Aar Jay and all.

Whoever you are, reading this, you need to know one thing. I consider that one thing as the biggest achievement of my life and that is meeting SRK. If you don’t know, go check my page RJ Vidya and see the photo.

Well, that in place, that photo is the context of this. After I put that photo up, I got 35 death wishes, 56 hate messages, 37846827361 silent murders planned. Yeah, I get it. I would've done that too if any of my friends met SRK. Apart from that, I meet a lot of celebs. It is a part of my job. And I know each one of you who follow my updates think I have an amazing and chilled out job.

Well, let me break it to you. NO.
This post is to tell you how it feels to be an RJ. What goes into being that and what goes into making my job amazing.

I have timings. 9:30-6:15. Yes, I do. No, I don’t do just my show and go home. No I don’t talk what comes into my head at that time. I have a responsible job. People are listening to me, and they believe me. I do the movie show, and if I say Rajnikanth is acting in Golmaal 4, there are people who will believe it. THAT is why I work for so long. I write my script, recheck what I say is right and then on the show say it in the style I want to.

For all those who think people who talk a lot can be RJs, you’re welcome to try once. Please.
Being a radio jockey is not all about talking. It is about talking the right thing at the right time in the right sense. We have a huge pressure on our shoulders that a city is listening to us and out there are people who think we are right. Out there are people who want to be us one day, just like I did at a point in my life.

Every single day, sounding like you just saw a unicorn dancing, is not easy. There are times when all we want to do is tear the mic, throw the headphones and cry in a corner. And yet, what do you hear? Happiness. Excitement close to a 3 year old who ate his/her first ice cream, For we know that there is a minimum of one person in the entire city who will smile at least once listening to what we say and that drives us.

The endless releases week after week, constant reminders by boss, running around the PROs, fixing the date, meeting all kinds of people, throwing the fake smile around like it is confetti and finally getting the interview done after a lot of awkward moments with the celeb. Yeah, all that goes into the fancy photos you see on my Facebook wall.

Let me come to the fun part. I don’t sit in front of a computer all day and work for clients or feel lost all day. I chose this. I love being an RJ. I love the adrenaline that comes with being one. I love the way my heart beats out of nervousness every time I meet a celeb.  Yes, I love it, but I’m human too. And I get bored or tired of stuff.
I’ve got higher authorities too. I cannot do what comes to my mind, cannot talk what I want to on radio, cannot ask the celebrities what their dog’s name is.

Okay? Stop asking me to die cos I met your favourite celebrity. Stop asking me to not feel tired or bored of office as I have the best job ever.
Maybe at that point, I would’ve loved just eating a piece of cake with a friend and not go meet that ‘overhyped as they can act’ human.

If this sounded like a rant to you, read it again. This was just a message to all the people who think I’m getting paid for doing nothing and chilling with stars. I needed to explain this as I did not want people thinking it is easy here. The radio industry, in Hyderabad at least, is already infected with such irresponsible gits, it does not need more nuts that think they can make it just because they have the gift of gab.

Go now, and follow your dream. Only then you can blog stuff like this. 

From lyf to life

At a point we all want it, at a point we hate it.
There are days we cry about it. There are days we realize the importance of it.
We learn through it. We unlearn through it. We are taught about it. We teach it.
We see others doing it and wonder if we're doing it right. Then we think we're right and tell people how not to do it. We look at others who have done it right and think we will get there someday. We don't realize they haven't stopped doing it. We set standards, norms, preconceptions about how to do it. We think the way we do it is right. We find faults with others ways of doing it. No matter what, we can't stop doing it. We just cannot.

Everybody does it.
So have I.

From spelling it as lyf to Life.

Growing up. Everybody does it. And continues to do so.