Sunday 2 October 2016

How I made the film Sand - The Love Without Trust

This world does not have any shortage of inspiration and it sure as hell is not going to look for some from this thin end of the www where I walk on. But I write not with the hopes to be read. I write because, should it be read, I better have something written down! Now that I have successfully set an unclear tone for the content you’re about to read, let me sum up it for you. This is the story of how I, a nobody who has always dreamed of to be film maker, have raised funds from family and friends for a film, shot it and now going to do a preview release of it. And by extension, this is to tell you that it is possible, SO YOU CAN DO IT TOO!


Having done writing jobs for an always disappointed boss, myself – with my horribly self-critical cap – I have attempted to make this as short and snappy as possible. If I can say so myself, about me now – I have made 5 to 6 films with short duration oops sorry those were just kids play with toy but trust me those little works leads me to do more and more and ultimately came up with solemn note in my mind to myself that this time you have to be serious man and sand – the love without trust happened as a 50 minutes long film. It has got to be something; I hear individuals say it could have been made into full length film. So here goes, brief.
Write Truthfully and Believe in Your Work.
There will be a range of reasons for you to not type that first word down or for the pen tip to go drynow and next. Go on and write the damn craze down. And if it passes through your own vital judgment – which I am sure is so incredibly intolerant and cruel that you’re always back to square one – and over to someone else, YOU decide what you make of it. The important thing is to worry about whose criticisms matter and whose absolutely don’t. Stand by one cherished criticism from a unbiased source, if it helps – even if it means ignoring accepted idea or the fad. Trust your sense, introspect – but don’t surrender to popular culture without giving it a thought. More so if that deviates you from YOUR story! Listen to yourself and believe in your story. See if it moves people, the world could use one less story floating around in the video streaming universe with no purpose.
Ground a Dream Squad
You know that there are multiple departments that come together to make a film irrespective of its duration. And it is crucial that you pick a bright leader for the relevant department. Pick a compressed size depending upon the extent of the film. You do not want a lot of people too. Let the department heads decide how much of an backing they require and let them obtain it for themselves. There needs to be an unsaid chemistry and possession about the team. solid and sound. The story is what buys you that kind of magnificence. If you have written the screenplay and it made you laugh, cry and / or tear it apart – your team should experience it too! The feeling holds its holiness for actors too! And when you’ve grounded your dream team, you will just know it – till then keep looking but DO NOT COMPROMISE. Not only have you wasted a script on a wrong team, by engaging them, you’ve delayed various dream teams coming together away too!
Budget & Finance
You have story. Well now you need Finance! If you heard ever in your life that making film doesn’t require money. Yes it’s true but depends on your project only. Unsympathetic realism concerning making a really a worth film is it’s required plenty of bucks. It is quite costly matter. The debate on this topic could go in more than a few routes, let’s for now we are going to focus on low budget film. But don’t be offend I have four choices for you go with one of this your story can be transformed into a film.
CHOICE 1 – Make yourself for free. Assuming you do have some awareness of film, you can think of story, write down a script, find some people like friends and family who would concur to participate in your project and borrow a camera as well. The consequence of this option is that the quality of your film would suck but hey at least you didn’t spend any money and you told the story. Irony is I have done this many times. Trust me the quality was next to suck word.
CHOICE 2 – Simply slice some of your money from your monthly salary. If you are working somewhere and got salary then this option can work for you. Depending on your project in a couple of months may be you will make something happen. Drawback here is that would you spend your hard earned money on something that only you care about.
CHOICE 3 – Lend some money from people you know. Why not? Ask everyone. Don’t be shy. You can choose to be egocentric or a filmmaker. Ego has no room when you’re on a flight that’s with no money. You can offer them to be a part of your film (and of course promising them to perk and keep your promise later). How I did. You can do it. I borrowed from my family and friends. Show them your script; Convince them how your project will work. Ask them to help you.
CHOICE 4 – Crowd Funding. Funding the project online. This method actually need some clarification for those who have no idea what I am talking about. Well the definition for this is “The practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.” There are thousands of crowd funding websites you can use or you can do it by yourself by putting all the information on your film website add your budget , let people know about the rewards , put the account number and ask people to donate in exchange of rewards or perk. Hey go to Google search for crowd funding websites let yourself know about this.  Or click here.

Pre-Production
You know what Lincoln said, right? About how if you had 9 hours to chop a tree, you’d rather spend the first six sharpening your axe! It couldn’t be more applicable for film making in comparison with pre-production. Though it was a short film, no stone was left unturned. We went through wide story-boarding sessions, shot division planning, shooting order and reading with the actors. The screenplay itself went through various changes/drafts, for conciseness and for enhancing the overall film experience. After finalizing the actors, rehearse rehearse rehearse!!! I have done that extravagance more than you can think. After such thorough planning also, things can go wrong on the day of the shoot, film making will never stop to surprise you. But lesser the injure the better, don’t you think?
Production
This part insanely rigid with fun as supplement but it is bumpier than those of your previous work. What matters more now is location. Start site seeing. Find places as your script required. Don’t forget to take permission for shooting. What now – hire everything as your dream team want to have on set? Command your squad to role camera, action and cut.
Post-Production
The third and final step in film making .This includes tasks such as the editing of raw footage to cut scenes, insert transition effects, working with voice and sound actors, and dubbing etc. Do it one by one.
Now your film is ready for screening! Congratulation. 
Be patient – crisis is inevitable – we had our share
Despite methodic and relentless planning we had our share of crisis. Of course we managed to resolve them somehow, evidently now that the film is ready!
  • The actor who was supposed to act as lead in the film first, had to quit. This was about 15 days before shooting. We then had Dev onboard. Another actor was supposed to play the anchor character had to quit then we had Archana onboard.
  • Two of the locations we were supposed to shoot in, suddenly seemed difficult. This was 2 days before shooting
  • First Day of shooting we were on the spot of shooting with junks of shooting equipments and the rain start pouring on us for 2 hours.
  • First day was worst day, we started shooting in a flat previously we took permission but after 11 o’clock at night neighbours of that flat started to complain and finally the owner came up and we had to stop the shooting half away and that particular scene we had to manage some other flat next night and we shoot till 3 A.M of morning.
  • The climax of the film was about to shot with crane but the location was in a kind of place where we could not take the crane! Drone was not in budget.
Package it!
Seal it with style! Package the whole experience. yell out – tell the world what you have done because nobody else will– thank people – give away perks as promised – give away perks that the contributors will love to flaunt! Use social media wisely.

Saturday 9 January 2016

10 Mind Blowing Indian Inventions

Hello, wish you all are fine. Today I bring something new that you may never knew about or heard before. We use these things in our everyday life but we never knew these things were invented in our very own country India. This article will blow your mind that our ancestors help the world to be modern. They (our ancestors) invented these and have put the class in our lifestyle. Okay, without wasting more time let's skip to the  main part.

India had played a very important role to shape the face of the current modern world we are living in. Bellow mentioned 10  mind blowing inventions in India which you may be proud of. So here we go -

1. BUTTON: 
Buttons were first used in Mohenjo-daro for ornamental purpose rather than for fastening. They were first used in the Indus Valley Civilization by 2000 BCE.

2. CHESS:
Chess developed out of Chaturanga, which is an ancient strategy board game developed during the Gupta Empire in India around the 6th century AD. Now you know why Vishwanathan Anand is such a pro.

3. SCALE RULER:
Rulers were first used by the Indus Valley Civilization prior to 1500 BCE. Made of ivory, the rulers found during excavation, reveal the amazing accuracy of decimal subdivisions on it.

4. SHAMPOO:
Can you believe it? The word ‘Shampoo’ is derived from chāmpo (चाँपो). It was initially used as a head massage oil for the Nawabs of Bengal during the Mughal Empire around 1762. It evolved into shampoo over the years. 

5. SNAKES AND LADDERS ( SAAMP SEEDHI):
The game, Snakes & Ladders,  was invented in India as a game of morals. Later it spread to England and eventually introduced in the USA by game pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.

6. DECIMAL SYSTEM, QUADRATIC FORMULA AND ZERO:
It was in 7th century CE when Brahmagupta found the first general formula for solving quadratic equations. The decimal system (or the Hindu number system), which was a precursor of the Arabic numeric system, was developed in India between the 1st and 6th centuries CE.

7.DIAMOND:
Worldwide, India was the only source of diamonds until the discovery of mines in Brazil in the 18th century. Almost 5000 years ago, diamonds were first recognized and mined in central India.

8. FLUSH TOILETS:
Hold on haha! Flush toilets were first used in the Indus Valley Civilization. These existed in most homes and were connected to a sophisticated sewage mechanism. But worst part is that Indian still don't have sanitary toilets. 

9. STEEL AND METAL WORKS:
Ancient Indians were pioneers in metallurgy. High quality steel was produced, almost two thousand years before it was understood by the West. One of the most remarkable feat in metallurgy: creating a seamless celestial globe, was invented in Kashmir. It was earlier considered impossible to create a metal globe without seams. Now Indirectly India is behind the Iron Man. LOL.

10. PLASTIC SURGERY:
Yes, you heard it right. Indians were pioneers in Plastic Surgery too. It was carried out in India as early as 2000 BCE.

So, we’ve always been a cool country. 😉  History is testimony to it. So what’s stopping you from being innovative? Go, win the world.

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Thursday 7 January 2016

20 Human Psychological Facts

Hi, wish all good with you and your stuffs. Welcome to Young Mantras the most versatile blog and all regular readers I welcome you once again. Lets cut it and move on to the main part of this article.

We all know many things about what, who, when, why and how like many questions that appeared in our everyday life. Have you ever wonder about human psychology or try to know human mind, I bet most people don't bother to know all this stuffs but I am sure you do, because you guys get the fun in knowing new things or learn new things and keep updated yourselves. Facts are fun and it will be even more fun in knowing human psychology. I am here to add some more fun and take it to next level. Few days ago, I went across an article on human psychology and collects some facts and decided to share with you all. Check out these below 20 Human Psychological Facts and act upon to correct your behavior and read others mind. Have fun.

1. 
The only thing making you unhappy are your own thoughts. Change them. Stay happy.

2.
If you ask someone a question and they only partially answer just wait. If you stay silent and keeps an eye contact they will continue talking. Good trick isn't it?

3.
Sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier and sexier dreams. I will go with sexier dreams what about you?

4.

The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes. Guys keep your mouth close , don't share the secret with your girl friend or wife. 

5.

Fast food restaurants use yellow, red and orange because those are the colors that stimulate hunger. WTF, so we don't feel hungry they fooled us.

6.  
Everyone you meet has something to teach you. Oh really even the mad men/women?

7.

People who constantly suffer from emotional wounds tend to easily get annoyed with others for no apparent reason. Oh yeah that's why they use the phrase - leave me alone!

8.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Who does't want the success but everyone is not much busy for this. 

9.
  They listen more when you speak less. Do you speak more, make sure they are listening. 

10.
You can't stop a person from doing what they want to do. They will start lying to you to continue doing it. Don't say Don't smoke, don't cheat, don't drink blah blah they will start to lying. stop making more liars. Big liars are politicians what makes them to lie?

11.
  
Unfaithful men have lower IQs according to a scientific study. So before trust a person take the IQ test. LOL.

12.

71% of breakups happen because of mood swings. Why the hell this mood swings best answer is we get what we were searching for. It's a correction of past faults. 

13.
If someone does't value you, they deserve to lose. It's that simple. 

14.
Intelligence is admitting that you don't know Everything. WTH says he knows everything? 

15.


There are many things to play with. A person's feeling are not one of them. Mind it Inna Rascala.

16.
Respect people who find time in their schedule to see you. Love people who never look at their scheduled when you need them. Great advice indeed.

17.
Spending a large amount of time with someone literally causes you to pick up their habits. That's how smooth talker have all the attention.

18.
Cheaters think everyone is cheats. Liars think everyone lies. So keep this in mind. Don't think everyone cheats.

19.
Women actually speak dirtier/ naughtier than men do! WTF chicks is't true? I know you girls do so.

20.
People aged 18-33 are the most stressed individuals in the world. After the age of 33 stress levels tend to reduced. UH-O I want live in between 10-18 forever. 

So these were the facts. Now you are loaded with some knowledge of human psychology. I want to name it as Humanology.Wish you like it. I am signing off with a hope of bringing something new. See you in next article. 
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Sunday 20 December 2015

DJsAm - The Musical Beast who give sleepless nights to all top DJ of North-East India.


Hi readers, wish everything going on well in track. In this article I bring something not usually happens in blogs. I bring one of the best musical beast of North-East India. He is a DJ yes you got it a Disk Jockey.He is better known as DJsAm. Behind every successful DJ Event of North-East he is the reason for that now a days.From Lower Assam to Upper Assam to Meghalaya to Arunachal to   Sikkim he is everywhere of North-East India, Ask every kid in the town who is their favorite just one name comes out of them is DJsAm. He is smooth playlist, he is cool enough to make girls fall instantly with his perfect style of playing, and he is inspiration for thousand of youngsters. One fine day we had some chit-chat about his life, ups-down, music & fun. I have penned down for your good read. Check it out below.
DJsAm Spinning

Me: Sam thank you for joining with the readers of youngmantras, so how are you?

DJsAm: I am smooth with the road out here. I am good & jolly.

Me: Sam first tells us why you choose to be DJ?

DJsAm: Ahhh, I don’t ever thought I would be a DJ. Well it happened in 2012. It was a turning point in my life. 2012 was best and worst for me. I had a troubled depressed life, Family troubles and little heart ache you know. I was getting depressed day after day. I was studying than at IDEMI, Mumbai. I was inquisitive and still I am with big web. But tragedy sucked and kind of bunked and lost my classes. Used to be alone, sometimes locked in the dark. Then came the music in my life, I used listen a lot of hardcore, hard trance, metal kind of genres of music, out of depression actually. While listening I would go through my whole life I found peace somewhere.  Then I tend to listen other peaceful and happy genres too like country, classic, uplifting trance.  The club tunes, the hip-hop, rap came after that. So in short I found peace in the music. So gave a thought, I love the music when I keep listening. It keeps me alive and jolly, why not make it a careere. And so, here I am a DJ.

Me: Wow that is really quite a nostalgic journey. So how you will define the profession DJ?

DJsAm: DJ means Disck Jockey. A DJ is a playlist with soul. Weaving and mixing the tunes with emotions of the crowd. All alive.

Me: Which city or Town of North-East India you love to wave your playlist most?

DJsAm: It is hard to tell. Guwahati is the main city in Nort-East India, so it is the hub, you have the diversity of music and loads of commerciality. Personally I love spinning in the hilly regions like Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong , Dimapur , Diphu, every kid in the town knows the music. They have the natural energy to dance and make the night go happy. I spinned up till 7 A.M in the morning there. I love them, and love to soon there mostly. In Assam it is kind of different. Lower Assam is challenging than upper Assam. Upper Assam tends to be acquainted with the club scene and lower Assam ready to have it all. We just need to spread it up.

Me: Sounds cool enough, Sam there are lots of Kids out there want to be DJ so maybe it will help them if you tell them what is needed to be a DJ?

DJsAm: Everyone will say music but I will say combination of Music, Network, Money, Online Presence, some Internet savvy brains, a long list supporters , a leader inside you, the managing aspect , knowledge of DJing history, and the never give up attitude. Let me elaborate some of these , Music is the foremost because DJing is all about music so you need to have bust knowledge of music, Network in a sense better you know people the better it helps you in the long run, if you have money you can buy the stage or create your own events, online presence is must now a days more than half of my own gigs are booked from people from facebook,. There will be time you know when everyone you know will against you or what you do, so you need a positive attitude to standby and go-on.

Me: How you define success?

DJsAm: (Laugh) It cannot measured dude, cannot be measured just like the beauty. Its the limit you perceive your success to be . There is no harm in it, but once you reach your limit you will want more. So there is no limit to success or it cannot be measured. It only what you perceive your success to be.

Me: Great, so let’s have some fun ask-tell game, what you say?

DJsAm: What I supposed to do?

Me:  Nothing just answers comfortably.

DJsAm: All right, I am ready with my guns blazing.

Me: Okay, so name three things you can’t live without?

DJsAm: My laptop, Internet & Mother Nature.

Me:  Name five things you never forget to take with you on your journey to play?

DJsAm: My Hard Disc (HDD), Chargers, A pair of T-shirts, a pair of Jeans and my mobile phone.

Me: Interesting, okay Sam, whom you will credit your success?

DJsAm: My failures.

Me: So philosophical, tell us if you have a wish to live a life of any music legend whose life you would love to live?

DJsAm: (Laugh) My own. I don’t compare myself with any of the legend & I don’t want to live any of their life either, I respect them but will live and create my own life.

Me: So self-sufficient.

DJsAm: Yeah, self-sufficient and self-satisfied.

Me: If there is a bag full of US$ and a high end DJ machine and you can take one only, which one you will take?

DJsAm: I will rather divide the money take a lot small modular DJ controllers.

Me: Finally any words towards your fans and music lover?

DJsAm: Music is meant for sharing. Spread the love and whenever you feel down plug in your head-phone and tune your favourite track. You would be happy, you did. Love you all.

Me: Thank you Sam for your valuable time. It’s nice to have you in the blog. Thank you so much. Wish you more success and good health.

DJsAm:  It is my pleasure. Keep Rolling, you have my regards.

Wish you love the interaction and wish this will help you in many ways. Thank you for tuning to Young Mantras. See you in next article. Be healthy & keep shining. Happy New Year in Advance.

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Monday 19 October 2015

Releasing the zero budget hindi short film Soch - The Thought

Welcome to my blog once again. For sure you are here for the link of Soch - The Thought that's why I will not take much time of yours. I know you don't have that much time due to your busy schedule, do you know this time and business (busy-ness) for ourselves only brought us where? A place where there is no humanity, there is lack of personal communication, there is loads of ignorance,there is loads of selfishness. We don't have time look after others, don't have time to look around, don't have time to raise the voice against crime. We are on the way to office and there are bunch of goons beating a innocent people we don't stop because we are already late for the office. On the way to home at night there are some shit-headed people molesting a girl we never try to stop them even don't call the police because we are late for the home and our family members are waiting for us. Still we think we are human? Candle light march doesn't make us human after letting happen the same thing we are marching for! It's high time to reconstruct the humanity, to repair our soul , to fill the heart with feelings, we need to change the SOCH  (The Thought). My film is based on two different thought processes describing on a single plot. Wish my little work with amateur hands can make a difference. 
I want to review my own work because I think from my review you can find some answer of your question after watching it.
1. Technically there is little problem with the volume if you are watching it in you cell-phone without head-gear, you will find it little low without ear-phone. Why this happened? - I have edited the film and the PC was connected with woofer that was in the peak of the volume that's why I could not catch the standard volume. So I will recommend you to put the ear-phone on while you are watching it.  
2. In a scene - group of guys check-in the frame and within a few seconds they goes out of the frame. It looks little faster. Why this happened? - It was Friday noon time and being a Muslim I don't miss the Friday Prayer like every other Muslims, so we were running a little out of time. I decided to took the shots of that scene within two shots. I was not expecting it will look this much faster.

Anyway I have already consumed valuable times of yours. You can see the link below, click and watch. Put on ear-phone. Don't forget to feedback.


   



   

Saturday 17 October 2015

Experience of making a zero budget film

Soch-TheThought is a 5:23 minutes hindi short film that has been shoots with low quality handicam. No crew members have used as there was no any filming instruments like lights, Reflectors, Tracks, Trolly, Make-ups, Boom Mic, even I din't used the camera stand or tri-pod or multi-pod. There was no cinematographer so I was handling the camera along with direction , as I am not a professional cinematographer it was obvious of shaking camera when I moved for panning so it was really a big problem for me, as there was no stand for camera so I used different angle just get rid out of shaking. As it's a zero budget independent film I have requested some of great friends like Maahi Salman Ross Kaif Babu Khan Lotip Maya Chowdhury Arif Chowdhury Dev to help me out on location and asked them to act in the film , though they are not actors or even they don't have that much knowledge of acting still they did accept my request and did what I asked for. Local people of the location helped me during the shooting with water supply as it was really sunny day and frequently everyone used get thirsty. I couldn't take long shots though it was necessary in some scenes as i couldn't afford the dubbing charge of the studio. I edited the film as there was no one who will do it free for me. I tried to tell my story and pass a message through a film cause it can strike the heart as well as head of responsible and sensible persons. Wish everyone will like it. I remeber once someone told me " Xahid Quality doesn't matter, all matter is your content" , on the basis of this phrase I started the film without the budget and without thinking about filming instruments and crews . You know where there is will there is a way. Anyway let me come to the main point is film has only two days to enter the web , I will share the streaming and download link of the film. Please watch and feedback when its comes to you. Tons of love for reading such long post. Thank you.

Thursday 29 January 2015

10 Porn Stars Turn Top Film Stars

Once they were termed as porn stars and people only watched them behind the close doors, but today they are huge celebrities, some made it big in Hollywood, some came across all the borders and making their name in Bollywood and some are super singing sensation. So I am here to reveal some of the best kept secrets of some leading International celebrities. So check out who amongst the Galaxy of stars features in pornographic movies before they made big in Silver screen of Hollywood and Bollywood.

1.Sylvester Stallone:
Sylvester Stallone
Best Known for his film like Rocky and Rambo. He is a former porn actor has acted in couples of porn films called " Party at kitty and stud's "  and " Italian Stallion" . Yes his nick name Italian Stallion came from that porn film he has acted. Funny part his story is, he was paid only $200. It was more embarrassing when the porn called "Party at Kitty and Stud's " was re-released to cash-in-on the fame found after the Rocky and Rambo.

2. Cameron Diaz :
Cameron Diaz
The blonde bombshell with long sexy legs. The beautiful bubbly, naughty girl of Hollywood reportedly done some soft-porn before featured in Hollywood films. That's another thing she can still be found topless on internet but now a days it's on beach and she didn't get paid for the photos.

3. Jackie Chan:
Jackie Chan
 
Shocked? Don't be, yes he was too. This  Kě'ài de yīngxióng (Cute Hero) played a lustful rickshaw driver in mid 70s porn 'classic' a Hong Kong based porno-comedy. He recently said he has no regret about the movie.

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oh no! The Terminator too! Take a pause to remember this man is in charge of an entire state, well before he was Governor, a Hollywood star and an Austrian winner of Mr. Olympia 1970, Arnold posed for several pornographic shots for a porn magazine.

5. Shu Qi :
Shu Qi
Yes right guessed! The Transporter actress Shu Qi was worked as a porn star before she turn to a mainstream actress of Hollywood.

6. Stormy Daniels: 
Stormy Daniels
Remember? you have watched her in 40 Years Old Virgin and in Finding Bliss, She was big name porn filmy world, have won several Awards in Porn Industry.  

7. Sunny Leone:
Sunny Leone
Karenjit Kaur Vohra aka Sunny Leone as you all know was an adult star won many Awards from the porn world, now she is a huge name in Hindi Film Industry. Now popularly Known as Baby Doll of  Bollywood. 

8. Priya Rai Anjali:
Priya Rai Anjali
The famous adult star from United State is all set to hit Silver Screen by an 4D Bollywood Film 

9. Samantha Fox:
Samantha Fox
Once upon a time this Rock Star was also a porn actress before she became singing sensation. She made a guest appearance with Bappi Lahiri singing Traffic Jam in the Govinda starer Rock Dancer. 

10. Sasha Grey:
Sasha Grey
Sasha is not kittenish about her past as porn actress. She was already popular enough before Steven cast her  in his movie 'The  Girl Friend Experience'. Since then has been in other movies.

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Tuesday 27 January 2015

5 Most Wanted Street Dishes of India and their Origin

You love street food? I am sure you are ; every Desi people (Indian) like me love to enjoy street foods along with friends except those Indian with Bidesi Hao-vao (Foreign Hygiene), they feel like Eeewwww! street foods yuck! no matter what they feel or think but our Indian Street dishes are yummiest among all the street foods world have ever produced . Oh yes by the way Foreign Hygienic people can enjoy them in five star restaurants in India now-a-days. You may know all the five dishes I going to write about but may not familiar with their origin and history, don't worry that's what I am going to write about. Enjoy the article and grow your knowledge about your favorite dishes.

1. Panipuri
Panipuri
            Only name of this delicious, mouth watering dish is enough to make all the Desi (Indian) Girls greedy for this. Often this dish is called as the King of Snacks by Bengali people. Really this King of all the Indian snacks is ruling hearts of million Indian girls . It has many alternative names like Phuchka, Pani Batashe, Golgappa, Gopcha etc. You can find it near every colleges and universities all around the India.
                 This Super tasty dish originated from the Magadha region of India present day South Bihar where it is also known as Phulki.

2. Vada Pav
Vada Pav
                 Without this snacks you can't even imagine about Mumbai. This snack dish has makes own place right on the top of famous snacks list of Maharashtra. The Indian version of burger is consisting of Potato fritter in a bread bun. This Dil ke Dadkan (Heart Beat) of Mumbaikers served hot with half-fried ripe chillies.
                   Vada Pav is believed to have been devised by Ashok Vaidy who sold street foods from a stall beside Dadar Train Station in Mumbai in 1917. It is now offered at cafes and restaurants throughout the India.


3. Momo
Momo

                   The small steamed dumpling of white flour, which is filled with vegetables, cheese or meat served with red garlic/tomato and green chilli sauce and with soups. It's a Nepalese dish but you can taste these steaming hot heavenly tasting delight all across the street of  North-East India's State like Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya etc.
            The origin and etymology of Momos in Nepal is uncertain. Since the dish was initially popular among Newar Community of Kathmandu valley of Nepal are prevalent belief is that traveling Newar marchants brought the recipe and name it Momo

4. Idli Sambhar
Idli Sambhar

                Have you ever been to Chennai? if yes, you are familiar with the most favorite South Indian dish. Common as breakfast served with combination of Chutneys and Sambhar. (Sambhar is made with tamarind and pigeon peas, and Idli is savory cake)
           Food historian speculate that the modern Idli recipe might have originated in present day Indonesia, which has long tradition of fermented food. The cook employed by Hindu kings of the Indianised Kingdoms might have invented the steamed Idli there and brought the recipe back to India during 800-1200 CE.

5. Jhal Muri
Jhal Muri

         One of the most popular and iconic street snacks of India is Jhal Muri. It has maximum numbers of lover in Bengal and Assam. Jhal Muri is puffed rice with spices, vegetables and raw mustard oil. Depend on what is added, there is many kinds of Jhal Muri but the most common is one made with Chopped Onions, Jira ( roasted grounds cumin), Black salt, Chillies either dry or ripe, Mustard oil and fresh Coriander leaves.
          The recipe of Jhal Muri was devised in Bengal by typical Bengali house wives, they used to served it with evening tea. 

So these were 5 Most Wanted Street Dishes of India and their Origin. You can find all these dishes almost in every cities, towns and in villages throughout the India. Wish you find the article interesting and fruitful. Now I am sure you will remind this article when you will going to enjoy the street food with friends, it will bring smile on your face.

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Monday 26 January 2015

How to Breakup Relationship without Hurting

If you are in a poor relationship with your GF/BF and just want to get rid out of it but still you stick to the relationship just because you don't want to hurt her/him. If you think, you care about her/him that's why you just don't want to tell her/him your feelings of breakup then don't you think, you are just telling her/him lies after lies just to comfort her/him, though when you don't have true feelings alive anymore, that I called Playing with  someone's feelings, moreover I love to tell you are wasting your time and her/him  time too.

It's better to breakup than maintain a poor and unhealthy relationship joh andar se khokla ho chuka he (which is empty from inside). Last night my friend Rinki said, "GF/BFs are more than good friends that's why it's not complicated to talk about breakup."  But there are some Mantras to breakup according to me,if we follow these Mantras. I am sure if your GF/BF is sensible, thoughtful, have understanding then she/he will not get hurt feelings instead he/she will respect your decision and will let you free.

So, bellow mentioned five Mantras you can follow when you breakup and want not to hurt him/her.

Mantra 1.  Explanation with Clarity

            Explain the reason for wanting to breakup with clarity. Vague and convoluted reasons can just leave him/her upset, paranoid and more confused. Before your explanation take a long hard look at your thought process and examine your true reasons. Make sure your decision is truly how you feel. Be honest and open with your GF/BF about your reason to end the relationship for good. 

Mantra 2.  Avoid Drawing False Hope

         Avoid giving your GF/BF false hope about the future if you really want to breakup permanently. But people often make this mistake when breaking up is leaving hope. Firmly close the door on relationship otherwise it will only lead to hurt feelings and heart ache for him/her.

Mantra3. Avoid Breakup on Phone

        Avoid breaking up on the phone. Breaking up through a phone call can come across as heartless, impersonal and just plain rude. Make the effort and take the time to do so face to face in person. This will show him/her that you value your former relationship enough to speak to him/her in person.

Mantra 4.  Don't Waste Time 
      
       As soon as you found that the relationship has no future and going nowhere breakup with your GF/BF, avoid wasting your time and his/her time also. End the relationship as soon as you realize it is over. 

Mantra 5. Use Privacy

              Breakup can be very emotional situations. Breakup with you GF/BF privately. Provide him/her with dignity of a quiet and private place when you breakup with him/her. Avoid taking him/her romantic spot or the places you guys have on romantic date before.
  • TIP: Exercise delicacy if you don't want to hurt her/him, be delicate with your reason behind the breakup. For example " Tum mere liye sahi nehi ho!" ( You just don't good enough for me), that will lead hurt feelings, devastation and even anger, possibly consider on placing the blame on yourself. Say something like " Mujhe lagta ke abhi bhi main serious relationship ke liye tayar nehi hu" (I think, I am not ready for a serious relationship yet).             

  •  WARNING: Avoid the pitfall of behavour badly and forcing your GF/BF to breakup with you. Don't waste time on taking cowardly route,be good, frank, gentle when you breakup.
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