DAY 1963
Jalsa, Mumbai Aug 30/31, 2013 Fri/Sat 3 : 54 AM
So yes … its coming up to 4 in the morning and I am just beginning to connect … so what !!? Does it really matter, or be of some inconvenience to any … I would think not …
The concern often expressed is for the number of hours of sleep that is required, the rest and the recuperation after strong hours of work during the course of the day, the care for health … and so ..
Thank you … yes I am indebted to your concern and your insistence on my conduct .. and I shall always respect it … but I must respect my conscience too .. which tells me distinctly, that I must not forget even a single day of our Ef association, not just to comply a necessity, but to allow me the liberty of greeting this wonderful extended family …
Its like being in the house and not wanting to know what Jaya or Abhishek, Aishwarya and the little one are up to … to trundle down to them just for that brief moment to greet, to converse … inane topics maybe, but topics all the same ..
The preservation of my routine is hopefully unchangeable … and may it be blessed so it remains the way it remains now ….
Three directors of today - dynamic, immensely successful and hugely talented, are invited to interview me for a magazine, the BOX OFFICE. Shoojit Sircar, Rohit Shetty, and Imtiaz Ali and I sit around in a casual surrounding and talk of cinema .. where it is where it is headed and what goes into an actors mind when he or she enacts a scene .. interesting insights were spoken … details of their association with some of my early work was disclosed, much to my embarrassment, and a sharing of some of my acting experiences …
At the end of it I did not want it to end .. seldom do we sit and discuss these issues with people that really have contributed so greatly to the medium … and somewhere down the line, there is a glimmer of learning and knowledge that comes in to the moment of play .. we should encourage more of this ..
But now on to more other work connections and that would mean the reference to KBC and all that the three days of shooting have meant for me and others this season ..
But first a glance at what we going to be seeing .. for soon, I reckon there shall be an influx of the Ef, that shall seek admission on the sets, just to be a part of this program, which continues to give large butterflies ..
There is much more … but the more shall come gradually ..
KBC Season 7, carries a top prize of now 7 cr .. it has 3 questions for the FFF … or the Fastest Finger First, and after three questions for the contestants, a cumulative score of maximum right answers in the least amount of time, proceeds to the Hot Seat ..
The lifelines change too .. 5 of them to use only 4 … the 5th is a joker or ‘paplu’ or 'power paplu’ .. can be used as a joker to revive an already used 'lifeline’..
The timings too change .. the clock upto 6.40 lakhs, gives 30 to 60 seconds to reply and the 'phone a friend’ gets 45 secs as opposed to 30 secs earlier .. play along with the contestants that do not make it to the main chair, gets the winner at the end of the episode a lakh of rupees …
And yes the set is now at Yash Raj Studio and not Film City ..
The film 'Satyagraha’ released today, and I drive out of my home to go for the Directors meeting … a young man in an auto ( the three wheeler ), steps down, and holds up a placard for me … holding up traffic ..
It reads ..
“SATYAGRAHA … !!!!! WATCHING THIS FILM IS JUST NOT ENOUGH !!!
I stop on the road and summon him closer to speak to him .. he comes again after my interview and speaks to me for a few minutes … wants to do some thing of the community and country … finds the film inspiring enough to give it this try ..
I listen to him, but what can I advise a young man who wishes to settle down in this movement of making the world a better place … fast unto deaths and all .. I advise him strongly against it .. !! BUT … see how the youth of the country wishes to respond these days ..
Amitabh Bachchan
