Yet another day....

Well.... thanks to the rain goddess 'Dedopani' ( ref: Nishant's post on chennaifootprints2008.ning.com), all the schools and colleges have been closed for a while. Hence, We decided to target the malls and randomly approach people and talk to them about the event. We did get some semi-positive responses.... (yay for that).... but hardly sold a few tickets..... yet again, thanks to the rain goddess :) :) :) :)....( poor thing)!!!!

Anyway, we did end up making fools out of ourselves ( not me actually..... jus a few of them). The team coordinator ....Ruhi decided that she would be different from the rest and run down an escalator which was going up. unfortunately her efforts went down the drain. She HAAADDDD to go with the flow and realised that she isn't Rajnikanth..... Hence she took the stairs and came down after going up.

After these trips to all the malls, we have decided to create a website www.onlygirls-mylowelygirls.com..... no its not a porn site! Its a site about Nishant Shah.... who somehow happens to know all the women of Chennai... Hugss them and says 'didiiiiii....long time'.... ofcourse the girl has to squint her eyes to make eye contact with him coz of his bangs :) :).... The bangs and his CONTACTS do come in handy at times and we're very thankful for that.

Sneha.... if guys fall for u and offer to help us out wid the event, girls fall for nishant's bangs.... beat that! muwuhahaha!
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If any of u saw a guy wid bangs carrying a Giordano bag belonging to Fp: Team Chennai's Driver # 3* (Sneha Ramachandran), jumping across the granite dividers outside Kesar Gift Mart ( Our Gift sponsors- We thank them profusely) on cathedral road, with a beautiful plastic bouquet, that was Nishant Shah carrying the bouquet for his pocketful of sunshine.....
Well, we aren't sure if he bought it or shoplifted it, but he likes telling people he made it!

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Sneha R Menon of the menon lineage....driver # 3 of Team Chennai ( TC) has been rated the second best drivers in the history of Footprints : The Chennai chapter ....( taking all the 8 years into consideration)... the best is the Shah boi! insists that the road rules are meant to be broken, insists that women above the age of 28 shouldn't be given a licence ( chauvenistic bugger yes....but what to do.... he has bangs....it comes in handy....).

While Sneha thinks that her ottai maruti 800 is a sexxxyyy power-steering vehicle, Nishant nsists that he owns all the roads in Chennai.

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Coming back to the promotions at malls, we did walk around carrying the posters facing the public and walking around. It did looks stupid, nobody looked but WE DIDN'T CARE! Anything for footprints. Go Footprints!!!! :D :D :D :D

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We'd like to dedicate 'nenjukkul peidhidum' from Vaaranam Ayiram (1000 Elephants) to Nishant Shah and his Sunshine....

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Congratulations Ruhi Jhunjhunwala for watching your 2nd Tamil film ( The first being Kuselan but i don't think u saw the film thanks to elements from Karnataka.... P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P .... oh... and R R R R .... but not that much!)
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I shouldn't forget to add this....We have discovered that Nishant Shah has become one of the girls coz he has nice hair and it helps us.... its kinda better than sneha's charms.... or venky's voice.... It helps us to attract guys from loyola and somehow manages to convince them into buying tickets at 10:14pm at Sangam Cinemas..... bangs do help u know.... funnily enough, bangs on a guy seems to be helping us a lot!!!! Thanks Shah!!!! cool che!
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If u think this post is very discontinuous and it doesn't make sense, too bad.... its the after effects of watching Vaaranam Aayiram!!!! :D :D :D :D

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ps: Watch the movie....Surya is brilliant!!!! :D hott tooo! sigh!


* Driver # 1: Ruhi Jhunjhunwala
Driver # 2: Shilpa Natarajan
Driver # 3: Sneha Ramachandran
Driver # 4 ( Special Appearance...drove once): Renuka Sanji

Funnily enough, all the drivers have been women and no accidents have happened till now.... touch wood....
Bangs are the reason for accidents Nishant.... we know y u've had 3 accidents till now!!!!!

THE SUN IS NO LONGER SHINING :(

Well, today was an extremely interesting day for TEAM CHENNAI..... well actually the 8 of us who went coffee shop/ outlet hopping....
Well, I started off my day by going to M.O.P and joined Venky & Ruhi at Ruhi's house..... where Nishant joined us and the sun stopped shining ( sigh! Why Nishant????). Nishant & I went to L V Prasad studios to invite the director and unfortunately he had left.... so we decided to stop at the next academic centre to sell our tickets or stick our posters..... Nishant the shah boi decided to stop at this really shady sidey looking place called DOSHI gardens or something like that in VADAPALANI..... an absolutely sidey looking place.... Well, no luck with the tickets but we did market our event a bit.... Thats when the sun decided to leave and the rains took over!!!!
We met Ruhi & Venky @ BARISTA ( TEAM CHENNAI's official meeting spot).... Well, Archanaa, Sneha & Renu turned up and Nishant decided to showcase his talent of identifying LOYOLITES ( He happens to one and is proud of it! Wayy to go shah boi) and selling tickets to them.... The sweet chap ( The loyolite....sorry dunno his name) kinda felt sorry for nishant ( mayb coz of his fringe/ bangs- nishant's) and bought a ticket! So i decided to test my skills at selling tickets.... unfortunately it didn't work..... sigh!
We did stick a poster though and we decided to walk/ drive across to Ispahani and try our luck there. Walking up to people and talking about the event to them kinda helped as 3 tickets were sold. People are nice i say!
I have learnt a lot of things while marketing Footprints. Recession is just an excuse. When managers of stores & outlets of stores where no customers ever come show some interest in the event, DO NOT FALL FOR IT..... THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO FLIRT WITH THE PERSON WHO HAS COME WITH YOU.... ( R-E-N-U) or put some VETTI SCENE!!!!.... Sit at CCD or BARISTA..... coz u mite bump into someone who would like to help you out ( S-N-E-H-A).... a good spot to stick up posters would be near pillars and corners where people usually make-out .... u need to b a snooty bitch to be able to put up posters @ beauty parlours..... ( Thats when red nailpolish comes in handy Ruhi.....)

After the escapades at Ispahani, we decided to go to Kader Nawaz Khan road to sell tickets ( we were joined by Siddharth who decided to quit bein a workaholic..... Nishant was kinda happy as he thought he was being overshadowed by the women :) :) :) :) ) By the time we reached Mocha, it started pouring right royally.... and we kinda got drenched to the core! We did manage to put up a poster there ( Thanks to the brothers and their friends and ofcourse the friends and their brothers): A-R-C-H-A-N-A-A & S-N-E-H-A.... Thanks to the friends and their brothers, we got a swing side table :D ( my house is gonna b like that)..... After we finally ordered for the sake of ordering ( Am not regretting it).... we decided to sell our tickets when Ruhi realised that Nishant had parked her car in the middle of the road and that was blocking the road + Nishant had forgotten to turn off the headlights..... Cacaphony.....

I do have a picture of Nishant Shah trying to park the car inside as well as a picture of the car blocking the road and creating traffic. I will upload that once i get hold of them :D :D :D :D


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Anyways, when we became absolutely enthu and decided to sell the tickets and gave each other the GO TEAM CHENNAI! U CAN DO IT dialogue, we were told that we couldn't sell any tickets......but Nishant & Renu did manage to sell 2 tickets....! :D :D :D :D

SIGH..... 10 days to go! ! ! ! We will do it! The Rains can't stop us!


GO TEAM CHENNAI!

details...

date- 5th dec.
time- 9.30 am onwards
venue- chinmaya heritage centre, harrington road.
workshops n contests happening....
for details....pls write to chennaifootprints@gmail.com

website !!!!!!

join up for loads of fun.....
http://chennaifootprints2008.ning.com/

Meet the Chennai Team

• Ruhi Jhunjhunwala- a.k.a The wannabe bitch!!!!- The co-ordinator of the team also incharge of logistics and budget.... the event manger n the one obsessed with footprints,thinks wearing red nail polish can bring out THE BITCH from within! :D but she just cant yell n be mean to the team. Everytime she says she wil shout at the team in the NEXT meeting.Will have to see wat the poor soul does as 5th dec comes closer.
  

• Shilpa Natarajan- a.k.a ZILPAAA- Co-coordinator, marketing & promotions.... wants to have meetings only at places u get food. :) gets hyper n panicky very easily n needs ruhi to calm her down. has made plans abt trips AFTER the event, absolutely sure abt kicking ass at the event. way to go !!!
  

• Nishant Shah- a.k.a TING!!!!- Head of creatives.... loves the sun.... The sun shines on him all the time.... favourite songs- Pocketful of sunshine, Here comes the sun; Favourite movie- Little miss sunshine, favourite colour- yellow, favourite flower- sunflower, favourite person- Akshobh, Favourite hairstyle- A normal boycut with bangs thinks he is too cool n so cracks sad ass jokes on everyone- ending up being the joke himself ! if u want sumthing done in 2 days, tell him 5 days in advance.he comes up with the vaguest of excuses n makes such a loser puppy face everytime u are supposed to yell at him- well tat works only on ruhi !!!

• Venkatesh Harinathan- a.k.a -VENKU SINGH- Budgeting, Sponsorship- the charmer cos of his voice, the big name in the team cos he is a part of ASAP prodns. but as of now he is beggin ppl for some money for our event ! is tired of thinking WHY a particluar brand shud sponsor our event n is amazed at the large number of brands whose "target audience neatly overlaps the audience of footprints"...hehehe...sounds familliar?his mantra- ok buddy cool !!!
  

• Renuka Sanji- a.k.a Renu insecccccccccct ( with one arm out ..... music: suryavamsam)- Hospitality, Stage Mgmt. - loves being colour coordinated with venky.... :) :) :) :) very professional n a silent worker.dont go by how calm n composed she looks. she can show ppl their place when it comes to tat- something ruhi shud learn soon !
  

• Sneha Ramachandran- a.k.a the pretty one - Food & Beverage- loves being referred to as the person who has meetings with certain people in CCD and maybe Barista....:) :) always on time for all the meetings and currently our favorite person cos she is gonna give us food on tat day ! HEHEE

• Hamsini Ravi- a.k.a THE WRITER- documentation.- sincere n present for all meetings. writes brilliantly and doesnt believe in postponing things for tomo (nishant...learn sumthing ). she is the one who will be writing the team activity diary on which we will be marked so am gonna jus shut up now. :)

• Arindam aka the cute boy- schools n colg coordinator- another gud writer n even better photographer.believes in living life to the fullest everyday cos u know "kal ho na ho" which resulted in him not doing his task given to him for 1 month n then he thot jus smiling n offering to help ruhi in some other task wud be the best solution (he asumed that ruhi n shilpa had done his work). but one yelling from ruhi was all tat was needed to make him sit in front of the comp for hrs together n finish his work, he is perfectly on track now- one single moment that ruhi is proud of ever since she became coordinator.
  

• srini aka the paavam fellow- AV- a very very quiet person but excellent at his work ( well we still have ppl who let their work speak for them- hope still alive in this world !!! ). u mite see some of his work at the event. has been helping the team in his own quiet way n venky is his favourite person in the team cos any msg from or to ruhi and from n to srini goes thru venky- making ruhi feel that srini doesnt like her :(

• deepika aka cameraperson - media relations- gets excited a lot abt small things...n in the process has variations to all her stories..hehe...off late was flirting aorund with a certain someone to get a certain someone someone to the event (wat the dirty world makes u do !!!) ....nowadays full on contacting media houses for maximum coverage. all the best !!!
  

• aishwariya subramaniam aka puliyarappa- speakers coordinator- one hyper person n a non stop talker. has managed to get all the big names for the event- we all are proud of her...a little eclectic n over enthu but work means work. her dad is an extended member of our team n we all are grateful to him for the same. gud work subbbbuuuu !!!!!!!!
  

• aishwariya sridharan aka bounce/road runner- creatives- believes in bouncing ideas n tats wat she does best. her ideas are very nice....pretty creative n gud at work when she gets to it...jus needs a lotttt of pushing around to get work started. you can never catch hold of her....was missing from the scene till recently when she decided to resurface...nice to hv u back aish! hope we dont lose u again.
  

• aakanksha aka the busy one- hospitality, stge mgmt- she was also missing till now cos of work at NGO but has taken up work now n is pretty much in touch wit wats happening...nice babe...carry on !

• Archanaa aka The enthu chiclet- UG Batch-Everything- She is one enthu pattani of the team.... always willing to work on w/e we ask her to do.... just out of school.... so has majorr contacts with school kids' brother's and their friends....has contacts everywhere and in the right places too :D :D :D :D her standard dialogue " u want this person ah?, i can get him !"

• Siddharth aka Arindam Jr- UG Batch-Everything, but currently sponsors- Got us some money....so he's currently THE DUDE!!!!.... Comes across as a silent person but is a hell of a talker and gets things done his own way!..... concerned only abt the marks n is scared of getting a permanent backlog if he doesnt pass this events practical (ruhi is supposed to contribute in his marks and this power is resulting in devil horns on her head... Muhahahaha !!!! ).. Sid-A chennai-ite who hardly knows about the Tamil film industry :D :D :D :D
  

We all maybe very different but tats wat makes the chennai team so much fun ! but there is one thing we all believe in- " the Chennai team is worst hit by the economic crisis!!! sponsors wanted !!!" but we still will kick ass!!! Amen....

special thanks zilpaa for contributing to the post....

Footprint

They said that what the world relly needs is someone to lead the way. Trust the world to sit back, be lazy and wait for a leader to lead them like a shepherd leading sheep. Who're they waiting for? Obama? Sure, he's created history in terms of race relations but its time people stopped kidding themselves. And while terrorists kill and politicians philander,we stand as mute witnesses to the cacophony that seems to be exploding all around us, literally too.
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Chennai footprints 2008

Footprints is coming!!

Kicking off at Pune today with celebrated writer Chetan Bhagat, Footprints, a series of Media Seminars organized by the students of Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication,to be held in across 21 cities across India and in Dubai, promises to both, entertain and educate!

The Chennai Chapter will be held at Chinmaya Heritage Centre on 5th December, 2008.

Here's YOUR chance to interact and learn from media doyens like N.Ram, Sudhish Kamath, S.P.Muthuraman, Soundarya Rajinikanth and more!

Always you can stand to win exciting prizes by participating in our photography contest..

Keep checking this space for more...!!!