DAY 4318
Jalsa, Mumbai Jan 1, 2020 Wed 11:42 pm
Birthday - EF - Smita Buch .. Thursday, January 2 .. birthday wishes from all of us to you and may you have a glorious year .. love from the Ef ..
The first day of the new decade .. of the first of the 10 years that shall follow .. the first of the first month .. and my Ef Sudhir gives an observation ..
“In the morning… My elder brother, Ravi, had shown me how to read the calendar…
This, on the top, is the number of the year… This, here, is the name of the month… This number, here, is called the date… Date is the number of the day… This, here, is called the day… There are many months in a year, and many days in a month… but each date happens only once in a day… because date is a count… Every date is the total number of days which have happened in the month till that day…
What stuck : Every date is the total number of days in the month till that day…”
… and date has so many connotations it is impossible to enumerate .. for this though it is the evening before the DAY of the writing .. the thought the process the intent the context and the reason , why ..
.. yes many do ask for the reason of the above and the why ..
Every why has never ever needed a response .. I write because I write .. I express here because I wish to express .. I comment here because I wish to comment ..
Like it dislike it reprimand abuse question disagree , dis associate .. it is the ‘kala nazar ka teeka’ .. one that prevents the evil from a gaze that could be bad and irrelevant .. nothing like so here .. every gaze is relevant every expression in its import a precious gem .. it was not created , this , to create comment or demand or reason .. they all came in the course of the days .. valuable, connecting, embracing, enveloping the love and the grace of all ..
I am in denial of gratitude here for the existence .. the family , the Ef cannot be in a reason to be here .. they are here of own will .. families do these things .. they remain within .. yes at times one reads and hears with extreme pain the parting, the going away, the desolation of separation ..
But the moment of the hold of togetherness - even if it was for that minute second , was a holding all the same .. for that limited spell, the feel was to be together to be one to be inside the embrace .. that is it ..
The hold though brief is not brief it is eternal .. it takes a lot to extend a hold .. to reach out and command embrace .. the touch the warmth of each other is sufficient to express that it did make effort of a feel .. for me that is enough ..
You may discard now .. throw away .. disconnect .. have a million reasons .. its water on a ducks back .. it will not stay .. once done , DONE ..
IN THE END IT SHALL BE ONLY US ..
SO .. on the day of the first day we sit in silent understanding .. the progeny is away in their world and time .. it is normal .. so were we away on many a time in the past .. technology keeps us close and within voice reach .. even that is blessing ..
but blessings come too from quarters of them that write .. they express .. they post to me .. and I would have hesitated to talk about it .. but their writing is already in the realm of the universal , so putting it here .. well .. is humbling and immodest .. but ..
Amitji, You Are One Of Your Kind
By Subhash K Jha
Whenever I am asked to write about Mr Bachchan I am reminded that I know him so well. But I wonder if I really know him at all.
Does anyone know the real Mr B? Even Jayaji, the Bachchan I am closest to and the one HE is closest to, says she has to read the silences because he likes to remain quiet when at home. That is when he can really be himself, though I am yet to understand what it means for him to be himself.
What I do know is, this phenomenon named Amitabh Bachchan is genuinely a force of Nature, incomparable with anything that I’ve known in my entire life.I’ve known him for 20 years . His energy and enthusiasm level remain unchanged. Even today he gets as excited about his work as he did when Mohabbatein was offered to him 2000 . It began his second innings in cinema.
I remember how excited he was about doing the film, and how grateful to Yashji for giving him the opportunity.And I know how upset he was when earlier this month he couldn’t attend the National awards to receive his Dada Saheb Phalke award. To Amitji, every honour is of great importance.
I don’t know if every friend is special to him. But he has always treated me as someone really special. On one of the earliest episodes of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the game show which was a game-changer for Indian television, Mr Bachchan when introduced to a contestant from Bihar he proudly told the contestant that he has a dear friend in Patna named Subhash K Jha.
I won’t pretend.It was golden moment for me.To have his endorsement while millions watched…it meant a lot. Not too many of my friends in the film industry would do something like this. It is his generosity of spirit that I admire the most in his personality.As an actor he may fail some day (although that’s hard to imagine). But as a friend he can never fail you.
“Meet the film journalist from Patna who doesn’t like travelling to Mumbai,” he’d introduce me whenever we met on his sets. But most of my most memorable meetings with Amitji have been in the Bachchan home Jalsa where Jayaji presides over a household that runs with clockwork precision.The meals served in silver thalis with innumerable katoris of vegetables, are unforgettable.
There are numerous incidents etched in my mind illustrating his generous spirit. Two of them are more special than others. Once when I was on the airport in Mumbai to catch my flight back to Patna after the premiere of Black, I was informed my seat had been given away to someone else. In a panic , I did the first thing that came to my mind(this was a Sahara flight and at that time he was associated with the Group).
I rang up Amitji and complained hysterically like a child. He heard me out and calmly asked me to hand the phone over to the lady at the counter.Within five minutes I was on the flight.
The other incident happened at my residence in Patna when Mr Bachchan came home for dinner. He had come to Patna for the promotion of his film Aarakshan. And director Prakash Jha tried his utmost to dissuade him from breaking the schedule. When Prakash couldn’t convince Mr Bachchan, he called and urged me to dissuade Mr Bachchan as, Prakash claimed, his visit to my home posed a security hazard.
I had no choice. I reluctantly told Amitji that it’s better to cancel the visit to my home .
“No,I had promised you.Whenever I came to Patna I’d come to your house,” he replied calmly.
And that was that.
By the time he arrived with his entourage it was late evening. The entire road and stadium in front of my home was plastered with humanity, not a space anywhere …How did they come to know?! I panicked. How would his car reach my gate?When he arrived the sea of humanity parted like the Red Sea and the cars sailed by.After he got out of the car he walked straight into the sea of humanity with folded hands. Not one person tried to touch him or get close to him.
That evening I realised why he is who he is.
and then there is another
Love and the greetings and the blessings of the elders to you and may the Gods grace your hearts and lives with all their might .. may that unknown force of nature build the most beautiful palaces of residences in your hearts .. may HE be there in all your guidances and give the right path the light of purity and benevolence .. give you abundance .. give you joys .. take away grief and want .. fill you with plentifulness .. as never before ..
Amitabh Bachchan .. my Ef my pride , my existence ..
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