During the summer of ’06, our last semester at NIT, Bhopal, two lazy-creative souls came out of their shells. On a creative-high, they ended up creating the above tshirt design for the 2002-06 batch of Computer Science of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (aka NITB, MANIT, MACT). This became a hugely popular concept and its now a trend, and you can catch most of the final year students donning their batch tees during the last few weeks of the golden-years.

And for those who can’t decipher what’s written -

• Line 1 – “Computer Science & Engineering rules at NIT, Bhopal”
  • Yes, we had our spies and bullies all over the place
• Line 2 – “Computer is the religion..”
  • scary.. eh? We even got a few unsuspecting professors converted!
    
• Line 3 – “You can not Escape! You can not Undo! You can not Exit!”
  • muhahahahahaha… mujajajaja.. out with the truth…. suckers!
• Line 4 – “You have to E N T E R”
  • See the geeky “Enter” sign in the design, wow, the height of sneaky subliminal advertising!

I still have got mine, errr, somewhere

psst, that’s my baby, Majbur Zindagiyan!

Off the record:
It took total 2 days to make, including conceptualization, interviewing some poor souls and the post-production. I remember my friends dozing off and me working on editing, through the night, ofcourse, hurling curses at them at every possible instance. Creating this movie has been one of the best experiences of my life, and winning that prize, one of the fondest memory of achievement. I miss you guys, my loved majboor fukeers.

Officially:
A documentary about the children and elderly of the city Bhopal (capital of Madhya Pradesh, India) who are forced into a life of misery and hardships because of their poverty. Stood first in a national level movie-making competition held at NIT, Bhopal (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology aka MANIT and MACT) in ’06.

• Explore – More original shayari by the original shayar Prakash here – “Thought-String“