During the making of Roja , Mani Ratnam would often go so enthusiastically unstoppable that the crew had no idea how to calm him down to normalcy.

It took Rahman to conjure a “ Ruk Mani , Ruk Mani “.

 

Vernacular puns

 

-Maldives :My friend took his girlfriend to a beach destination to check how Mal’dives .

- Hi Pillow Hurry : says a Punju who wants to catch a quick nap after late night celebration on 13^th Jan night.

- Ma Chi Jhol : A scandalous act of a Bong mom

-Singh da na : a Sardarji's refusal to a peanut salary in Mumbai

- Gin needy : A Sindhi witch addicted to gin

- Thi'ruda : an impolite Tamil ex flame

 

The opportune

 

The  narcissistic butterfly

Fell off the cliff

And fell in waters

Drowned to demise..

Why do bright buds bloom

Out of their green  sepals

Dreams spill out of eyes

And pain the briny heart

Is it a dawn or a dusk

The grey clouds reveal not

For now the glitter that rode

On the sprinting waters

Has fallen off from saddle

To get a punch from gallop

And stares with a swollen brow

Into the gusts of rampaging dust

What it means to ride unbridled

Now the wait for opportune moments

If they appear again to the sight..

 

Delhi

11.1.23

00.18 hrs

2114

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

वृतपुष्प मग्न भंवरे सा मन

गुंजित भूमि महका सा गगन

मंद मंद नृत्य करे ये पवन

जब हर्षित हो ह्रदय भवन

The shadow of reflection

 

The transparent air is replaced

By the see through realms of water

Then life can find reflection in your eyes

While I get dipped in the rose nectar

 Your fragrance in the meadow of time

A half of me looks at the other reflection

The myriad patterns awake and resonate

Life becomes much more beautiful

Even the shadow of my own reflections

Is fragrant, colorful and full of life .

 

Delhi

18.22 hrs

2113

7.1.23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

अवर्णा

  

क्यारी से रिस्ते वर्ण 

हैँ भरे उसकी आँखों में 

पुष्पगुच्छ हैँ खिलते झूलते 

उसकी मुस्कान की डाली पर 

पर तरकश हैँ उसके सज्जित 

अकेली वो जीवन युद्ध में अग्रसर 

आत्मविश्वास का कवच में छिपी 

चित्रफलक के हाशिये पर समेटती 

रश्मि शर छितरती सतरंगी सुंदरी

 मेरी काली काली शामें

बन गईं गुलाबी आहें

लिपटती हुई साँसें

छूती अनायास ही बाहें

तू चल संग मेरे

बुलाएं हमें ये लम्बी लम्बी राहें

गुलाब सी खुशबू तेरी

मेरी रुकी सांसें सराहें

Lunar love

 

It is a silver draped sky forever

Her sequins fall on my mental eye

For silver is all that appears to mind

The craving of the ubiquitous orb

The tides rage within all night long

In a strife to touch her glowing face

It has stopped to dazzle in my day

There is a spell of an eternal night

Unaware of this frenzy, she smiles

With her glow she sparks the path

While embarked on her own orbit

Somehow the world revolves around her

The storm within sits silent in the cave

Simmers in his passionate warm vapor

Cooked to a delicacy , ready to be served

Upon her platter with a candlelit charm .

 

Delhi

2112

14.48 hrs

2.1.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A plentiful of surfeit

 

 

A breath to catch breath

Amidst a whiff of gentle storm

The swirl of still life intermittently

One event after another and sometimes

The buzz of tranquility is a bang

The fortune to succor wish

And actions to beckon luck

The pilfered grains to hide in soil

Dissolve in the extended furrows

Germinate life back skyward

For a perpetual harvest of mind

The dreams hatch from brittleness

To sprout a plentiful of surfeit.

 

2111

Delhi

23.40 hrs

1.1.24