This Day That Year as a title came from a TV program of the 90s called “This Week That Year”, that I used to watch on TV. I could relate to it very well as I remembered the release dates of most of the movies of the late 60s and early 70s and when the host spoke about it, I went down my memory lane and loved the experience. Once I became part of Facebook in 2009, I found a great forum to share my experiences of movie releases in Bombay then and now Mumbai. I found a lot of like-minded people who could relate to my post and shared their experiences and thoughts as comments. Quite a few of them encouraged me to share it with a larger audience and hence suggested publishing it. I never thought of doing it but when people kept telling me regularly to do it, I decided to give it a try, and here comes my experiences and thoughts of the movies released in the late 60s and early 70s. Hope you like what you read, though many of the statements would look repetitive. But do accept the experiences of a teenager who turns into a man in 1973.
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Blue Rose Publishers
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2024 January
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This is Laxminarayan aka Lax aka Laksh, an IT Professional from 1976 and moved out of the corporate world as a Senior Professional in 2011 from a Big IT player called ORACLE. I was always fascinated by Hindi Movies/Music and Cricket and was blessed with decent memory to recall about movies, songs and cricket matches. During my professional days too I could connect any situation at work with a movie,
music or cricket and people around used to get surprised and amazed at this quality of mine. I used to share some information as a child about movies and matches with friends and they have always liked them and encouraged me. Having a fairly good memory always helped me both in Professional and Personal lives. In most of the organizations I worked for, they had internal magazines and I used to contribute there too and once Facebook became known and there was no looking back. Here was a platform where I could express my
experiences of anything be it movies, music or cricket. I could talk about events, conduct quizzes and write about cricket matches that generated a lot of interest among the friends community. I could also comment on other posts on similar subjects with value add.
Post retirement while people always wondered and worried with the question of What Next, nothing like that bothered me, as I was already into Facebook from 2009 after Orkut wrapped up. The forum was good for sharing a review of a musical event or a movie that I saw or about any cricket match with lots of details, and this kept me busy the best part of social media coming up was to get reconnecting with people and making new friends. My strength has been people and social media allowed me not only to reconnect with people who had vanished from my radar, but it also helped me to expand the circle of friends and ex-colleagues. I am naturally a relaxed person with a decent disposition and armed with some early training in music and a penchant to entertain, I decided to add the objective of Spreading Happiness and with this book, I hope to reach out to more people and expand my friendship base. I would like to thank some of the people who coaxed me into publishing and they are:
Dilip Apte, Balakrishnan Narayan, and Viswanathan Krishnan - my good friends
Viswanath Iyer, my nephew
Manjunath, my late friend
My school friends – cannot name all
I will await your valuable feedback on reading my book