calcutta Club they had offered me a free meal and now I was doing an interview with their staff. The posters had been stuck to the wall of the restaurant and I had taken some pictures with the waiters. The next stop was the Woak where we discussed putting posters for our web series. The deal is simple all the favorite eating joints I will cover and interview on my blog the restaurant and food reviews will go in my Travel Bawarchi book and in return, I will ask for free meals and free publicity for my books. A barter deal, with no exchange of money. Very simple and old fashioned and most restaurants where I am a regular will readily agree to it. With videos on youtube and articles on my blog, this is a win-win deal. I promote your restaurant and it’s dishes and you give publicity to my ebooks and provide me free meals.

Its amazing was in the world people are getting kicks about making 100 cr. films and earning million-dollar salaries. I am getting my kicks by availing free meals in restaurants. Well I never wanted money in my life, intact I have never strived to earn much money, that has never been my race. I have always wanted experiences or various kinds, varied and vivid experiences and that is what working on my web series and traveling around the world gives me. In return, if I can get free meals and free air tickets, that’s what I strive for.

Posters at Calcutta club were a start and I want to keep the moment going, as I web the web series web and promote my e-book form one establishment to the other. Till then enjoy the photographs of the interiors of Calcutta club and learn about its history, heritage and amazing Bengali dishes.