Passion v/s Parents

There are so many people, who nag a lot, that they don't get the proper opportunity in their life, because of their family backgrounds. Family background makes such an issue blocking all the possible way in their life. They have no connection or networking to be where they wish to be or say, what they want to achieve in life. Every time you get this idea in your mind I want you to read this story and see how things work in real world.

When, I was saw Dhoom for the first time, I saw a guy, a new comer, doing very significant role. Like millions, it had baffled me and wondered who is he, to get a chance to play in such role, in this mega budget movie ? which became blockbuster later on. It took me some time to get my answer. If he would not have been son of Yesh Chopra, he would not have been acting in that movie. It was Yesh Chopra, the father of Uday Chopra, whose company had made that movie. Yesh Chopra, is not only the man, behind the movie but also a movie mogul in India.

In December 2009 Uday Chopra, wrote Pyar Impossible and also played a lead character in the same movie. Yesh Raj Films, had spent 30 coror to make that movie, when it was released; it covered only 10 coror on box office collection. Oh ! yes, it gave the gossip channels and all comedians of India, a juicy topic for many more weeks to come for blowing that much money on this one particular project.

Its Yesh Raj Films, which gives more opportunities, to new comers in the industry, than others. They are in dream selling business and they earn money selling dreams. Therefore, they cant loose money again and again in this business, even if the one who cost them money; is their own family member. They can hire and fire the unknown actor but not a son who cost them hell.

Give me one name, of a move in which, Uday had played and made it in the box office, me too as clueless as you are. Unless and until an actor plays a character in a movie and makes it in box office or gets the rave review from he critics that person can not be tagged as an actor.

There are so many people, who keep nagging for not being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people, who could help them build their career. Udaya Chopra, is just the right answer to those, who thinks, being in right place and born in right family to make it in big industry, is not every thing. The first rule of the glam world, which apples in any other field of the work, is you should earn your space, your parents may pull some string but on the long run its you who have to survive the rat race.

Those connections may take some people to some where but its ones’ passion, talent, dream and desire what leads your life not the right place, connections and right family. Its a nature of a person which shapes, ones life not how he has been nurtured.

Talents v/s Training

Priyanka, is the natural and spontanious actress and before entering in the acting field she had never ever been to any acting school or classes. She had won the miss India title and then went on to win Miss World. Then just like any other beauties of the Bollywood; she to plunged in the glamour world of Bollywood and then started doing movies without prior knowledge of it. Its been couple of years she enjoys being one of the most versatile actress, of Bollywood as well as one of the highest paid actress also. She is recently signed for her new album with an international company and she endorses about eleven brands of multinationals company.

There was a time when Priyanka Chopera, who is a Bollywood actress, was linked with Herman Babeja. Denying all the speculation about their linkups, that they were dating yet both of them admits, they are good friends and even today they maintains that. Their last work together was, Whats your Rashi, a movie, which did not do, that well in the box office collection.

After the release of Whats your Rashi, its Director, Ashutosh Gwariker, interviewed them on the sets of a gossip channel. Though the interview seemed, it was a promotional gimmick, but the questions and answers were not.

One question particularly pulled my attention when the director asked Priyanka Chopera “how it is to act ?”

On the other hand Herman Babeja, is from the filmy family, as his father is a movie distributor. Herman Babeja, had gone to acting school and then went to study further drama and movie in a famous college in Germany .

Needless to mention here, that Herman could not achieve the kind of success and recognition compared to Priyanka Chopera, who is a spontaneous actor and never been to any such school or college. Besides her parents also are not from movie industry, which is the common practice in Bollywood. Today Bollywood is hugely occupied with 2nd or 3rd generation of the star kids.

In real world, its ones talent, passion and desire in the particular field rather than, what you have learned in college or school or where you come from.

In the long run except for his family member there will be very few people who will remember who Herman Babeja is or was but priyanka Chopera, will surely be remembered longer than her one time boyfriend.

I am not surprised if many of you ask Harman, who Herman Babeja is ?

Dare defy your fortune-teller

Shahrukh Khan is one of the three Khan who ruled Bollywood much longer than the other superstars of bollywood. I can remember clearly readding a movie magazine even when, years have passed by before me from the day I had read it when I was in school. an entertainment journalist had wrote that Shahrukh Khan was very angry with the fortune teller who had doubted  his desire to be as big and famous like Michael Jackson. Shahrukh Khan today is well known for his ability to handle media men. There are times he used to give interview 86 journalists in a day.

When Shahrukh Khan was a rising star and dreaming to make it big in Bollywood; he changed the normal trend of lead character playing the role only positive on the screen. So, he started playing the lead character role by a negative role in his early movies. His early movies Bazigar and Darr created such buzz in the market that over night he was the guy who became the talk of the town. It was his way to make a dent in that Kapoor dominated showbiz world. 

No wonder it was then he never wanted to hear, 'he won't make it', not even from those so called fortune teller who can be found by the dozen in India as he was secretly dreaming of becoming as famous as Michael Jackson.

Today, he is considered Bollywood's answer to Hollywood's Tom Cruise and to his delight , he is living his dream to be as famous as Michael Jackson.

The fortuneteller may not have any answer to his success.

Another who defied fortuneteller is the world conqueror, Napoleon Bonaparte of France. I was in the seventh standard when our teacher told us this story trying to shape your young mind for future.

Once a palmist told the curious Bonaparte that, "you will not achieve the desired success in your life". Hearing that, the young Bonaparte who would be world conqueror later in his life demanded to know, "what makes you to say that?"

"The luck line on your palm is not straight enough to indicate your success";  the palmist replied plainly. Then the dreamer, and believer of the saying, 'impossible is not in my dictionary', and the one who always believed and followed blindly his own rule only, briskly pulled out a knife from his pocket and cut straight line on his palm in front of the palmist. Then he told the palmistry with a cold voice, looking straight into his eyes, "now tell me, I will achieve my goal".

Out the classroom, we used to discuss with friends, is that the straight line on his palm or it's his ambition, that made him the world conqueror?

Those who believed in palmistry; used to say that it was the line - even if it was cut by him - on his palm that helped him to achieve what he wanted and those who did not believe in palmistry used to say that it was his sheer determination that led him to his goal but some used to say, it's the combination of both.

As for me, I believe that it is the determination, single-minded determination was the only reason. I admire these two for daring to defy fortune tellers and follow their dreams with all their hearts. They never wanted to see the other part of the truth; what they knew is you have to believe in yourself even though the whole would doubts on you.