DAY 1891
Jalsa, Mumbai June 19/20, 2013 Wed/Thu 1 : 34 AM
Amrit Manku happy birthday for the 19th of June … may all your wishes come true .. love from all
Arshad Khan wishing you the very best for the 20th of June .. happiness, joy and fulfilment always ..
It is getting rough … work … but the will to continue, to be a part of it, to move along, to explore each moment whether there can be found a better more effective and fulfilling path … that is the adrenalin that pumps within the entire day.
They complete the desired work and as they move and set up for other procedures, one remains there. It is their desire to escort me out from the spot … to the vanity … for rest and better ambience .. to cool off perhaps ..
It does not work. At least not for me. I need the same space, the noise of the people at work. I need the smell of the location created as my own … I need to be able to believe that what has been created is indeed mine … this is where I function from … its mine … !!
I know no other .. and I hope I do not …
During the act it is essential to portray that what you say is as what you would hear for the first time, even though we may have rehearsed it several times over. The quality of performance can only and will only be established, if this so called anomaly is effective enough … anticipating what is going to be said, knowing it and repeating the lines , is just repeating them. How does one realise sitting in the darkened theatre, the truth and believability of what transpires in front of them. The work and the manner in which it is done shall … and that shall always rest with the performer …
It is important to know the context of a scene that is going to be done. It is equally important to know what every other person involved in the picture, whether present or not, shall be narrating .. yet … knowing all, it is then the duty of those that perform that, they are listening to the colleague expressing himself or herself for the very first time !!
The brain has many compartments … and a portion of one of them keeps what is needed at the right time - remembering a situation, a name, an act. In the business of choreographed artistry, of documenting enactment, it is essential to store in a corner of this the most complicated machinery in the human, a small little space which at a given time, shall perform its duty as desired … !!
I think I can say with a certain degree of finality that, were this to happen, the quality of the work done would be far superior to that, when this procedure is not followed. Maybe I am wrong, ill advised, or making error in the process. But this is how I conceive it, and this is how I shall perhaps always follow.
I may altogether change. There are many that do … and do successfully. They all do not follow similar, yet turn out winners. I would laud them and compliment their effort and their methodology. They have found new ways and ideas … great ! Share it with the rest of the world and allow others to reap its benefits. Progress can only be achieved when talent or its creativity is shared, educated by those that invent it.
Many feel a sense of possession. They feel they invented, and they and only they must benefit. Which is not too obtuse a thought. But imagine how much the rest of the entire world would benefit, were what you discovered, were to be known and used … not necessarily to them that you profess allegiance, but with those that shared .. or not shared at all …
I find it extremely healthy and astonishing too when I see coaches and experts from different parts of the world, excelled in the same vocation, imparting knowledge to those that they shall someday compete with.
I see it all almost in daily routine when I watch sporting activity. A coach from, purely for arguments sake, Australia, shall be imparting the finer parts of the game to an Indian team, who are about to play a tournament with the country of the birth of the coach. What transpires. What goes on in the minds of such individuals when teams represent country… the earth of the land of birth is a factor in itself … more precious than any other. To divide that, shall never go down well. What then ??
Ah … so many questions and thoughts rush and riddle the mind .. I cannot admit that that is the most important part of a great masterpiece, without getting the right and hopefully correct answers …
But I have answers …
Good NIght !!!
Amitabh Bachchan
