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Kyunki, we too can become STARS
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Young hearts dreamed of seeing themselves on the small screen and carving a career in the glamour industry as they faced the camera for the audition of a new serial.
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THE HUNDRED-odd have it in them. This is what they believe and what we believe too. All hundred of them and a few more. Young and restless, they faced the camera, on Sunday, to be selected for a Hindi serial,'Kitne Masti Hai Zindgai'. Nothing seemed to deter them: The language, the crowd, the histrionics, the comments, clothes and catcalls. Everything was going and going their way. That is what it felt when one met these starry wannabes, no not just any wannabe, wishing aimlessly to have been there, done that, but young men and women with a zest for life, a zest which gives them the spirit to try out anything, anytime, anywhere : Stronger, higher, faster.
Yes, the youth brigade that descended on Rai University campus was a flock to reckon with. Nothing dampened them, not even thet fact that many could not speak the language (Hindi) properly. Not even the fact that it was a first time for most. Not even the fact that they were forgetting the dialogues. But, " There is always a first time for everything," said one bright and optimistic voice. Said another, " I am hundred per cent sure I will not make it but I wanted to try. No harm in trying. You never know." And most took up the one-in-a-hundred chance of making it big on the small screen. Embarrassed at his ignorance, one said, " Really I did not know anything about Ektaa Kapoor,( Big Deal) but when I read the poster in the library I wanted to try it out. I saw homemakers, doctors, engineers emote in front of the camera and then I knew they were dead serious."
And so it was not for a lark for many but for many it was. " One must give one's best. As I have time before my placement, I thought, let me try this out. Glamour attracts everyone and there is no lying about that fact, said Vivek U. Menon, who has just finished his MBA from CUSAT. Friend Nirmal Rajoy, who expected a bigger turnout for an event of this magnitude, wished a mix of both English and Hindi would be there. Rupali Arora, working in a local firm, who took the muhurat shot, was pretty excited. She was there half an hour before the camera began to roll and in true youthful spirit, said, " I can always go back to academics if this does not work out." So, despite the big `if' the youngsters were upbeat. Sunita Agarwal, 26, homemaker, felt it would be difficult to match Tulasi but a side roll in the serial would do. For some, two or three episodes would be their stepping-stone to the world of money and fame. A launch pad from where their woven dreams would become their life's fabric.
And cameraman Hari Prasanth, a first year student at Rai University who travelled across Kerala shooting the auditions felt "more could have been done" in terms of acting. He narrated the tale of a young man in Thrissur, who could not speak Hindi, but rehearsed and learnt the dialogues in just 15 minutes and delivered them in the cast of a thespian. Prasanth's vote goes for this talented youngster. And if Kochi pitches itself as the most hip and happening city in the State it was in for a surprise from interior Changanassery were 105 auditions took place. Most were excited about the opening up of Kerala in the field of talent search. " Most screen tests and talent hunts are done mainly in Hyderabad and Bangalore, in the South. MTV, Channel V and the likes don't come further down. So this is very good for us, in a way."
The youngsters took it as a lesson in learning about the highway of life that they have to trudge ahead. "It was a good experience," said they. "We were given a dialogue sheet and had to choose from romantic, emotional or sentimental scenes and enact them. I revere my father so much but had to abuse him, as he was drunk in the scene. It was pretty difficult. Anyway I forgot the last two lines." And so they all narrate their interesting twists and turns of audition, something, which the serial may require, being as unpredictable as life itself. And hopefully a few, when they hear, "Lights, camera, action," will don a new role and begin. Begin in great earnest, `kyunki we too can be stars'.
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Oh Boy
`KITNI MASTI Hai Zindagi', Ektaa Kapoor's new serial for which a nation-wide headhunt is on brought out talented girls and boys out of their homes, colleges and jobs. Translating their desires and their dreams the youngsters faced the camera with aplomb. Here was Opportunity itself at their doorstep. So diffident, shy, reserved, quiet, unsure, along with the bold, confident, happy-go- lucky, youngsters gathered to face the camera and strike it big on the small screen. Conservative Kerala too brought out the dreamers, the movers and the shakers. But the ratio of girls vs. boys was abysmally low at a few places but quite happening at other cities. Here are the figures.
Boy/girl ratio. Kochi 80/29, Kottayam 40/4, Chagnassery 75/32, Alleppey 10/2, Thrissur 45/3, Kasargode 14/0, Kollam 18/1, thiruanathpuram 50/1, Kannur 21/3, Calicut 31/8, Wayanad 20/0, mallapuram 25/0, Patanamtitta 11/1, Palakkad 17/0, Thiruvalla 23/1.
PRIYADARSSHINI SHARMA
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