Yeah i know a dream come true for a true cricket fan.The day is today.21st November 2008.My dad called and asked if the news was true.So did my bro and even my next door uncle.Everyone was super excited that i was meeting the man who was solely resposible for the great world cup win (i know i know i was not even born then..).All of us were getting ready to meet him.I was a little disappointed that he was not on my show....but then its ok i still got to talk to him.The bats,balls and stumps were ready!!!Arrey not for a match but for his autograph(i remembered the scene in Iqbal movie when we were asking him to sign) and so was the cake for him.
Finally after a lot of wait he arrived!!
Wat a personality..as he was walking the only thing i was thinking is" he is the man..he is just THE MAN".Yeah as a official welcome we all clapped for him as he walked and gave him a bompu horn welcome also (yeah radio one is wacky).He was just taken aback and he asked 'is everything ok?'
Yeah those were the first words of his...wow..he should have been on radio instead(very very husly voice..remember the Palmolive ad???).Then he headed straight to the studio for the Interview with Pavithra.
Very sweety he answered all the questions and very humbly he answered all the questions.
I will try and post all the answers in the next blog but one answer i remember is this:
Pavi : Who is the one cricketer that u like the most now?
KD: In the present team i really like Dhoni.The reason is simple he just does wat his heart tells him to do.He is very passionate about the game and is very humble and honest.
Wow a great cricketer just like him talking so high about another crciketer..u dont see such things nowadays.The thing that i loved about paaji is he was also very very honest about all that he said.
U know Pavi said namaskaara bengaluru in one link and he asked why begaluru and not bangalore.I mean we were all arguing with him saying its for good...and the only thing he said in the end was this "we are all Indians first and thats wat we need to believe.Its bigger than anything else including religion.Dont force anyone to do anything.Live and let live
(I can still hear all the things that he said in my head.)Why dont you all start a debate as to wat we want Bangalore to be called as.You do have the most important tool.Voice and people who listen to you".
We all had nothing to say.And the he just said no matter wat u cant convince me.But thats wat we are.We allow people to push us to limits.What he said was absolutely right.At that point i thought he is not only a great cricketer but also a great human being.
Then we continued asking him some fun questions like whom he wants to kiss on world kiss day and he sang a song for us Kiss kiss kisse pyar karoon (And we played it!!!).How he bowled his wife over and loads of other questions.After that we atlast let him go (though we dint want to).
Not before we all stood with him for a photograph and even though i made it very clear i needed a single photo with him everyone came and stood beside me (jealous!!!!).
WE then made him cut a cake and that time i stood with him for a photograph.I even told him that i am the official cake cutter in the company.So he made me cut the cake with him..very very sweet man who hates sweet by the way and loves samosas(damn wat a day not to get them)!!
But then it was a great time with a great man...Would love to meet him again!!!
So until we meet again and i write again this is Pallavi saying ba bye!!!
(Yeah yeah i am a RJ how else would u expect this to end??)
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How foolish of KAPIL DEV !
who told him that it has got to do with religions inside INDIA..
i mean, i am speaking about what he told about BANGALORE and BENGALURU !
Its nothing got to do with religions.. Bengaluru is a proper noun and it was used as it has a history (benda kaaLuru) .. But later, BRITISH pronounced it as Bangalore.
Even after British left the country, after 55 years we have changed the name and KAPIL a.k.a KAPI doesnt like that .. and he is speaking nonsense about it!
Let him first understand the history and then comment it!
Its for no one's good or bad... Its not religion... Its the tradition..!
If you celebrate any XYZ's birthday like that, any person would "ACT" sweet to you on that day !! :D
ofcourse, am speaking about Kapil here lol !
abhi i think u have got it all wrong!!!!He never meant it the way ur thinking.He said why are we changing the name suddenly.I mean i agree with him completely.I am born in this place and a hard core kannadiga but wats the use of changing the name from bangalore to bengaluru???
He has nothing to do with the name he is asking another question..which i dont think u have seen...so read it again and ul understand it!!!
And by the way it was not his birthday today...he is a very sweet person
nammorige naavu hesru iTkonDre ivanyaake iruve kacchatteee antaa !
I have understood them mentality of these people !
When he said "We are indians first!"
he is speaking as if we are wrong and we are thinking about only our state and our language!
Down with him!
a name of a place is not a random thing to be kept!
and once it is kept if some outside person comes and modernizes it, there is no rule that we have to retain it !
Just bcoz the name was MISPRONOUNCED when you were born, its not that it should not be PRONOUNCED anytime properly in future!
Bombay was changed to MUMBAI.. show me an instance where KAPIL has wrongly about it... where has he supported BOMBAY instead of BAMBAAAYI ! ?
First he is not opposed to bengaluru.He has said if we like it u can call it.But why force someone who does not like it to use it..Now im the biggest example.I call my city as Bangalore stilll...and will continue to do so.Secondly ur missing the big picture in the conversation...But i dont think ul get it either coz ur one of those people...so its better we end it here!!!
KANNADIGAS even now call BANGALORE as bengaluru when they speak in kannada !
SO bengaluru is in the mother tongue. We dont want to call it as BANGALORE just bcoz it sounds beautiful!
We kannadigas call it as bengaluru who speak in kannada AND EVEN YOU ADDRESS it AS bengalooru when you speak in kannada :D
and HENCE we dont want someone else to call it with some skewed up form of the name!
My name is Abhishek(what my parents named me).. and I dont want someone else to spell it wrong or anything just bcoz they find the skewed name beautiful! Someone else mite feel what has he got to lose if someone else spells it wrong.. BUT I FEEL he shud pronounce it properly!
can anyone write BANGALORE in kannada?
they wud surely write as this ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು !
bengalooru ! its so funny that we are translating proper nouns between languages!~
English : Bangalore
kannada : Bengalooru
No other city has this acceptable.. why Bangalore shud have it ?
So lets use 1 name !
Which of those 2 ? this is karunaaDu.. lets go with the kannada NATIVE name !
NATIVITY RULES finallY!
according to our kannada language ur name should be abhisheka alwa...thats how they would call u..and its not about how one calls u..its about how u would like to be called..ashte..we all love to call our city Bangalore and would love for the name to remain the same
who told according to kannada my name is abhisheka?
Iam telling you again.. that you dont need TRANSLATION for proper nouns dear !
Now the which one shud be my name :abhishek or abhishekaa was decided by my parents.. and i expect you to address me with that name ! :D
Nice Write up again... ;-)
Lucky that you Met Kapil Dev, Legendary Cricketer...
Is Kapil seeing Abhi and Pallavi's conversation? :D on Bengaluru and Bangalore? :P
On what occasion he visited your Studio?
god more than me being happy that you met a legendry cricketer i am bemused about the conversations b/w u and my frnd abhi
yaak sir vivek ? :D
@Vijay
he was in Bangalore to launch a Golf store kano...and we were a part of it so he came to the studios...and i hope he is not seeing tis conversation!!!
@Vivek
Bemused????
My god!!!!!!
Today is Kapil Dev's Birthday...
50th Birthday for Legend...
vi how r u?
hi pallavi how r u?
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