Ma.Ko.Aa (ಮರ ಕೋತಿ ಆಟ)

Dream Mode: Five people in mid 30s playing the Monkey Game. Raj will be chasing others on the tree with a voice shouting in the background saying, whoever fall down is killed. If no body falls down within five mins, shots will be fired randomly at the players.

Raj jumps from the tree branch to another branch and kicks one player by the swing. The player falls down and is shot by the shooter. Raj wakes up from the bad dream, wondering what that was.

Raj gets up from the bed with the bad dream. He dresses up and jogs towards the ground for cricket practice. Another cricketer on the ground makes a loose comment at Raj saying, do not waste your energy and save it for next year to come back to cricket after the ban is lifted. Raj gets angry at his teammate and picks a fight with him as well. Coach will scream at Raj saying, one-year ban for hitting the umpire is not enough. Get lost from the ground.

Coach calls up Raj's parents, inform them of his violent behaviour, and tells them that the cricket board for hitting the umpire for one year has banned him. Raj's parents advise his son to control his anger. Raj ignores his parents advice and walks away. Parents gets worried of his behaviour and calls up an astrologer to understand what to do for his son's better future. The Astrologer suggests them to visit the hill temple.

Raj with his family sets out to visit the hill temple to offer pooja for welfare of their son's future. Raj stays outside and asks his parents to proceed.

Raj's mother prays god to keep his son's anger in control. Outside, Raj sits below the tree and sees an old couple crying and asks them,

Raj: Whats the matter?

Old Couple: Our son died here 25 years back while playing on this tree.

Raj laughs at them and asks them to stop crying and move on life. Anyways he is dead long back. Do not waste your time Oldies. 

While coming back home from temple, Raj family sees a new neighbour moving next to their house. Both the families introduce themselves. After understanding that Raj is an x-cricketer, Niraj requests Raj to train his son Sunny on cricket and Raj agrees.

Dream Mode: Five People playing the game. While Raj is chasing three players, one player is chasing Raj to kill him. In the background the same sound appears in base voice saying, the one who falls down will be shot. This time Raj breaks a branch on which one player is standing and the player falls down only to be shot down by the shooter. The moment the shot is fired, Raj gets up from the dream.

Raj asks Sunny to go back today saying he is not well. Raj gives the same excuse for next one week citing the same reason. Niraj visits Raj's house and asks

Niraj: Anything serious?

Raj: No, not at all. Just that I feel my head is heavy from past one week.

Niraj: Did you visit the doc?

Raj: Not that serious. Just that I get weird dreams and I will be be on that weird mode till I forget that dream.

Niraj: Do you wanna share what do you see?

Raj narrates the dreams that he has been getting from past 2 years.

Niraj: Have you ever seen anything in real life of the characters or objects you have seen in your dream?

Raj: No.

Niraj: Can you describe them to me? I am a sketch artist. I can make sketches of the characters and objects you describe.

Raj: I do not recollect the faces. However, I do remember the tree very well.

Niraj: Okay. Describe the tree.

Raj: Big tree with no leaves. The entire tree looks black.

Raj describes of the tree goes on and Niraj sketch hearing Raj. Once completed,

Niraj: Is this the tree you have seen in your dreams?

Raj: yes! However, I have not seen such trees in reality.

Niraj: Do not worry. Nothing will happen. It is just a dream. Move on...

Sunny by mistake sees the sketch of the tree with black colour and no leaves. Thinking what kind of drawing is this, Sunny completes the drawing by putting leaves on the tree sketch and change the tree colour to green. He then likes the finished sketch and hangs it on the wall in his room.

Sunny leaves for summer holidays. Raj and Niraj spend more time over drinks and partying while Sunny is away on vacations.

Raj: Why do you stay alone? Where is your wife?

Niraj: She died of cardiac arrest 2 years back on 14 Nov.

Dream Mode: Game chase with five people begins. This time three people are chasing him where as he is behind one person who is trying to escape from him. Raj jumps on that last person and both of them fall on to the ground. Raj escapes the shot and runs towards the tree. The shooter shoots the second person who has fallen on to the ground.

Raj visits Niraj house next day morning and,

                Raj: What is happening in my life?

                Niraj: What happened?

                Raj: Same dream again this time.

                Niraj: Can you recollect the characters this time? We will sketch the characters.

                Raj: yes, I do except for one face.

Raj narrates the character faces and Niraj sketches the same. Once completed,

                Niraj: Have you seen any of these faces before?

                Raj: No, not anyone so far.

Raj comes home with those three sketches and search net for those people. He identifies that three people and travels out of the city to meet them in person. One by one, he realises that each of them died over the years with cardiac arrest on Nov 14 only. Then he thinks, Niraj wife also died on same date of cardiac arrest and is she the one whose face I am not able to recollect in the dream. He cracks his head over what is the link between his dream and Niraj wife. Nothing clicks. He sets out to meet the last person alive from the characters of his dream, Sonia.

Raj will find Sonia very attractive and feels that he should marry her. Raj uses his cricket celebrity status to impress Sonia's parents and convinces them to get him married to Sonia.  Raj and Sonia both get married in the hill temple.

One evening Niraj, while surfing the Facebook, finds that Raj has uploaded his wedding photos on the Facebook. Niraj sees all the pics and goes to sleep. In the sleep, he suddenly realizes seeing one pic on the Facebook very familiar to him. Niraj opens the Facebook and checks the pic with tree in which Sonia is standing and finds exact same tree sketch hanging on the wall of his son's room. Niraj visits that temple alone by himself. He searches for the tree near the temple and unsuccessfully returns back to his house with no luck.

Next day, when Raj is away with Sunny for Cricket training, visits his house and sees Sonia there and asks,

Niraj: Is Raj away?

Sonia: Yes. He has gone out.

Niraj: Is it okay if I ask you a question?

Sonia: No problem. Go ahead and ask?

Niraj: Do you also get any weird dreams at night?

Sonia: Why you asking me this question?

Niraj: Coz your husband gets weird dreams and he has discussed with me           couple of times.

Sonia: Oh. I do get dreams but they are not weird. They are sweet. Those dreams make me happy. I get a dream of a guy pampering me and trying to impress me.

Niraj will not understand what is happening.

After 3 months, Sonia gets pregnant and on Nov 13, Sonia gets admitted to hospital for delivery on next day. That night, Doctors tells Raj that his wife will be on medication and she needs complete rest for the delivery tomorrow. Raj becomes very happy hearing the news thinking, Sonia will go to sleep and he will stay awake.

Suddenly, Sonia starts to have labour pain and she is shifted to operation theatre. Doctors come over to on emergency basis and inform Raj that Sonia will have to undergo delivery right away. They also inform him that he can come inside the operation theatre to see the delivery if interested.

Raj goes inside the operation theatre and watches Sonia in severe pain. Seeing that pain, Raj faints on the ground and falls in the operation theater. Nurses take him to a ward and makes him rest.

Dream Mode: All the people who have died in real life are seen chasing Raj on the tree to push him to death. Raj tries all possible means to escape but he fails to remain on the tree. Ravaan is pushed down and is shot by the shooter. Ravaan gets the shock of his life when he realizes that the shooter is the neighbour Niraj.

He opens his eyes to see Niraj sitting next to him in the hospital bed. Niraj narrates him a story,

FLASHBACK CHAPTER:  A family start their journey to visit a hill temple. The Hill temple will be around 200 kms away from the city. The temple would be crowded on that day, as many families had visited the temple coz of the holiday.

While the pooja is going on, Son asks the parents that he will play outside until the pooja is completed. He sees a bunch of kids of playing on the big banyan tree with nearly five of them playing Mara Kothi Aata (Monkey Game). There would be a total of three boys and two girls. He runs towards the tree and asks the kids out there if he can join the game.

The kids playing there agree to him on one condition saying that he should be the monkey and catch others while they all escape. He readily agrees and start playing the game.

Being good at that game, he slowly keeps making everyone out leaving out one girl until the end for two consecutive games. Everyone wonders as to why is he not making her out but running behind others. They realise that he is trying to impress that girl. As this continues in the third game, all the others kids get angry and decide to push him off the tree in the next game. Anyways each of them do not know each other. We will go back to our villages.

By then the mother of the guy comes out and shouts saying Pooja is done, come over for the Aarthi. The guy says, last game Amma and he goes for playing one final game.

While the game starts, even though the girl is the first one who could easily get out, he skips her and goes towards another guy whom he touches and makes him out. Others wait and watch him as to who can push him off the tree when he nears them. One guy stands at one far end the tree and wait for him to come over there. When the guy comes, he skids on the tree and kicks on the guy leg coz of which the guy fall down and die on the spot.

Coming back from the flashback,

Niraj: Do you know what did the guy said while dyeing?

Raj: No?

Niraj: I will come back to earth by killing the person who has killed me.

Raj: Starts laughing.... I got up from the dream and you are my neighbour. Don’t you see that I have beaten the death? In addition, do u know why I married Sonia?

Niraj: Why?

Raj: I searched on the net about the sketches of characters you had made and found that they were dead. Sonia was the only one alive and decided to marry her. I wanted to skip the death letting her sleep and myself stay awake. Ha haaaaaa

Niraj: Just open your eyes and see if you are alive now?

Raj: Who are you? What is happening?

Niraj Twin: Niraj is my twin brother and I died on his lap on that day. Anyways, time me to get back to earth. Sonia was the girl whom I liked while playing the game and I never made her out. In addition, you married her. Huh! Anyways, time me to come back in her life as her son. Good Bye!

Raj screams Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Niraj visits Sonia and tells her that Raj is dead. She smiles and tells him. I know and your twin brother had told me that he would come out as my son in my dreams for all these years...

                                             ---------- THE END ------------

X v/s Y

Girl Complains:-

The only thing I expected from you was a small Care

Over the time which became very Rare :P

You are left with very less time to Spare

Which makes my life a little Scare

Guy Replies:-

Every time I provided you that extra Care

You made it a point to consider it as Rare :P

I had no life with myself to Spare

Which makes you a little Scare :D

Me v/s Myself

 It has been a long time that I took up to pen down my next blog. Here i sit down to pen down my experience that I feel is worth sharing with people around me.


It was during my 11th std, I was part of my school team for Volleyball and was just back from Inter Zone competition from Sainik School Korukonda(AP). I was on very high on the fact that I was part of school team and we were just back from a nice performance of our school at the competition other than Volleyball though :P :P :P... Because of the games, we were exempted from the classes and all the activities. We just practiced before the competition and were completely unaware of what was happening in the classes. We were left with 3 days for the first mid term exams and I hardly made an attempt to understand and study things because within 3 days, studying for the exams seemed impossible during that period and hence was trying to prepare just to pass.  
Monday was the first exam Physics, I was sitting the study hall during the tea break and was just having fun with friends during the break. Then came a friend, Shivakumar and he happened to ask me, how is the preparation going on for the exams. I cracked a joke at him saying we don't prepare to top the exams like u dude.. he he... He told me one thing back sayin, the evaluator of ur paper will not think that u dint do well in the exams coz u came back from games and all... in this world, u make ur own future and u cant blame anyone or anything for what you achieve or you loose, realize that and study well so that you don't have to beg your teachers to pass you. Those words stuck me sooo deep in my mind that, I studied whole day properly and prepared well and wrote my exams and to my surprise, I had scored 96/100 in that Physics. And I thank you Shivakumar for what you taught me in life and I still remember those words whenever I come across any decision that I need to take in life i.e. We make our future and we are responsible for what we are and what we end up with. 
I strongly believe the people around you can be categorized into 2 circles. The first circle to whom you mean the world to them including your family and your best friends and the other circle is leaving the people from the first circle :P... Any things you dream, just make sure that you are so sure about it and want to do it no matter what happens and aim at conveying and convincing and discussing it only with the first circle. You don't need to be bothered about the second circle which includes your society.
It has so happened that many a times, people tend to take decisions all by themselves with an assumption that they can do it and when it comes to execution, they get bogged down by the society and the people around them and regret for their decisions that they have taken. It is little sad to note that, Society is made by us and society does not make us. We stick on to our fundamentals and our life values and you don't have to worry about what society thinks of us.
We alwayz think of myself when we dream and when we execute the dream, we take an approach of Me as per society. There has to be a balance between Me as per the perception in the minds of others to the Myself as per yourself :)
When you think from your eyes, you are easy to be fooled :) - Karate Kid
I would like to quote a saying from one of my very good friends that, during the last days of your life, don't ever regret thinking that, I wish I would stood for my dreams rather than other's dreams... Make your life count and Yeh Zindagi Naa Milega Dobaara.. :D

RT2 - The Rise of the Limericks

The Title RT2(Random Thoughts Part 2) - The rise of the Limericks, is inspired from the naming convention used by the Hollywood movie sequel names:P :P :P

Disclaimer: The same disclaimer applicable for RT1 holds good for RT2 as well :P :P :P

Warning: Limerick writing is considered as a powerful way to teach English language esp for small kids. But my strong advice to all the readers is to keep these Limericks away from your's and neighbor's kids :P :P :P

My version of limericks is quite liberal from the actual limericks...

Here they go..............

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
I don't know where you are
Hiding like Bharath's girlfriend
Whom he could never find
Wherever you are, you are very far, very far, very faaar :P :P :P

I went to School
Thinking it was a pool
There I met my teacher
Got confused with a Swimmer
Ended up standing on the bench in my swimming dress like a fool :(

Every time I saw her going with someone in my School
That heart breaking scene never let me keep myself Cool
I wondered if I ever had a place in her heart's Dictionary
Realized that I was the only answer of her life's Pictionary
This made me feel life is so beautiful But she made me look like a fool :P

RT1

The title RT1  (Random Thoughts  - Part1) inspired from SRK's next movie RA1(Random Access 1) including the picture above from DDLJ :P :P :P 


Disclaimer: All the content in this blog is purely a fiction. Any resemblance to any living being or any incident is purely co-incidental. I believe the disclaimer is as important as the blog title itself. he he :P :P :P

I sat under the moonlight thinking it was candle light

I sat under the coconut tree thinking it was mango tree

I dreamt of my Chachu thinking it was Archu

I married Preethi thinking it was Prachi

I had thought everything was well until I realized I had fallen into well

I always felt that she was mine

But later realized that she belonged to someone else

Even though she belonged to someone else

I wished that someone else was myself :P :P :P

If some more random thoughts creep in, will come back with RT2 :P :P :P

It'z Complicated

Last Sunday, was sooooo bored by noon that, I wanted to get out of the house and roam somewhere. Thought of watching Inception movie and then sat down to check if there were any tickets available. Just then, got a call from unknown number and picked up the phone asking who is this?
It was my cousin sister asking me as to why dint I visit their house in last 12 months +.. it was quite a long time and they had every reason to be angry on me. I assured them that I will come soon. But they asked me start then itself and come to their house. I was not ready to travel such a far distance during the noon time. She even said that, she will come back in her car to drop me back home. My parents asked me to go meet them and come.
I started off by 2-30PM and then went to the bus stand waiting for the bus. Since the journey was far, waited for AC BMTC bus to travel so that I could sleep nicely while travelling. Finally the TATA Marcopolo bus arrived at 3 PM and I got into the bus and sat in a seat just behind the door.
After couple of stops, there was a couple who got into the bus and the bus started moving. The couple looked very young and may be they were just married. The girl and the guy looked very good together and made a good looking couple. The guy was looking for the seats to sit in the bus and then he observed that there was empty double seats available only at the end of the bus. The guy asked the girl if they can go back and sit there in the end. The girl nodded her head saying no.
After another couple of stops, there got a seat empty just in front of the girl in the middle of the bus. The girl went ahead and sat in that seat where there was another guy sitting in the adjacent seat near the window. Then there got a double seat empty on the left side of the bus behind the driver facing backwards. The guy went there and sat left extreme near the window leaving his adjacent empty seat and starting looking at his wife. The wife also raised her head, looked at him and did not move from her seat at all.
Then later, there got another double seat empty in the middle and the wife went and sat on the right extreme near the window. The hubby came almost running towards the seat adjacent to hers. They both spoke couple of words and started looking at the opposite sides.
For a while it looked quite funny to me and made me laugh. The next day morning, when I thought about that incident I made certain conclusions on what had happened.
My Conclusion: Arranged marriage + Ego + Non understandbility + Non Sacrificing nature
I remember, there is no better foundation then friendship for a lifetime relationship and felt that it was missing in the first place in this scenario. The guy sacrificed his last row seat and stood in the middle of the bus just for his wife and she just goes ahead and sits next to another guy later :(. She did not even bother to move next to her hubby when he sat in the front seat facing backwards as well :O. I pity her hubby :(.
Given the kind of relationship they are in, they should be ready to sacrifice small small things for their better half. What is the point in living such a one sided life where only one person cares/sacrifies things for his better half and the other just does not compliment. The person will continue to do it for somemore time and if the other don't compliment, he/she will stop caring it self. In situations like this, the person can not go and complain about their relationship to anybody else because there is no more important person then their better half here. I believe the same thing applies for any relationship and if things are not in resonance then they are never stable :P.
Once you read till here, you might have some other conclusions on your mind. I will keep this forum open for such thoughts and request you to go ahead and make us aware from other dimensions as well :P :P :P

We the People

For a change I got up at 5 AM early in the morning and got ready and left for my friend's sister's marriage. The bus stopped at a bus stop and it started. There was a middle aged female running towards the bus to board. I just turned to ask the conductor to stop the bus but by then that female had made it to the bus. Felt good seeing that female made it but felt sad seeing such an ages woman running for bus like that :(
There was a long queue for the tickets and I somehow made it to the counter before the train could pass :P. I walked inside the station towards the 7th platform. I first saw a young Coolie carrying a heavy load with a sign of pain in eyes his eyes and later I saw another old ages man carrying heavy luggage with similar sign of pain in his eyes. But the person to whom that luggage belonged had his eyes fixed on the luggage the Coolie was carrying :( :( :(.
I reached my platform and was waiting for my train to arrive. Once it arrived it was such a rush out there for unreserved seats and the people were pushing and pulling each other to get into the train. I just waited outside until the rush got lesser. I saw that people were getting into the reserved compartment and occupying the seats there also. I also got into the train and luckily the train was not so crowded in some compartments and I got a window seat.
It was pretty cold early in the morning. As always my eyes were brightened up by seeing 3 pretty girls in stunning dress walking on the platform :P and as always they were followed by a gang of 5 boys commenting on them. I could see the anger on those girls faces :P :P :P...
It was the third stop and the train got so crowded that almost there was no place to stand. There was a stand in between the seats for people to eat food. There was one female who was carrying her grandson along with her. As the train was full, they made place for that female and made the kid to sit on the food stand in front of me. The moment the kid was made to sit away from the female it started crying. But the moment the female showed the window and people on the platform the kid started looking surprised as though they were some aliens :P :P :P
I remembered the scene from Swades movie but the situations was not that bad as shown in the movie. I reached the station and was supposed to catch a bus. Many buses passed and we waited for our bus. One bus stopped. As soon as the school kids started running to board the bus, the driver started the bus and went off :( I do not understand what the hell the driver was thinking of himself. It is a govt bus and did not stop seeing the kids running to board the bus. At last we got the bus and reached a place from where we were supposed to catch an auto 2 reach Melkote.
The most funniest part was that the auto got so crowded that I felt the driver was sitting on the lap of one of the passengers :P. Imagine a 6 seater auto carrying 14 people inside it he he. I was sitting at the back looking at the vehicles coming behind us. I could see people laughing seeing the crowd the auto was carrying. I happened to see a car which had 3 girls and a guy inside it. They were looking at us as if they had never seen such scenes in their life before. In the middle, the auto stopped and there were 4 ladies girls supposed to board the auto. As there was no seat, the driver asked the girl to try at the back seat, she came back and saw a bunch of guys sitting and she went back hesitating to sit along with us he he. One of my friend was sitting inside and he was completely surrounded by girls everywhere :P, I just turned back to him and made a eye sign saying enjoy dude :P :P :P
We got down at the marriage hall and called up my friend saying that we are in. He asked us to come in and to our surprise we saw those 3 girls and a guy in the car were also present:O... My friend came down and said, come I'll introduce you to my friends and introduced those people only. The world is so small I say he he he... He told me , "dude please take care of those people and take along with you for lunch. Those people did't even have their breafkast". Then my friend said, "Dude even I did not have my breakfast". He took us to kitchen and got us some sweets.very sweet of him but he still preferred those girls over us:P :P :P. The marriage was so crowded that It was like one Rajnikanth Movie release. There was no place for these people to sit. At last we made to the food hall and caught place and sacrificed our seats to those girls and waited for the next turn :P :P :P.
Till the end of the day we kept on pulling my friend's legs over those girls and made his life hell :P :P :P... He asked us to stay back and visit the places near his house. But we returned back as we did not have leaves left :P.
Once I reached home, what stuck on my mind was the on going journey and the Swades movie scenes. It looked to me like we are always used to being in such comforts and miss out a chance observe the reality in life. It is just that we see such things in movies but once we watch stuff with our own eyes we realize it properly. Those Coolie people work almost all the days without any leaves unlike us. These people did not have a chance to make their life in the early stages.
We may not be able to change the situation all alone, but instead we can start looking at it and encourage people trying to help out the needed ones. One such an initiative has been taken by some of my friends and I suggest you all to encourage them.
Please refer the link below and see what you can do. Let us be the change that we want to see. It may sound old but still vary much valid in the current world.
Lets us be the change that we want to see