Alok da!

( आलोक दा बायें से प्रथम, प्रबोध दा दायें से प्रथम 9 फरवरी 1992)

आदरणीय भाईसाहब
सादर चरण स्पर्श
कल बहुत कुछ कहना चाहते हुये भी बहुत कम कह पाया था, इस बात का मलाल नही है । अक्सर हम जब बहुत अधिक कहना चाहते है तब कुछ भी नही कह पाते । आज डाक्टर बच्चन की कविता का जबाव मै कविता में ही दे रह हूं, बिना अधिक प्रयास के कुछ शब्द यूं ही पद्यबद्ध कर दिये है, यह आवश्यक नही कि मेरे हर शब्द में कुछ अर्थ निहित हो - आपके लिये यहां एक मिनट पहले लिखी पंक्तियां सम्मिलित कर रहा हूं –

हे खग, हे इस जग के नभचर
किसने तुमको पहचाना है
उड़ जाते हो फुर्र से ऊंचे
कहां पकड़ में फिर तुम आते
समय तुम्हारे साथ उड़ चला
क्या तुमने यह नही माना है ।

पंख अगर होते मेरे भी
तुम से मिलने नभ में आता
बैठ कहीं एक डाल पे मै भी
अपने मन की कथा सुनाता

पर कहां कहीं यह संभव जग में
मिल पाना मिल कर ना जाना
आया है जो प्राणी जग में
उसको है एक दिन उड़ जाना
लगा रहा है मेला जग में
यह मेले में खोकर पहचाना ।

अभय शर्मा
12 जनवरी 2010

आदरणीय भाई साहब
सादर चरण स्पर्श

पिछले कुछ दिनों से मै जो भी कहना चाह रहा था वह सब मेरी अपनी कहानी होते हुये भी उस भाई की कहानी भी है जो आज हमारे बीच न होते हुये भी मुझे बेहद याद आता है - वास्तव में अगर मै यहां इतनी अधिक निकटता से लिखता हूं तो उसमें इस बात का समावेश अवश्य ही है कि आप के अंदर मै आलोक दा को देखता हूं - आलोक दा के प्रति (जन्म 11 जनवरी 1955 मृत्यु 18 मार्च 1994)

कहां चले गये हो तुम
जहां में हमको छोड़ के

कहां कभी मिलोगे तुम
किसी गली के मोड़ पे

कहो किसे कहूं कि तुम
चले ये नाते तोड़ के

सोचता हूं क्या थे तुम
जब तार सारे जोड़ के

भाई से बढ़कर थे तुम
संसार की इस होड़ में

जब भी याद आते हो तुम
बस रोता हूं दिल मरोड़ के ।

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जानता हूं
अच्छा नही,
यूं इस तरह से याद करना
यूं बेपनाह प्यार करना
या फिर से एक फरियाद करना

जानता हूं
लौट कर ना आ सकोगे
फिर गीत ना संग गा सकोगे
ना फिर कटेंगें रात-दिन
जैसे कटे थे एक पल छिन
भूल जाना ही भला है
पर भूल पाता हूं कहां मैं ।

अभय शर्मा

11 जनवरी 2010

Day 625 of ABs blog

The most Respected and Reverred Brother of Humanity
My deepest and warmest wishes to you of the early morning!

I should admit here that what you have said of the meetings with Narendra Modi.. of what you referred of SRK.. of what you mentioned of other luminaries in the profession.. of all that you express here day in and day out.. aap kisi aur hi mitti ke bane ho bhaai.. aap ka koi jawaab nahi..

India in general.. Gujarat in particular.. and Indian actors to be specific have great talents.. I must freely admit here that for some personal reasons I had been having a stored hatred for the state of Gandhiji.. not so much for him.. not so much for Modi.. Not so much for any other conceivable reason that could fill the mind easily but for the fact that I lost my immediate elder brother late Alok Sharma under bizarre circumstances of his love mariage going eerie.. sometimes mind gets overwhelmed by personal losses and gets influenced to think away from the normal behaviour.. I today admit to my Gujarat friends that I am at wrong to label the state the way I had been doing it over last 15 years since my own personal grievances with it.. it is nt correct to believe or think that a state becomes bad by our singel experience with it.. may I whole heartedly be apologetic to Gujarat and rediscover my ways to change the way I feel about it.. I shall try and abstain mixing personal reactions away from the beneral associations..

I would rather not speak of Narendra Modi so much.. politics not on my agenda.. yet the man who could be labelling himself as common man and CM.. I do not shy away to say that he has indeed made a very true observation about PAA and your enacting the role of Auro devoid of face and voice.. indeed I agree fully well with him on that matter..

Bhaai.. I have been having this thought of writing the last parts of Bachcan Sandhya.. the Pushpa bharti episode.. if I have not been able to type it down and upload here or at one of my own blogs.. there is absolutely no question f unwillingness.. there could not be.. this last part actually comes with some great revelations about her and the most of it concerns like some ways I hold her so close to my heart.. you may or may not remember how in one very old post I had thought or believed that she was our Pushpa Mausi.. she is not.. she is more than a Pushpa mausi.. she had some attributes very close to my mother.. so she is more like maa si than Mausi.. that Pushpa Mausi was another character who was a sanskrit student of my nanaji.. I was told that she had some sort of royal background.. more of it in the Hindi version as and when I conclude the Bachchan Sandhya..

May I take some of your time and persuade you to visit my newly acquired ( 15th December 2009) website at http://www.abhayasharma.net and enoy the way I feel about you.. I do have a plan to accomodate more of Dr. Bachchan and I must not hesitate to say here that if and whenever you do undertake any project like Buddham Sharanam Gachchhami or on the life of Buddha.. please do call me to be a part of the extras.. I would simply love to be a part of anything that has Buddha as its central character.. Instead of seeking payment I may pay you for enabling me of such trifle request.. of course only what is within my capacity.. you should not ask huge amounts.. No, no, I am not saying that you would want to do it that way.. I just wanted to express my desire to be part of any such venture..

I abruptly come to an end of this post.. yet must state here that yesterday when bidding farewell to a senior colleague I did manage the show well and earned compliments from Chief executive himself about ny growing compering abilities.. this was only the second time around.. no more of boasting.. it was spontaneity that would have appealed to most of the people.. I prefer to appear unprepared.. like all my posts here...

Love respect and regards to you and the entire FmXt
Abhaya Sharma

PS Before I submit the contents a Kabir Doha for all..

माया मरी न मन मरा, मर-मर गए शरीर ।
आशा तृष्णा न मरी, कह गए दास कबीर ॥

Kabir says that lure and expectations don't die easily even if the physical body does.. The hope and thirst for more does not quench, so once said saint Kabir.

India wins series in style

Respected Brother

Sadar Charan Sparsh
Bade din kI Badi shubhkaamnayen.. you had given a good vivid account of Kolkata days that I had sought.. what if.. if it was not cricket.. it had Christamas around it and what could be more fitting than one could ask for..

You have been showing yjay all your energies are not cornered around acting skills alone.. you have reserved good amount for your excellent writing skills.. it gives me a great pleasure to read the long detailed accounts from you.. and you obliged with an extremely exciting piece on reaching Mumbai from Dubai..

I would have loved to praise the young man Virat Kohli yesterday.. better late than never.. here is a sensible young cricketer who has graduated well from his teens into sheens.. does that makes sense the phrase.. I would not know.. I wanted to say that he has most easily jumped into manhood from childhood.. his knock of whatever I saw reminded me of how cricket is to be played even in the shortest verson.. working out singles, converting bad deliveries into boundaries. and taking care that you are not carried away into thinking that you are Sehwag..

Well done Virat.. had been championing the cause for the inclusion of all-rounders and with your fielding skills and ability to bowl when needed does put you into that bracket.. it is a different story that nether Dhoni nor Sehwag has given it a thought that you know how to use your bowling arm.. that is all right.. he will be tested soon on that count too in front of his home crowd..

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli were going neck to neck and the way they were playing it was only a matter of academic interest who scores his century first.. here it seems Gambhit helped him register his century before him.. the gesture to hand over his man of the match award to the young colleague who had essayed his first (maiden) hundred in international cricket was a very humanly move.. Hats off to you Gautam (Buddha) Gambhir.. you have certain calmness and confidence that every cricketer world wide would love to have.. you ake a perfect foil to Swashbbuckling Viru..

I had yesterday named two teams for India and would love that it does happen sooner than later..

Wishing all a Merry Christmas all over again..

Abhaya Sharma

PS Virender Sehwag I do not mind congratulating you on two consecutive victories.. they were important as the came against no mean team.. the Lankans have good talent and Dilshan has been tamed.. finally.. yet dropping or rather not finding place for Praveen Kumar is a question you will have to answer..

Merry Christmas to You

Respected Brother
Merry Christmas to you and every soul of the blog!

And to every member of this country who loves every religion being secular. I wish a very merry christmas to all.. Some of my foreign friends alone I would be addressing here.. Indian friends should not kill me for that..

Carla, Renate, Phyllis (PB), Zhenya, Lyudmila, Rose ( Sis can I wish!), Elena, Rochelle Goldman ( I know you ain't christian, you are still wished anyway especially for your disbelief..), Tatiana, Anat Magen ( I know again you are form Israel and would have loved to be wished aroy\und Hanukka! did I spell that right!), in fact I don't know If i could wish many more people in Valorie Adams ( I don't still know if you are Indian.. if you had told me I must have forgotten.. eh.. I am good at something atleast..) and Claudia Ciesla of BigBoss 3.. I did not get to know how and when you were voted out.. I thought you had a good chance to score above others.. it is all right..

Am I forgetting some others like I have always been.. not my fault blame it on my being 50.. I have a reason to forget 50 things in 50 seconds.. 50 of those can safely add their names to this list.. Joshua David for one and Dorothy Mdigan for another..

Merry Christmas to you

The cricket lover says to you

Come lets just play too!

Merry Christmas dear friends

Merry Christmas to you!

Oh I forgot the biggest fan of Jesus.. excuse me Christ for forgetting Gisele Gomez Barbosa of Rhode Islands.. I hope Patrick is doing fine their and is not too unhappy amongst angels and saints.. come Gislee Lets do celebrate.. celebrate Christams with you too.. and Christ why am I not writing to my best friend on earth.. Best Christmas Wishes Gisele.. I hope I could once again be able to write to you and say Merry Chritmas mon ami Gisele!

I think some of you would not know her.. i shall tell more about her when I am actually able to address her.. I have not been able to write to her with open heart after the death of her 20 year old son on 15th July this year.. I feel like crying but still can't try to say a few words to her.. someone could help me break the ice.. She is the biggest fan of Brother much much bigger than AZ could think of.. no, no, I am not trying to tease him.. I know he is a big enough fan.. it only shows how big a fan she could be..
Love you Gisele even If I am not able to send messages across.. Love you from the core of my heart.. Love you for being what you are.. Love you as much as one human being can love another.. and to say the truth I love you more than I love brother Amitabh ( Sorry brotehr! for telling the truth, Tis true but strange for strange is not always the truth..)

Everyone, who has not found a mention here must be an Indian.. and I know Indians do not mind too mcuh and forgive too easily.. Love you all friends and wish you all as well..
Bhaai tum to ho Dubai
Yahan Christmas ki badhaai
deta tumko chhota bhhai
nahi nahi mai kanhaai
Madhushala ki duhaai
mai to rahta mumbai
deta sabko badhaai

Abhaya Christputra

Hindi and English Poetry - AB day 611 (ii)

Dear Brother
Sadar Charan Sparsh

So there we are at last.. at the heights.. with some of these pictures I tend to equate your heights in performances over these 40 years that we have been knowing you..

I have lot of scribbling to be shared .. par pahle kuchh mitha ho jaaye.. arrey bhai Auro paas jo ho gaya hai.. Vaise Auro to 5th December ko hi pass ho gaya thaa... maine bhi uski copy jaanchi thee.. he had scored 10 out of 10.. much ahead of the rest of those who took the exam..

Lets break here and take a route to Hindi and surprisingly poetry.. no, no, not poetry but thoughts in poverty.. I can't think in English so I feel my poetry would sound like poverty.. Lets first have what may not be liked as much.. and more so for the fact that I won't have to leave this post and switch over to invoking Hindi font.. (Don’t you laugh Valorie! I am not Adams but an Eve's son.. so says allegory..)

I know no bounds
I live unbound
to discover and define
the life that we found!

The guy next door
is my friend for sure!

The one who has heart
The one blessed with a mind
The one who is soft
The one who acts kind
The one who laughs or
The one who cries
The one who gets angry
The one who loves trees
The one who is a man
The one who is always free
The one who is seldom busy
The one who lives for others
The one who dies for his brothers
The one who is divine
The one who never whines
The one who talks with me
The one who walks with me
The one who is made of flesh
The one who is all of bones

He is dear to me!!!


I know some people would be wondering what exactly is this non-sense that they can make no sense.. I had warned few days back that I can not write poetry in Englissh.. No, no, not that I can write poetry in Hindi but I can give it a try! wait and see what folllows next!!

Love you all those who liekd it and not liked it at all!!

Love You and Treat you Right!
Abhaya Sharma


सपने-अपने अपने सपने !

कहीं कोई दिल में
ये ख्वहिश दबी सी
है देती थी दस्तक
नही अजनबी सी

मुझे क्या पता था
क्या मुझको खबर थी
है दामन से लिपटी
नई ज़िंदगी थी !

तुम्हे क्या बताउं
मै क्या अब सुनाउं
ये दिल की लगी थी
नही दिल्लगी थी !

कैसे, कहां, कब
किसे मैं जताउं
कि ख्वबों में ही
एक दुनिया सजाउं !

भाई है दुनिया का
हर भाई मेरा
बहन भी लगे न
कभी भी पराई !

मेरे दिल से पूछे
कोई भी कभी भी
मेरी ज़िंदगी की है
ये सांसें सभी की !

न परमाणु बम हो
न कोई भी गम हो
हंस कर कटे
ज़िंदगानी हमारी !

मरने के सौ-सौ बहाने
मिलेंगे
जीने को हम आज फिर से
मिलेंगें !

नही नाम से कोई मतलब
हमारा
नही कोई शिकवा न गफलत
इशारा !

चलो आज हम फिर
फिकर छोड़ जी लें
जो खाई हो कसमें
उन्हे तोड़ जी लें !

मिल कर रहे थे
मिल कर रहेंगें
धरती को अपनी
मां धरती कहेगे !!!

अभय शर्मा
(मुझे उम्मीद है कुछ एक लोग इसे कविता कहने में संकोच नही करेंगें, पसंद करें या ना करें इसकी कोई गारंटी मैं नही ले सकता !!!)

AB day 611(i)

Oh Brother!

You were quite quick to address us back once you realised there did exist some technical glitch and your understanding of the jargon.. it bemuses when you say ... but the fact of the matter is that I know damn all about all this ..

coool brother pretty cool.. I know what you wanted to convey.. despite all your knowledge this idiotic machine fails to take requests from you or fails to abide by your sense of urgency.. hopefully the guy who comes to help would be able to put the pictures there as and when he comes to your rescue.. we can wait..

aur kya chal raha hai Dubai mei bhaai.. vahan kahan pahunch gaye phir se.. I think you were there very recently at DIFF if I am not wrong.. No, no, I am not questioning you.. maine to aise hi poochh liya dubai kya aap jahan jee chahe aao-jaao.. hum logon ki connectivity barkaraar hai to Dubai ya Hawaai se hamen kahaan inkaar hai..

I can only feel that you are enjoying life after the grerat success of Paa.. hope Abhishek too gets a good acknowledgement for his role as Amol Arte.. maine to use kaafi kam number diye thhey... yet he was at his best better than Guru and Bunty-Babli.. How is he doing.. mujhse naraaz to nahi hai na.. us din (28th November ko) jab achanak yeh dono mere saamane kahde thhey kuchh soojha hi nahi ki inase kya kahoon.. lagbhag hakka-bakka sa bas dekhata hi rah gaya thha.. chalo khair.. give him my love.. I hope his TV avtar would be as sensational as what you had in your first TV appearance.. All the best to him and to Aishwarya too.. did she give those copies of the two poems (28th November, agan) I had submitted to her.. Kavi Ka samman and pranay-prasingini.. nahi dee to koi baat nahi.. mujhe aaj bhi yah viswaas nahi ho raha hai ki I was there at Bachchan Sandhya..

Kal ki kya taiyaari hai.. I mean kal kise jita rahe ho.. yeh Sehwag ne Kumar ko kyon nahi khilaya.. I did not like it.. he has to be roped in tom. for sure.. vaise to agar Irfan bhi andat aa jaaye to kya buraai hai.. vaise Lanka ki team achchha khel rahi hai agar jayasuriya fit hai to uska khelana to tay baat hai.. he is still a force to reckon at 40 years of age.. bhaai.. Karthik ke behaviour se bhi main khush nahi hoon.. maana he has to reinforce his chances by playing good cricekt but having denied Sachin his 46th ODI hundred is criminal so to say..

Kal baat karate hain.. This Sanjith, here on the blog is also deeply interested in cricket.. I hope he gets to read this post.. and Tumpa Bon.. thinks that every time I am not writing here I must be busy with cricket.. arrey bhai.. aur bhi gham hain zamane mei cricket ke alava.. I have spent quite some time with Buddha Aur Naach Ghar.. Can I get a copy of some of the other poems.. scan karke upload kar sakate ho.. mujhe kyaa karun smvedana lekar tumhaari.. aur akelpan ka bal pahchaan.. chahiye thee.. dekh lo.. agar possible ho tabhi karana agar jhanjhat lage to koi baat nahi.. I will look for other avenues..

Lunch ke liye aayaa thaa.. aloo-matar ki sabzi aur parathe hai.. khaoo to bataao.. ek plate aapke liye bhi lagaa leta hoon.. aaj ghar par akela hi hoon.. kyaa aloo-methi chaahiye thhee.. bhai.. phir to aapko wait karana padega..

haan, ek naya kamara office mei kal hi mila hai.. bada hai.. kaafi spacious bhi hai.. abhi internet connectivity baaki hai.. isliye puraani jagah se hi kaam kar raha hoon.. theek hai phir milte hain.. Dubai se Mumbai kab aa rahe ho..
Love, affection, admiration and regards

Abhaya Sharma

A repsonse to AB's long post of day 599

Dear Brother

Sadar Pranaam

As I have just finished reading the entire post only now.. should I congratulate you over such a massive piece on entertainement and its future and values and its whole caricature.. I don;t know if that word could be used to describe the theses on the subject..

I would just say that entertainment in coming years may achieve many forms as edutainment besides infotainemt.. naraators and actors would always be required.. they would always be a constant component of the story of entertainment..

An every time we would discuss entertainment and some of its associated figures we would always be reminded of you that is some sort of immortality that comes to you.. how long it lasts can not be known.. Gurudev lives even today so does Vivekanand the latter may not have been entertainer in the real sense of the word but in its extended extension..

There would always be reasons to live in the past in every present.. the human tendency is governed by its remembering of its past and its evaluating its future.. what you have achieved may have appeared a bit dry to few.. to me as well when did not have as much time in the day.. it does hold significant value.. even if it is derived from other sources.. a compilation that is made available and accessible will always hold value and command significance.. what I found that what you discussed and debated had some very close connectivity to your personal self as well..

The cinema will always have its entertainment value even if it assumes other roles too.. recreation of an individual human being is always going to remain an important ingredient of the society for many more years.. that we learn from the past.. there were entertainers all around deep into the history and by the same analogy there would be entertainers all over in the future of mankind and humanity.. The recreation if it could also bask in some sort of social and moral suppositions in its fold should definitely be a welcome move..

I think I would read this post one more time to assimilate its essence for my own good use as well.. some of the findings that have been discussed and presented hold true not only for entertanment alone but for rest of professions as well..

I get a feeling that I did get to read something very essential to our existence and living.. good work.. I have to loo up the links as well.. as and when I get time..

Love, Respect and RegardsAbhaya Sharma

Post script: That you could speak like Auro without the mask on.. what a commendale feat sir.. and how could you enjoy the cricket like rest of us.. when you reacted the way you reacted.. you appeared as knoweldgeable of cricket as any one of us who feel to be prod of our association with the game.. yet I would say that you chose the right format to make an appearance.. do you also plan to own a team was not answered.. or I missed that.. I would not mind working for such a team in any capacity other than a player.. you would not want a 50 year old to be in the playing side.. there are many aspects of cricket that i feel deserve a good human angle like the one you described when asked about so many wides.. I a really very-very impressed and I do not try to impress upon you that you get impressed by my being impressed.. many cricket lovers would have loved your short stay at the extra-cover.. it was a good act..