PD Ponders

I really have no idea what to title this, tryst with destiny, final minutes, death at doorstep, light after darkness, reincarnation, second life, how I cheated death, My Life = 1300 Rs, I The Revenant, Sea rescue... But I am sure why I am writing this, I do not want to forget anything which happened on this day. It was early hours of Sunday, December 18, 2016, day after we had Mahpeede Mahablu show in Baindur.  We wanted to go to the beach till sun rises, come back get ready and leave to Bangalore at any cost before 10 AM after breakfast at 9 AM.  So we slept late, since we were in the same beach till 11 PM.  We went in at around 6.30 AM and tried to get into the sea at point 2 in the image below.  Later we realised that the current here is too much of the Sumana or Baindur river, force of the river was enough to make the sea water less salty.  This is clear sign that the current is super strong.  Looking for a suitable location, we moved to location...

One day long back in history there was a guy called Pritam, who was famous for his photographs of Page 3 and the topper of the who's who list of Bangalore theatre scene, and who used to smile at me when I used to visit Koshies and I first thought he works there since there was no time in those days that he was not present when I visited there.  We did speak about theatre some times and he finally called me one day.  We did a play called Khel for which I got critical acclamation from people from the who's who ciricle.  Recently he woke up suddenly and over few glasses of rum told me that he has started making movies.  We took this up as a project for his videos and shot in basemen of Alliance Française.  We used lights of my car and Pritams newly adopted baby a sofisticated camera imported from some posh country.  There were three things which got hurt during making of this movie Amjad, Camera & my Car. It  recently got selected for a film festival online and I  want all of ...