hyderbad to madikeri by road- details

tuesday morning 4:30am. getting up and getting ready was eager than the previous day.it's been almost 4 years since i really hit the tarmac for a long drive. So getting up on 23 rd was for a different reason and the reason hmm... well was set to earn a well deserved place in my memory chip :)... it is a trip from banglore to madikeri via manglore
we covered quiet worthy stretch of this 1982 km, most of it being a new place and not a place revisited. except for the return from banglore to hyderabad. So who ever is trying this route must reasonably be feeling great doing the route am mentioning and ofcourse hitting the speed at the right time helps so that the pleasure of taking some travelogue photos is not missed in 5 day trip like ours.

ok cutting the long story short and let the pictures speak. it took me and my brother 5 days. only day traveling. not even between hyderabad to banglore or mysore to banglore. 126ltrs in total. so average mileage of 15.7 km/l. and every day in the car by 6 am sharp . and i suggest this a must as this brings surprising things to view as the day breaks. and the route goes like this

23/06/09 --- hyderbad-anantapur-kurnool-banglore
5:45 am -start at hyderabad-tyre check and gas
8:35 am -decent B.P ghar dhaba for break fast

watch out the roads tend to become a little slow from there to kurnool.

12:25 pm crossed anantapur

4:45 columbia hospital banglore outskirts ( met old firends- night stay in banglore

24/0609--- banglore-mysore-tibetian township-nisargadhama
7:00am -after breakfast on mysore road

(20 km from mysore a deviation to right towards nisargadhama- this is again to madikeri)

12:25pm- tibetian township and start late towards kushalnagar (there is another way from the other end of township to nisargadhama)
5:00pm : cauvery nisargadhama forest guest house- night stay

25/06/09 nisargadhama-sunticoppa-madikeri-bhagundeshara temple-talacauvery-madikeri
6:30 am -start from nisargadhama
12:00 pm-talacauvery
2:00pm return
4:30 pm madikeri town (night stay)

26/06/09 madikeri-dubare-siddapura-gonigoppa-guta road-irrupufalls- nagarhole
start late as dubare open only at 9:30 and nagarhole safari opens only at 3pm

7:40 am left madikeri
9:40 am dubare
1:10 pm irrupu falls
3:10 pm nagarhole
4:30 pm to mysore-banglore

27/06/09 more personal - meeting friends stayed close to IIM banglore atended nadan nilekani's lecture. met kiran keshwani and suresh and then /other people at campus

28/06/09 met more friends and then way back to hyd

looooooonng drive!!

sorry just took off on a long drive to coorg in karnataka.. sudden decision. will definetly update once am back . right now in banglore iim, thanks a lot for the reviews.. i am gettign lots of calls regarding the audio. its doing good so lets hope the film goes well with the audience too :)

audio releasing on 21st

ok finally after working for the past 6 months, a moment to rejoice is here :).. i hope and wish that all the work that satish sir believed in becomes an equally loving experience to all. the audio will be released on 21st. i dont know if the c.d.'s will be out the next day but please let me know as soon as you get to hear the songs.

rendezvous with architecture-rahul mehrotra

architecture draws a line between many cultures. Interpreting it in a sensitive way then becomes beneficial to a race that exists both in the current and the future generations. Similarly an insensitive approach creates more harmful repercussions .
unlike other countries in india the basic approach starts from fighting the system to make them understand the importance of this profession

bringing everyone together for a project, forging ideas and making them happen then becomes a challenge at a diferent level. Few people who have laid impetus on such work and questioned this system to create a balance between the modern existence and the cultural existence of past become important for the society growth at a meta physical level..one such person has been rahul mehrotra an architect. .
yesterday we had a wonderful lecture by him and i had the chance to listen him talk on his works. for me it was an evening of rendezvous with a profession that has not been opened ever since i joined films.

rahul mehrotra is an Indian architect and an urban designer trained at the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad , a Graduate from the School of Design at Harvard.

I remember him as a student, going through glosy magazines and architectural records with his works on lakshmi machine works, his reuse of materials and ofcourse as a son in law of correa who again is an idol for many architects. His book ' 'bombay, the cities with in' is almost like a record of the labyrinth of the city and if people have seen chowmahalla in its recreated glory you have visited one of his conservation projects. His works also include the tajmahal restoration.

rahul belongs to a generation which saw works after post independance. works post independance saw a culture shock while works by architects like rahul which fall into the 80's have tried to not just become a blue print of the west but interwine his modern interpretations with the crude existance of our society. one of the main being reuse of material, sustainability and working against highrise structures.

this makes me think of the architecture that now starts evolving in india with young architects coming out of schools. the sustainability issues that we all need to address... a new form of hybrib architecture needs to evolve. like how every car company now brings in that factor and work on a phenomenon, as a justice to nature.

times of india photoshoot, kvm first look. www.kalavaramayemadilo.com

hmm been away for some time. taking time of for a photoshoot that went of well as desired. this was for the times hyderabad edition. It was for an article that was talking of how the 6 pack or the multicurved,multilayered body forms that todays young geberation actors field to fight for their existance :).. ok it was put in better words and i think it is more of a fitness mantra that is taking its time to fade. Good for people who can retain it. and good for people who get a high wathcing them and more good for those who get inspired and get into a regime :).. i would have loved to do more but stopped it at this as i have not any reasons than to be more fit. ok enuf of this..
i am very happy that the publicity is about to kick start for kalavaram aaye madilo very soon and the wall papers of the same have started getting ready. publicity for a film has to be in the right portions and ina right taste. Some thign that i ahve worked in one kinda school till now. with every new production house we realize how different each one's taste are and each one good in for their own right. As i am realizing my another project occupying the frontage my anxiety increases as well as my wishes that it should do well for the wonderfull script that satish sir has written. As an actor more worried how well ahve i lived up to the vison of the director and yes to see the fabulous performances of other co actors like swathi ghokale sir, bharani sir and others. it is tiem to wait right now. there is now a bait waiting for me at the other end. But more than that i am waiting for that goodness to engulf the screen and enthrall the audience.
i think the audio is the first that helps the audience understand the films colour and feel of the title song can be heard at

www.kalavaramayemadilo.com

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in the name of...

finally a new member joins our family.

this time its black.naughty is white
this is female, naughty is male
this has short hair, naughty has long
this is 45 days old, naughty is 14 + now
its tail pokes, naughtys' curls
this is a dachund, naughty is a pomeranian
this has no name, naughty is famous

now the hunt for the name... please drop in suggestions