I took a short five-day trip back to Dehra Doon to be with my ailing grandmother, she had asked me to see her as I have been spending a lot of time in Mumbai it had been almost five months in the big city for me and she was getting lonely. Her servant boy called up and said she had slipped in the loo. I knew it was an excuse to get me back she just wanted to see me and feared for my safety in Mumbai. The past can haunt us all and she feared that I would again get into trouble if I went into uncharted waters as I tend to do when I am in Mumbai. So it was stetted my friend Ashish Parasher booked the ticket back to D Doon and within 24hrs I was in Delhi. Corona times have changed everything. The system at the airport had been overhauled. You can do online web check-in and get your boarding pass and baggage tag all on the phone. The security at the entrance has got huge glass on their faces as they keep a distance. The quest is separated by 6 feet and there are attendants who keep a watch on it. I was wearing my mask and trying to navigate the cue, but the boarding pass dispensing machine was very effected all you have to do is type the ticket PNR Number and the boarding pass pops out. I managed to get my bags checked in and also my camera bag, the total weight was 21.5 kgs and I had to shell out Rs 950 for extra baggage. I tried paying by cash but only managed to pull out Rs 10 notes of which I had many, and then realized I was falling short so I finally paid by my card. I was frisked and my handbag scanned again the airports are full of signs and posters advising people to keep the distance the staff checking baggage do so from behind a glass screen.

I went up and had a bite at McDonald’s, I wanted to use my Pass and enjoy the privileges at the lounge but I was pressed for time. As usual in my dazed stupor I got the numbers on the boarding pass wrong and landed at terminal 31 A I sat there for sometimes thinking mine. The flight will take off from this gate only to wake up to a call “Sir we are waiting for you at gate 54 B this is the last call for your Indigo flight kindly come fast.” I realized I had mistaken my flight seat number for the flight boarding gate number. But I keep making mistakes like that and made them even in Africa once. But as luck would have it I managed to board the flight in the nick of time but not before making a rush for the final call, I had to navigate many people and escalators to get there. Once in the flight, I was handed a corona shield with sanitizer sachets. I wore the shield not before chucking it off, it was irritating me. The seats had one empty gap, so two people could sit in a three-seat space, which was cool and adhered to social distancing norms.

At the Delhi airport, I took the taxi to D Doon only to be stopped at the Uttarakhand check post where I was asked to fill a form and give reasons why I was visiting the city. I gave my id and pan card details and duly got a piece of paper with chit which I was to hand over to the nearest police station to my house in Dehra Doon.

The roads were quiet and most dhaba and eateries on the way where half empty with only vegetarian food being sold. Once in my house in Doon, I managed to appraise the grandmom of my current work in MUMBAI. The system in the Corona times was efficient, next day I got a call that is mold report to the police station and stay in home quarantine for the rest of the days I was in the city. Cops visited my house and I. Deposited the slip I got at the local station where I again filled forms detailing my house phone number and address. After a couple of days, cops came and put a poster on our front gate which said quarantine. This was just to tell the night it’s that someone had come from another city and that person is in-home quarantine. The system made by the government seems efficient enough and supported my technology it is working well. My mask was on at all times and I managed to have some good conversation with my grandmother who was displeased by my work in Mumbai. With the Sushant Rajput case live all the time on television she feared for me as my past in the city has been a painful one. She urged me that I had no reason to return to the city as I had everything, she invited I say longer with her as the city of Mumbai was just a den of drugs and women, city of vice she warned me to be careful in my dealings as I had been duped before. I took her to advise but my heart was in selling my books and within five days I was back in Delhi to collect my camera bag. With my equipment in hand, I headed back to Mumbai. Now resting in my abode at the mar-riot room 568 on the fifth floor I am back to doing what I do the best writing and meditating. Chanting my mantra’s and shlokas to appease the Linga Bhairavi.

My third audiobook Travelthon Tales was launched as an audiobook on iTunes and audible. Priced at Rs 500 it is a steal and talks about my excursions around the world with my travel blog www.tikkustravelthon.in. I have done the narration of this audiobook and the recording has been done in a recording studio in Allahabad with the help of my friend Tiwari Ji. The sound studio that worked on the production of this book was OblyStudio, the recording and editing was done with the help of Bicky the sound specialist.

This 2hr 39 min unabridged version of my narration of many short tales from my delusions and travels around the world is a steal and can be bought through audible credits and points systems and direct credit card purchase through  I tunes and audible.com, you can also purchase it through amazon.com and amazon.in

Put links of my audiobook and purchase links to I tunes.

The main song of my web series “ Mien Hun Rashmi Verma “ has been composed by Manish and sung by his wife Sujata Mazumdar. I am still waiting for my Rashmi Verma to appear I have done auditions and spent money on casting directors but my main lead is still to come infant of my eyes.

But the song is ready and I want you to enjoy it on my blog until the audiobook on the same book is out on audible and I tune. Till then enjoy the song on my blog with me.

My book Yes Sir I killed my dad has been launched as an audiobook on audible and amazon.com it is with great pride that I announce this to all of you selling at $5.00 it is a steal. The book is an audio adaptation of my bookselling on KDP select on the murder of my father by a hardened criminal called Vijay Palande. The audiobook is narrated by me and also includes my poem by the same name and title it is an eerie and dark theme and so is the music. Please go ahead and buy it links attached below.

The digital rights of the book have already been sold to Day-tee productions for a fair price and will soon be seen as a web series on OTT. Enjoy the book and also some of the pictures of a Dark shaded character from my Book I also slept with Rashmi Verma the character of Mama Molester these I took from my I phone and used Instagram filters to edit the pictures. Pay attention to the claws of the Mama these fingernails I have grown for three months and they are a trademark of the Mama along with his long bushy hair.

In my book, I also slept with Rashmi Verma the dark, and in some way, the eerie character is that of mama molester. He is Rashmi’s mama who molests her as a little girl from the age of nine to thirteen. His name in the book is Chand and he comes repeatedly into Rashmi’s Jaisalmer house when she goes to school to teach. She instructs him to look after Rashmi and teach her while she is away at school functions.

Mama comes unannounced with a Japanese doll and plays with Rashmi urging her to press the button at the back, hold the button of the doll. He squeezes Rashmi’s cheeks and says,” Terry bhi button dabaun ga ek din.” He even claims a tree to catch hold of the little girl when she hides behind the branches to save here self. The two chapters in the book Mama Molester and Hum tum ek kamrien mein band ho are dedicated to the dream’s that Rashmi has about the molestations she goes through. This is also why she is unable to have sex with Anuj whenever he tries to get physical with her.

I have etched the character to that of Bela the  Dracula in Ed Wood. I am growing my hair crooked and choppy and so are my nails long and unkept as the mama himself. He is a drunk and sniffs coke all the time. Deep-set yes and a funny face full of dark humor.

Enjoy my look in the web series

It is good to have friends in life but it is your adversaries and your opponents who actually define who you are, so think and hard and choose your adversaries with the utmost care, because they will shape you as you go along. It is because of your adversaries that you yourself exist. The higher, the stronger, and the more powerful adversary you have the larger then the life you become. Let us look at some classic examples of adversaries who were larger than life and defines each other thus. Take Bollywood, for example, Kangana Ranaut and Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap Vs Narendra Modi, OSHO vs Ronald Reagan during his Oregon days. In Mythology you have Ram and Ravan, In Boxing Ali vs Fraser. Sporting Rivalries Tendulkar vs Warne. It is these rivalries and contests that help promote an event or a story and build hype and intrigue it5 is also a promotional tool to stay in the limelight and help market an event.

So choose your opponents and who you do battle with the tougher and grandeur the battle the more fun they contest. Batman and Joker is another classic one where one defines the other and one cannot exist wit out the other. The larger your opponent the larger you become, your status is defined by who opposes you or stands for an alternative ideology than yours. It’s a love-hate relationship where deep down your opponent is also your friend.

The mama molester character in my film I also slept with Rashmi Verma has got a new direction and a cue that will symbolize the character is that of Bela Lugosi the actor who plays the vampire in the film Ed Wood directed by Tim Burton. That will be the benchmark for etching the Mama Molester Character in my web-series. ED wood the miserable flop director trying to make a low budget black and white film on Count Dracula. Perfect to etch the Mama Molester Character on. See the videos below.

The typical Dracula eyes with the black and white eerie feel, the song Hum Tum ek kamre mein band hon our chabi Kho jayvee.

ED Wood Trailer 

The Cigar Butt Strategy 

Ashish no doubts the Warren Buffet of Bollywood for me.”  I have a very unique strategy to make web and film content. I will target yesteryears star kids to act in my web series. Actors who have been forgotten for some time. Like Ranjeet, Jeevan and Kiran Kumar, and Chunky Pandey. The kids of these actors who are still remembered fondly but maybe do not command that much of a market price.” I was all ears as Ashish  narrated his strategy to make value-based content, which gives more bang for the buck.” It’s simply the top stars and actors are very expensive and there is no money to be made for the producer as the money goes in paying the actors, the production value is reduced due to the budget of the expensive actors and stars. The rest of the actors are at the bottom rung and will give you little eyeballs. Since we are targeting web content which itself is a game-changer as now live content can be streamed directly on your mobile. This is a new way of watching content and thus deserves a new strategy. This is the Cigar Butt approach that Warren Buffet used when he made his first million.” Ashish Parasher went on to explain.”

You see Warren Buffet identified sick and loss-making mills that we’re close to being shut down or had some labor or cash flow issues. He then tracked their market value on the stock market and realized that with minimum cash infusion he could revive them and then sell them at a minuscule profit as they still had some value as companies. This strategy he narrated as the cigar butt approach was when you pick up old cigar butts from ashtrays that still have two or three puffs in them. These sick and loss-making mills he identified had some puffs or hidden value in them still and he started buying them to be sold later at marginal profits.” I took a deep breath and agreed with Ashish that this could work as a unique value proposition and money could be made through this strategy.“ Who knows the parents of these stars and old actors would even pay to launch their kids in a new web-series. That way they would come for free if the story idea was sold to them .”I gave my two-bit to Ashish.

It’s been over a month at my new abode at the Marriott Juhu and I can’t but rave about the luxury and the hospitality I have enjoyed at the Hotel. But most of all I have been exploring the paintings and the art that is being displayed at the hotel and many of its walls.

I spent hours just walking about the many halls and alleys of this vast luxury hotel taking pictures of the many splendid works of art that are displayed here, giving the hotel a sheen of luxury and polish. Enjoy the pictures that are displayed enhancing the mystic beauty of this place.

Photographs displayed

Here is the some of the photographs have a look, please