Biographies: Sachin, Steve Jobs, Srila Prabhupad

A post after a long time. Happen to read 3 biographies in last one and a half months. These are the people who have inspired me the most and reading their biographies was a real treat. I tried to compare the personalities and life of the 3 great personalities. This is my interpretation and people may have different opinion on the same. Here 10 is the highest rating and 1 is the lowest.

	Sachin	Steve Jobs	Srila Prabhupad
Passion about subject	10	10	10
Command in the area	10	10	10
Struggle in the Initial Stages	6	5	10
Struggle in middle Years	7	8	8
Support from Family	10	7	1
Financial Condition at Initial Stage	6	6	2
Years of Struggle	3	4	15
Faith in God	7	8	10
Personal Characteristics
Humility	10	3	10
Hard Work	10	7	10
Planning Initial Stage	6	5	5
Planning Later Stages	7	6	9
Positive Attitude	10	8	10
Courage	10	10	10
Determination	10	10	10
Discipline	10	5	10

Game Shows Mysteries

One cannot help but notice so many game shows and reality shows nowadays mushrooming on every channel. Some of them are good, some not that good but there is something common about all of them.

Emotional Atyachaar:  Why do people gets so emotional on these shows ? Do they think that it will earn them some extra points ? Do the  producers of reality show think it will improve the popularity of the show? Do the audience want to see diarrhea of emotions and tears when they are watching these shows ?

Troubled  History of Participants: All these shows specially the game shows says that they have a very transparent computer generated selection procedure then how does people mainly with troubled pasts and background end up on the show? Is the computer really picks up cleanly or do the producers want to make it interesting for the audience ?

Are Celebrities so intelligent : When these shows call celebrities to be either judge or participants in the shows, they all tend to do really well. I have not seen any of the celebrity participant to make less money on any of the quizzing show or game show. Is it that our bollywood celebrities are best creation of God and they look good, act well ( sometimes ) and even know the name of the president of the Indian Olympic association in 1969 ?

Everyone Believes in Giving : Every one who comes on these shows believe in giving. Whether its the celebrities or the mango man. Why were they waiting for so long for doing this charity ? Are they really going to give away the money or just trying to impress the audience ? Are the celebrities anyway told to donate every thing to charity what they win? Does it feels good to do charity with easily earned money?


Can't be just a coincidence, these things get repeated again and again on these shows. Can someone help me with the answers please?

Youngistan and Ungli Cricket!

The new series of advertisement by Pepsi and Idea really make me think what are these creative advertisement gurus doing ?

We all know that Pepsi is targeting the young generation and half of India's population lies in that segment but what are you guys really want to show ? Is it a attempt of involving customer going terribly wrong ? What exactly is Sanjay Dutt doing in that huge suit which makes him look tiny ? I dont know ?

Idea has also disappointed its fan by the new Ungli Cricket advertisement , Indians are mad for Cricket but it doesn't mean that they can digest all kinds of shit thrown at them in the name of cricket. The whole set up looks clumsy and the idea of Ungli cricket looks really Ugly.

For Idea this advertisement is a total disaster as it was replacing the Hit " Idea can change your World " theme . Now for changing themes of the Hit campaign , you should really have some substance in your campaign ..

Both the advertisements are classic case of the waste of celebrity and also conveys that Celebrity endorsement never means that the campaign will be a hit. Some more thought should be put into the campaigns by big corporate houses as they have huge budgets for telecasting the advertisement and every time such ads are telecasted , people only loath them and left with no option but to switch the channel.

One more thought visit my mind frequently.. Why cant these celebrities tell the ad man directly " Boss Is mai Dum nahi Hai ! "