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When was it that I wrote last ?


That’s how I am feeling right now. Dull, exceptionally slow and most of all, terribly sleepy ! I’ve felt like this all day and have pestered L with my constant declarations of, “I’m so sleepy, I want to go home !”.


The last week went by in a flurry of tending to the needs of the auditors. The weekend was even more hectic, but enjoyable. I saw 2 movies…both Marathi, one long-overdue and one on the day of its first presentation in Pune.


Harishchandrachi Factory is the movie I absolutely loved. It is based on the life of the father of Indian Motion Pictures, Dadasaheb Phalke. I can’t believe that a biopic has been made so entertaining and enjoyable and fun ! There is not as much as a squeak about how its maker was a visionary, how great he was or any such thing. There was no ‘agenda’. It is a film with a heart. It reflects the genuine spirit, the lightness, the passion that he had. The makers of this film seem to have the same genuineness, lightness and passion and thus it reached out to me so well. I have been strongly recommending it to all I know. I intend to see it again, of course :)


When you spend such a lovely weekend, it is so very difficult to go to office on Monday. I feel so bound and restricted. Today too I was not feeling like writing at all, but I felt a little ashamed of having neglected my writing for almost the whole of last week and thought, I’ll write exactly what I’m feeling right now…let the thoughts flow and not be critical of myself. Thus this post has turned out to be what it is ! :)


Now I’m off to rehearsal…after ages…for the play we are scheduled to perform on 27th. I’m a bit scared…I can’t remember my lines at all right now ! Hopefully I shall remember when I begin rehearsing with my co-actors.


P. S. I have a secret…and I’m not telling !

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