Monday, September 14, 2009

Kavi Ki Vedana - AB day 510



आदरणीय भाईसाहब
सादर चरण स्पर्श

आज मेरा अवकाश होने की स्थिति में आपको मुझे कुछ ज्यादा ही झेलन पड़ सकता है, पर यहां पिछले एक घंटे के श्रम के बाद जो कुछ भी मैने टाईप किया है उसके प्रत्युत्तर की आपसे अपेक्षा अवश्य है, इसलिये नह कि आज मेरे मन में पीत-रेखा प्राप्त करने की लालसा जाग उठी है वरन इसलिये कि यह प्रश्न मै नही कर रहा हूं - आप लोगों ने डाक्टर बच्चन को जितना कमजोर समझा वे उतने कमजोर नही थे - आपकॊ उनके सवलों के प्रति कुछ न कुछ तो अवश्य लिखना ही पड़ेगा, मेरे नाम की कॊई अवश्यकता नही है, पर हां यह भी मेरी तरफ़ से एक श्रद्धाजलि के रूप में महाकवि को स्वीकार्य हो एसी प्रभु से मेरी प्रार्थना अवश्य रहेगी । वैसे तो आप कहोगे कि मेरी चोट के समय जो कुछ भी हुआ उसका दोष तो मुझे नही दे सकते, फिर भी उनकी आत्मा की शांति के लिये दो शब्द आप इस बिषय मे अवश्य लिखें ऎसा मेरा अनुरोध है आदेश देने की क्षमता ना मै रखता हूं ना मुझे ऎसा करना प्रियकर ही लगता है –

‘दशद्वार से सोपान तक’ पृष्ठ 483-484

कवि की वेदना
तेजी के साथ अर्थ-चिन्ता से तो मुक्ति मिल गई थी, पर परिवार में सौ तरह की चिन्तायें होती हैं, समस्याएं उठती है जिन्हे दूर करने के लिए, जिनका समाधान खोजने के लिए ध्यान, समय, श्रम देना होता है । मेरा कवि स्वभाव, मेरी कवि प्रकृति, इससे कितनी उद्विग्न होगी और उससे मेरे कवि मर्म में कितना व्याघात उपस्थित होगा इसको तेजी ने जितना पहचाना उतना किसी और ने नही । अपने 42 वर्ष के संसर्ग में उन्होने मुझे गार्हस्थ जीवन के इस पक्ष से एक तरह से अछूता रखा – मैं कहना चाहूंगा दोष की सीमा तक । उनकी इस प्रव्रत्ति में कभी-कभी मुझे दुराव की आशंका हुई । अपने बेटों के सामने भी उन्होने मेरी यह तस्वीर रखी है मैं कवि हूं, कलाकार हूं, भावप्रवण हूं, थोड़ी सी अप्रिय स्थिति मुझे बहुत परेशान कर देती है – अब तो बहुत दिनों से अलसर का मरीज़ हूं – किसी भी अशुभ घटित या समाचार से मुझे अनभिज्ञ रखना चाहिये क्योंकि उससे मेरा मानसिक तनाव बढ़ेगा – एसिडिटी बढ़ेगी, मैं बीमार पड़ जाउंगा । नतीजा उसका यह हुआ है कि तेजी के जीवन में, मेरे बेटों के जीवन में बहुत कुछ कष्टकर चिन्ताजनक आया है, रहा है, और कानों-कान मुझे खबर नही दी गई । घर भर अभिनय-कला में दक्ष है, किसी ने अपने चेहरे-मोहरे से, बात से यह संकेत नही दिया कि अंदर-अंदर क्या हो रहा है, क्या बीत रह है । कभी-कभी तेजी और अपने बेटों के इस रवैये को मैने अपनी उपेक्षा समझी है, अपने प्रति अन्याय समझा है । मै परिवार का एक अंग हूं, और कोई छोटा अंग नही – मानो तो सबसे बड़ा – तो मुझे परिवार के सुख-दुख-दुरवस्था में साझीदार होना चाहिए । मुझे लगता है कि मेरे प्रति लगाव की अतिशयता में घर के लोगों ने मेरी गलत तस्वीर बना रखी है । माना कि मैं कवि हूं, कलाकार हूं, भावप्रवण हूं, पर छुई-मुई नही हूं । बहुत जगह कोमल होकर भी कहीं बहुत कठोर भी हूं – वज्रादपि कठोराणि मृदुनि कुसुमादपि, मुझमें बहुत कुछ सहने, बर्दाश्त करने, झेलने की शक्ति है, शायद घर भर में सबसे ज्यादा किसने इस घर में इतन दुख-दारिद्र्य, इतनी कष्ट-चिंताकर स्थितियां, इतनी मौत -बीमारियां देखी हैं जितनी मैंने । मेरे व्यक्तित्व के इस पक्ष को नही देखा-समझा गय तो मुझे गलत समझा गया है । इस पर सबसे ज्यादा झुंझलाहट मुझे उस समय हुई जब अमित को बंगलौर में चोट लगी, पर वह मुझसे छिपा रखी गई ।

अमिताभ को पेट में चोट शनिवार को अपराह्न में अगी थी । शायद उसे गंभीर नही समझा गय था ।

पर रात भर जिस पीड़ा, जिस कष्ट में वह तड़पता रह उससे जया को स्पष्ट हो गया था कि चोट समान्य नही है, जिसके कारण कोई बाह्य उपचार कारगर नही हो रहा है ।

इतवार को अजिताभ को फोन आ गया था कि वह फ़ौरन बंगलौर पहुंचे और साथ फैमिली डाॅक्टर शाह को लेकर। चोट की साधारणता का भ्रम तो अब नही रह गया था, अजिताभ डाॅक्टर को सथ लेकर गए, रमू, मां को बतकर । मुझे कोई भनक तक नही दी गई । मैने समझा इतवार छुट्टी का दिन है, अजिताभ योरोप से लौटकर भाई से नही मिला था, मिलने चला गया ।

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Shraddhanajali to Dr. Bachchan


मधुर भावनाओं की सुमधुर नित्य बनाता हूँ हाला,
भरता हूँ इस मधु से अपने अंतर का प्यासा प्याला,
उठा कल्पना के हाथों से स्वयं उसे पी जाता हूँ,
अपने ही में हूँ मैं साकी, पीनेवाला, मधुशाला।।५।


Here Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan the creator of these now very famous couplets probably had people like me in his mnd.. people who feel that to live this life is nothing more than having god thoughts because that alone can give birth to beautiful feelings.. for such people it is a daily routine to synthesise such thoughts to be promoted in the world.. that alone can satisfy his desires..To fill oneself with such original thoughts and embrace them in one’s life is the only important to such an individual..To be able to fill and fulfill oneself with such a wine is an ever compelling act in one’s life.. the wine that has been synthesised from the best ever thoughts for the world and also for oneself is an imaginary concept.. to be able to lift and fill oneself with it is no less than a dream accomplished..In such contexts the one who enjoys such a life is complete in all respect.. he is the sole representative of the saaki, the wine and the tavern.. Now I could not get a suitable word for saaki.. the barmaid does not fit too well in these beutiful thoughts of the poet.. it could be the provider.. though..

I know Dr. Bachchan would be thinking - Beta, achchhe jaa rahe ho.. kavita maine san 35 mein likhi thee tab tum paida bhi nahi huye thhe.. par apane aapko tumne iname dhoond hi liya.. mera madhushal likhana sarthak hua.. meri Kavita purn h gai.. ( Son, You are meaning well.. The verses were created by me in the year 1935 when you were not even born.. yet the way you have discovered yourself in these couplets.. My writing of Madhushala has got further substantiated.. it has achieved a sense of completion.. ( that it could represent thinking much much after its creation much after its creator has gone.. What more could I expect..)
I would share just one more verse without the translation or ascribing its relevance to me..

धर्मग्रन्थ सब जला चुकी है, जिसके अंतर की ज्वाला,
मंदिर, मसजिद, गिरिजे, सब को तोड़ चुका जो मतवाला,
पंडित, मोमिन, पादिरयों के फंदों को जो काट चुका,
कर सकती है आज उसी का स्वागत मेरी मधुशाला।।१७।

I would say that if we could understand this verse in a deeper sense than just the literal translational sense of the words we would probably be free of much malice for each other in the name of religion, temples, mosques and churches..He (Dr. Bachchan never preaches that one should not really be a believer what he probably refers is that one should not be a blind follower..)
Having said that I would not say anything I could not desist or rather resist the temptation of serving with my interpretations.. the beauty of poetry is that it can have several interpretations..

Every time I read Madhushala I enjoy it afresh becuase it does refresh..
Love and my shraddhanajali to Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan.. I wish I could create a few lines in his honour but I ain’t really capable .. some words that I had written with him in the mind are being reproduced here..

अपेक्षा

अपने इस जीवन-यापन में
कहीं ऎसा कुछ कर जाना है
जग याद रखे इस दुनिया में
एक ऎसा भी है इंसान हुआ
जिसे मोह जाल ना बांध सका
कर्मॊं और विचारॊं का
वह एक अनूठा संगम था
जग से मांगा ना कुछ भी कभी
देने को सब कुछ आतुर था

भाषा रंग और धर्म जाति के
बंधन कब के था काट चुका
मानव से मान को जोड़ रहा
नही शांति दूत था वह कॊई
और ना ही कोई मसीहा था
कहता था इतना ही जग से
ना पानी ने हमें जब बांटा है
ना भूख हमें है बांट सकी
ना किया हवा ने बंटवारा
फिर क्यों कर हम विद्रोह करें
हम अभय बने बस प्रेम करें
अमृत सी हमारी हॊ वाणी
कर्णों को प्रिय हम मधुर बनें

- अभय शर्मा

Post script: Read Manav se manav ko jod raha.. I have not got means to correct the missing letter in hindi font at the moment..

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Amitabh Another Imaginary Interview!!


Respected Brother
Sadar Charan Sparsh
My apologies to you for not congratulating you on winning the national award for The Last Lear.. I have not seen the film.. I have not been able to lay my hands on DVD anywhere.. if you know which company has the rights for its DVDs or if it is available or not.. There has never been an iota of doubt about your performances.. I don't really undertand how you could still mesemerise people (me includd) with your performances as an actor.. You may look older in appearance but some of the finer qualities that were your trademark like your expression with eyes and face and especially your voice they do not age at all.. that's not exactly a question it is only expression of your amaing abilities.. One can say atleast we hae one actor who has defied the logic o ageing..

Here is a mocked up interview with you: (Don't laugh it off.. I had done such an interview in three parts on my website long long back..)

Abhaya: "Sir, I had been having this long standing dream project on small screen wit you involving interviewing celebrities like Kapil Dev, Sachin, Anil Ambani, maybe even AmarSingh ji and now Jaswant Singh sahab to just name a few.. " Do we expect such interactive sessio with these of similar pople at Big Boss?"

AB : " You see, Abhaya, I am not supposed to comment anything about the program. you won't have to wait for long to find out ".
Abhaya : "Here at this blog you have completed 50o days, hw does it feel? Did you think at te beginning that you would go thus far in this arena of blogging?"
AB: "It feels great, it really feels satisfying. There had been occasions when I did not want to continue with it.. but ten the good sense prevailed and here I am with all of you the Extended Family.. To the other part of your question If I have to be honest with you.. which I generally am most of the times.. I must say that I have come a long way from where I started off.. I did not expect that it would turn out to be such a lovable exercise to be able to share the views directly with so many admirers, fans and well-wishers.. you see what I mean.. I am now hooked.. if someone asks me to quit now.. I may really find myself at a great loss.. Every day has been special.. every day I have found someone or the other coming up with that motivating tonic to continue.. to sum up it has been one hell of a good experince.. you see not hellish in the real sense of the word.. I am happy being here on the blog...

Abhaya : " I know that you are enjoying it.. why haven't you thought up of setting up a website besides the blog.. " . Any particular reason ?

AB : You see, Abhaya, there are two types of people in this world.. the first type prefer to do things their own way.. and a second type that prefer to get things done by other professionals.. I think I found the blog would be more in my own control and thought rather than depending on experts in web-designing I shold first get a feel of something that is more close to me at the personal level.. I hope you get my point..

Abhaya : " I do, you are highly explicit in whatever you do, whatever you say and also in whatever way you act in your films.. I remember some couple of guys wrote obnoxiously about your role in he Last Lear .. I don;t exactly remember their names.. some guys who were out to undo your eforts.. Do you have something to say to them..?

AB: No, I do not have anyhin further to say to them.. they whould have got their answers a couple of days back.. I say I am not against criticism.. I am not here to be taken for granted.. I am open to every day scrutiny for what I do.. as long as people like what I do I will survive.. Every good thing has to come to an end one day.. I am going to enter 68th year of my existence on 11th October.. I am not going to get any younger from there.. I can not do certain things that I did in the mid-seventies.. atleast not as well now as I could do then..

Abhaya: " You are very modest.. why do you have to ndulge in self-deprecation when things are actually very bright for you at the moment..?

AB : Abhaya, one thing I must tell you that there is nothing of that sort you chose the word from my todays blog.. otherwise you would know that a self-assessment is not a bad trait in itself.. to be able to judge yourself from the perspective of others is difficult yet I have practiced that and practiced that to good use with some good results..

Abhaya :" When exactly do you think would be the time that you would call it a day ?" Are there any secret hidden desires ambitions still in store for the viewers.. Is there that one role that you have waited that should have come to you and it has not yet come to you?

AB: The multiple questions tha you have fired.. I do have to compose myself all over again.. maybe a glass of water would help me in getting focussed.. OK..

The time when I call it quits would not be decided by me.. it would be you and the others who would decide that.. as long as I am wanted I would continue to provide my services.. the day I am not wanted I would have no option but to leave the field for others.. its is as simple as that..
Coming to your second question of secret ambition or hidden desire.. It would be wrong if I say that I have no desires or ambitions.. yet I must say that nothing is secret or hidden from anyone.. I want to be able to perform to the best of my capabilities in whatever assignments or projects that come my way.. that must be true for anyone.. anyone who chooses any profession leave alone acting..

This last part of your question is a bit tricky.. no actor on earth would admit that he has already performed whatever roles he aspired.. that admission would kill im as an actor at that very moment.. so I don't know what should I say.. maybe if you wish to know if I am looking for some specific roles.. Let me admit that I have not doen many kind of roles which I would love to perform.. I have not been associated with sports related film.. I do feel that someday if I am to do one I would not mind playing the coach of a T20 team though Football is my first love.. other than that I have not had an opportunity to act in a period film.. If someone agrees to cast me in some historically important role I would not mind doing it..for example the role of Pandit Nehru or Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore ..

Abhaya: Thank you sir, thanks for your valuable time and we also expect that there are more opportunities that come your way to be able to provide us with more super entertainment tha you have provided us for last four decades.. Ten more years and you would turn a Golden actor of Hindi Cinema.. wishing you good health for next ten years..

AB: Thanks a lot Abhaya, to you too.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Ganesh Vandana

This particular poem was composed last year around this festive occasion on 4th September 2008...






Sankat-Nashan Ganesh Stotram


This one was created in the afternoon! yet I did not upload it for there were some missed out parts in fact a mixing up of the end of two lines.. and I did not have original word documnet saved.. typing Hindi is difficult.. working with Sanskrit is extremely so.. I devised a new method to type the end syanza all over again generate an image and fuse the old and the additional part and result is here for all of you..

May Lord Ganesha Bless you all ...


Tuesday, August 18, 2009

To AB day 483


Chhupa lo yun dil mein pyaar mera
ki jaise mandir mein lau diye ki..
ye sach hai jeena thha paap tum bin
kiya hai ab tak yeh paap maine
magar hai man mein chhabi tumhaari
magar hai man mein chhabi tumhaari
ki jaise mandir mei lau diye ki..

phir aag viraha ki mat lagaana
ki jal ke main raakh ho chuka hoon
yeh raakh maathe pe rakh li maine
ki jaise mandir mei lau diye ki..

I know the song may not seem to fit as well to our knd of love affection or whatever name such bondage.. such great human bondage the world may decide to give or call.. yet it does fit well in essence.. it fits aptly for not me and you alone but for any pair of loving individuals.. who said one man can not love another man.. love after all is not a mere expression of opposite sexes.. I had been in love with Bhagat Singh.. with Swami Vivekanand with Gurudev (Rabindra Nath Tagore of National anthem of two countries fame nobel laureate).. in love with Socrates.. in love with that little man of India Lal Bahadur Shastri.. with severl frieds of mine over the years that recounting their names may belittle my love for them.. then why on earth can I not love someone I had actually been loving all these years more so during the times when I was a teenager, a growing adult.. the time when should have been loving some friends of opposite sex.. yet I loved you brother loved you more than any other human being alive.. loved you to the same levels as I had loved my mother.. now nothing else on this earth can beat my love or anyone else’s love for one’s mother.. to say it in short I lve you a lot.. and a lot that is noteasily quantifiable at all.. it is immeasurable.. innumerable and incomprehensible for me.. yet I love you and love you from my heart.. even if some of thse days I might not have shown up.. evn if I would have not used as kind words as I would have loved to use.. I know there was no need to expound upon these points.. there was not any need to be judged by others by my words when I know that no judgement is required from others when someone is truly in love with the other..
Let us make the moods light.. let us present a cheering up song for you brother..
Jaaiye aap kahan jaayenge
yeh nazar laut ke phir aayegi
door tak aapke peechhe peechhe
meri awaaz chali aayegi..

or still better
Thandi hawa yeh chandani suhaani
ae mere dil suna koi kahani..

I choose to reproduce from the net.. I goof up the songs.. so please bear with me.. here it goes..
Thandi Hawa Yeh Chandni Suhani
Ae Mere Dil Suna Koi Kahani
Lambi Si Ek Dagar Hai Zindagani
Ae Mere Dil Suna Koi Kahani

Saare Haseen Nazare
Sapno Main Kho Gaye
Sar Rakhkhe Aasmaan Pe
Parbat Bhi So Gaye
Mere Dil Tu Suna Koi Aisi Daastaan
Jisko Sunkar Milein Chaen Mujhe Meri Jaan
Manzil Hain Anjani Thandi Hawa…

Aise Main Chal Raha Hoon
Pedon Ki Chhaon Mein
Jaise Koi Sitara
Badal Ke Gaaon Mein
Mere Dil Tu Suna Koi Aisi Daastaan
Jisko Sunkar Milein Chaen Mujhe Meri Jaan
Manzil Hain Anjani Thandi Hawa…

Thodi Si Raat Beeti
Thodi Si Rah Gayee
Khamosh Rut Na Jaane
Kya Baat Kah Gayee
Mere Dil Tu Suna Koi Aisi Daastaan
Jisko Sunkar Milein Chaen Mujhe Meri Jaan
Manzil Hain Anjani Thandi Hawa…

I know Kishore da had helped a lot in shaping up your career as an actor that I rate him higher as an actor than a singer is something I did not want to disclose here.. it might hurt him out there as he did sing many many commendable songs in many many films.. yet his taleant as an actor is to be seen to be belived.. be it Jhumroo, Half Ticket, Chalti ka Naam Gaadi or even Padosan.. there are several others but then listing has never been my way of sharing thoughts I know..

I would not mind to know what you think of Kishore da in one of the posts as an actor as a singer and even as a person.. I know yo knew him quite well as a person as well.. when do we get to hear Amitabh on Kishore Da.. asap (as soon as possibble.. is that what you say.. we will wait.. )

Love and pure love
Abhaya Sharma August 18 2009 4:22 PM India

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Amitabh - 4th June 2009

“ People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion arises in the world when “people are used and things are loved”.

Oh Brother Dear Brother!
Sadar Charan Sparsh
Some elegant well noted points, some generalised some very specific, some for many some for few, some for new ones and still some for old associations, some well stated and some that need guess work.. some emanating love and some expressing concern..
And I am lost.. I am truly lost.. I do not know if I say too little for example.. i also do not know if I could learn to be short.. in that respect I am more like your father than like you.. who had love for greater details.. everything stated as explicitly as majestically as to express oneself inside out..

No complains brother.. not at all.. I also know what you think of me.. I am not travelling in the general compartment in my journey with you.. and not talking of my travel to Delhi, Bareilly and Nainital.. Yeah the last one is our this summer's destination.. and it has been selected as much for being a new point on my visited India List as much as for Sherwood.. My love for you shall never be measured is what would be my expectation.. love for human beings rather than things is beyond any measures.. is beyond comparsion.. is beyond perception.. it simply is the pure love.. and I know you know that too.. so love you all the more..

I apply for a leave from the blog from today i.e. 4th of June to 18th of June.. both days being marked by the two sweet girls in the family born in the same year.. Upasana celebrates her 21st birthday today and Nivrita on 18th June.. They probably are the closest pairs of cousins or siblings in the family a matter of just twoo weeks.. it is just a matter of two weeks that I would join you back here on the blog..

The game yesterday tested my capacity to watch cricket at night.. I was little tired and though I did see the warm up game yesterday between India and the archrival Pakistan.. I could not sustain my eyes to support me later in the Indian innings.. it was a masterful batting display by Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir..I did see in between of the innings and then I went to sleep when India needed 19 runs of 25 balls and the first wicket had fallen.. a strokeful 80 from the young Rohit Sharma.. Dhoni could well consider to continue with him at the top and drop Sehwag to one down or maybe even two down since one down should naturally belong to Suresh Raina.. Bowlers may not be judged in a warm up game or in anay game.. they do have to do their best but one can not always expect them to be able to succeed in controlling the flow of runs.. if a bowler concedes somewhere around 8 to 9 runs he is doing well anything in the range of 6 to 7 is a bonus and yes anything above 10 is poor display RP and Kumar may have to adjust themselves to come to the middle level..

Brother, I am sorry again to have said so much and having said too little..I would be saying a lot in the next fortnight by being absent.. (Haha, not a serious sense of humor.. just wanted to see a smile on your face..) India though in a difficult super eight group should manage to semis, hopefully, given the current form of Rohit and Raina in their all-round abilities they do need a couple of batsman and bowlers to help them once in a while.. Raina put the plugs on Pakistan rampage by the brilliant run out followed by the catch and from 45 for 1 to 45 for 4 in space of 5 balls Pakistan were halted in their plans of posting 200 plus.. There is no end to my discussions.. so I leave abruptly.. I do need to help savita in finalising the packing and planning for the journey which we take.. travelling AC chair car for want of 3rd AC tickets anywhere.. it is all right..
Love to you, Love to Jaya ji and love to every EF member.. ( I will miss all of you.. I shall try to get in touch if possible..)

Abhaya India June 4 2009 9:47 AM IST