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   satyam 14 July 2008
   01:07:04 pm

   

   Satyam Says:
   July 15th, 2008 at 1:32 am

   I believe this is your first post ‘on board’. Some interesting reflections here. Wish you the best for these concerts. I do think you should take it a little easy after this. You have been pushing yourself a bit too hard for a numbers of years. Being excessively busy hardly wards off life’s twilight period. You are of course still enjoying a remarkable innings at your age. My reading is that you have seen your life as being in the twilight phase for sometime. I will agree to the extent that this is not the 70s or 80s. But I hasten to add that 99% of Indian film stars have not had peaks comparable to your twilight! Nonetheless I understand why you would be at this juncture from an emotional perspective. All I suggest is that you slow down a bit. You have great genes from both your parents and you could easily go up to 90 or more. The fan in me would wish for a 100 for you! The point is that you could have another 25 years or more to go and it might be advisable not to overwork your body. To be honest this was the one aspect of this entire tour that left me more than a little perturbed — the concern that it might be just too hectic for you. At any rate hope you have the energy to sustain whatever it is you desire to do to the end of your days..
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   jayshah 14 July 2008
   01:30:05 pm

   

   Sound advice Satyam!
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   Qalandar 14 July 2008
   03:40:24 pm

   

   My comment:

   This is one of your “best” pieces so far (by which I simply mean, at the risk of sounding pompous, that it is one of your most touching and thoughtful).

   Re: “psychological stress and apprehension of going out to do a job. The anxiety of living up to expectations of others. The fears of all going well…”

   Rather remarkable that after so many years in the business, heck, after so many years of BEING “the business” (that is to say the summa of the movie business), it is refreshing that you nevertheless are able to admit to such feelings. Far too many stars seem trapped by their images, and hence distant from “humanity” (a trope powerfully captured in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s “Halla Bol”, in the scene where Ajay Devgan goes up on stage to receive an award and is somewhat startled at the size of his image). I am humbled and gratified that you are not among them.

   [Aside: my thoughts on that scene in Halla Bol are enclosed:

   “The first scene is the work of a far more subtle sensibility, and is, I suspect, destined to be one of my favorite scenes this decade. Sameer Khan has been named a youth icon; the star, his mind perturbed by the murder he has recently witnessed, arrives onstage and is startled by his outsized image opposite him. In what is to my mind the most perceptive observation on the nature of celebrity ever made in a Hindi film, Sameer Khan acknowledges that he is wholly other than his on-screen persona. “Ye sab kuch kar sakta hai,” Sameer says wistfully, rendered impotent by his own success, “aur mein kuch bhi nahin.” This scene is uncanny, revealing nothing so much as the impossibility of stardom: Ashfaque has strived for years to be in this position, yet the one in this position is someone other than Ashfaque, one who has rendered Ashfaque an imposter to himself. Nothing else in Halla Bol approaches this pinnacle, but make no mistake: this scene is itself worth the price of admission.”

   http://qalandari.blogspot.com/.....-2008.html
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   Rocky 14 July 2008
   05:19:32 pm

   

   Re-Rather remarkable that after so many years in the business, heck, after so many years of BEING “the business” (that is to say the summa of the movie business),

   Wow Kya dialouge maara hai !!!
   great comments by Satyam and Q !
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   satyam 14 July 2008
   07:57:16 pm

   

   Excellent comment Qalandar…

   thanks much Rocky…

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