Yes! there is one film also in Marathi in which blind or visually impaired person shown in some other role.
Agree with Dinesh Kaushal. Regard, Neelima On 12/19/14, avinash shahi <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Over the years blind people in India have made outstanding strides in > different professions, however its utterly disgusting to see cinema > bigwigs refuse to note such trend. Depiction of blind people as > beggars holding bowl waiting alms is still dominant in the psychy of > Bombay-based moviemakers which needs to be busted. Hope to hear from > the listers. > > http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/acting-blind-to-beg-gets-assam-youth-role-in-pk/article1-1297928.aspx > Call it blind luck. > > > > Manoj Roy (Photo: Dhrubajyoti Nath) > Feigning blindness ensured Manoj Roy a few extra coins in his begging > bowl. The act was good enough for a life-changing role in Rajkumar > Hirani's film PK that releases Friday. > > Manoj, 39, is from Bedeti in north-central Assam's Sonitpur district. > Son of a daily wager who lost his mother soon after birth, he dropped > out of school to beg after his daily-wager father fell too sick to > work. > > Twenty years ago, he boarded a train to Delhi seeking a job. But he > fell back on what he was good at - acting blind, begging bowl in hand. > "I was a regular at Jantar Mantar. A few months ago, two gentlemen > approached me and asked if I could act. I told them acting is what I > do to ensure two square meals. They gave me a phone number and a Rs. > 20 note before leaving," Manoj said from his village. > > Something told him not to ignore the number. The person who picked up > the phone asked him to go to Nehru stadium. "I went the very next day > and found myself among members of a film unit. I was taken aside for > an audition with seven other beggars, all visually impaired. I cared > little about the film or the actors; it was the free food that > mattered, for a week till my selection," he said. > > The seriousness of the whole thing dawned on Manoj when he was put up > in a five-star hotel in Delhi. "I used to often go without bath in the > slums because of scarcity of water. There I was, cooling off in the > hotel's swimming pool, and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Aamir > Khan and Anushka Sharma," he said. > > Manoj's brief for the film was to beg by the roadside leaning on a > stick, waiting for Aamir to come along dancing and stealing some coins > from his bowl. > > The promo scene lasts five seconds. But it is long enough for Manoj to > come home to a hero's welcome. "I returned to my village with the > money earned from the film. I have a job in a village shop, a Facebook > account and a girlfriend too. People now call me PK Honey Singh. This > is all because of the film," he said. > > What next? Maybe acting in Assamese and Bengali movies, he said. > > For the time being, he has set his sights on meeting his girlfriend > for the first time on Christmas. > > > -- > Avinash Shahi > Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU > > Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > -- God examine those whom loves he the most. Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
