Unleash the Demon...

"Its much more wise to let the past be buried, digging it up also brings an ugly angry side of you that one had learnt to suppress over the years.. I don't know if we ever grow up? I definitely haven't..."

- Anurag Kashyap

Ugly angst. That's where it all began. Our journey to not fall in line. Our journey to 'middle finger' conventions. Our journey to kick butt. Our journey to not be nice to people who don't deserve. This post comes as a humble tribute to The Demon that governs teamXtreme, much to our collective dislike, the guy who whiplashes mediocrity, encourages excellence, but at times when shit happens, he stands by the team, despite the size of the screw ups.

Demonik, as he is (un)fondly called , has been the starting point of the existence of this team. Having been witness to his ugliest assertions of angst, I won't say that it has been a 'happy happy' feeling all the way, but it's his birthday tomorrow, so I will be polite & withhold all those expletives that cross my mind every time I mention him.

On a not so fine day, me & Demonik were off to somewhere, for some business-as-usual kind of thing. Now he had just finished a session at the gym and someone had to bear the brunt. Thank God it wasn't me. A guy passing by on a cycle did something & pissed off Demonik. Abuses were hurled for a while & then HE did the unfathomable. He asked me to cling on to the black Bajaj Chetak while he went on to discipline the cycle guy.

It was a traffic signal, bang in the middle of the city. One mad freaking visual it was. Demonik whipping & disciplining the cycle guy with his Anaconda-skin-killer belt. Once done with the teaching, he came back as if nothing had happened. I was shitting bricks as I didn't know what would happen next. Will the cycle guy come back with his gang & get even? Thanks to my parents' blessings nothing of that sort happened.

That was just one of the many 'adventures' that we shared along the way. But the thing is that though the anger has simmered and all that, but it is what keeps us 'hatke' from other fungi in the business. Our threshold of taking crap (especially where work is concerned) is zilch / mundu. If you are not good enough, you are off the team, as simple as that! This holds true for both the members of the team, as well as the clients.

It helps us un-clutter life to a huge extent. Like that time I had a 'khaana khaaya?' type girl & Demonik didn't mince any words & asked me to dump her & move on. I did & look at me today, I am still struggling to find a girl. Thanks dawg! But yes, it's waaaaaay better single than dealing with the idiot marathon unleashed by the dumb chickitas. So thanks again! Dil se!

Demonik has been a strong influence to all us at teamXtreme (let me also quickly blame him for all my bad habits) & has set an example which we shamelessly try and follow. Okay, but I won't get a tattoo, so screw you :p As a parting note, as a birthday wish, from all of us, wonly to you Mr. Satan Reincarnated:

Devaaaa... utha le re... mere ko nahin re...

ROFLMAO.

Have a good one ahead bro & have a large one for me ;)

Dukes Mangola & Wada Pav

Survival is the keyword, when you embark on a maiden venture, if you are not Uday Chopra. There are hell lot of things to worry about and nourishing food is nowhere on the agenda.

In this post Dukes Mangola & Wada Pav have been used as metaphors. Actually it was our staple, while we used to slug it out, in The City, trying to juggle profession and passion & make sense of the whole damn thing. It was difficult, but nothing came easy to anyone of us at teamXtreme, at least so far.

The lesson we learnt back then was that to survive, you got to cut the flab or 'charbi' as they call it in Bombay. So a Dukes Mangola & Wada Pav was enough for us to sail through the day & those experiences percolated into our vision of how we run the show. There is nothing that we do which can be called shallow show off or pointless grandeur, like some Mr. Bhansali. Everything is there for a reason, but for that odd tattoo, sported by a brute amongst us, who is fondly addressed Demonik. How's that?

So getting back to the post, for any venture, especially where there is no 'blue chip' investment, it's necessary to be lean. It should facilitate flexible movement as and when required. Carpets are an unnecessary extravagance. So that's the point, the people affiliated to teamXtreme may not come and sign the attendance on a daily basis, but are there whenever required, even at odd hours of day or night. This takes care of two things. Firstly if you have come to work, you have come to WORK your lazy ass off, not just to sit pretty and warm the chair.

Thanks to the internet, even geography is not a problem, as many in the team are chipping in with their expertise from different parts of India. This adds to the diverse point of views we have and the bouquet of our offerings gets all the more wide. So if you wish to be a part of the team that kicks ass and are ready to slug it out, sweat it out & bleed it out, drop us a line here and we sure will get in touch with you.

You could be an individual specializing in any creative vertical, we would like to hear from you. Artists, visualizers, writers, craftsmen, photographers, web-junkies, videographers... just about anybody in the creative terra firma. You could be of utmost use to us in any of our projects that are underway or to be flagged off in the near future. Let's connect, over Dukes Mangola & Wada Pav. Don't worry, just kidding ;)