First Stepping Stone:My ZEETV Association Experience

They say….plan out everything in life if you wish to be successful….but the beauty of life lies in it’s unpredictivity. Even if you make thousands of full-proof plans for your future, you cannot plan life….rather Life plans you.
This Experience of mine somewhat takes me closer to the above statement.

So, being a bright student in my school days I always used to think that I should only study and study and study……never ever did I pay any heed to extra curriculars as I used to think them to be a waste of time. Little did I know that my view will drastically change someday!

Now coming to the story which brought me here, this is about one of the most memorable journeys that I have experienced till date. Just the way gold mines are discovered accidently….then that raw gold has to undergo so much struggles such as being heated and hammered….and only after resisting all that does it become good enough to be called an ornament and gets the attention it deserves ……Everything that occurs in our lives too follow the same rule….and sililarly this story too!  A story which started with just a series of coincidences….which then went through many stages of excitement, day dreaming, ambition, dedication, hardwork,  happiness, emotional turnmoils and even betrayals & heart breaks…..and finally, ended on a positive note.

Now, coming to the point , let me tell you the exact flow of events which became the foundation of this story. So, we all know,even if technology has reduced the time we talk to the people around us , it has in some way brought people closer too,those people who are far away…but have same pattern of thinking, interests and choices…who haven’t even met....but can understand each other's feelings without even saying! And this bond according to me sometimes turn out to be better than the offline ones because these bonds don’t exist with the intention of getting something as a return gift for the friendship….so atleast for me, Twitter is one such place which has replaced my need of talking to friends around me to a large extent, which used to be compelling earlier irrespective of whether I liked it or not.  I love joking around with my friends on Twitter a lot……and there is one more Blessing of my life whom twitter has brought me closer to, Rajeev Khandelwal whom I lovingly call Hero 😊 I call him my Best Blessing because he in some way or other effects me in a very positive way,whenever I am in need….and I really don’t know how :)   My connection with him too is something which seems Pre-Planned by my fate ever since I was a 7 year old baby….but will tell about it some other day 😉

So coming back to this story, twitter and Hero became the foundation to this association. One morning, he tweeted about his new chat show “JUZZBAATT”  and as usual, we started our daily routine of talks on twitter and I jokingly expressed the desire to interview the host himself someday ….just like any other conversation, we had fun and forgot about it.

           

Had to travel that night to attend a cousin’s wedding , so didn’t go online and my phone started ringing continuously at around the train timing,which I didn't pick up then….it was only after I called them back after boarding the train did I understand what the matter was. The Brand head of Zee Tv , Mr. Kausik Misra had replied to my tweet asking if I was really intrested to Interview My Hero during Juzzbaatt’s Press conference….I was pleasantly shocked. But I knew I couldn’t attend it as I was already out of station and also my exams were near, so nobody would have allowed me to travel to Mumbai, just for it…Such a dream opportunity coming to me all of a sudden and then going away was trying to dishearten me but a new Idea struck me. I tweeted to Kaushik Sir if I could do something through My Youtube Channel….Honestly speaking, After hearing so many NOs in such a short span of time, I expected the same this time too. But it was different this time, he gave me his mail id and asked me to send whatever ideas I had. This was such a pleasant shock for me…..My friends started congratulating me and I was getting so hyper that all my co passengers were staring at me and my parents had to remind me again and again that I was in train. I didn’t even have a paper to jot down my ideas….took my father’s pen and wrote on the paper bag in which the bedrolls in trains are supplied. Texted so many people if they had good ideas……only 3-4 of them responded….Some were my obvious  friends who are always there for me, one of them was a normal friend who encouraged me a lot during those days and one was someone whom I always considered to be a very good critic of mine…there were people whom I expected to be with me but didn’t too, but why look at the darker side!  I worked out on the ideas the whole night and came up with 15 of them and mailed them the next morning.

And then the talks started and finally, I got the first behind the scenes video on April 29 which I edited and uploaded on April 30, 2018……thus this journey started officially. I had been told that all my ideas were good and I could go ahead with any of them.
 I created My first #Juzzbaattstories video for the First Guests of #Juzzbaatt , Ronit and Rohit Roy and uploaded it on  May 10…Juzzbaattstories were the real fan stories of the celebs which depicted how they positively effected someone's life…..It was just an experimental video from my side and I was not very confident about it, but it was liked and Praised by Many Including Rohit Sir himself 😄  And then, I decided to go further with #Juzzbaattstories as a Spinoff Series……and thus the Journey took off with Flying colours.

In this span of 3.5 months, many obstacles came & went away whether mental, emotional or physical. But every hardship that I undertook for it was worth it 😊 I remember, one day I decided that if My Hero can shoot two episodes a day, why can’t I, without even thinking that unlike me, they had a whole team to take care of everything…..I did shoot two videos that day but had to walk around 7-8 kms under the scorching sun in search of different locations as well as had to come back each time to my room to change clothes for the different videos , which increases this distance further…even gatecrashed a closed park through a broken part of fence…. such an interesting adventure it was….literally got blisters on my feet for the next two days ………..but when the same video got the fasted view growth among all my other videos, no words can explain my feelings then....I had never ever experienced such kind of satisfaction ever. Also I got praised by almost every celeb for whom I made Juzzbaattstories. My Viewers and participants in the series were not only from across the country but also from world over, such as Argentina, Australia , US and some other Latino-American countries....Sometimes,we even failed to understand each others languages, but that couldn't stop those bonds from prospering….I had really not expected this kind of exposure when I had proposed this idea. I was living a miniature form of the dream which had always been close to me but I never dared to dream it, maybe because I had never been confident enough…..but Juzzbaattstories installed that self-confidence in me.

 As days passed by, A big dream of mine which I can’t disclose now, came at an extreme proximity to reality for sometime and then suddenly went far away too due to some unavoidable circumstances….it was a phase when I was all alone…..I had gone very close to my breaking point…..I was about to give up…..about to abandon #Juzzbaattstories midway but my hope and love for what I was doing,  kept me going. And I am sure, I will make that dream come true very soon :) 

I gathered Myself back and decided to Give the Series the Beautiful  Ending it Deserved. Meanwhile some fake company claimed copyright over 4 of my Juzzbaatt videos….Many people adviced to just forget about those Videos as filing a counter copyright claim might lead to court cases but I decided to take up this risk and claimed it back, though it took a long time and costed a lot of views, but they are back and safe :)   5th August 2018 saw the last Juzzbaattstories for none other than the Host Himself and featured Many of my friends. It was a gift of Love from my side to My Hero as well as a Friendship day gift to my friends.

And that day, I got the compliment I have been waiting for all this while. I had mailed Hero after uploading the first ever Juzzbaattstory that I expected his compliment only when he truly felt that I deserved it and finally, this last video made him feel so…..Kausik Sir too Praised me in a Public Tweet….And of course, everyone who came in contact with me during the course of this video series made me feel special. Juzzbaattstories had finally Succeeded in it’s Mission to Spread Smiles…..and that day, All those smiles reflected back on My lips😊😊😊

The people who crossed paths with me during this journey will always be special😊Juzzbaattstories gave my thinking a new direction , my self confidence a great boost , reintroduced me to something I believe in and gave me courage to persue what I always Loved. And I’m sure fate had greater plans behind bringing Juzzbaattstories to my life than what meets our eyes.

               

Now,I can proudly say, I officially worked in association with ZEE TV for a project….It was My first stepping stone to a Beautiful domain I love! At this moment, I really don’t know what exactly future holds for me….neither would I like to plan it because now I realize, God is much greater in terms of imagination and planning than we can ever be. I’ll just do my work with full honesty and dedication….and rest, life itself will take care. 😊

Link to the videos:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTJ6cqJkMyQ&list=PLhKa-ln70VekGZfmHad6i874S6N9IJauX