I never chanted his name for years, never went to his temples to pray. But somehow I managed to meet him one day on a saturday afternoon.
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"Zuludancing, there have been no posts from you in recent past. There are no reviews on anything under the sun from your pen. Whats happening ?"
I replied "Erectile dysfunction with the brain and mind."
"Thats quite weird,I have never seen someone suffering from such a dysfunction above waist. Tell me how may I treat you"
"God. I am not getting any rush of blood to my creative brain these days"
" Dont fool me with the words, consult your Doctor. If anything other things are there, tell me. I all here for you"
" Im feeling only one faceted, like a horse tied to a horse-cart who can look only in one direction. I feel my writing is getting monotonous with twists, turns, bits of silly jokes here n there. Twists and turns are a big flop these days, "Race" flopped because of that."
"Come on, what it has got to do with Race and movies ?"
"It has to do with movies only, I can write only because movies give me a lots of ideas to write my reviews.
You see, all comedy movies of Priydarshan have flopped these days, David Dhawan is so out of business that he had even judged a dance competition, nobody even remembers who was Neeraj Vora.
People are moving more towards movies that discuss real life.."
"Real life ? like ?"
"Like they are talking about diseases across all age groups and curing them without godly charms. Like they are talking about romance pre and post marriage , duties of husband, his fallacies. They are talking about a tough life in metro.
Everyone is telling me about the hardships of life without knowing that I have been going thru the same things all along. I have had bitter stories to tell, painful heart-breaks to sing sorrow songs about, philosophies of life that I have learnt by falling down and hurting myself."
"What do you want to tell ?"
"Why do poor Priydarshan and David Dhawan should suffer becuase life has been all unfair ?"
" Zuludancing, do you see speed-breakers on the roads you drive. Priydarshans and David Dhawans are like mega-express highways, they would go on. Singers of sorrow, painful life are like speedbreakers. They would come and go by slowing you for a moment. But the road is all yours, remember !"
"Dhanyavad bhagwan, tumne to meri aakhen khol di. Tumhara ehsaan mein kaise bhool sakta hoon ? Tum to gyani ho..."
"Ghadi ghadi drama karta hai..."
"who ? me... ?"
"And let me go know, someone is busy writing another script about fallcies of life. I have to help him by giving him another bitter lesson of life .
Keep smiling, doosaron farak pade ya na pade, tu to Happy hai !"
