&then bombay
bombay, never was on my career radar… but then, ‘&then’ happened…
day one i was quite anxious. was excited and at the same time terrified with the hangout i had. literally hanging from the train clinging onto another guy..never held a guy so close. and never would like to repeat it unless its a matter of life and death… and my backpack was hanging from my back…was counting every electric poles that i was having a close shave with.. goregaon to ville parle, total number of electric poles = 57. after ville parle somehow squeezed myself inside the train.
reached ‘&then’, and was amazed to see a play field amidst an industrial setting. the entrance of ‘&then’ was painted with a true poster/calendar pop-art style. carrying forward the dynamic identity of ‘&then’ and coming up with as many concepts as possible was one of the assignment of mine, apart from conceptualizing an invite for a video art, by ‘haywire’ synchronized with a DJ Riz performance. the projection was to be in house in the weekend.
meeting the people was good. soham i knew already, vikram, meera and esha were the other comrades, including the team from 180, which included sid, bhavin, shagz, and shubhda… apparently absent bhakti isn’t happy with me using her pc…snehali and soeb are regular visitors…
lunch on foozball table, and playing dart was part of the day, which was fun. even cricket with a baseball bat…
anyways, day one ended with a performance of mine while getting back to goregaon. a brand new local, with brand new seats and brand new steel seduced me enough to enter it with a bang. it started moving before i could realize. i felt sorry for my bones. now its ok but. i slept with relispray…whatever u make of it.
bombay &then
next morning was painful, hidden pains and hidden sprains…all of them came together…
but was ok in the office… the poster was made and e-invites were sent..prints were made and stuck too. .the night was spent having veg rolls and then in ‘bademiyan’, on the way sid having some client meet with his pandu friends.
the week went by with some of the concepts being really liked by the team…
&then asymmetry
antisocial element i proved myself to be in the event. people being pissed off for the not so much of dancing done by me. but pictures i did take. few good ones. and two shots of brain damage by vikram, helped me carry the fishes to appear on the projector.
the best part was meeting suresh (long lost neighbour friend of mine, prashant i knew him as). never in my dreams thought i would bump into him in such a place and that too in such a situation after 12 long years. met some other people too.. soeb, manjari, rahul and rizwan were the other ones i can recall of…
4:30 am the art show /party got over, and with that, a very experimental and experiential week too…
peace and chaos
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