Woh 17 Din : ApurvA’s Journey

Some Fun Facts:

1) Born on date of fav numbers 1 and 4 (14 Mar). Sent a mail to kutchvalley moderators asking to be added as a new kutchi.

2) KV folks are smart and would catch anything from Prashant. So a new character had to be created. KV folks are still smarter and would not digest the fact that Prashant played no April Fool joke. So a decoy prank (NDTV) had to be planted.

3) Flickr photos of Jadeja taken from
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ajayjadeja/
Have no idea who that guy in yellow is holding the camera. 🙂

Imagine my surprise when Tushar replies that he actually knows one of the persons in the photo. I thought game is up. But fortunately No. My hair stood on edge when BhaveshG joked that he knew the girl holding the mike. Whew !!!

4)
Flickr photos of Trinidad taken from flickr.

Flickr photos of Jadeja and my collegues taken from “Spotted” feature in rediff.
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2006/dec/04celeb.htm
The photo is actually taken in Saudi. Fortunately Jadeja was wearing a Barbados T-shirt in that photo.

5) “A”, “1”, “4” clues thrown around kutchvalley site. That is why all those As – Andheri, Arizona, Ajay, Ashish, Amrutlal, Apple, Arcsight etc. Fav mithai reads as A-F-D (Adadiya, Finiya Laddoo, Dryfruit Chikki)

6) Could not find a suitable kutchi name starting with F. So instead of naming my father as “F” I chose to name my Gaam as F and made use of concept that my friends use my village in my name sometimes.

7) Fortunately India Lost and so it was easy for people to believe that Jadeja is free from commitments in West Indies now and is visiting USA instead.

8) No one taken into confidence w.r.t prank. Dimple also unaware of the prank.

Some interesting happenings and quotes in these 17 days outside of the website correspondences that you can see :

a)

“Hey Apurva is going to go to West indies. !!!”

b) During Ind-SL match :

“I think I saw Apurva just now in the stands “.

c)

“Until now I knew you as the new kutchhi who knows JADDU 🙂
But ur absolutely right…..its indeed a small world ……cause now ur not just a new kutchhi but also Amrutlalbhai’s son :)”

“I believe I’ve met ur dad …..but that was a long time ago. My sister & my brother-in-law know ur folks. ”

d) On seeing Apurva’s reply to NDTV :

“Poor Apurva, He got trapped. He does not know its an April Fools Joke from Prashant”

e)

“We have a friend Apurva who went to Trinidad and he knows Jadeja. And he has come connection with our folks back in India as per him”

f)

“why is apurva’s ad prominently displayed on KV and
what do we care what his fav letters and nos are ?”

g)

“Apurva, I was at the temple yesterday, but we could not connect.”

h)

“Dad, Do you know someone called Amrutlal Dedhia. His son stays here in the Bay Area and tells that his folks know you”

i)

“Nice of you to drop in an email. And small world indeed. So where do your parents live in Mumbai?”

j)

“See thats an attribute of Kutchi…..networking….we really champ at that…..just kidding….somewhere somehow we definately connect ourself with another Kutchi….most people in bay area have some connexion with my folks”

k)

Hi Apurva,

I was searching for someone who plays cricket and lives in Mountain View, CA. I came across your posting at the KutchV blog. Are you playing cricket with a Mountain View club or with another one?

I work for the Mountain View Voice and currently trying to piece a story on cricket action (if any in Mountain View).

best regards,
Zunaira

l)

“Kya Prashant, Ees Saal tunay kuch nahi kiya April 1 ke liye”.

Me silent and smiling internally 😉

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Of course there may have been other discussions about Apurva that I am not aware of. 🙂 As much as fun and ideal Kutchi that Apurva was he will now need to go.

So say Bye Bye to Apurva Faradri Dedhia…..

Thanks of course to the KV sporting janta for taking it in the right spirit and for making it so much fun year after year. Till the Next Time (yes there will be one), Adios and Sayonara.

Relevant posts:
http://www.kavita.kutchvalley.com/?p=271
http://www.kavita.kutchvalley.com/?p=272
http://www.kavita.kutchvalley.com/?p=279