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What does it take to work successfully as a Youtuber?  First, it is the dedication and then it is persistence. These two things work hand in hand. If you want to become a successful YouTuber you have to keep posting videos without caring about whether they will hit the right audience or not. Most of the youtube videos that you will see will tell you that they have arrived at it by an accident. They didn’t know themselves but once something hits the right goal they keep working on it till it becomes massive. The kick is to find that right video. But again, a new question arrives that what is the right kind of content that you should choose to become a successful YouTuber. Googling on the internet will give you lots of options but DON’T read them. You cannot find your calling on the internet. Your calling is inside you and you can only find it thinking about the things that you have done in your life and things that you like doing. Remember, Pewdiepie make

Everything stopped once i came to Mumbai. I was writing blogs and i was thinking of writing blogs everyday till i reach a popularity or 1000 posts, whichever first. I was making youtube videos and i am not doing that anymore. Shashiji, my friend who was a creative director on the the film shorgul in which i was assistant director had asked me to work in his new venture which is a channel for a spiritual Guru. But no one is talented in this group. No one is working hard. I don't know what is written for me, but I am destined to work great. This is not where i should work. This is not where i can progress. I need to move. I need to make decisions. I need to move.  

If you really think that Kejriwal is going to change India, you are wrong. I am not merely issuing a statement, I have my valid reasons. Don't vote for Kejriwal. This is coming from a converted Kejriwal Fan. I was a Kejriwal fan and I thought he will change the country for good. These days I am not sure what his intentions are but his psychology seems pretty clear. He wants to become great and he sees himself as the messiah and become the savior of people even when they don't need to be saved from anyone. He portrays BJP as evil but till date, BJP and Modi have only done well for India. On the other hand, he feeds people with negativity and doubts about everything BJP does. He doubts surgical attacks, something the country should be proud of. He doubts demonitisation, when demonitisation was not about bringing black money, ti was about eliminating black money and forcing people to open bank accounts for transparent transactions. He never praised Yogi Adityanath for

The normal course of action for any person in my case would be to do the sane thing. But not me, no sir. I have done so many things to fuck my own ass and then laugh at myself for doing it. I don't have a girlfriend and damn these girls who look so fake these days that intelligent girls are either fat or ugly. I want the perfect combination even though I am intelligent but little ugly from world's point of view. I am beautiful from inside. My kidney, heart, intestine, inside skin are all beautiful but I guess no one cares about that. People care about things they can see and that is their problem - their eyes, I think everyone should be poked needles in their eyes right when they are eye to make them blind, that way this world will become a better blinded place, except we have to leave one person with eyes so that he can poke needle in other people's eyes, we can't risk a blind man poking on a person's body just to find the right place to poke. It will be a cruel t

There is no other actress I have been more crazy about after Aishwarya Rai than Nayanthara. She is one powerful actress and she has made her prominent place as top leading actress in South Indian Industry. It wont be an understatement if I say that I am a crazy fan of her and stalk every movie of her just to see her. Aramm trailer (teaser) releases today and it looks similar to Kaththi in terms of raising social issues of poor farmers. Initially when i started watching the teaser i thought it was a documentary in which Nayanthara must have participated but slowly the documentary teaser takes a commercial turn and we see Nayanthara walking in slow motion with determined face towards somewhere. It is evidently clear that she is some government officer trying to solve problems of poor people and the look and expression she carries on her face doesn't give her any less power than the entry of any other South Indian Superstar. I love to see a female oriented film in which a lady i

First of all, they are not dogs, they are people and for us, they are our kids. They are my kids and they are treated like kids by everyone in my family. Eleven years back in March, we bought Dodo home from a relative’s house. They got six bull terrier kids with them and we adopted one of them. Thy was born the legend of Dodo. White as snowball with black shiny eyes who could just melt you with his stare and would look at you knowing that these people will take care of him for the rest of his life. I and my brother became his father and we love every moment of it. I have to accept this thought that my brother loves Dodo more than I do. Don’t get it wrong, I love him too. But I think my brother loves him more than I do. If Dodo is getting irritated and doesn’t want anyone around, he bites you, he doesn’t mean it but it is his way of telling you that he needs his privacy. He does it only occasionally, like once or twice in a year. If he does that to me, I would get angry and

You have a choice. You always have a choice. When someone says they don’t have a choice then they are lying. They think they don't have a choice because they don’t want to choose the other side but still they have the choice. You chose whether you want to live a peaceful calm life at a hill station or you want a life that is full of noise and people bustling around you with fame and glamor. Both choices are equally right. When you are fat and you want to become thin, it is a tough choice you make because most people create the reason why they want to remain in the same condition of misery as they were earlier. Every superhero gets a choice about what he wants to do. According to me, superhero is a superhero because when he is given a choice he takes a decision, he makes a choice. It is difficult to make a choice and it is difficult to make a decision. One of my friends works as an assistant art director in ad films. He recently got an ad film to produce. He offered m

The idea to start something starts with habits and to develop habits one must be disciplined. You don’t need too much self-discipline, you just need discipline enough to develop that into habits. There has been researches that have been done in various universities and according to that, it takes nearly 66 days to develop a habit. Every successful person has rituals. Yeah, let’s call it the ritual because doing great work is like doing worship. You must completely concentrate on it and you must completely believe it. Why do people have low will power? Why do people are unable to convert their will into the habit? It is the lack of motivation. It is because people sometimes want results too fast. You may have met novice bodybuilders who do exercise and immediately go to mirror to see the growth. They are working for miracles because they don’t have belief in their acts. If they had belief in their acts then they would concentrate on body building rather than notice the progres

The only reason I watched this film was because of Emma Watson. She didn't disappoint me. How can anyone be so perfect? Though I hated the kiss in the end because the man who should kiss Emma Watson has to be a perfect guy even if it for acting purposes, except that everything was good.  The story is simple, something which we have we have read and seen before. The good thing is that the Director and Writer have remained mostly true to the original story. The only thing that bothered me while watching the film were too long musical songs. There is a song on Gaston, the antagonist, where his best friend his praising him to lift his spirits and it kind of gets too long after a while. It was entertaining in the beginning but drags after a while. I loved the character of Gaston, played by Luke Evans marvelously, and provides the very much required comic relief in the otherwise heavily romantic film. Girls will love this film because the film survives on the ancient story of r

I am not a secular person. Secular means "not connected with religious or spiritual matters". I am religious though I was not earlier and I am spiritual, which also I was not earlier. I respect all religions and I enjoy going to different religious buildings and feel the presence of different culture at these places. I have Muslim friends and I have Sikh friends too. I have SC, ST friends and I have Pandit, Thakur friends too. Some behave nicely and some don't. That is just human. I don't care about that because that is the ratio of normal human beings and not religious people. Some people will be good to you and some will be not. Deal with it. I never called myself Hindu except for nowadays because earlier I never felt any need to, now I do. Not because Modi is raising Hindutva funda and Yogi Adityanath is Chief minister, it is because for the first time I am feeling that what I believe in really matters and there are people out there who finally care about it.

Till now those who know me or follow me knows that I want to be a billionaire. I have no real plans to state it truthfully but I know that I am on the right track and I know that it is going to happen. Right now what I need is a product and since I cannot create anything or buy anything right now, I think my product is me. I have to sell myself. I don't have mastery over anything but I am good at so many things at the same time. I have to pick what I am better at. I feel that it is the focus that is required most now and a little bit of planning on how I am going to go about it. I know that I have to sell something to this world for which there will be monetary transaction and I know that unknowingly I have developed habits of good speaking by trying to improve myself over the years. I was not good at speaking to people for a very long time but now it has become an easy thing for me. I easily influence people of my intellect and it has come as a by-product of me trying to prove my

My bhabhi likes this film a lot and really really forced me to watch this film. I had it on my system and I was planning to watch it for a long time. I missed watching it in the theater and being a big fan of Benedict Cumberbatch I wanted to watch it on the big screen. The film again suffers from the same problem that many other films suffer from - characterization. The film focuses too much on the lead character that other characters have literally no role in the film whatsoever. They have forgettable lines and no other character except that of Doctor strange has been developed wisely. The villain Kaecillius seems caricaturish and you don't feel thrills watching him enter or fight. He looks like he can be easily defeated. Frankly, he looks like one of the henchmen of the main villain but not the main villain. Doctor Strange defeats him in his first fight with him when even Doctor's powers have not been fully developed while Kaecillius does not just have more powers,

I picked this book randomly. I love the name of the book. The story of the author Grant Cardone is very interesting. He was a drug addict till he was 25 and then came his defining moment when he decided to change his life for good and what a comeback he has made. The best book about becoming a rich can come from a person who has done it all by himself. Grant Cardone is one such dude. I follow him on twitter now and I have read all the books written by him by. I wanted to review this book for a long time and finally, i have decided to review and post my opinions about it. The book has opened my minds to the powers of social media. I don't do much of twitter, facebook or Instagram and I never found the need for it. He showed me that one has to move with the speed of the world to become rich in the contemporary world. I have read a lot of books on becoming rich as my prime aim has changed recently to becoming rich from filmmaking. I can do filmmaking only when I can become rich

I love Anushka Sharma but it may not be for the same reasons as you may love her. She is beautiful, yes. She is a good actress, yes. But there is something more in her which I love and admire which no other actress today have and I want to point those things out. I don't know why and don't ask me the reason because I have no idea why, but instead of writing a complete article on her I have decided to make points of the things that I admire about her so that people who aspire to success can read it and understand that apart from being beautiful, what you may need to survive in a competitive industry like film world. 1. She does not lose her mind easily, anymore. I have seen her video where she gets angry when talked about Virat Kohli but she has lately taken such an interesting and mature approach towards the whole topic that it amazes me. She gives a poker face and remain indifferent to the question and sometimes she jokingly changes the topic to something else. 2. S

I saw the trailer of "Justice League" yesterday and the wonder that why DC comics movies don't work better than Marvel became perfectly clear to me. "DC comics movies are too dark and there is no fun." I love Marvel comics characters and I am not in any way biased. I haven't read any comics from either brand. Just like any other Indian middle class kid, I grew on overdoses of Raj comics, Manoj comics and Diamond comics which had characters like Nagraj, Dhruv, Doga, Hawaldar Bahadur, Bankelal, Chacha Chaudhary, Pinki, Billu and many more, every one of them inspired and copied from foreign comic characters but were nonetheless interesting. I never had access to superman comics though I watched superman on TV every Sunday and I loved it. That is my memory of Superman, Batman and Spiderman. When the first movie of Ironman came I had no idea who he was, neither did I know anything about Deadpool. I have lived in a completely different world. Now I follow

Sex, Cinema and Lies - A Short Film  Reunion is a story of Two filmmaker friends who meet over one night for a casual chat which later turns into an egomaniacal fight. Big fan of film Deewar, coincidentally their names are Vijay and Ravi too. Ravi is a successful film director down south and Vijay is still trying his own luck. As the night progress, one event leads to another and more people are called to join in the Ego Parade This was basically a 125-page screenplay, for which I didn't have a budget to shoot so I decided to shoot the first 25 pages of the film just for the heck of it. I have started this film so many times and it never gets made, to remove the curse from it, I and my friend Raashul decided to shoot this one night.  Please share the film as much as you can and subscribe to my channel. Direction, Produced, Written, Edited, Sound Design: Shitiz Srivastava Associate Director: Raashul Tandon Operative Cameraman: Abhinav Kaushik Co-Producer: Nishadh Chand

The problem with one fine morning getting up and finding out that you are not in the good state of mind. The feeling that nothing works right for you. The feeling that whatever and however you try it will end up as nothing scares you the most. Today morning i got the same feeling. There are lots of things that are going wrong in my life right now. Actually, they are not wrong, they are just round the corner and i am afraid that i am not making the right kind of effort to reach there. But what should i do? Sometimes i feel that i am reading too many books on inspiration and thinking so much so that i am relying on them to change my life. Nothing will happen unless i take the right step. I know that. My job is to work hard. I am working hard but that hard work is scattered so much that i am unable to pick the pieces of it that has fallen over. There is so much negativity all around. Everyone is failing. I don't have any successful person around me. I don't know any director wh

I was a big supporter of Kejriwal once and I am not alone. There are many like me. They all supported him once and now they don't. What happened? Well, politics happened. When a man for himself decides that he is great, his downfall begins. Kejriwal is new in politics and he is still trying to figure the thing out. His mistake was that he took politics as a mathematical game where if he played by the rules he will win. Play the victim card, show oneself as savior and the bigger organization as a villain. Unfortunately, politics is not a mathematical formula. The rules of the game in politics changes with the progression of the last step. You cannot play this game with the comfortable mind. You have to be awake all the time and you have to think in terms of what people really want instead of what you think they want. You may think that a poor person would not desire for anything other than food and if you give him food he will vote for you. The truth is human mind does not

Baahubali was a blockbuster in every sense. I didn't like it because as a screenplay writer I found too many faults, which I thought if avoided it could have become a legend of a film. But the film was entertaining and lead its own culture. A lot of people around me loved it. That is the curse of learning filmmaking that I have to carry my entire life, I see filmmaking from many points of view, not just entertaining. I do VFX for my films too and I know how difficult of work that is. Baahubali-2 does not reveal much in its later trailer, except the visual effects and close beauty shots of actors. But then that is the whole point of this film. I just wish that the story this time will be better to create its own standing. That is just my point of view and i know people loved the story otherwise how will u explain the "Katappa killed Baahubali" Craze. People were involved in the story, that is why it became such a cult. I trust Rajamouli as he is a brilliant director

So I finally made it. But I only shot 25 pages of the script. I tried to make this film for last six years and every time I tried to make it, it never got made. So an idea struck me recently that why not just shoot the first 25 pages of the script and take it from there. I talked to my friends and the production started but then again, it couldn't get made and as usual it let me disappointed. I started feeling like this film is a curse and will never get made. But Raashul, one of my closest friends in Mumbai and also one of the actors int he film kept pushing me to shoot it, with me acting along with his side. I didn't want to act in it or two reasons, First I am not a terrific actor and secondly, I wanted to concentrate on the direction in this film. But again, just like it happened with my first feature film, Amphigori, I had to act. Another problem arose, I couldn't squeeze my time for rehearsing the dialogues and since Raashul has rehearsed the dialogues so many ti

28 Filmmakers Reveal How They Financed Their Movies I have been struggling to make my film for last three years now. I have made two films before. My third film has taken a long time. This is the right kind of motivation that i was looking for. Great documentary. 

Link to the website:  30 Free E-books will help you master Filmmaking I love this website - "No Film School" and I keep visiting it because it has tremendous resources for a Filmmaker to update himself every day related to everything about cinema.  Here are fabulous links to few E-books which you can easily download by following the links on the website. Learn as much as you can before making your first film. I am game for it because after one month I am going to make my own low budget feature film.   

Create a Text Message Bubble in After Effects I really struggled for a long time to find a way to successfully put text message bubbles in my videos.I have tried it and I have succeeded but I wanted to do it more seamlessly and efficiently. Finally I found this video which is terrific and will help you a lot in creating this in after effects.

Channa Mereya - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | Ranbir | Anushka | Pritam | Arijit | Pushkar Kandpal(Cover) I am not making fun or trying to be sarcastic but this guy has some really good voice. I accidentally hit on his video and his voice is really great.  Do check out.

Where do I start to describe this man? I don't exactly know from where so I will start from any random point.  He is one of the few clean hearted people I have ever met in my life. I first met him in 2011 when he was doing music for a director I was assisting back then. We never had a close one to one chat back then. four years later, in the second half of 2015, he messaged me out-of-blue on facebook that he was making a music video and whether I was interested in directing it. It was a free gig and he was also doing it as a favor to one of his friend. I don’t normally do free shoots anymore in Mumbai but somehow I said yes because frankly, I wanted to meet him. He has always been extra nice to me and had once helped me in the background music of one of my short films. We met and we gelled instantly. To know about his background, he is the son of Legendary singer Poornima, who started her career with R.D. Burman. His mother was a big name during 90s bollywood era and sh

I first met Kamlesh in 2010 and it is very important for me to write about him because he has been a tremendous influence in my life during my prolonged stay in Mumbai. I was struggling at the time when we met as I was new in the film industry and I was working in one film where officially I was production assistant but later I was thankfully burdened with responsibilities of an assistant director and art director too. Not that I was given those responsibilities but I took those responsibilities because I just wanted to work as much as I can on sets and understand filmmaking in a better manner. I had the best time of my life working on that film and I met some of the good people there who became my good friends later. One of them, and most important of them was Kamlesh. Kamlesh’s full name is Kamlesh Puri Goswami and he is a Marwari. He can speak four languages fluently- Marwari, Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi, and now he speaks English as well. He is good at accounting by birth