Ha.. ha .. ha… Noooooo !’ The dentist chair at 6 am’ remark from last night is, my make up chair. It resembles a dentists chair, hence the remark. I could have said ‘got to report for work at 6 am’, but I thought mentioning it in this manner would be different. Haaa.. ha ha.. Still clinging on to my stomach with uncontrollable mirth… GOTCHA…..!!

Ok the lovely Genie has just rushed in to inform me that my shot is ready. So see ya in a bit..

Back… did the shot .. took a while… several cameras rolling at the same time… always a problem.. lighting for one mingles with the other and the other.. DOP goes wild.. especially someone as senior and accomplished as PC sir.. the genius !! And its like REALLY hot out there.. oooh I dunno.. about 50 in the shade.. AND wonder of wonders, we are in winter dress, pullovers and all !! Film making is all about how well one can deceive the viewer.. hmm ha … the magicians of the visual art form.. may they live forever !!

So now the prosthetics is causing a problem. Make up ladies up in arms !! The silicone melts in the heat and that is no good, so have been beckoned to .. yes… the dentists chair !! See you in a bit…

Didn’t I just say that a while ago ? Ok.. so see ya in 2 bits..!

OKaaay.. so it took a little longer than 2 bits.. sorry..

( are you observing how ridiculous all this is sounding.. I mean you are reading this in real time and I am the one that is going crazy, running from pillar to post.. excuse me… from vanity to set and back..ha ha)

It must be the heat that is doing this to me. You have no idea what its like .. its around 50 degrees… that is something.. and for those that reside in the US of A, its 50 centigrade.. got it. Everyone is dripping wet. Dress men are having a tough time. They are the busiest on location - drying up and ironing soaked clothing. Well so long as it keeps to clothing its fine… its the soaked brain that is the problem.. serious problem.

Thank the Lord for air conditioning and vanity vans. Wasn’t like this when we started off. No air conditioned make up rooms, no air conditioned studio floors, nothing. The first one to come up was Seth Studios, put up by generous deep pockets, Mr Seth. It was put up within the Nataraj Studio complex. Nataraj the abode of the United Producers -Shakti Samant, Pramod Chakravarti and the like. What a huge library of some of the finest films to come out from these portals. Now, brought down by real estate developers, air conditioned Seth as well and just a remembrance of the past remaining.

So yes you guessed right… the first vanity van was conceived by the great Manmohan Desai, and the first ever to be presented to me. I still have it in memory of Man ji. I used it like a general purpose vehicle, driving about town as a facility no one ever thought of, till present times.

Some more time has elapsed, where a lot has happened. Most important being the birthday celebration for Aishwarya’s mother. Its a family affair. Some from her side, some from mine, a quiet Italian at the Grand Hyatt and then back to the EF and the blog.

I nod off repeatedly. Sleep has been knocking at my door for quite some time. Forced to keep the eyes glued to the screen, it is strange how we can still remain focussed. Almost really. Many thoughts start developing and taking over from where the others existed. The mind travels faster than a TV programme and the writing takes its own time to resolve. This then is the most important moment in the life of an individual. Must I put down all that crosses the brain right now, or that which has brought me to this point, this blog. Many feel that I am not exercising caution when disclosing the warmer and closer portions of my seemingly interesting life. Their concern is that I do not exercise caution in the whirl of creativity. This then is therefore an act of preservation. And if given to choose one from the other I would rather preserve.

Many feel that by my disclosers, a mystic that prevailed earlier, will be lost. But I would lose the opposition that I face now and address, rather than give in to others’ philosophy

I like what I do here. Which is some achievement. Not at all easy to pick up a subject of interest, fight and argue with it and return to put forward this script for execution ! They say this is an attempt on my part to reproduce a story, printable and discovered from other sources, to a library containing all necessary wealth of information. What can one say to such inappropriate arguments. One must trudge on and prove the contrary someday.

I shall end here. The after effects of the argument on Delhi or Mumbai. Chennai or Bangalore and so on… remaining just the candid portions that were left behind.

I shall definitely say yes today to a better tomorrow. To argue that we are still immature and on the lighter side helps.

It all sounds so incoherent and without any sense. But.. dear friends…. no it is all there but waiting for the brain to be in better rest and shape. And so it shall.. rest.

My love to all

Amitabh Bachchan