Project "Pant Chronicles"

Hi there...
again....after a long time....I got time and motivation to write something on my blog.
The fact is....my life is not very happening...or....I don't see it as happening...that is why I don't have stories to tell on a regular basis.
But believe me...I don't stop....I never stop in reinventing my self...I come back...and I will keep coming back no matter how many times I have a loss of stories.

Today, however, I have few things to say.
Life is good....I am working...learning new stuff...continuously interacting with new people and experiencing a lot.
Some other things are secretly cooking in my life which would be too early to reveal...but there is  a successful progress going on.

I once posted a status message on Facebook :

I hate the fact that I was born in the rubbish era of 80's.... If only it

was possible to go back and re-born in 50's, 60's or early 70's...I 

want to scream while looking at Beatles...I wanna sway in the tunes 

of Simon and Garfunkel...and wanna cry when Peter, Paul and Mary 

sing "...a dragon lives forever, but not so little boys"....and feel 

elated when Pundit Ravi Shankar plays in the Monterey Pop 

festival...

September 30, 2010 at 8:14am

It is very very true that those 3 decades were the most beautiful decades last century has seen. I absolutely adore movies from that era or movies about that era. I mean...what can ever match movie Dr. Zhivago's cinematography....Lara's Theme....Yesterday...the song by Beatles...beautiful vintage cars...cobbled streets of Europe...Manna Dey...Kishore Kumar...Mhd. Rafi...Wednesday Morning 3 A.M by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel...I mean I can keep on counting...

I got so fascinated by Simon & Garfunkel once in 2005 that I thought of making a pencil sketch of them (which is my childhood hobby...I rarely exercise it)......so....I went ahead and made it:

Copyright: Vibhor Pant

I mean to say....there are so many wonderful things about that era...related to art...music...poetry..cinema.. people...events....that I can keep on discussing which makes me utterly blissful!

When I was playing with Talaash in India...we used to sing many old songs...we were totally in love with that era's music. Frankly speaking...without being rude....people who don't understand these classics or the beauty of it...are tone deaf... color blind...gastronomically challenged....and don't have a taste...I will be honest here.

At that point of time...the universe was somehow making people do totally phenomenal work in their fields...and there is a spiritual similarity found in lots of masterpieces.. in very subtle aspects...the way V Shantaram highlighted his eyes in Do aankhein baarah haath...is very similar to Omar Sharif's highlighted eyes in Dr. Zhivago...There is a poetic similarity in 'I started a Joke..' by Bee gees and 'Fool on the hill' by Paul McCartney...etc.

The work that was produced in that era had a longevity in it that can't be matched...and it certainly doesn't mean that people are not producing good work today or were not producing good work in 80's and 90's..but it is and was seldom and rare. I can never stop praising Vishal Bhardwaj for what he has done in Indian Cinema...his movies induce honesty in storytelling. I can safely say that Indian Cinema is truly turning into a new leaf in the decade of 2011.

But, it will take a fortunate mix of people, atmosphere, world events and sensibilities in creating the magic of 50's, 60's and 70's again.

In the end, Japan is facing a great tragedy. Please do what you can and pray for people over there...that piece of land has been hit by too many calamities despite of the high level of progression it has seen. May god bless all the souls who lost their lives in the wake of this Godzillian earthquake.

Finally, I will rest my case here me-lord....yes..I truly believe that I was born in the worst decade ever..that was 80's...but I thank god that he gave me an eye to appreciate the glorious time I missed by a decade!

Cheers people....if anyone is reading this!

Peace.