Ashish came up with a brilliant idea, he suggested that we make a pitch for my next book Party Girls also.” It is perfect sex, youth and trash talk all you need is five-star hotel rooms and lobbies.” He went on to say as we munched Seekh Kababs at the room 562 Juhu Marriott.

So it is settled we have decided to plan and initiate a below the line PR campaign announcing the launch of an uninterrupted two-hour web movie which will premier on OTT Platforms as a special. This is will be an adaptation from my book of the same name selling online as an e-book and paperback on amazon.com, the audiobook narrated by me will go live within a month. Tow arm up the digital market we need to generate buzz and a PR exercise that is focused on Bollywood news related digital media outlets is the perfect way to spread the word and let people know that a project with competent people and a well-packaged content has been launched in the market. What is the objective you ask? Simply generate leads from fiancees and people from the industry who could facilitate and back the project with money or resources. I have been busy making a PR release fro the same that ill officially launches the movie project and let people know that we mean business. With more than two years that I have put in the project, I have managed to record two songs for it as well.

With the help of Deepak Dattani Chairman Rapport Group, who specializes in large format music concerts and events with artists like A.R Rehman, the expertise to execute the project is there and so is the experience. My book now selling well in the market is an ace content targeted at the youth and netizens it is COVID friendly project as it can be executed from start to finish in one confined space, all you need is a college campus and the shoot is through.

Ashish Parasher will be heading the execution and marketing of the project, with over 15 years of experience in media, he has worked for Endemol and produced many large format TV shows like Big Boss and Fear Factor.

Now, all we need is a competent director with a proven background who can add more spice to the project and warm it up further. Watch out for that as we will be naming him soon.

Dreams and more dreams Marriott has given me the true Bollywood Feel, and I am loving it, I sleep well and eat well, the atmosphere and the lighting in the room gives a great feel as I often stare out of my window staring at the quiet sea and whisking waves that lap up the sandy and now desolate beach of Juhu. At a short distance is the famous Prithvi Theatre and of course, there is the ISKON Temple nearby. The streets are empty with hardly any activity I guess we will have to live with the virus for much much longer and to a certain extent, we have gotten used to it by now. I have been having discussions with Ashish and our plans to sell my book mold and reform every day.

With the virus, the going is slow and uncertain but we still persist somehow, went for a short walk, and drive with Ashish looking for my credit card to the bank, the weather is true monsoon and there was a mist in the air, with moistness all around. I did walk a bit after a long time to buy a paan at the local shop near Prithvi, amazing how fat I have become and so very hairy almost like a mountain gorilla at 46 now age has started to show as my entire walk and gait has changed, it resembles more like the walk and gait of Amir Khan in Dangal. The only difference is that he had two girls and I have non. I have been in a good zone, with my ohm meditation in the morning and the hmm I do with music from youtube. I need nothing now I love this hotel and the ambiance is perfect for me.

The huge shower the trolley service the lounge and the breakfast they are a world apart. I still have to enjoy myself at the lounge, I did have the breakfast and do occasionally venture out with my friend for a drive in his car.

Waiting patiently happily absorbed with my blog and my books and strategy on how to sell them, the time feels slow to me at times but I have the joy of not doing anything, I am leading a semi-retired life in a five-star hotel in Mumbai, hoping to make some money from selling my content. Whatever be the case a new chapter has begun in the Bollywood saga. I wait for the sale of my next book and the next as the world stays indoor locked up fearing the virus would never go.

I have spent over three months in Mumbai now and yet again I find myself yet again in another abode this time in the JWT Marriott. My friend Ashish had suggested it and I gave him the go-ahead. It has been raining the entire day but the service of the hotel is great and I am loving it. The last few days have gone by without me writing anything at all. The entire day went in a haze of thoughtlessness since morning we have been chasing the hotel booking guy a Gujrati Gentlemen by the name of Karan that I and Ashish meet during my stay at the OYO rooms. We paid him 3.5 lakh rupees to book two months at the marmot, where I reside currently. It was decided that he would help- we get a good rate of Rs 5300 per night and we feel for the bait as the normal rate at the Marriott is Rs 10,000. We feel for the trap and locked in all the money to him in one shot, in return we got receipts of booking made through booking.com website. We got two slips from the 10th of June to 10th off July  and the next was 10th of July to 9th August this was booking through the marmot website. Before we landed at the hotel we checked from the hotel and they said everything was confirmed and the room was ready to go. Now when we arrived we were told that the money had not reached the hotel or through the bookings.com mechanism. We got after Karan and he said that he had forwarded the money to his agents who were doing the transfer but because they were using an app called Razor Play App to make the payments, somehow the payments were not going through.

I was lived “’ This chute Gujrati is at it again we are stranded on the reception with a bogus confirmation slip, which count’s for fuck since the money has not come to the hotel as yet .” When asked further we were told that the bookings were not done fully as only the card number was noted down while booking but the pin was not entered thus the transaction did not materialize. Now I had locked my money and was stranded. So I checked in with the original room rate of Rs 10,000. Having done that we persuade the Gujrati Bhai Karan to send the money, and the son of a gun kept delaying for 4 days. With my money locked with this chute from Gujju Land, I had no liquidity and thus had to call my grannies servant boy Bhattu to give me the funds. In the first three days, I managed to get around Rs 40,000 from him by PayTm transaction. Now, every-time I moved money from my PayTm wallet to my current account I was charged a transaction fee of 5% on the amount transacted. I would then pay the hotel for my food through an NEFT transaction from my Bank account directly and settled my bills at the end of the day.

I got help from my blog team next, my blog manager Santosh loaned me Rs 10,000 today and then Ashish chipped in with another Rs 20,000 in pure cash. Five days at the hotel I managed somehow, today I blasted the Gujrati again and got on his case, we even threatened to drive to the police station and do a live blog with the officer with a video link, as that was the only option we had left, but restrained ourselves as the Gujrati in return threatened that he would snitch to the cops that I have been smoking pot at all the rooms I have stayed and he has voice recordings of the same.  Now, this was getting to be a stalemate of sorts, when would we push the button, as we have more or less lost all our options.

We have thus decided to collect all the evidence in their digital format in case we have to go to the police to recover our money which has still not been transferred into the Marriott account. I hope that sense prevails in the Gujju Bhai and he keeps his part of the bargain. Otherwise, the blog will be my first action to pressure him, so that I can have a peaceful two months stay, without being bothered about payments to the hotel and chasing his butt every morning to evening .” His people are fucking him, they are not giving money to him and he, in turn, can’t transfer it to our hotel .’ Ashish and I deliberated in the car,” You see jo Hamara Chutiya Kaat raha hei, Uska Bhi Chutiya Koi Kat raha hei, hum sab ek doosre ka Chutiya kat rahein hein .”  I gave my insight into the situation we were in .’ Come to think of it the cops will have to figure out Kaun Kiska kaat raha hei.”

“Bure Phase Bhaiya, Gujju ne Dandiya Khel diya. Upar se Corona ka sentimental story that my uncle has fallen sick. ”Ashish lamented as he shared his watts-app’ chat details with me in his car.’ I had to break my mutual funds and have called up the fund manager, but that transaction will also take two days, as the fund manager will break the fund at a certain price and the money will reflect in 48 hours .” I reflected at a day gone by chasing Karan, one was a great warrior in the Mahabharata and the other is this chute from Dandiya Land. One way or the other we are all fucked by this Bastard Child of Kunti.

I can proudly announce that my book on my father’s murder case has been bought by DAYTEE PICTURES PRIVATE LIMITED to be made into a web series for OTT Platforms. The digital OTT  Web version should be out by the beginning of next year.  This is my first book that has been bought by a major production house to be converted into a web-series. I have signed a contract with them and the initial payment is in the bank, the deal was sealed on my birthday itself on the 10th of May but I have kept it quiet as of now. But a month down the line I can disclose that my Book will be seen as a web series soon.  The team must be working on the screenplay and casting as of now but my involvement is nil, for me, I have sold the digital rights of the book at a fair price. Now I am really a sold Author, with a picture being made on my book, that is an achievement I am proud of and is my first breakthrough on my return to the city of Dreams, which I had elated almost eight years back. The city is pulling me back in its fold, and I am loving it. This success gives me confidence that I am a good writer who is saleable in the market and has made a successful sale of his book.

So a two thumbs up to me for being a sold author and here is hoping that my next book Rashmi Verma sees similar success soon, as now my stay in Mumbai is getting longer and longer.

The Pandemic is proving a boon for me, while humanity is in distress my Book Rashmi Verma is proving to be a very viable option with limited mobility and the constrains of the coronavirus. The story is a twisted psychological erotic campus tale. It can be shot in one location a college campus in a constrained environment from start to finish. In terms of production, it is easier to execute and without much fuss. With the virus on it can be shot from start to finish. This is a big plus as the story allows a platform to shoot it from start to finish in one go.

Thus you can put it into the pipeline ahead of other stories that have a more complicated shoot schedule or are meant to be shot in two or three different locations or have shooting schedules abroad.

In comparison Rashmi Verma is a smooth start to finish the shoot in one campus, thus the executions are easier especially in the time of the virus with limited mobility. You need to shoot content where the location and production are in tight control and that can be done here. As the story lends itself to one location a campus beautifully.

As a writer, I have gotten used to staring at blank pages for hours, and at times days on end, with some ambient music playing I have spent many days just staring at blank pages of my laptop in quiet contemplation. Sometimes no words come out at times words just flow, many times I have written pages and stories and then left them high and dry in between. But yes staring at pages is a lot that I have done, there is something really soothing staring at blankness just waiting for some ideas to flow, at times I feel I am a piano player rather than a writer as the keyboards make a symphony on blank pages. Each word being an imprint in my mind which flows with grace and rhythm as my imagination reappears on these blank pages. At times painting a story whose middle and end I know not, as a painter of words I just move my itchy fingers do the talking on the keyboard. Each word and sentence giving some meaning to an otherwise blank space that says nothing and reflects nothing. The page is just a canvass and the key’s just the brush with each tap of the keys the imagination paints a story for someone to read. The Blank Page is a potential of what is still to be ascertained.

Words like charcoal splatter the page letting its readers imagine many a tale. As stories converge into one another and characters intertwine with each other. Sometimes I let characters from one story move into another. But there must be thought at first which sparks as an inspiration to fill the blank page. As a writer I see myself as a sculptor applying my attention to my craft which gets better with age.

Staring at a blank page waiting for that idea to drop into my mind well that takes a lot of waiting. But inspiration is everywhere in people, conversations, places, nature, things, and many more all you need is a spark that brings you an urge to write. I have developed enough hunger for writing that I start off tapping the keys as soon as I get an idea no matter where I am. I just pick up the nearest thing and I start typing that is how much it means to me and how important it is for me.

The Blank page at times is my foe and at times a friend when I stare at it endlessly waiting for something to strike my mind it is a foe but when words flow within me it is a friend. The Blank Page as a writer you have to develop a rapport with it.The Page the Blank Page.

Talking to strangers

After five years of Blogging finally, I have managed to get my Wikipedia Page up and I have filled it with all the relevant content and links. The page is simple and has a format anyone can do it, you just need to put the right content and links. Remember when you write in the third person, not the first person it’s as if Wikipedia is introducing you. It is the Bible of the net and anyone who wants any kind of info on you which is detailed and accurate can access Wikipedia and get your profile and some personal details about your life as well.

The careers I have had and my work as an actor, travel blogger, and writer are all documented and a few clicks away. It is nice to be on Wikipedia it is accurate and has authenticity and reliability. Many people use it to search historical facts and pick quotes and other vital information about people’s things and events. It is like an encyclopedia Britannica a treasure trove for knowledge-hungry guys like me. It is used for research and also for quick information.

I am glad that it is part of my footprint on the web, so here’s cheers to my team for finally having me on the pages of Wikipedia. It has my latest photo’s all fat and bulky and whatever you need to know about me.

A prologue is on the first page or before the story starts. It is where you can establishing something that happens before the current and real story starts. It is also used by authors to give the reader a little glimpse of what to expect once the real story starts. It is like a build-up of events before the story starts. It is included always in the front matter and gives the reader some extra information about the opening of the story.

It originates from the Greek word Prologs which means before the start basically it tells another story that leads up to the main story. It can have dialogues and characters or could be told with another voice than the one telling the story. Ideally one should keep them short and crisp.

An epilogue is at the end of the story and tells the journey or story of the characters after the real story ends. It severs more like a conclusion and always comes sat the end of the book. It is used to reveal the fate of the characters and can also be used to hint at the next sequel of the book. They are used both in books and films.