Essay on a film i cannot forget ever in my life
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When I lost my grandmother, I had no one in the world.
My TV set and DVD player were my only possession.
Due to my lack of communication skills and personality, I was shown the door after the first question in all interviews. (What's your name? Me..I…Myself was Viswanathan…O K We will call you back.)
For a living…no…for not dying, I used to pick beer bottles from the streets and sell it in the junk shop.
A month later I was diagnosed with a deadly disease and the doctors fixed my expiry to be two months away.
Crying back to my room, I counted my wealth.I had 700 rs.
Wiping my tears I decided to live life to the fullest(!) using that money.
I listed my desires.
After finishing Chocolates, Cakes, Ice cream, Good meals, etc I reached that long pending wish.
Watch a porn movie.
I had been postponing this wish thinking Porn was Satan's trap but after the disease I had lost faith in God.
I rummaged through pavement shops where they sell cheap movies for cheap price.
As I felt shy to ask, I selected a movie based on its TITLE and the wrapper poster(An old man in his fifties dancing with a beautiful girl).
I darkened my room.
Kept a bottle of beer and potato chips by the side.
For a good blood rush, I decided to watch the movie scene by scene.
I switched on the subtitles, wore headphones and turned volume level to high,
In India we celebrate movies and a hero is like a family member to us. That's why people in many parts cheer, clap, dance, whistle in the movie halls. But I always believed applauding a 24 frames per second photographic image is utter nonsense and no dignified person would do it.
It took only five minutes for this MONUMENTAL actor to break my dignity.
Through out this movie I was clapping, cheering, jumping, dancing, hooting and howling in ecstasy as I had never witnessed such a piece of acting, body language and dialogue delivery from any other actor. A sheer soul-stirring performance!
After two plus hours of REAL ECSTASY and a moving climax that brought happy tears, I felt all my sorrows were washed away.
And then one by one started the miracles.
In the next few months I was gaining my stamina and slowly forgot my disease.
I started working on my vocabulary and passed dialogues from this movie as my own in my interviews.
And finally got a decent job too.
It did not end there.
After two years my personality too had improved and my marriage was a love marriage.
Now I have two beautiful daughters.
On all auspicious days, along with God I worship this movie.
How a movie makes a disease disappear is beyond human comprehension.
Some may call it THE DIVINE INTERVENTION.
Some may call GOOD KARMA.
But I call it using the real name.
AL PACINO
and the movie is SCENT OF A WOMAN.
Via a single movie he made me love me, love English, love God and of course love life too.
Is there anything else in this world greater than this great art and this greatest artist?