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December 22, 2007 | 10:51 AM
talent
The gift of talent, I believe, is a huge responsibility. It does not really belong to you. It never did. If used for merely acquiring wealth fame and power, talent turns into the devil that eats into your soul. Like a gambling debt, like an addiction. Not to a supreme creative endeavour but to the artificial surrounds of wealth, power and fame.
Talent is Prasadam. It can be taken away if not placed at the altar. Talent is the temple. And when it is lost, as it will be if abused, all that is left is the empty shell of addiction. Talent can never be yours, for it is much more substantial than your ego. And the more creative force there is to talent, the more universal, the more beyond yourself it becomes. It is as if someone loaned you the gift to tap into a universal creativity.
Of course there is temptation. The pull of the mortal and material needs never cease. It's a constant battle to retain the purity, the innocence, the child like playful quality of creative talent.
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Its natures course...abuse anything and you are bound to lose it...even Yourself!!
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Purity, Innocence Tis all a state of mind Shekhar!
Koi purity, innocence ko ek naam ek daag laga dega...koi usseh galeh laga lega....aur ajeeb baath tho ye hai...sabhi galeh lagane ko tayar hai...loool...musibat...
Ah! That child is the only one that survived all those battles...because that child never got polluted....never lived in fear...thus it breathes...and breathes
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Breathes
GoOD NiGHT
Kitni Jaan khati hu hai na?
Agra meh koi seat khali hai?
ErRM!
Yeah! Rite...
All that agony surely was a loan...to find myself...
Salutations 'O' darkness....
The prayer wheel turns...
Ah!Happiness returns...
If thee be a a dream...
Pray never wake me again...
Barter 'me' not for pain...
BRrr gettin cold....need a coffee ...areh ye Kedar sahab kaha gaye...
Dear Shekhar,
Talent for doing anything is always a gift from God and it's our responsibility to hone it, nurture it and realize the ultimate goal for which it was given to us. I believe everthing is kind of loaned to us for a certain time. The breaths, our body are all bound by time and even our unlimited imagination is given to us for a finite time. Like Paulo Coelho says, the only true obligation is to realize our personal legend in life, for which we have been given the gift. Just use the time and the gift wisely and fulfill the destiny of your soul.
Best Regards,
Himanshu
yeah...... you're really your happiest when doing what nature has blessed you with.eg art, literature, poetry.....
your poetry is so spontaneous shekhar....you are an astro physicist, film maker, poet......which of these is what comes most naturally to you ? brings the most happiness.....makes you forget yourself ?
Mere fun(Talent)ne meri muflisee(Poverty)ko mitne naa diya!
Ya yun kaho ki(Or)
Meri muflisee ne mere fun ko mitne naa diya!
Talent is the the unique imprint of uniqueness of one's being, and everyone has it embedded. And those who are able to realize it, and live it, shall use it for universal well being which automatically includes him. The glow of talent can reach everyone outside only if it glows from within. The fame, money may just be by products of it, which are further tools of expression for the wise. And if one gets entangled in the by-products........... further its like trying to keep the fire burning and watering it at the same time.
Truly talent is a gift and somthing which should be used with great responsibility. Like Uncle Ben put it in spider man "with great power comes great responsibility". Talent is truly power. But money is not evil.
Its easy for you to say sir that talent when used for making money and runnig behind material pleasures is evil. but for some people "making money" is their talent. look at the thousands of share brokers out there. thats their talent. and frankly sir there are times when your talent needs to be exchanged with somthing else. Like most of our hindi films put it. "gaane bajaane se pet nahi bharta". A talented person can live in minimalism all his life. but, there will be someone who will depend on him for money. what then? it is his resposibilty to oblige to that dependancy. you cannot just run away from it. Talent is good, but exchanging talent for money does not neccesarily make it evil.
Shekhar Ji, I agree wholeheartedly, but then I also have to live with the idea that art for art's sake is tantamount to masturbation. Agar koi khareedar ya dekhne waala nahi hai, then the concept of creativity is stifled, simply because art is created for sharing. Reward, however instrinsic or generous in value, is the axiom which makes or breaks many creative souls.
Like how Talent is not ours, Beauty is not ours too. According to me nothing of the beauty of any woman who contest in Beauty Pageants are eligible to be crowned/admired/awarded both for intelligence and looks. Simply because they did not design it. It's given by the unexplainable power who created us one and all.
True, The gift of talent, I believe, is a huge responsibility. It does not really belong to you.... similar concept explained in this interesting blog http://rsarosh.wordpress.com/2006/08/12/boot-polish/
Shekharji.....
Speaking of TALENT ....."Acting" has been a synonym with me ...Right from the childhood to 33 yrs of my present age I have done nothing but dreamt, breathed, lived off this desire to be an actress...Being immensely talented (throught out schools and college and staging local plays) to being outstandingly good looking and well versed...TALENTED as you put it ...i have never really gotten the right platform...The absence of clout, the presence of the casting couch, the restricting, non- accomodating family values, lack of opportunities, personal circumstanc es...all hindered me from being what i could have been ...........So much so that even post marriage i have tried and tried....got thru various production houses but somehow all went kaput in the end by sheer twist of fate and not failure of self as such.
...why is it that people like you from the fraternity never keen to try NEW , raw, inexperienced TALENT....And if at all they do , we are taken for granted ......why is it that all are flocked with the same stick...why is it that somebody like you doesnt step up and say " i will give you a chance ...if that's the kin d of fire you possess?"
I have been praised by acquaintances and strangers alike at being Awesome and a Natural warehouse of TALENT, looks, wit...they have as much as myself felt that i belonged only to this world and nowhere else........but till date i havent found a platform.......
I have stopped reading newspapers, mags, stopped watching movies, TV just from the fear of facing depression...its hard to accept myself being wasted away when all others with half or even lesser still ability and lookh s riding high and ahead...
Why does Immorality always have to win over values in the world of showbiz...why is it that the ones who sleep around can make it and the ones who want to look back at life with pride and grace not given a fair chance ?
why si it assumed that a person who has not acted in a film/serial/play before is not worth the time or trial ?
Why does anything beyond twenties in age become a retarding factor for a person par excellence.......Tell Me Shekharji is there anyone to recognise and try this talent ?
Tell me is it that simple to give up everything after i'm married to leave delhi, pack my bags and move to bombay only to realise i am a newcomer who stands no choice to the old timers or newbeeies ready to undergo anything??/
will i die insatiated, yearning, longing to showcase and prove my TALENT ?
Will you or anyone else listen to my plea and say " Ok just for once come for an audition .." and be marvelled at what you will come to see......?
In anticipation....
Richa
Your thread on talent resonated with me on a very visercal, palpable level. I have been blessed in many ways, like you, am from a famous film family of legends, but then went off to work as an investment banker in New York and was good at my job, but due to the lack of creative expression and how much I missed performing on stage, I sold my house, cars and life of luxury and packed my bags for India to attempt to do what my family had been doing for the last three generations at the tender age of just 25. I had been performing since I was about 5 years old, and always had a talent for it, and won awards and the like, but because it came so easy to me, I never really polished myself to be the besttttt that I can be. Over the last year I have tried hard to make progress, but this incessant struggle for self betterment is just a part of my nature by studying Strassberg acting, and Stanislavksi. I have legends as my familial predecessors, who were all untrained, and that you actually worked with, but I will strive my hardest to make it on my own by keeping in mind my talent is a responsibility. Also, on an aside, if are there any up and coming hindi directors with intense emotional sensitivity, ala you or bimal roy....that you can recommend, that would be greatly appreciated. I have offers from many of the big production houses in India, which I probably will end up doing, due to my talent of dancing and my look, but my passion exists in sensitive humanistic cinema.
Anything as a matter of fact...when has an underlying cause of power/money/fame....the real potential will never bloom as it is breathing with so many pressures.....
To sparkle I do believe you need to remove these factors....
Like a stone tossed in the sea...could cause ripples, be washed away by waves or engulfed by storms... it will have natures harmony in it...
That harmony is what i would call real talent...the guts to face all these forces...
Responsibility could again burden the rythm....the real flow would not be there...
Responsibility is a part of it....not heart...
Wow did i make sense?
Anyways...Good Morning tho bolna bhool gayi....
GOod MOrnInG Shekhar....woh dekho ek birdie aapke paas chirping karing...mere paas ek minature parrot hai...'Pollie' meri tareh hai lol...sniff aur lollie uski matie mar gayi...
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