The members of the community on Orkut of the same name as the heading met last Saturday at Rabindra Sadan. The headcount was poor, and poorer than the last meet, but many more would be there if work didn't come in between.
There was an eclectic mix of participants- an RJ (Shreetoma from Radio Mirchi, popularly known as Shree), an NGO guy (Dipanjan, known as Dip), three assistant directors in television (Soumya, Arin Paul and Bappa), a contractor (Anindya), an entertainment journalist (Shaoni), college students and a marketing guy (That's me) apart from the joint convener Tanmoy from Radio Mirchi. Among us was this fat and happy couple Dip and Shreyosi aka Shreya who kept us in good humour with, among other things, laughing at themselves. This quality is getting increasingly hard to find these days.
We knew each other and decided to form a small, low-profile film club. It will be just a television set, a DVD player, DVDs from members' personal collection and libraries and a place where we can sit, watch and analyse the movie. There are many who are passionate about films and a film club would be the ideal platform to express ourselves. Those wanting to be part of the club are going to join at Tanmoy's place next month for the inaugural show.
The meet was indeed a good place for me to make new friends and meet my Orkut friends (Who I scrap regularly) for the first time physically.
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True , Anirban thta the head count was really poor.But , at least there were people who were really interested in the concept of meeting outside the daily scrap book.
ReplyDeleteYup , the low profile film club is all set to roll out on 7th April , hopefully at my place only!! And yes , even I believe that a film club would be the best idea to exchange our crative n analytical viewpoints.
hopr to catch up with more such enthusiastic people in the coming orkut meets....by the way , thanx to Arin , he's already created an exclusive ORKUT KOLKATA CLUB.Hope , this club won't be flodded with unnecessary people.Do join the club if u really feel that u want to b a part of our monthly addas....c ya there n nonce again - Three Cheers to the Third Orkut Meet !!!