To witness talent at work I have been with the Padda brothers the entire day discussing various ideas for our promos in the days to come and it is just such an amazing experience ! How ideas are brought forward how one thing leads to another and finally the moment of creation. Its like spending time at the Vishal Shekhar studios making music ! A joy and such fun !

So we have lined up our promo design and release for the days to come and soon you should be seeing them on the net and on Tv. To those anxious minds, may I just say you need to relax and take it easy. Think of Kabir and his famous doha -

Dheere dheere re manaa, dheere sab kutch hoae

Mali seeichai sau ghada, ritu aaye phal hoae ….

Slow and steady shall win our race and we must rely on the accumen of so many smart and intelligent minds that have been given the responsibility of the film and its promotion. There are many factors which you may as concerned individuals feel strongly about, but, there are aspects which are unknown to all and they need to be studied. The maps are being drawn out and soon I shall be putting out to you what some of the plans are. There is a visit to Dubai which is being worked out to promote the film and I shall give details of that as soon as that is locked in. Also there shall be road shows in and around the country, for which the time lines are being set up. There has been huge excitement with the last promo and we need to keep it up in pace, so bear with us.

There is a great joy in opening up an ignored cupboard or drawer to find letters or documents and papers that have been left with time. And one of the most time consuming aspects is that you get down to reading them and recollecting those moments gone by or associations long neglected. An old school photograph, a letter form a classmate, some personal parents observations, a card of greeting, a document of the good old times …

Such a pleasure to read them and reminisce. And there never really is a system where you can put them away safely and in order, so that were you to wish reaching out to them again it would not be such a long process. But we never get down to it. Painful. And really quite an impersonal way to look at it. Filing them takes away the informal quality of the first time you received it. Putting it away in specific ornate boxes, gives it a formality that you do not wish to associate with. So best to leave it folded in that torn envelope, crushed and crumpled through time, but still bearing the smell of its time of delivery. Fascinating.

Nowadays. Its storing or putting in Drafts on the computer or a file in Documents or Desktop and clicking them open through a machine !! Somewhere, that personal touch has disappeared. The typed form does not bear any resemblance to the hand written note, smudged ink and perhaps soiled fingers ! That pleasure of opening up a letter and reading a physical form in your hands has simply gone. And I wonder sometimes if it shall ever return. The very best that we do today is to store and save our mobile messages as much as the memory can take it. Then you transfer it to the base computer and hope the damn machine doesn’t crash and makes you lose all your information stored. We live in precarious times !!

One cannot do away with the benefits as well. The benefit of it being stored in an object that now fits into the square of your hands in the shape of a geometrical oblong - the iPad .. or all the music in the world on your iPod slid comfortably in the rear pocket of your trouser. You entire music library on your hip - cool !! And every other possible information on your palm mobile. The Tv went off in the middle of the finals of the French Open tennis at Rolan Garos and I switched to my laptop. When that did not connect the BBerry came in handy ! Amazing !!

And now if you will excuse me I need to go to the Google information to get to the Times of India for the latest news !!!

Good night dearest ones .. and may you rest well ..

Amitabh Bachchan