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Unsung stars biding their time
It is common, all that lives must die. Passing through nature to eternity. These are the words of the Queen TO the young Hamlet. Some people get due recognition for their latent talents and enjoy its entailing honours early in their life. For the rest of life, they bask in their eminence, euphoria and attain eternity of sorts.
“It is common, all that lives must die. Passing through nature to eternity.” These are the words of the Queen TO the young Hamlet. Some people get due recognition for their latent talents and enjoy its entailing honours early in their life. For the rest of life, they bask in their eminence, euphoria and attain eternity of sorts.
In contrast, recognition and honour come to some talented people just before they call it day. Poets like Robert Frost and many Nobel Laureates come under this category. Dilip Kumar aka Yusuf Khan ruled the roost in the 60s and 70s of Mumbai's tinsel world. Now he is in the latter part of his "Second Childhood, sans eyes, sans teeth, and sans everything.
" The Centre woke up from its slumber and rushed to his house to confer the Padma Vibhushan on the 'hero' from Pakistan. The Centre's sudden and belated recognition of his talent and contribution to the film world was perhaps triggered by the Pakistan Government' s decision to preserve Khan's home there as a heritage site.
More often than not, many extremely talented persons in all fields have waited for life to get their just deserts from the governments. Some of them even have died, casting a 'longing, lingering look' behind like the Coleridge's sailors!
In particular our tinsel world is full of such stories of many unsung heroes. Talented heroes, heroines, technicians have displayed their mesmerising presence on the screen, won the hearts of millions of fans and made their 'exit' without getting their share of spoils from the governments. Our Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood all have left these unsung heroes in the woods.
Here are two such cases. Actress late Nirmalamma acted in more than 200 films from the days of the ANR's 'Devadas.' As a wife, mother and grandmother, she stole the show with aplomb. Our government failed to give her due honors and recognition.
Again a Telugu hero, in his long and eventful 50 years of acting career, acted in more than 200 films and donned a plethora of roles with inimitable simplicity and histrionic talent. He is regarded as the 'Talisman' of new heroines to propel them into scintillating stardom and he has kept his record intact till date. He has also bagged two Filmfare and six Nandi Awards.
He is none other than our hero Chandra Mohan. Now he too is in his 70s without any "Padmas" in his list of scalps. His is a striking case of official apathy. This kind of bias and official indifference is as much a big letdown to him as it is to his thousands of fans. When will this story end?
