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She sat down on the sofa looking at the wallpaper on her iphone. 6 months it had been since she started working, 6 months was half a year and they were going to celebrating it tomorrow.
Kushi gupta was a simple girl from an upper middle class family. Lived with her father and younger brother. Her mother had left them when her brother was just 5 year old! Father was a government employee. They lived a simple life until they found out her father had diabetics and it was in the stage where he had to be injected insulin twice a day along with some medicines. Living became difficult for them with only her father working, brother's and her education, everyday food and her father medicines which were quiet expensive. She was just 16, started doing small part time job after classes, taking tuitions for little kids. When she turned 18 she started working in call centers at night thinking she needed more money to join college and luckily she got scholarship in one of the good colleges in Mumbai where she lived, college was huge with all kind of courses including the school of arts. She took up BBM even though she loved acting and everything went smoothly from then on. She and her brother were really close even though he was 4 years younger to her, he was her advisor during the times when she was unable to decide certain things on her own and she was like a mother to him.
She was now 21 doing her final year of BBM, she was going to be graduated in few months.
Like every day after her classes were over kushi went to the arts department auditorium to see students doing theatrical. She enjoyed watching them act and wished she could do it to one day. She checked their notice board to see if there was any of their shows to be held, there wasn't any but she saw something else which caught her attention. directors from tv channel were coming for auditions for their upcoming show since they wanted young people of their age who were just going to start their career. But then it was only for the arts students.
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"di I think you should give it try. But if they select you"
"but sonu! Its only for arts student, im not in their department"
"oh come on di! It's a huge campus, no one knows which department one belong to unless you know them and your just giving audition not killing someone"
"still' I just don't feel right about it"
"di its your dream to act and I know your very good at it, our family situation made you not take up acting now that you got a chance there's no harm in trying right?"
"ya' but what if they catch me? I mean its only for'"
"ill come with you then, no one will know di done be scared" kushi nodded still thinking
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There were so many people, some looked like they didn't belong to her college.
"look at the amount of people di, im sure they all are not from the arts department!" kushi glared at her brother "I mean look di so many from just one department unbelievable"
There was a big line and she was almost at the end, they were given numbers and had to wait for their numbers to be called.
"don't you think we should have told papa about it sonu?"
"di even he knows how much you love acting so im sure he wouldn't mind and more over if we tell him and you don't get a chance he'll feel more sad than you cox already he's sad saying he's not able to give us a life we love" kushi nodded agreeing with him biting her nails.
"di" he said making her remove her hand from her mouth but it again went back to her mouth "di how many times have I told you to stop biting your nails"
"huh?" she came out of her thoughts and realized her hand was in the mouth "im sorry sonu' im just nervous"
"its okay di you'll do well" he said hugging her from side.
It was almost evening when her name was called. She was asked to act sad and confused since the situation was the aftermath of losing her parents and it was her responsibility to look after her younger siblings with no one to help her. She was given lines to say. She started her act and didn't realize when tears started flowing down her cheeks since she thinking about her own life when she was doing it. Everyone who was watching her had tears including her brother who knew the reason, she touched everyone's heart. She was selected among the 9 others who were selected. They said she would be called and informed and a letter will be sent to her home if she was finalized since they weren't the ones to make the final decision.
She waited everyday hoping she get a call and kept checking the notice board but nothing there too. It had been a week and she gave up hope. But to her surprise she was called up the next day saying she was selected and that she'll get the letter the next day and it has all the details and she was to meet them two days later in the studio.
Her happiness had no bounds, her father was more than happy when he came to know about it and encouraged her in all ways.
Soon she met the directors and story brief was told to her, the name of the story was Zindhagi! It was about a girl and boy who are leading a different kind of life. Girl struggling to take care of her siblings and her career forgetting about her dreams and desires while the guy is leading a carefree life, parting enjoying his life with friends not caring about anything until he meets the girl and understands the importants of money and how he's been living all these while. The guy falls in love with her
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Arnav singh raizada was the son of rich businessman Sanjay singh raizada. Arnav was doing his MBA and helping his father in the business. He had a elder sister anjali jha who was a tv actress, even though she hadn't done any lead roles she was quiet famous in sibling and bhabi roles and everyone admired her for it. She was happily married to shyam jha who was a producer. Currently he was the producer of Zindhagi and anjali was to do the role of the lead actor's sister-in-law and arnav singh raizada was the lead. He himself had volunteered to do it (reasons no one knows).
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