Lights, camera , action…Bollywood here I
come!!! Now don’t get me wrong it’s not a career in acting that I am after, its
stardom, nothing less than the lead role for me. When did this obsession start?
Well, it can probably be traced back to those early days when I used to traipse
around the living room, Mum’s dupatta in tow which was my handy prop, turning
into my lovely locks one moment, into my sari the next. At age five of course this
was perfectly acceptable, the darling antics of a precocious child. My parents
were indulgent and forced many an Uncle and Aunty to sit through the entire
rendition of a Sridevi number in their daughter’s inimitable style with
applause and exclamations at all the appropriate places.
That was at five at 15 these things just
weren’t so amusing anymore, it was the year of the “Board Exam”. It was time to
banish the dreams of ever being the Bubbly to the Banti and concentrate on
one’s studies instead. So I walked the
much trodden path, got a respectable 80% in my tenth went on to do my arts in
Junior College (Oh yes, that way my parents are pretty liberal they didn’t
insist I became a Doctor or Engineer), topped my university for my graduation,
sailed through my MBA and finally landed a job through campus placement in a
well respected MNC.
I am not unhappy, in any case Mr. Bhansali or Karan
J might never have discovered me, after all I don’t have the smile of a Madhuri
or the oomph of a Malika. What’s
more, my dear old grandparents in Trichur are spared the embarrassed squirming
as their conservative neighbors speak in hushed tones about the pavam menons’ whose granddaughter
doesn’t seem to be able to afford enough clothes. Yet when the lights go off
and the film begins to roll I always wish I had given my fantasy wings to fly
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