Hats off to the man with the cap
Bollywood Features July 26th, 2007 His is truly the most surprising success stories in the history of Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
Indian cinema⦠his nasal twang and aspiring acting careers was the butt of many jokes⦠but he When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
combated all that criticism and emerged victorious when his film opened to an unprecedented The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
response⦠love him or hate him… you can not deny his brand value⦠hats off to the man with the America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
cap⦠Himesh Reshammiya is the next guest on ‘Koffee with Karan’.Excerpts from the interview: Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.
Karan: Welcome to Koffee with Karan Himesh⦠how does it feel to be on the show? Himesh: Superb! It’s when you are safe at home that you’re having an adventure. When you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Karan: Firstly, congratulations on the super success of your film⦠I know a large section of the It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
industry was surprised⦠but were you expecting this kind of success? Himesh: I think⦠I just It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: “She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.”
believed in God, destiny and somewhere I think everyone just prayed for me and that is something A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
that worked for meKaran: By everyone, you mean who, large sections of the industry were not praying In God we trust, all others must use data.
for you⦠Himesh: No, no⦠only that 1 %⦠people just felt that this can not happen, a singer Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
not a very good looking guy⦠Karan: As in, not conventional looking⦠not hero material? Himesh: Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
I think you are being nice to me⦠but, it was something that was unprecedented⦠when the film Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
started, people did say, âpaagal ho gaya haiâ. I understand. But, when actually the film was Truth never hurt the teller.
declared a hit⦠then, people realized. Karan: There were particular people, who were somehow There is nothing wrong with you that some Prozac and a polo mallet wouldn’t handle.
targeting you⦠is there any one kind of person that you felt resentment towards? Himesh: No⦠I Reason the Only Oracle of Man
really did not feel resentment towards anyone⦠because when you try something which is Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
unprecedented⦠then people are going to⦠till you prove it⦠and when this film was The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
releasing⦠and it was declared that is a hit⦠so many people called me and said, âvery Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.
goodâ⦠congratulated me⦠and they said, that they felt it wouldn’t work⦠so, its just that I If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as “candle making industry threatened.”
was doing something new⦠something different⦠and it takes a little time to accept something People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
that is unconventional⦠Karan: Have you heard that behind your back there might be other singers It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
who might be making fun of you? Himesh: Yes⦠of course why not⦠but, you know, when they meet In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
me⦠kitne composers ke saath milne ka mauka milta hain⦠pehli baar⦠phir woh opinion badal Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
jati dete hain⦠Karan: But one thing is⦠you keep very quite about your wife⦠you don’t talk Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop peddling.
about her? Himesh: Because she is a very simple girl⦠Karan: It’s not that you feel that your The heart is forever inexperienced.
image gets affectedHimesh: No, the first time that I was asked whether I was married⦠I said Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
YesKaran: And you have a son? Himesh: Ya⦠I have a sonKaran: What’s his name? Himesh: His name Can’t accept you reject changes around you You persist to resist anything new Rationalize with some lies your dated views The state you’re in you got nothing to win but everything to lose
is SwayamKaran: What made you think that you can be a lead actor? Himesh: When we used to travel There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldnt because of the state he was in.
for our shows⦠we really got a very good response from the audience⦠it was not a very Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
conventional film⦠it was about this character who goes to Germany⦠it was a thriller⦠it was O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!
a very different kind of film⦠we just felt that we will definitely get an audience to watch and Borrowing makes sorrowing.
the music and the performances in the videos was really liked by a lot of people and Prashant, the Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.
Director, he really believed thatâ¦yesâ¦Karan: you were capable of itâ¦Himesh: YesKaran: But If you persist in passing out stones when people ask for bread, you’ll find people quit coming to the bakery.
Himesh Reshamiya ko gussa kyun aata hain? Himesh: Gussa tab aata thaKaran: Maine aapko stage pe Honesty’s the best policy.
dekha tha⦠once on an award ceremony⦠you were very angry⦠when you went to receive the Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
award⦠you were upset with people⦠what was making you so angry? Himesh: Ahhh⦠Honestly, in PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern “small hot bird.”
the first year⦠all my songs were becoming huge hits⦠but somewhere woh criticism bina wajeh aa Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
raha tha⦠yeh mujhe us waqt lagta tha⦠ab jab main ⦠when I look back⦠I feel that they had There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough.
a point⦠this film also has got so much of criticism from the critics⦠but, it has done well at I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
the box office⦠so that 1 %, I really want to win them overKaran: You want to win them over? There are very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking.
Himesh: Yaâ¦Karan: I am happy to know that your attitude is like⦠who cares what they say? To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Himesh: No, who cares, kaise ho sakta hain⦠then it will be wrongKaran: But you are aware that Curd yesterday of my disease, Died last night of my physician.
there are sections who might want to watch the film⦠only to laugh at you.., Himesh: Ya⦠of There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king.
courseKaran: You are aware of that? Himesh: For the first time⦠when the film was launched⦠I Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
did tell a lot of press guys also⦠that they will say, â Himesh Reshamiya paagal ho gaya Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
haiâ⦠I know thatâ¦Karan: So, you are not living in an island of your ownHimesh: I can’t⦠It’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
because if I do that ⦠then I am jackedKaran: Would at all say that⦠you wanted to win the class If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ then we shall find a peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
audience⦠in terms of the class film makers⦠because you worked with a lot mainstream people⦠Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
but, the bigger banners eluded you? Himesh: Bigger banners⦠maine try kiya Karan⦠unko phone The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
bhi kiye⦠maine apko kitne phone kiye⦠Please aap mujhe ek baar chance di jiye aapke film mein What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.
kaam karne ka⦠but, main yeh samajh raha tha.. main us waqt 30-35 films kar raha tha⦠toh woh jo Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
teen chaar bahut hi top ke banners hain⦠jo bahut exclusive stuff karte hain⦠unke liye bahut I can never make up my mind if I’m happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
odd tha mujhe lena⦠main ye samajh tha ta.. par phir bhi main apni taraf se koshish kar raha The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
tha⦠jab waha pe mujhe nahi mauka mil tha tha⦠aur yaha par yeh log mujhe kaam de rahe the⦠to Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, For these are the things Jesus taught.
main unko kaise bhool sakta thaKaran: You stood by those peopleHimesh: Yes⦠100% aur rahoonga⦠The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous “wisdom of egolessness.” When you live in the wisdom home, you’ll no longer find a barrier between “I” and “you,” “this” and “that,” “inside” and “outside;” you’ll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of non-duality.
kyuni, woh log mujhe kaam de rahein hain⦠aur mujhe apna talent dikhane ka mauka inhi logo ne A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
diya⦠Karan: CorrectHimesh: Chote se chote makeron ka main bahut aabhari hoon⦠us waqt unhone . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all changeagainst change in the abstractis folly.
meri believe ki⦠main jo kuch bhi aaj hoonâ¦Karan: It is because of themHimesh: Yesâ¦Karan: We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death as ending; let us rather think of life as beginning and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting, let us think of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. And as the voice of death whispers “You must go from earth,” let us hear the voice of Christ saying, “You are but coming to me!”
But, do you feel that you want to get that classHimesh: Always⦠that 1%Karan: That 1% that you I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough. . . . The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
are not gettingHimesh: Yes⦠I want to and I will⦠aur mujhe pata nahi⦠aise lagta hain ki Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
bhagwan sun lega aur woh 1% bhi mere saath aa jayegaKaran: Aap yahan aakar kafi smile kar rahe I was asked this morning if it was frustrating to be 13-1 last year and not have more recognition and I said, Hey man, I’d take that every year. I’d take that kind of frustration and not worry about it one bit. It wasn’t frustration, it was one of those great runs and I enjoyed it.”
hain⦠but projection kyun hain ki⦠Himesh Reshamiya doesn’t smile⦠yeh apka khud ka projection A dripping June keeps all things in tune.
hain ki⦠you made sure you are projected like thisâ¦Himesh: Nahi⦠aise nahi hain⦠teen chaar I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely to inane comments by an NBC interviewer, Atlanta Olympics.
cheezein main clear karna chahoonga⦠aisa nahi hain ki main hasta hi nahi hoon⦠ab main Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
intensity wala aadmi hoon⦠to woh theek hain⦠main bahut zyaada nahi hasta hoon⦠par aisa nahi Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
hain ki main hasta hi nahi hoon⦠aur kuch rumours mere saath jude huye hain⦠Jhalak Dikh Laja ke There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
saath bhoot aaja na.. yeh kitni weird baat hainâ¦
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