"Be yourself, express yourself
and sing a song of your soul. You may be extrovert introvert or you may be team
player who is individualistic. Don’t get into oxymoron nature of these terms. Just be on your own." This is
Rahul Bose—defined by Rugby, redefined by creative industry and evolved into
cinema personality.
Starting his conversation with students at MICA by
challenging to think beyond quest for money but still retaining the pragmatics
of life, Mr. Bose thrilled the imagination of the audience with personal
anecdotes with changing trends in Industry. “How you want your friends to
remember yourself after you die? That was the question posed by him. Imagine,
in whatever way you wish people or your friends to remember yourself, start speaking
that language and behaving like that.”
It was 1992 when Bombay communal riots happened and as Bose
claims he does not forgive him today because he failed to live up to the moment
when he needed to raise the voice, protest and stand up to the cause of
communal harmony. Now as he said, after 2002 he thought to express a strong
rejection of the idea of “exclusion”. In effect of this journey, Mr. Bose now has
decided to invite and engage students from across India. He will be funding
those students for their education in different location other than their home
town and thus will move forward in direction of creating ‘Inclusive Nation’
through nurturing their lives by connecting them to ‘other’ parts of India.
Before entering films, I worked as a creative director. Before that I played Rugby for years. Before that I worked in dramas. But I knew all along that I wanted to be an actor. We as an individual always know, how and what things we can do in magnificent ways. On many occasions we know why we are behaving like that, dressing like that or communicating like that. So, try to achieve excellence in the area where you are comfortable in and you fee can achieve enormous degree of quality just like Don LaFontaine, American voice actor, (who died recently) who recorded nearly 5000 film trailers and thousands of television advertisements, network promotions and video game trailers. Just one small area but you can explore whole world of yourself; what if others call you a green colored parrot creating sounds from one corner of mouth seating on branch of tree whole time.
Who do you want to be? What do you like to do? For what do
you aspire? Among the subjects humanities, social sciences, mathematics,
sciences, languages; if you came to know that you wish to be historian, then
next one month you will be doing history. Out of history, if you know that you
like to visit to the historical archeological places then our next step becomes
to visit those places to know about them more and more. While we visit the
place again and again, if we come to know that interacting with people, and
within it children, is the most fascinating thing I like to do, DO IT. Then if
you discover that you like to draw with kids while studying history of the
people at particular place, and then keep doing it. There is no end to
craziness, exploration and searching for your own purpose which satisfies your appetite.
“Why we do not receive love from all directions and return
love with multi-fold hands to society in return.” This answer was also in line
with his defense of the rights of LGBTQs and advocated the abolition of
criminalization of homosexuality. He was not in spirit supporting the idea of
‘marketing love on one specific day—Valentine Day’.
Can passion defeat economics? Does this question need any
mention or utterance? Conflict is not between ideals to live up to and survival
question. Because, as Rahul asserted, surviving or ensuring we don’t remain
hungry is not difficult. We should moreover exalting. That is the purpose of
our lives and we all should strive for it.
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