I saw a recently released hindi movie called ‘lage raho munnabhai’ (it’s sprinkles of Gandhian philosophy, and I would recommend it as a good see, try to get a dvd with English subtitles).
In that movie, there was one actor, who plays / acts as a sikh (sardar) character, i.e. person from Punjab, India. The guys who wear a turban and beard as religious symbols. This actor originally is not a sikh, but he portrays that character very well.
Today, I saw one sikh person who seemed just like the character, seemed just like that character. I started wondering why it seemed so? How did this actor could copy and imitate a Sikh person just with his looks? And I realized, the Sikh guy was wearing his pants way below his navel and was wearing a belt at low waist. I realized the connection as the actor also wear similar style cloths in that movie… but even without realizing this background connection, we human’s can understand the similarities, its like magic (to me) sometimes.
I like to understand the inner processes… even though a person can just learn to appreciate & enjoy the acting (in the above case) without really knowing about the background connections.
I guess the above 2 lines would be the answer to a friend who kinda asked me this question, ‘how did you turn out to be the way you are?’… Well, actually I have been asking that question to myself since years, but had no good explanation for that. i.e. rather than just accepting something, I try to see why its so? How it’s so etc. etc. I guess such a questioning attitude helps one to break out of their past, home culture and stuff like that…
Been on a vacation for sometime, but back now… though will take some more time to digest those experiences enough to write on them… but blogs are like very understanding friends?
