Bollywood

  After playing a bubbly teenager in the cult television serial Hip We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other — not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn’t be so afraid because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It’s so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.
Hip Hurray! and ruling the television as a VJ for quite a long time, Peeya Rai Chaudhary has managed To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
to make space for her herself in the increasingly competitive Bollywood as she is remembered for her Snails don’t walk. They slither and slide Along wet pathways Gleam and glide, Squeezed between The grasses green, Polished houses shell–like gleam.
performances in Bride & Prejudice and Vaastu Shastra. Peeya talks with IndiaFM about her forthcoming A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
film The Bong Connection and other projects.Please enlighten us about The Bong connection and your Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? KJV
role in it. The Bong connection is the story of two Bengali men- Apu (Parambrata Chatterjee) and Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.
Andy (Shayan Munshi) trying to find themselves and achieve their dreams in a foreign land. It is a Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
very sensitive film directed by Anjan Dutt who is a very talented director. I play Rita in this When the mood moves you move with it.
film. She is a 2nd generation Indo-American girl. It was very difficult for me to enact this role Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along in continuous joy, comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes, not because it is ridden as a hobby, but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side!
because I have never come across such girls in my life. So, I had to go to the U.S and hang around This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
with such girls to understand and adopt their mannerisms. So it was an intricate affair actually. The Science of Government it is my duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.—I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematics and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. This letter has not been dated precisely, but appears to have been written after Adams’s letter to his wife on May 12, and before one written to her on May 15.
How was it working with Anjan Dutt, Raima Sen and Victor Banerjee? In the first place, it was There can never be surprises in logic.
absolute pleasure working with the director Anjan Dutt. He is an extremely talented artist- great Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival.
actor, writer and awesome director. I have no scene along with Victor Banerjee but we were together Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
in America and I came to know him then. Even along with Raima, I don’t share screen space but we It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
came to know each other during the making of the film. I must say she is a good person and a For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. KJV
fabulous actor. You have done a Marathi film called The Truck of Dreams. How did you manage Marathi? Hush now baby and don’t you cry Mama’s gonna make all of your Nightmares come true Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you
The Truck of Dreams is an extremely sensitive and well made film by UK based director Arun Kumar. Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.
Since, I am from Mumbai I could speak decent Marathi. But for the actual accent of my character in There was a young lady of Kent, Who said that she knew what it meant When men asked her to dine, Gave her cocktails and wine, She knew what it meant—but she went!
the film, I had to inherit that accent in my speech which I practiced. Were you and Shayan supposed Reply to inquisitors, October 1789. I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
to be a part of the film Just Married? Yes, we were very much a part of it. But at the last moment The best thing in life aren’t things.
we had to back out from the project because my mother got seriously ill and we had to stay back with This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
her. How different is the experience of working on television and in films? It is extremely Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. Without character, all effort to attain dignity is superficial, and results are sure to be disappointing.
different. On television, I did the young teenage serial Hip Hip Hurray! and I did VJing. So in Hip But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other’s eyes.
Hip Hurray! , we were a group of friends working together. So it was a blast more than monotonous There’s a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.
work. As far as VJing was concerned, I just had to connect to the audience and communicate with Still I rise. . . .
them. So, it was not as tough as it is today. Today, the entire scenario has changed. It is Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. KJV
extremely hectic. On television, I don’t want to do the routine, mediocre thing so I am Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
looking for something really different and brilliant to work on. Have you quit television? John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
Not at all! Yes, it has been a long two and a half years since I am out of action on television. But The image of the God whom the faithful creates is the Image of the God whom his own being reveals. Thus it is psychologically true to say that “the God created in the faiths” is the symbol of the Self. The God to whom we pray can be only the God who reveals Himself to us, by us, and for us, but it is praying to Him that we cause the “God created in the faiths” to be himself enveloped in the Divine Compassion, that is, existentiated, manifested by it. The theophanies of the “Gods” manifested to the heart or to the faiths are all theophanies of the real One God (Haqq Haqiqi). When we are the musalli, this must be borne in mind; he who knows this is the gnostic who has untied the knot of closed, limited dogmas, because for him they have become theophanic symbols.
I am looking out for something spectacular. I don’t want to do the routine, mediocre thing so I am Never mistake motion for action.
looking for something really different, exciting and brilliant to work on. I am having a couple of I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
talks around. Let us see if something good works out. What are your forthcoming projects? I am doing BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
a film called Sabko Intezar Haiwith Shayan Munshi which is directed by Ranjit Bahadur. I also have Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? . . . Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave . . . in the name of our dear Lord . . . to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.
another UK-based project about which I cannot talk about. I am happy with the way people It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
like Aishwarya Rai, Kajol are married and yet manage their professional and personal lives. I said to Heart, “How goes it?” Heart replied: “Right as a Ribstone Pippin!” But it lied.
Are you happy with the way your career has shaped up? Honestly I am happy with the way people like Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: ” What are you doing? He answered: ” Laying some brick.” The second man was asked: ” What are you working for? ” He answered: ” Five dollars a day.” The third man was asked: ” What are you doing? He answered: ” I am helping to build a great cathedral.” Which man are you?
Aishwarya Rai, Kajol are married and yet manage their professional and personal lives. I am glad Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn’t conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.
that even I am in this league of people who manage both work and home. It is not impossible so I am The neer to the church, the further from God.
happy that I manage everything and not allow the fact that I am somebody’s wife become a hurdle in What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
my work. Do you prefer critical acclaim or commercial success? Both are definitely important. But as We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
far as commercial success goes, the audience notices you and appreciates your work. You are Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!!
recognized by people. So in today’s times commercial success is as important as critical acclaim. The world owes you nothing — it was here first.
 

Original post by Pankaj