HE - Episode 3

Dear Aruna,
That was a great analysis. You might have noticed the different way in which I divided the episode into several parts. IL does not allow more than 1000 words in a post. So I normally divide my episodes into parts of about 1000 words each. That way we should have only 3 parts in this episode.

But while posting HE 3, I thought like a movie director and a screen play writer. I made every scene into a part. Tomorrow if somebody wants to make HE into a movie, that will be very helpful. But I am sure this story cannot be made into a movie.

I am using a story technique which is the exclusive privilege of a writer when his medium is just words. You will come to know about this towards the end of the serial.

Honestly Aruna, every man and for that every woman, however high may be his or her position is always like a child looking to its mother for approval, recognition and appreciation. I used this basic psychological truth to show Madhavan's feelings.

I always say that hope to enjoy is better than hope enjoyed. You feel far better on Friday looking forward to a nice weekend, than on Saturday or Sunday, where the week-end is actually on. Even a hungry man if given an apples, looks at it for a while, feels the fruit and lets his mouth salivate for a while, before taking the first bite. Let's mimick him in this. Of course HE 4 is just 142 hours away.

Thanks once again, Aruna for the brilliant scene by scene analysis. Posts like this help me to look deeper into my writing and may be one day I may even start writing good stories.

Love,

 

Hi k,
should I call you k or bunty?
In fact when I first started writing in IL I wrote only short stories. It was only much later that I came up with the idea of a serial. It is the waiting that adds charm to the story.
A man and a woman are in love. If they are going to be together continuously, then there is not much of spice in that love. They have to be away for a while. And while remaining parted, they think of their earlier meeting, they dream of their future meeting. The lover constantly thinks of her beloved. This adds an extra dimension of charm to the relationship.
That's why we say that while presence strengthens love, absence sharpens it.
In a serial you have all the ingredients of a good love-relationship. There's the presence, the absence, the waiting, the thinking and the dreaming.

CTC concept has already come to India in a big way. It has been there for the past 10, 15 years. I was running a HR consultancy from 2003-2005. We recruited some CEOs and some GMs. All the negotiations were done only on the basis of CTC. It is another complex exercise to convert CTC into actual salary and perks. In fact CTC concept is not there in the US. There it is called compensation. They don't add up the benefits as we do here.

I loved to have a training in US GAAPs. But I did not have the opportunity. I was trained in Pension Funds Administration.
In fact once you are thorough with Indian GAAP, US GAAP is pretty easy to understand. You need not have any training in that.
See, you have learnt to drive in India, with all the congestion, heywire traffice and absolute chaos. Then driving in the US is just a cake-walk, provided you just learn to change from the left to right.

Keep your fingers crossed, k, for just another 142 hours. HE 4 will be on the screen, scene by scene.

luv,

 

Relax Padma. I love long responses. I read them again and again. And they do help me in configuring the story in the future episodes.

In one way the Westside sales girl did a big help to me. You know I saved the money.... ha ha ha.

I shall remember to take Indhu and Preethi to Globus or Lifestyle next time we visit Chennai.
Thanks for the tips.
regards,

 

Dear Kamla,

A big thanks. More than the compliment, that I write well, I love the compliment, that I have improved over time. Only two persons have paid such compliments. One is you and the other is Chithra. Both of you know me from The Haunted House and the B&B days. So when Chitra wrote that I have improved since B&B, I was really thrilled. And now you. Thanks and thanks and thanks.

Spouses working together could be a great boon or the worst possible curse. Depends on who the spouses are. Whether it will be a boon or curse for Madhavan and Priya, we have to wait and see. I know spouses working in the same place having a great marriage. But as you said, that is taking a great risk and it works only with one of the couples.

But.. why... I am going ahead with the story now... Madhavan and Priya are just colleagues. Period.

About sharing the same room I have written enough stories on that. And please read my response to Sujathae on the same subject.

For some stories it takes a lot of time to set the stage; and the story goes off in a jiffy. My surgeon friend used to tell me about the appendectomy operations he did. He used to tell me that it would take hours to prepare for the surgery. The theatre consumables, the anaesthetist and all. And the surgery would be over in a few minutes. I am just praying God that it should not happen to HE.

No, Kamla, the week should not roll by very fast. For then I will not be ready with the next episode. This time I am writing every episode afresh. Even for SHE I was two episodes ahead. But HE I want him to be fresh every week. Is he not facing some 12000 plus beautiful ladies every week?

Thanks once again,
Love,

 

hi shanti,
Ad world now has the greatest creative power in the industry. Those people are the best experts on communication. So it is all the more important that they communicate the right message and are always bound by values. As I told earlier that was the speech I wrote for myself. If at all the Ad Agencies call me, I would rather dwell on the values and their responsibility towards the community.

I have also known about the couch-power in the corporate world. I have seen some women losing themselves for some material benefits and career gains. Some of them do not give a damn about that. But those who are brought in the traditional sense of values could never forgive themselves for what they did. The world goes on.

Priya's character is a challenge for me. I am moulding her on the lines of the present day corporate woman. Though the serial is about HE, SHE also has an equal place, if not a more prominent one. But we are going to see all those things in the next few weeks.

Stay tuned, Shanvy. And your DH Veda Vyasar has promised to read HE 2 and HE 3 and give his views. I am surprised why he has not come in so far. I think HE episodes are not as good as my snippet Then and Now, where I had talked about the movies and theatres.

May be you got best service from Westside because of "muga rasi" or because you buy in bulk. But the kind of polite, silent insolence from the staff - it was unbearable. Even if they had given that piece free of cost, I would have refused. Yes, we did get good service in fabindia. But my daughter saw some of their prices and told me that they are overpriced by more than 20%.

Thanks once again,
regards,

 

Dear Sujatha,

This was what I was waiting for. Hero and heroine staying in the same room, has been my pet subject. Not now, but ever since I started writing stories. My story in Kumudam "Ore Araiyil" is about that. Then I changed the ending slightly and made into an English Story entitled The Opportunity, which was published by Alive. It was a very bold attempt. There was another story about a beautiful woman and a handsome man going in a coupe in train. And again another story published in IL as a contest. I had asked ILites to write the climax for the story.

There are two ways of looking at it, Sujatha. Let's take cooking. One way of novelty is to try new dishes; and the other way is to take a standard recipe and make some changes. For example on the other day CV prepared Ragi pancake, which was altogether a new dish (at least for me). That's the first type.
In Atlanta my hostess prepared "Vendaikkai paruppusili." Paruppusili is a standard dish. It is either beans or vazahipoo or kuda milakai. Vendaikkai paruppusili is some thing I haven't heard of. It was delicious too.

In this hero-heroine staying in the same room, you want me to make a ragi pancake. But I am planning for a vendakkai paruppusili.

Just wait for some time to find out the implications of this statement.

Thanks, Sujatha for the detailed comments.

Love,