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Just a quick post to share my instant thoughts...
I cannot express how happy I felt reading those lines. Rajan Singh also praised Sanaya immensely during the recent SPL event, but I did not feel a thing. I felt it was a bit too superficial. It felt like he was doing it out of sheer courtesy.
I once complained why Sanaya did not get an award for her impeccable portrayal of Khushi's character. Regardless of how the character was sketched, why couldn't the critics look past the character to judge the actor? After all, they ought to judge the acting skills, isn't it? As the unfairness continued, I even made a post wondering whether Sanaya's Parsi origin has to do anything with her discrimination. I was advised by many more experienced users that this was not the case, so I did not pursue the thought...
When Sanaya stated in a recent interview that bagging an award for her efforts would make her happier, the thought returned and I was again wondering why this injustice.
But today after reading these words of LM, I have no complaints. This to me is bigger than any award that SI could have possibly bagged. An award could be the result of blind fan following. An award could be the result of character popularity. This is not to say that an award is never given for the right reasons. It's just that my personal opinion of an award is exactly the same as that of Aamir Khan - they are heavily commercialized these days. However, a director's assessment of his actor can only be genuine, honest, and true.
As usual, I have a real life example to explain this. I never felt as happy receiving an honors certificate from the Chancellor of our university as I did when I received a comment from my professor that said I have done an excellent job. I had this highly critical Canadian professor with whom I studied for an year. In one of the final papers I wrote for his course, he gave this beautiful short comment to praise my work. This was years ago and I have kept that paper because I need to frame it while all the certificates I have received are lying somewhere I don't know. That's because I know that my professor knew me, he saw my improvement, and he saw my dedication. So his approval and appreciation becomes way more genuine and significant than those standard certificates that probably go to every other student.
It is for this reason that I value LM's words above any award show. So I thank LM for awarding Sanaya her due credit today. Dair aaye durust aaye... I must also add that now I have no regrets about Sanaya playing the character of Khushi. I only hated the fact that she gave herself to Khushi's character and the character did not return anything to her but this is no longer true post LM's interview.
Thank you Mr. Lalit, and I hope that Sanaya gets to work with you again.
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P.S.: Please visit the website and leave your comment. If you don't know the website, ask me and I'll forward you the link through PM.
I was just going through the comments and look at this:
"badly edited article :S well thanks for this though..great to know what happens behind the camera.."
The website replies:
"For the record we have not edited the article...its straight from the director's mouth to here"
I seriously don't understand how could such accusers exist. I wish I could ask the person who made this comment what satisfaction did s/he receive from this senseless accusation?!
Again... can we please thank the website for bringing the interview and LM for appreciating SI's work?
Anupamaa
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