Making your own breaks.

I joined Customs Mumbai in 2009 and returned to my native place Bihar in 2012. When I was in Mumbai, I was interested in lyrics writing, but I was shy and lacked courage to try in this field.

During 2015 when I was very interested in writing, my wife suggested if I am interested in it for a year then I will go back to Bombay. I continued writing lyrics one whole year. Then we decided to come back to dream city Mumbai.

I am very lucky that I went to my native place Bihar, through Departmental ICT (Intra-Commissionerate Transfer,) and returned back to Bombay also through ICT. It is rare in Government service. Now I am an Inspector in Central Excise and service tax.

I always liked Bakshi sahab, Shailendra jee, Sahir Sahab, Majrooh sahab. I have read and listened to and watched Bakshi sahab's songs many times.

Bakshi sahab had once said - If you want to be a lyricist in films, just come here and struggle. Do not write to me for this. So, I am not telling about it. I too will struggle to keep Bakshi sahab's words in my mind alive and his blessing in my lyrics.

Thanks.......

#RameshKumar

#DirectorsDiaries

‪#‎DirectorsDiaries‬ ‪#‎SiddhiSanghvi‬ #Friendships

Three books shed light on Indian cinema & filmmakers.

Three books shed light on Indian cinema & filmmakers.

Link http://www.deccanherald.com/content/547442/books-shed-light-indian-cinema.html

(Featured in Deccan Herald, New Delhi. Monday 23 May 2016. By #RuchiraTalapatra).

#DirectorsDiaries #RajeshKhannaTheDarkStar #JaaneBhiDoYaaro

Thank you #HarperCollinsIndia

Three books shed light on Indian cinema & filmmakers.

Link http://www.deccanherald.com/content/547442/books-shed-light-indian-cinema.html

(Featured in Deccan Herald, New Delhi. Monday 23 May 2016. By #RuchiraTalapatra).

#DirectorsDiaries #RajeshKhannaTheDarkStar #JaaneBhiDoYaaro

Thank you #HarperCollinsIndia

Reviews #DirectorsDiaries

#DirectorsDiaries for #AnuragKashyap @ #Cannes #IndiaPavilion..

#DirectorsDiaries for #AnuragKashyap @ #Cannes #IndiaPavilion.. 

Thank you very much #SoniaKhadimaliRannou & #SanjayJumani

(Sonia Khadimali-Rannou @ 'FROM SHORT TO FIRST FEATURE' ; https://www.facebook.com/events/239528676403510/ May 17th - India Pavilion, with Anurag Kashyap, AbhirOop Basu, Srinivasan Narayanan, Selvaggia Velo, Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Saurav Rai.)

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The directors’ on Cinema & Filmmaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bnPI95HCs

The directors’ Beginnings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbvst-mhOw

The directors’ Convictions: (What convinced the directors to come on board our book, their reasons behind our book) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQgoJwP1sd8

The directors’ Challenges: https://youtu.be/1BmjGGurM5U

Imtiaz Ali’s 1st film being his film school & our book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzC18coaoLw

Zoya Akhtar on being a 1st time film maker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsdg8UNfwKs

#BicycleAngels Chat with #AadityaVaze @ #Fame

Thank you #Fame #AadityaVaze Happy Reading  #DirectorsDiareis

https://www.facebook.com/LiveOnfame/videos/529277057241199/ #BicycleAngels

Aaditya Vaze​

3 authors in conversation. Books Cinema & Action! India Habitat Center, Delhi.

Rakesh Anand Bakshi, author of Director’s Diaries
Gautam Chintamani, author of Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna
and Jai Arjun Singh, author of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.

@ Books Cinema & Action! May 14th Saturday, India Habitat Center, Delhi.

#DirectorsDiaries' Rawalpindi journey. My father, #AnandBakshi, born in Rawalpindi, could never return to his place of birth. Yet....

#DirectorsDiaries' Rawalpindi journey. Such love!

My father, #AnandBakshi, born in Rawalpindi, migrated to Delhi post the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Alas, he could never return to his place of birth.

However, his songs did. 

And now, thanks to Pakistan national #EmadAleeAslam, our little book did too. THANK YOU! 

Emad traced our ancestral house, thanks to my Pakistan national friend Waseem Altaf (Islamabad), actually the first person to trace my family's roots in Rawalpindi a few years ago, and send us pictures too of the house. I wished my father were around then, to have seen the pictures of the home he missed all his life. 

Emad posed with our book outside my father's still existing two floors house in Rawalpindi. The house now belongs to Pakistani nationals. In the black and white picture below is my father atop the terrace of their ancestral house back in the early 1930s. 

(Emad is a journalist by profession and a writer by passion He has worked with Rawalpindi Historic Urban Landscape project. he is a translator and a member of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). He is working on Pothohar's history, art & culture. #AmmadAli - the Rationalist. :)  )

First article to be published in Pakistan:

The Express Tribune, Islamabad. Reviews #DirectorsDiaries 

by #HumayWaseem 

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2015.

How Bollywood bigwigs made it.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/942945/how-bollywood-bigwigs-made-it-big/

#RakeshAnandBakshi

The directors’ on Cinema & Filmmaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bnPI95HCs

The directors’ Beginnings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbvst-mhOw

#DirectorsDiaries Dilli mein milenge. Hope to see you peeps in Delhi. :) BOOKS, CINEMA and ACTION!

Dilli mein milenge. Hope to see you peeps in Delhi. :)

BOOKS, CINEMA and ACTION!
A conversation on films, film making, and writing on films
between:
#RakeshAnandBakshi, author of Director’s Diaries
#GautamChintamani, author of Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna
and
#JaiArjunSingh, author of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.

At India Habitat Center, Auditorium, on Saturday, May 14th.
6.30 pm to 7.30 pm;

Free Entry.

Thank you #HarperCollinsIndia and #IndiaHabitatCenter

#DirectorsDiaries

#BicycleAngels You do not have to be a millionaire nor travel far beyond your house to help someone. (Spreading hope, one wheel at a time.)

You do not have to be a millionaire nor travel far beyond your house to help someone. Step out and observe and you will find someone worthy. (Spreading hope, one wheel at a time.)
#RakeshAnandBakshi pays tribute to donors and beneficiaries of #BicycleAngels 
Thank you also to our donors Mayura Jain​ and Meghna Rodrigues​
@ Live On #Fame, May 2016, hosted by Aaditya Vaze​.

link https://www.facebook.com/LiveOnfame/videos/529277057241199/

Review of #DirectorsDiaries at Goodreads.com

Review of #DirectorsDiaries at Goodreads.com