for those who love to play badam-saat

well.. it's been looong since I wrote something here! Reasons being many! Back with a card game!

A bit (?) of background follows. Sunday evenings have been boring almost always and one Sunday evening I got so bored that I decided to play cards all alone. I hate playing cards alone. I like to play cards in group (of 3-4, not more). These days its just my mother and I who play cards if at all. The only 2-3 sensible card games that we knew of - Rummy, saat-aaTh and memory game - had already been repeated many times and we were bored of playing those again. I love playing badam-saat but with just 2 players it is not sensible to play it as it reveals the entire state of game. I finally stopped (trying to pay) playing cards alone and did a Google search on "two players card games". No doubt, it returned me a long list but that was not useful! First - the explanation of games was in English (:D) and it was going all over and above my head. I finally found one game - which I though I'm understanding after reading it. Then I sat down and started playing it - myself playing both roles - player 1 and player 2. In no time, I realized that I had only "read" it and have not understood even a bit of it! :D Enough, I said. I thought for a minute and I started designing my own game. The game I was just reading about - over the internet - was afresh in my brain and my all time favorite badam-saat was at the back of my mind - and these two together gave rise to the following game. My mother and I like playing it since then. It's simple and enjoyable! And yes, for those who love playing badam-saat just like me, this is a good option if you don't have more than 2 players.

Enough of "prastavana" (background)!! Now, the real game! (Note, after we started playing this game, we just felt that probably such game is already known - just that I did not do a proper search on the web! - in which case it's okay, in fact great! I do not claim any patent ;) but yes it did come to my mind just like that! and above all, its enjoyable!).

In the end, there a dry run for this game. Probably, looking at that first would help, than going through lengthy text explaining "how to play"

Just to summarize, following is how we play badam-saat:

Cards required = 52 (all)

Deal = Dealer will deal a single card to each player and keep rotating unless all cards are dealt. (Depending on number of players, some may get more cards than others, but that is okay!)

"Daav" = "daav" is like a round - one set in which all players get one chance to play. The player with a badam saat (card 7 of suite Heart) card will play it first - keep it on the table face up. Then either clockwise or anti-clockwise, other players will start playing a card or say "pass" and likewise it continues.

Play or pass = A player when his/her turn, will simply check all cards in their hand and check if any of those can be put on table. A card can be put on the table (face up) only if it is sequential to cards already on table. For example, in the beginning there is just one card "badam saat" on table. The only possible cards at this point are "badam chhakki" (6 of heart) or "badam atthee" (8 of heart) as far as badam is concerned. But, this is a game of "satti"s! sevens are kings here! You also can put a card on table if its any of the "satti"s. That means, in addition to "badam chakki" and "badam atthee", one can also put "kilwar satti" (7 of club) or "ispik satti" (7 of spade) or "choukat satti" (7 of diamond) at this point. Everytime, one has to keep in mind what are the least and highest value cards that are face up on the table for all four suits and see if they have any card(s) which are in sequence with those. An elaborate example follows. Let's say there are following cards already face up on the table - badam (saat, chakki, panji, atthee, nasshee, dasshee) (i.e. Heart - 7, 6, 5, 8, 9, 10), kilwar (satti, chakki) (i.e. Club 7, 6), ispik (satti, chakki, panji, chouwi, atthee) (i.e. Spade 7, 6, 5, 4, 8) and no choukat (i.e. Diamond - none). Then the only cards which can possibly be played are - badam (chouwwi, gotu) (i.e. Diamond 4, Jack) , kilwar (atthee, panjee) (i.e. Club 8, 5), ispik (tirri, nasshee) (i.e. Spade 3, 9) and chokat sattee (i.e. Diamond 7). If a player who is going to play next has any of these cards, he/she can put it on the table face up. If a player does not have any such card, he/she will announce a "pass" for this current turn.

End of game = the game ends when one of the players has played all his/her cards and is empty hand now. He/she is the winner for the game. At this point, in a standalone setting, he/she is just announced as winner and they can start playing a new game or they can use scoring (see below).  

Scoring = The players are scored (penalized) based on the values of cards they remain with. The winner will have 0 penalty as he/she has played all the cards. Any other player except winner will sum up the values / ranks of cards he/she is left with - for example, if one has "badam raaja" (Heart King) and "kilwar ekka" (Club Ace) then one will be scored (penalized with) 13 + 1 = 14 points. Here, the suite does not matter but just the value. If scoring is used, the players can pre-decide how many games to play (say 7, 10, etc.) and can accumulate the penalties per game per player. At the end of pre-decided number of games, whoever has least score (penalty) is the winner. Whethere to count Ace as point 1 or points 14 depends on where it is decided to be put in sequence. For example, if the players decide to put it on durri (card 2), its value becomes 1 and so point 1. If players decide to put it on raja (card King), its value is more than raja and point 14. Whatever it is, it has to be kept constant for the pre-decided number of games so that scoring is uniform.

Trick = which card to play in your turn? - It may be possible to have multiple cards in hand which are in sequence to the cards face up on the table. In this case, which card to play? well, simplest answer is "any one"! but the trick here is to play the card which will (help :D) unblock least cards for others and most cards for the player himself/herself. For example, if one has "ispik dasshee" (Spade 10), "badam dasshee" (Heart 10) and "badam raaja" (Heart King) as possible cards which can be played, and if the one does not have any higher value card of suite ispik than dasshee, then for time being at least, one can play badam dasshee because that would unblock (at least help) one's own badam raaja to be played and it has still blocked other ispik cards (gotu, raani, raja i.e. Jack, Queen, King) which are probably in others' hands. This way, one can optimize based on judgements. Note that this is a locally optimal decision.

Now the new game! I would call it "asymmetric badam-saat". The reasons will be clear (I hope!) as we discuss the details. Let's go point-wise just as above. We are considering just two players here, as that's why the game was designed! ;) but it can be played with more players as well.

Cards required = 52 (all)

Deal = Dealer will deal 4 cards each. Let's call the other player as opponent (!). Dealer will also put 4 cards face up on the table. Remaining deck is just kept aside. Note, these could be anything, unlike the four sevens that may eventually turn up in badam-saat game! So, you are set with 4 cards with dealer and 4 with opponent and 4 face up on the table.

"Daav" = opponent gets to play first, he/she will start the "daav". The turn - (whose turn = whether the opponent or the dealer will start a daav) - will keep changing (see below). Right now, for the first time, it's opponent's turn. "Play / pass" criteria is almost same as badam-saat. It is elaborated below. If both the players have announced "pass" then their are two scenarios. If this is the first "all-pass" scenario since the beginning of the game, the players first have to make sure that all four suits are on the table. That means, if the four cards initially face up on the table are "ispik chouwi", "badam raani", "kilwar ekka" and "badam nasshee", (i.e. Spade 4, Heart Queen, Club Ace, Heart 9) then players first have to put the cards from "choukat" (Diamond) suite in order to make the set on the table complete. In other scenario, when this is not a first "all-pass" situation, each player will take a new card from the deck of cards kept aside. In which order should they take the card - opponent first and then the dealer (this matches with original order when the cards were dealt in the beginning).

"who gets to play first" - As I mentioned, the "daav" / turn / who gets to play first will keep changing. In the beginning, its opponent's turn first. When there is "all-pass" situation, there will always be a player (either dealer or opponent, not necessarily always the opponent) who announced "pass" first. This player will now get a chance to start next "daav". So, in both of the above "all-pass" mentioned scenarios (either "get-all-suites-out" or "take-a-card"), it's that person's turn who had announced the "pass" first in an "all-pass" situation.

End of game - This is obviously when either of the player plays all his/her cards and is left with empty hand.

Scoring - Well, didn't think much about this. But, a reasonable scoring technique would be just to extend "badam-saat" scoring. Whoever is left with cards (note, there may be cards in the deck kept aside which will be counted in the cards owned by the loser!) - just sum up the ranks of all cards - independent of which suite. Again, whether to count an Ace as 1 or 14 depends on where it is allowed to keep - on "durri" or "raaja". Straight forward enough!

Dry run of Asymmetric badam-saat follows:
Dealer - D, Opponent - O, Cards on table - T
Suites: Dimond -  SD, Spade - SS, Heart - SH, Club - SC
D - deals 4 cards each to D and O and 4 cards face up on the table.
D - has SD1, SS6, SSKing, SH7
O - has SHKing, SSQueen, SH8, SD5
T - SS5, SS9, SD8, SHJack

"daav" 1:
O - can play nothing! Announces "pass" - first one to announce "pass"
D - can play SS6 only - has to play

D - has SD1, SSKing, SH7
O - has SHKing, SSQueen, SH8, SD5
T - SS5-6, SS9, SD8, SHJack

(note, still "daav" 1 continues, as there is no "all-pass" situation yet!)
O - can play (still) nothing! Announces "pass" - first one to announce "pass"
D - now, can play nothing! Announces "pass"
-- "all-pass"
-- "first ever "all-pass" since beginning of the game!
-- meaning, they have to make sure all suites are up on the table
-- only missing on table is SC
-- It's still O's turn as O announced the "pass" first.

O - does not have any card for SC!
D - does not have any card for SC either!
-- (what to do??)
-- (simply continue, pretend as if there was no "first all-pass" yet!)

O, D take 1 card each from the deck
O - has SHKing, SSQueen, SH8, SD5, SC3 (new card!)
D - has SD1, SSKing, SH7, SH1

-- remember, we pretended there was no "first all-pass" yet? Re-visit that decision!
O - "Oh, I have a SC card" plays SC3
D - has no card to play. Announces "pass" - first one to announce "pass"
T - SS5-6, SS9, SD8, SHJack, SC3

O - has no card to play. Announces "pass"
D - has already announced "pass"
-- an all-pass situation (again!)
-- not the first ever since beginning of the game!
-- take 1 card each from the deck
-- continue as all suites are already up...
--
--
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गांगुलीमय मी!

"गांगुली" या शब्दाने माझ्या आयुष्याची काही वर्षं व्यापलेली आहेत. म्हणजे, अचूक सांगायचं तर (मी) आठवीत असल्यापासून ते गांगुलीने क्रिकेट ला राम राम ठोकला तोपर्यंतची सगळी! खरं तर क्रिकेट ची मेच आणि "आमची माती आमची माणसं" एकाच आवडीने पाहणारी मी! एकदा केव्हातरी गांगुलीला पाहिलं आणि माझी विकेटच उडाली. नेमकं कोणती मेच होती ते काही आठवत नाही.. हे महाशय पेटले होते आणि अगदीच काही शंभरी वगैरे नाही पण धावफलक बर्यापैकी हलता ठेवला होता. त्या मेच मध्ये हारलो कि जिंकलो हे सुद्धा मला आठवत नाही. पण एक नक्की कि त्यानंतर मी जी काही क्रिकेटवेडी.. आह! नाही.. गांगुलीमय झालेय.. ते अगदी आजतागायत आहे.

मला गांगुलीबद्दल सगळ्यात जास्त काय आवडतं? हे सांगणं महाकठीण काम आहे. अगदी त्याच्या ठोकलेल्या सिक्सर पासून ते टेन्शनमध्ये असतानाचं त्याचं नखं कुरतडणं. किंवा मैदानावर प्रचंड माज दाखवण्यापासून ते "well played boys" म्हणत सगळ्यांची पाठ थोपटणं. सगळंच! स्वयंपाकघरात पाउल न टाकणारी मी, गांगुली ने शंभरी गाठली की शिरा करायचे! आणि तो आउट होऊ नये यासाठी त्याच्याही पेक्षा जास्त अंधश्रद्धाळू बनायचे.. म्हणजे.. एकदा आम्ही केरम खेळत असताना दर वेळेस माझी सोंगटी गेली की तो चौकार / षटकार मारत होता. काय प्रचंड एकाग्रतेने खेळलेले मी त्या दिवशी केरम! फक्त त्याची शंभरी व्हावी म्हणून. दहावीच्या परीक्षेची तर वेगळीच मजा! संस्कृत चा आवडता पेपर होता. २ दिवस सुट्टी होती आणि त्यातल्या दुसर्या दिवशी मेच. २ दिवस सुट्टी आहे - असं म्हणून पहिल्या दिवशी काहीच केलं नाही आणि रात्री आठवलं की मेच आहे उद्या! झालं.. निम्मा अभ्यास रात्री बसून केला. दुसर्यादिवशी प्रवचनाला बसल्याप्रमाणे टी.व्ही. समोर! नेहमीच्या जागेवर! का? कारण, मी तिथे बसले की तो चांगला खेळतो (आवरा! पण खरच केलंय मी असं :)) एवढंच काय! कधी कधी (खरतर बर्याच वेळेस) तो छानपैकी झेल देवून बाद व्हायचा.. आणि मग असं ओळीने २-३ मेच मध्ये झालं की डोळ्याच्या कडा ओलावायच्या खरं :( एकदा तर मेच संपल्यावर मी रात्री बराच वेळ रडत देखील होते. नाही - लहान वगैरे नव्हते मी तेव्हा! पण काय करणार! व्हायचं खरं असं :-|

गांगुली आणि माझं एक निराळाच नातं आहे! त्याला काय म्हणावं काय माहित? काही अविश्वसनीय अशा गोष्टी घडल्यात खर्या. त्यातली एक महत्वाची म्हणजे, २६ मे १९९९ ची. २४ मे ला वाढदिवसानिमित्त मैत्रिणी घरी आलेल्या, आणि मग २६ तारखेला कुठेतरी ट्रीपला जाण्याचा विषय निघाला. सगळे उत्साहाने तयार झाले कारण दहावीची सुटी चालू होती! जवळ जवळ ठरलं सगळं आणि मी रात्री मैत्रिणीला फोन करून येणार नाही असं सांगितलं. कारण? अर्थातच २६ ला मेच होती. आपण-श्रीलंका. विश्वचषकामधली. का कुणास ठावूक, ती मेच बुडवू नये असं मला अचानक वाटून गेलं. त्यामुळे मैत्रीणींना प्रचंड माज दाखवत मी गेलेच नाही फिरायला. आणि काय सुरेख गेली ती संध्याकाळ! १८३ धावा! एकदिवसीय मेच मधल्या सर्वोत्तम त्या दिवशी गांगुली ने केल्या. शिराच काय पंचपक्वान्नांच जेवण ही बनवायला मी तयार होते त्या दिवशी :D

कुठलीशी मेच होती अशीच.. कांगारुंसोबत. शारजाहला असावी बहुतेक (आठवत नाही) कारण ती आपल्याकडे मध्यरात्री २.३० ला सुरु होणार होती. झोपताना बाबांना सांगून ठेवलेले कि मला २.३० ला उठवा, जे त्यांनी केलं नाही. :( आणि तेव्हा मला स्वप्न पडलं की कुठलीशी मेच सुरु आहे आणि त्यात गांगुली ने २ विकेट्स घेतल्यात! त्या आनंदातच मला जाग आली आणि चमकलं की - आरे! मेच! साधारण ३.३०-४ वाजले असावेत. ताडकन उठले आणि टी.व्ही. लावला. कांगारू होते २१-२ वर आणि त्यातली १ विकेट गांगुली ने घेतलेली! अजून देखील यावर विश्वास बसत नाही की खरच असं घडलं होतं!

काही आवडू लागलं की त्याच एका गोष्टीबद्दल वाचलं जातं.. तेव्हढाच विचार केला जातो.. माझंही तसंच झालं! गांगुली बद्दल मिळेल ती आणि मिळेल तिथून माहिती मिळवायचे मी. त्याच्या त्याच त्याच इंनिन्ग्स, तेच तेच इंटरव्हू, त्याच त्याच बातम्या - अक्षरश: पारायण करायचे. दहावीच्या सुट्टीत त्याचं स्केच काढायचं ठरवलं. त्या आधीचे स्केचिंग चे सगळे प्रयत्न अयशस्वी होवून देखील! म्हणजे आधी काढलेल्या ८-१० स्केचेस पैकी काजोल आणि वाजपेयी सोडून कोणीच त्या खाली लिहिलेल्या नावाप्रमाण दिसत नसायचं. पण हे चित्र फार म्हणजे फारच हिट झालं. माझ्यामते ते काही अति उच्च वगैरे नाही आहे पण लोकांना खूपच आवडलं (किंवा ते तसं म्हणाले तरी!) असो! तर असं हे माझं गांगुली-प्रेम उतू जात होतं. शाळेत असल्यापासून मी त्याची बरीचशी चित्र (पेपर / मासिकात येणारी), तसंच त्याच्यावर येणारे लेख, असं बरंच काय काय गोळा करून ठेवलेलं.. त्याची एक छानशी वही पण बनवलेली. पण नंतर नंतर आधी कौतुकास्पद वाटणारी हि गोष्ट घरच्यांना वेडेपणा वाटू लागली आणि मग एक दिवस मी स्वतःच चिडून जाऊन ती वही फाडून टाकली.. एव्हढंच नव्हे तर माझ्या अभ्यासाच्या टेबलाला लावलेलं त्याचं पोस्टर (ज्यावरून हे स्केच काढलं) ते हि फाडून टाकलं :-| (पुन्हा एकदा - असो!)

हे गांगुली-प्रेम इतकं होतं की मेच असली की माझी आजी देखील अगदी आठवणीनं विचारायची - काय ग, तुझ्या गांगुली ने किती रन्स केल्या? :) त्याने तिकडे क्रिकेटला राम राम ठोकला आणि मी ही मेच बघण्याला. पण परवा एकदा कुठलीशी मेच टी. व्ही. वर चालू होती, तेव्हा अचानक गांगुली चा आवाज कानावर पडला आणि मी बसल्या जागी उभी राहून नाचायलाच लागले. तेव्हा आजी म्हणाली देखील - आहे का अजून पण तो वेडेपणा! मिनिटभरापूर्वी मी त्या टी. व्ही कडे ढून्कुनदेखील पाहत नव्हते आणि आत्ता त्याच्यासमोर जाऊन उभी राहिलेले! काय करणार, इतक्या वर्षांनी त्याचं असं दर्शन झालं ना! :)

माझ्या गांगुली-प्रेमाचा लोकांना काय अपार कौतुक! का? सोप्पं आहे - त्याचा वाढदिवसाला म्हणजे ८ जुलै ला मी सगळ्यांना चोकोलेट्स वाटते ना! मग का नाही करणार ते कौतुक :D २ वर्षांपूर्वी तर "HBD" (अर्थात Happy Birthday, Dada!) या स्टेटस मागचं रहस्य ओळखल्याबद्दल हर्षदाने माझ्याकडून BJC मध्ये ट्रीट देखील उकळली आहे! दिली आपली मी! :P प्रेम आंधळं असतं म्हणतात ते हेच! :D

A wish come true.. :)

When you like a celebrity, you tend to read / hear / watch more about them, be it their interview in some magazine or on some TV channel or be it in some books or internet or any information source like wikipedia etc. All that creates an impression of that person on your mind. You tend to think in some specific way about the nature of that person. If they speak rudely / politely in some interview (after editing and all), you tend to believe them to be the same in their real life. If you know about how they have spent their childhood like which place, what kind of atmosphere etc., you tend to make some conclusions about their behavior or their stand in some particular situation.

Well, but is that all correct what you expect and conclude? Btw, just a bit off-track.. but this is the heterogeneous data that you have been purposefully collecting / have indirectly accumulated with you, on which you try to find patterns - well, data mining in everybody's life! :)
okay, back on track.. so are all these patterns found correct? I don't think; they will mostly be wrong. The reason is simple. They are "celebrities" - it's said that, celebrities never tell truth. They will speak anything and everything that helps them get sympathy / appreciation from common people so that it will somehow help them grow in their respective fields. Hmm.. I believe in this, and still I always had a hope to find at least one person who is celebrity but still is true at heart, someone who is true to himself/herself, someone who will behave as an ordinary person when in crowd and not like a celebrity, someone whose presence will make you feel being closer to them and not widen the distance between you - an ordinary one and them - the celebrity. I was just hoping to come across someone like that, and guess what! I got that beautiful experience yesterday at spicmacay!

I am assuming those who have read till this paragraph are willing to proceed further and if yes, they know about Aarati Ankalikar-Tikekar, Hindustani classical vocalist belonging to Gwalior gharana. If you don't, google on her name. Here is one source. When it comes to music, since I was child, I was more attracted towards marathi old songs - bhaavgeet, bhaktigeet, naatygeet, movie songs and old hindi songs - mostly bollywood music. As no one from my family or even from the largest possible set of relatives ever learned 'm' of music, classical music was way too far for me. The only bridge which connected me to classical was via Bhimsen Joshi's casettes which my uncle used to bring as he liked them and via natyasangeet - which I feel is sometimes classcial music based. (I might be wrong, I still am very weak in those technicalities of Hindustani music.) In such setting, forget about listening to people like - Kishori Amonkar and other gems of classical vocal.
I don't exactly remember when, but I once watched a short T.V. performance by Aarati Ankalikar-Tikekar. That was my first ever face-to-face meet with classical vocal, I guess. The 2 things I liked then - her voice quality and that she is beautiful. - See, how dumb I was then to understand classical music!! I didn't understand how well she sung and what was her approach to presenting that particular raaga, but all I could get is - she is very enthusiastic while she is singing. (I hope, I can understand little more now.) But, to be frank - her fresh face is the first ever impression that I got about her. And, coming back to this again, I purposefully started seeking information about her. I made for myself some image of how she is, what she feels about her art, what is her approach towards classical music, how is she as a person, and many such things. As I never started classical training for myself seriously and could hear her as a part of SareGaMaPa (marathi), when her non/semi-classical songs were rendered by the participants and once when she herself was present as a judge and had performed. I always had a wish to watch her performance live.

And then I saw this poster at the hostel about "Spicmacay" performance. I went there yesterday. It was for the first time that the performer (like Aarati Ankalikar-Tikekar) was walking through the audience and heading towards the stage to perform. She was as fresh and enthusiastic as she was in the first T.V. performance which I had seen. She started apologizing for being late though it was not too much delay. And, this made me feel closer to her - a feeling like - yes, this is how I had expected her to be! One prediction was correct! :)

Then she spoke about what she feels about "Hindustani Classical Vocal". These days, when people feel worried about the future of classical music, which seems to be kind-of lost in the crowd of other types of music, she was very determined on her views. She quoted one of the saying of her Guru - "Classical music is not for manoranjan, but it is for Aatmranjan". I liked it a lot. She even said that classical is really not for the mass but it is meant for the "class" audience and those who are dedicated to it, who have understood the true sense of classical music, they will be happy even when just 10 people come to take that experience as against the mass going towards other kind of music. But, while speaking all this, her face was filled with calm and quite expressions as though she knows the ultimate truth and there was no reason to fear / worry / explain / make her point. And, one more prediction was correct!

Well, her performance was so nice that someone like me who really is too weak in classical music, can't even find perfect words for it. She explained a 9.5 maatraa taal in such a nice way!! It was a new thing to me, and initially I was confused when I was trying to make the beats with my hand. But, after she explained it, wow!! :)

Yesterday evening thus blessed me with 2 wonderful experiences. One of course, my wish of watching her perform was fulfilled and the other, I could find someone who is a celebrity and true with themselves with almost all my patterns and conclusion turning to be true!

(Note: Photo taken from here.)
Note - above photo link seems like a dead one

dumbC - एक चिंतन !

हा खेळ म्हणजे माझा वीक पोइंट! हा खेळ नियमीतपणे खेळलाच पाहिजे असा जणू काही नियम असल्यासारखा मी अधून मधून खेळत असते... अर्थात, एकटी नव्हे... सगळे कलाकार गोळा करून... लहानपणापासून हा खेळ मी वेगवेगळ्या लोकांसोबत खेळत आले आहे... पण सगळ्यात जास्त एन्जॉय केलेला खेळ म्हणजे आई. आई. टी. मधला... तर सुरुवातीला माझ्या ह्या टीम मधल्या कलाकारांची ओळख...

१ - अमिता - आम्ही खेळतो तेव्हा या खेळाचा एक नियम असतो, तो म्हणजे मी आणि अमिता एकाच टीम मध्ये असणं जरुरिचं आहे... ;) मग आम्ही कोणालाही हरवू शकतो...! या खेळात दुसर्याच्या आवडीनिवडी माहीत असणं, फार महत्वाचं असतं... म्हणुनच मी सांगते ते अमिता ला लगेच समजतं आणि तसच तिचं मला.. जसं की तिला फेडरर आवडतो किंवा हेरी पोटर ची सगळी पुस्तकं तिची आवडती आहेत अशा व्यक्ति-सापेक्ष गोष्टींचा प्रचंड फायदा होतो... कधी कधी मात्र काहीच कळत नाही मग गरज पड़ते ती सायली ची...

२ - सायली - हा खेळ खेळताना सगळ्यात जास्त वेळ आणि जास्त शब्द जर कोणी बोलत असेल तर ती सायली... एक्टिंग करणारा समोर जाउन खोकला किंवा शिंकला तरी ही मुलगी त्यावरून नाव काय असेल याची बडबड सुरु करणार... आणि कधी कधी तर ती इतकं बडबडते की "बाई, आता गप्प बस... तू फारच विषयांतर करत आहेस" असं एक्टिंग करून सांगायची वेळ येते... पण सायली ची गुणवत्ता इतकी प्रचंड आहे की तिला हिंदी सिनेमातलं ओ की ठो कळत नसून देखिल ती बरोब्बर ओळखते... त्यामुळे सायली हुकुमाचा एक्का आहे! ;)

३ - रोझ - या मुलीचं वैशिष्ठ्य म्हणजे तिच्या डोक्यात एक इन्फायनाईट मेमरी असणारा इंडेक्स आहे... ज्यामुळे इंग्रजी आणि मलयाळम या २ भाषा आणि सुपर फास्ट स्पीड ने शिकलेली मराठी याची अशी काही सांगड ही घालते की त्यासमोर भल्या भल्यांची वाट लागते... तिच्याकडे एकाच गोष्टीचा वेगवेगळ्याप्रकारे आविष्कार करण्याची कला आहे... त्यामुळे तीसुद्धा कोणताही सिनेमा इन-एक्ट करू शकते आणि उर्दू शब्द नसणारा कोणताही सिनेमा ओळखु शकते!

४ - नम्रता - ही मुलगी मात्र नेहमी "खयालोंमे खोयी" असते... समोर प्रचंड ओब्विअस असा अभिनय केला तरी ही मुलगी वाकड्यात शिरते... ;) आणि लई वेळ लावते ओळखायला... पण तिचे काही काही गेसेस आणि कोमेम्ट्स अतिशय डेंजर असतात... बापरे!

५ - सुजेषा - ही नेहमी समोरच्याला वाटतं त्याच्या बरोब्बर उलटं करते... जसं की आता मला आणि अमिताला वाटलं की चला आपण हा सिनेमा देऊ ज्याचं नाव सुजेषा नक्की ओळखु शकणार नाही की अशा वेळेस ही मुलगी नक्की म्हणजे नक्की नाव ओळखणार... :( मग आमचं एव्हढं भारी प्लानिंग गंडणार... :( :(

६ - मी स्वत:- मी कोणतीही गोष्ट इन-एक्ट करू शकते... इंग्रजी सिनेमांची नावं कितीही भयानक असू देत... त्यांचा अर्थ मला कळो वा न कळो... त्यांचा शुद्ध मराठीतला उच्चार मला कळला की झालं काम... हिंदी, मराठी आणि इंग्रजी आशा तीनही भाषांच्या समृद्ध अशा शब्दसंग्रहाचा मी अतियोग्य रितीने वापर करून घेते... आणि सिनेमाचं नाव ओळखता येतं म्हणजे काय! नक्कीच येतं!

काही कलाकारांची नावं लिहायची राहिली खरी पण कसंय ना, त्यांच्यातले गुण एवढे भारी आहेत की मला त्याचं वर्णनच करता येई ना.. मग आहे ना आमची टीम लई भारी!! मग अनलिमिटेड मजा येतेच येते! म्हणुनच वेळ मिळो अथवा न मिळो... जागरण करायला लागलं तरी चालेल... पण आम्ही खेळणार म्हणजे खेळणारच!!!!

dumbC या खेळाचे काही फायदे -
१ - प्रचंड मानसिक व बौद्धिक व्यायाम होतो
२ - दुसर्याच्या मनात काय चालु आहे हे ओळखायची प्रेक्टिस होते
३ - चिकाटी वाढते
४ - एकाच गोष्टिकडे वेगवेगळ्या दृष्टिकोनातून पहायची सवय होते
५ - जनरल नोलेज लई म्हणजे लई च वाढतं... फ़क्त सिनेमांची नावच नव्हे तर एक्टिंग बघतानासुद्धा इतक्या नव-नवीन गोष्टी माहीत होतात की काय सांगू!

:D