Creative Quest :

The best of Bollywood lines..

our hindi movies have added spice to our daily use of dramatic language.. some of these are now a part and parcel of any exaggerated dialogue – onscreen or off…

some of these that will never be forgotten are more generic dialogues whereas the others are movie specific.. nonetheless, here we go..

Pushpa… I hate tears

Mere paas MAA hai.

Kitne admi the?

Jo darr gaya woh marr gaya

Pachas pachas kos dur jab bachha rota hai to maa kehti hai beta so jaa, so jaa nahi toh gabbbar aa jayega

Bade bade desho mein aisi choti choti baatein hoto rehti hai senorita

Aaj khush toh bohot hoge tum!

Fata poster nikla hero!

Aal izz well!

Kanoon ke haath bahut lambe hote hai

Arey ehsaan kaisa? Yeh toh mera farz tha

Main tumhare bacche ki maa banne wali hoon

Tumhari maa aur behen mere kabze mein hai

Hands up you are under arrest!

Maine tumhe paala zarror hai lekin maine tujhe janam nahi diya

Main tujhe kutte ki maut marunga!

Is saboot ka iss case se bahut gehra talluk hai melord!

Picture abhi bhi baaki hai mere dost!

Isko dawa nahi dua ki zaroorat hai

Jahapana tusi great ho! Taufa kubool karo!

Ya toh dosti gehri hai ya yeh photo 3D hai!

Aaj Pooja kal koi duja.

Itna sannata kyu hai?

Saara sheher mujhe LOIN ke naam se janta hai

DON ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi namumkin hai

Hum jahan pe khade ho jaate hai line wahi se shuru hoti hai

Hum feke hue paise aaj bhi nahi uthate

Mogambo khush hua

Aap purush hi nahi mahapurush hai

Ek macchar admi ko hijda bana deta hai

Yeh dhai kilo ka haath jab kisipe padta hai toh admi uththa nahi, uthh jata hai.

Hum angrezo ke zamane ke jailor hai

BHAGWAAN KE LIYE MUJHE CHHOD DO!

Nahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!!!!!!!

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

Betaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!

Perfection ko improve karna mushkil hai

Hum dost the,hain, rahenge hamesha.

Chal Dhano! Aaj teri Basanti ki izzhat ka saawal hai

Maine apka namak khaya hai Sarkar.

Rishte mein toh hum tumhare baap lagte hai magar naam hai shehenshaah

Apne maa ka doodh piya hai toh samne aa!

Main aur meri tanhayi

Main apni favourite hoon

I can taak englis I can walk englis because englis is a phunny language

Kkkkkkkkk kiran!

Ek ladka aur ek ladki kabhi dost nahi ho sakte

Friendship ka ek usool hai no sorry no thank you

Babumoshai!!!!!

Mooche ho to Nathulal jaise ho….warna na ho

Police ne tumhe chaaro taraf se gher liya hai

mubarakk ho ladka hua hai

Khaaaaamoooosh!!!!

Iss ghar ke darwaze tumhare liye hamesha ke liye bandh ho chukke hai

Arrey oh baabu mushoy hum to rangmanch ki kathputliyan hain jiski dor us upar wale ke haathon main hai. kab, kaun kahan uthega ye koi nahin janta

Objection overruled!

Order Order

Ek phooti kaudi bhi nahi dunga

Isi din ke liye tujhe paal pos kar bada kiya hai?

Kya yeh tumhara akhri faisla hai?

Thehro! yeh shaadi nahi ho sakti

Main kahan hoon?

Mona Darling!

Rahul. Naam to suna hoga.

Mere Karan Arjun ayenge

Main loot gayi barbaad ho gayi

Lo mooh meetha karo!

Marne nahi, tujhe maarne aya hoon!

Bole toh tension nahi lene kaa

Kuch kuch hota hai Rahul, tum nahi samjhoge!

Tumhara ishq ishq? Aur humara ishq sex?

College de gate de iss taraf hum life ko nachate hai aur dujji taraf life humein nacahati hai

Ladkiya toh uniform walon pe marti hai

Tumhara khoon khoon? Aur humara khoon paani?

Bol diya, bas bol diya!

Don ka intezaar toh gyaraah mulko ke police kar rahi hai

Balllllmaaaa

Ab sab upar wale ke haath mein hai

Languor ke munh main angoor

Ek ek ko chunn chunn ke maroonga

i am sure there would be a lot more.. the gathering is on…

Tagged bollywood, i like

2010 04 21 seen and heard Comments (0) Permalink

with all the noise about carbon emissions, pollutants and forest felling in the news, one tends to think that its only the industries that need to do something…someone as menial as a graphic designer or a clerk or a computer operator for that matter has no hand whatsoever in all the global warming and destruction of nature.

here is something that we can do to help the cause

“the ECO-FONT”

the idea behind it was simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability?

developed by SPRANQ and based on a hunch of Colin Willems, this font, when printed, uses upto 20%less ink!

it definately wont look that great on a hoarding, but for those regular, day-to-day prints, its perfect.

and its free for download !!

http://www.ecofont.eu/english.html

get it. use it. spread it.

Tagged fonts

2010 03 27 print design
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Utterly, Butterly, Delicious….

Every Indian (who has been brought up in India) has grown up with Amul Butter and its topicals.

I remember looking forward to seeing a change on the hoarding sites that were booked by Amul .. these were always so brilliant. Infact i still look forward to them – though we dont get to see them everywher as often as we used to…

recently having come across some of them, i am now looking at collecting as many as i can. its the best way to keep a tab on the events that occured

here are some of 2008.. and then some more..

Tagged advertising, brands

2010 03 10 seen and heard Comments (0) Permalink

whats for lunch?

1.00 pm – a horde of people troupe to the ground level for their dabbas dropped of by the dabbawala..

that day was no different except that there was an addition to the menu.

all the dabbas had a sample sachet of the new flavour of ENO – the antacid powder. this was accompanied by a small pamphlet with info about the new flavour and its fast relief action.

this mode of direct marketing seemed so simple yet ingenious.

for a product like Eno, this comes across as the ideal medium for getting to the consumer at the moment of need and thus establishing its message and recall value…

with a Six Sigma Quality Certification endorsed by Forbes magazine, a fan club that includes Prince Charles and Richard Branson , the Mumbai Dabbawalas are a standard by themselves and with initiatives like this, they are fast rising up the marketing ranks as well

Tagged brands, innovations, marketing

2010 03 02 seen and heard Comments (0) Permalink

in search for that ‘perfect’ wedding card

come the time for your wedding bells and one of the innumerble to-dos and have-to-dos is selecting your wedding invitation.

enter into Khadilkar street – Mumbai. the wholesle market for wedding cards

from start to end( with more than 150 shops along the two sides of the lane) all you get are wedding invites – and what variety – paper, handmade paper, textured paper, printed paper, cloth .. and this is just the material.

take any of these and you get another long list of options of printing, embossing, embroidery, stone work, kundan work,lace, motifs, ply-cutouts, plastic embellishments, etc.etc.. along with the more than normal range of colours and shapes and sizes.

the price ranges are also from the lowest to highest and by that i mean – you will get cards starting from INR.7 to INR 700 onwards.

the ones at the higher end would be intricately carved invites in wood or those with silver coating each with an idividual box with a basket of dryfruits or chocolates and such – ofcourse the chocolates cost separate…

having gone through the entire pain staking process for myself( and for friends on numerous other occassions) certain tips that should help you out:

1. it one thing to get something that you like but being a part of the Indian wedding scenario- you need something that everyone else likes as well -take someone along whom you trust and who knows what you like and can advise you

2. decide in advance the maximum amount you’d want to spend on invites ( dont forget to include courier and postage charges in the total)

3. if possible decide on your basic content and details to be printed and take it with you. it will save you a trip down the lane again.

4. keep a margin of about two weeks atleast for the final delivery inspite of all the assurances that the vendor might give you.

5. there a nice (and cheap) gold and silver stickers available in the market so lets give that gluestick a break

6. you can cut down the number of cards to be sent by sending out e-invites to friends and people who you know regularly check – this can be a specially designed e- card, a scanned version of the actual one, free e- invites available on card sites or even a well worded rich text email – thats up to you.

here is wedding invitation that we had emailed to friends and family. lemme know what you think

Tagged experience

2010 02 13 seen and heard Comments (0) Permalink

dear car…

come 14 feb and you see hearts flying all over the place – be it whole or in pieces – its suppose to be the season of flowers candy and cards… its like a bandwagon that all companies,no matter what their product, is bound to jump on hoping for a little bit of attention amongst all that mush..

exide-(as a part of its campaign in 2007 that says exide loves your car)- gave my car a valentine card that year that said:

“Dear Car, Happy Valentines Day – Love Exide.”

this with a rose attached to the envelope!!

a simple affair where you have guys on the field stationed at various signals handing out a small card (a 2 colour print job but executed with great quality) with a rose wishing the car a happy valentines’.

personally- having never bothered about the car batteries – this is one card and battery that i am never going to forget – the simplicity of this brilliant promotion is the best thing about it. i dont know on what scale it was done but i am sure it got much more visibility than if the same amount was spent on a series of hoardings

i didnt know whether i would get anything but the fact that my car did, made my day.

Tagged advertising, brands, innovations, marketing

2010 02 10 seen and heard Comments (0) Permalink

Taking barcodes a step further

Soon, gone will be the days when every packaging designed will have that small white box at the back with coded black lines and random numbers. A unique barcoding system developed by Microsoft, High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is set to hit the market later this year on DVD media The HCCB, a four and eight-color geometric patterned barcode, can hold up to two-pages of data which is more than double of what the current black and white barcodes can store. The code is made up a combination of colours and various orientation of the triangles which will create distinct patterns The international Standard Audiovisual Number International Agency (ISAN-IA) is one the first to license this code for identification on audiovisual products like motion pictures, videogames, etc. Not only the vendors, but Consumers too will be able to interact and obtain valuable information like website, email address etc from the barcode by scanning the code with webcams and eventually with cameras on their mobile phones.

They say that its not a replacement to the existing UPC and other barcode systems but considering the extent of data that can be stored and retrieved, it will not be too long before all the products in the market ahve this multicolored pattern on them.

This development in terms of technology and reach is great but what it will do for design and aesthetics of design remains to be seen.

Tagged innovations, packaging

2010 01 31 packaging
print design
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Bleed in printing

Bleed refers to the type of printing that goes right upto the edge of the paper.

In order to ensure that the layout gets printed edge to edge, you need to leave a bleed margin of about .25″ above the total size on both dimensions (if you are working in mm, about 3mm on each side should suffice). That means that if your actual size is 7″ x 5″, your bleed size needs to be 7.25″ x 5.25″. (actual size: 130mm x 250mm – bleed size should be 136mm x 256 mm ) Set guidelines at your actual size. this will mark what will be printed and seen after the bleed area is cropped post printing.

You can normally get the bleed size from the printer along with the actual size. but incase you dont have the bleed size, make sure that you put the cut marks on all sides demarcating the actual area and bleed margin area

make sure that any text, logo and design element essential to the layout are well within the guidelines else they too shall get cut in the process

Ad with bleed margin and cutmarks

Tagged design

2010 01 27 print design Comments (0) Permalink

Making an Antique Box:

Make an antique box with a collage of different photographs of your friends/family .

You will need::
1.black and white photos. if you donot have the b/w ones, for best results, get a photocopy of the ones you would like to use

2. a tin box or a thick cardboard box with a removable cover
3. glue and scissors
4. black acrylic paint
5. some water and 2 tea bags
6. flat brushes
7. varnish (optional)

How to ::
1. Take the copy of the photos that you would like to use and cut away the extra areas from the images. Some of the photos should be cut around the people to create a cutout of individual images/people. make sure you have enough to cover the entire box as well as the cover.

2.create a collage on the box by pasting the cut images. you can create interesting combinations by overlaping and rotating the images around the box and cover.make sure you put your best imges on the front and the top of the box for maximum visibility. leave some small spaces randomly between the images. let the glue dry for some time.

when you stick the images over the edges of the box, let the images go over on the inside neatly.

3. in the meantime, dip the tea bags in the water and let soak for some time till the water changes colour to a nice dark brown.

4.The glue being dry,fill the small leftover spaces with black colour. this need not be done very neatly as we want to create an antique look. some paint overlapping the imges will also give good effect.

5.Once the black paint is dry, use the flat brush and apply the tea water all over the box. apply it unevenly such that it leaves a darker colour in some areas. you can also apply a second coat once the first one is dry.

6. once the enitre box is dry, you can apply a final coat of varnish for a final effect.

Tips::

you can also use diff colourful images of things that you like or celebrities. use diff colours instead of black to fill up the spaces. This can also be used to create a beautifully wrapped gift.

Tagged craft

2010 01 07 hand craft
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…and the quest begins

The good thing is that there are no fences to where you can and cannot hunt – as long as you get something new to learn, newer ways of doing old things, better ways and more fun ways…

you have to just go on and on and on….

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