Just my thoughts,
I think once, more blind people who are doing so well in life, make it a
point to be seen and interacting in public places in big numbers, and as
often as possible, the begger picture will go into hiding. So I request
all
my blind friends on this list to quit being lazy and get out every time
there is an opportunity to get out of doors. Even if it is for a walk to
the
park, useingthe jym or just trips to your markets. I think we need to
become
visible and make ourselves seen as consumers instead of hiding indoors!
We
will all need to make this effort, and a consistent one, if we wish to
choose to be drawing away from the beggers picture! Nothing really
happens
without taking huge and consistent effort!
So lets go friends!
Complaining and discussing, till the cows come home is not going to get
us
anywhere guys!
Warmly
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Subject: Re: [AI] Lets discuss: Acting blind to beg on Delhi streets
earned
him 5 seconds of fame
Koshish, Sparsh, Katla, Aankhen, Suhaag and so on
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Subject: Re: [AI] Lets discuss: Acting blind to beg on Delhi streets
earned
him 5 seconds of fame
Reeti
any names at the top of your head where bollywood has depicted blind
in good positive lighte?
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-g
ets-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
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