Bollywood

  It had to happen. They were destined to part ways. But they Remember the parable of talents—the story of the three servants who had received talents, five, two and one respectively? When their master returned they all gave account of their stewardship. The first two had doubled their capital. Each of them said so in sixteen words and their work was pronounced, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” The third servant had accomplished absolutely nothing but his report took forty-three words, three times as long as each of the other two reports. Don’t be like servant number three. Make good! Don’t explain your failure! Do the thing you are expected to do! Then you won’t have to explain why you didn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t, or shouldn’t. Efficiency! That is the soul-satisfying joy of making good. Doing your work just a little better than anyone else gives you the margin of success. Making good required no explanation. Failure required forty-three words.
reached the dead end much sooner than expected.Raj Kumar Santoshi and Meenakshi Sheshadri. Two If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you’ll get the best.
people as different as chalk and cheese. Yet they have become synonymous with each other. Raj Kumar Upon marying actress Julia Roberts: It’s true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, “Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.”
Santoshi was attracted to Meenakshi the moment he set his eyes on her. She was the heroine of his Try to know everything of something and something of everything.
film, and with the passage of time, she became the queen of his heart. But he knew that he had no In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.
right to express his feelings to her. Their relationship was definitely not on the same footing. He The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
was just a struggling director, a nobody, while she was already an established star. Raj bided his Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. KJV
time till the release of ‘Ghayal’. The success of the film instilled confidence in him and so To compare is not to prove.
with a smile on his face, he went and proposed to Meenakshi. Only the smile was erased when the Beauty is the gift of God.
proposal was sweetly turned down. The rejected suitor, in a fit of depression, broke down and gave The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
interviews proclaiming his love for her. Success to him was not as important as winning over the Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
woman he loved. He hoped and prayed for the day when she would say yes to him. It seemed as if he Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
was not wrong in hoping for Meenakshi, perhaps unconsciously, seemed to encourage him. Long drives, It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
long conversations on the telephone, suggestions, discussions had become part of their daily Chip the glasses and crack the plates! Blunt the knives and bend the forks! That’s what Bilbo hates — Smash the bottles and burn the corks! Cut the cloth and tread on the fat! Pour the milk on the pantry floor! Leave the bones on the bedroom mat! Splash the wine on every door! Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl; Pound them up with a thumping pole; And when you’ve finished, if any are whole, Send them down the hall to roll! That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates! So, carefully! carefully! with the plates!
activities. Well wishers of Raj prophesized a doom but all their advice fell on deaf ears. He saw EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself.
nothing wrong in hoping. After all he was a man in love. Then began the shooting of ‘Damini.’ The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.
Every shot went into innumerable retakes before Raj would be finally satisfied. Though Meenakshi Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in Nature — daily to be shown matter, To come in contact with it — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks. The solid earth! . . .
never complained, it irked her mother no end. She felt that Raj was purposely trying to humiliate The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
her daughter. Nothing was said openly but the seeds of discontent and frustration were sown. Then On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
followed a series of events which worsened the situation. One day, Meenakshi approached Raj Santoshi Paraphrased: The devotee who is faithful to the divine Name that is His Lord recognizes his Beloved in every Beloved and in every divine Name the totality of Names, because among the divine Names there is a sympathetic union.
with a request. Satoo Singh, producer of Aag Aur Suhag in which she had a very good role, was in A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
financial difficulties. It is believed that she felt that if Satoo Singh announced a film with Raj, One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
he would be able to get finance for his new film and that money they would be able to complete ‘ There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
Aag aur Suhaag’. Then with the profits that came from this film they would complete the next No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
project. Soon Satoo Singh announced a film with Raj and Meenakshi in the trade papers. Raj was livid A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
when he saw the advertisement. The same day an angry Raj landed up at Meenakshi’s place to I doubt if God’s answer to a prayer is influenced by its literary quality.
straighten out the matter once and for all. ‘You do not know the difference between a proposal and O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you ‘re wearing out, But human creatures’ lives!
a proposition’, he told Meenakshi’s mother. ‘I was asking your daughter to marry me not to There’s more to light than the opposite of dark.
sleep with me.’ Heated words were exchanged between the two. (The above is an excerpt from the All love is lost but upon God alone.
September 1991 issue of Stardust. To subscribe to the magazine, log on to the Stardust website) Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. note: There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a certain occasion, when his troops were about crossing a river to attack the enemy, he concluded an address, couched in the usual fanatic terms in use among them, with these words: “Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry!”
 

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