My Stint at KBC

" I am called for KBC on 31st  September , can I add you as 'phone a friend' ??? " was the sms I sent to 80 % of my friends on the list . What amazed me was the response  - hey congrats , really , nice...and all of them said ofcourse they would be glad to become 'phone a friend.' A few of them who have known me for ages knew I pulled a prank . So they replied , "you needn't ask me, directly add " :) . A few surprising ones were , "only if you wanna lose" ....

The good  thing about the whole episode was how people were excited about my participation . And its not about  money or game show , they all were unanimously excited about  the plausible encounter with one and only Mr. Amitabh Bachchan . Two of my friends were also excited about , they would get to talk to Mr. Bachchan and what question they would ask him at that moment . They were certainly sad to discover it was a prank .

I have watched KBC and the demeanour of Mr. Bachchan , certainly it never crossed my mind what the host has achieved . He is yet so humble , polite and no hanky panky in presentation .  In one of the recent episodes , the contestants asked him to repeat the mirror scene from Amar Akbar Anthony ( I have myself lost the count , the no. of times I have watched this movie ) . He politely refused because he said  that scene was performed under alcohol influence and at the moment I am not under influence , quite cheeky . It defined a class about him .

Also I realised , if I ever get a call from KBC  and win fastest finger first , would be awestruck by his persona for a while before being used to the idea that a superstar is hosting .:):)

On a signing off the only person who has enjoyed the Ricksha bandh was my nephew , who got to bunk his nursery yesterday.

Whats in Name !!!

Years ago , I said "Whats in name ?"  to a friend , and he replied "everything's in a name " else we won't have known its Shakespeare who said that .  Now why I suddenly remember this is , my colleagues had formed some kind of project team  and asked me to search /suggest a name for their team ( well my colleagues found me worthy of  that only :P ) . One of them said like Transformer or Gladiator, you know Hollywood movies .  I wanted to say "what do you think of Titanic." well I didn't as they would have taken away this task too :P. I thought for a while , "Does the name of project changes anything about it".

Does name really  matter ? In quest of this question , I realised if not names "surnames" matter . Eg. "Gandhi" , If Sonia and Rahul won't have been "Gandhi" , we  would not have been interested. Infact when I was in school, I spent considerable time thinking about which relative of Mahatma Gandhi , Indira Gandhi married. Only years later , thanks to internet and emails I realised , Indira "Gandhi" had no relation  to M.K. Gandhi. "Thakeray" , if you are the one , you are suppose to say "Mi  marathi" in every second line , and you get a berth of Yuva neta in Party.  Then we have our own bollywood ruled by Kapoors, Khans and Chopras. And yeah I used to think Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor are be related :D .Taking it further , based on surnames we classify people as Hindu , Muslim or Christian. We  divide them in castes , Brahmin , Kshatriya , Rajput etc.
 
You might get an oppurtunity owing to your surname ( read clout of surname)  , it might define what you would do when you grow up, It does not guarantee success. Does anyone remember "Rajendra Kapoor ?" Also none of the Kapoors are yet as legendry as the Raj Kapoor himself . Similarly , having a Gandhi surname doesn't mean one has best at his heart  for country. And therefore there are People who create their own identities like Amitabh Bachchan, Abdul Kalam ,Abraham Lincoln and Swami Vivekanand .

 Not necessarily , if you name someone Amitabh , it would apply he would be a good orator  or naming a kid Sachin will automatically make him a great player . Neither a project would doom , if  named  as "Titanic" (the movie was major blockbuster :)).Nor numerology adding extra Ks , As or any letters to any kind of work and person would change the quality of work content or a person !!!

well I did find good names for the team , few of them were inspired from Harry Potter series :) .

I guess name is what you make of it , good / bad or nothing .