DOR

“Too good, Infact its ten on ten” these were the words from the lips of Anirudh after coming out of the movie Dor. I was awfully amazed by the same and was still under the effect of a great piece of work. Nagesh Kukunoor, a chemical engineer turned filmmaker gave me a chance to align myself to the same league for a second. There had been articles criticizing his failed efforts of making crossover films before, finally he actually came up with a commercially hit Iqbal. Dor might not be a box-office hit but it definitely compels me to appreciate Nagesh’s efforts to come out of his comfort zone and follow his true dreams. With his handful savings and loans he made his first low grossing film in India “Hyderabad Blues”. Definitely the hassles were many compelling the distributor to give way free tickets for the start up crowd. Well that was a 17 lakhs and a 17 day shot movie which had packed theatres for more than half a year across the metros. But Nagesh did succesfully come a long way from Hyderabad blues to Dor with many ups and down in between. And finally Dor is something he created to establish himself as a class story teller of real life empathetic emotionally filled experiences or may be the way of life just as honestly as Ayesha Takia was depicted in the movie without any makeup. Nagesh’s entire journey reminds me of the guy in Paulo Cohelo’s “The Alchemist” who had left Spain literally to follow his dream across the deserts where no one he knew could guide him to the destination. I don’t know if anything similar happened with Nagesh that the whole universe conspired for him but he did establish himself as an apostle of courage to explore the power to follow you dreams and accomplish it the way u want it to be.

I am often tempted to change my course of steps and follow my dreams but then before I leap I should settle with some comfortable corpus; may be 5, 10 or more ambitiously 2 years but not now. Nagesh had left a career what is lucrative to the rest of the people as that ensures a safe and settled life. This is in fear of the sufferings one can undergo to follow something in an uncharted territory that most of us are busy in establishing a sustainable comfort zone and that might in turn kill your never followed dream. This has got a domino effect and it cascades to your wish that your child will accomplish your dream while you kill his/her dreams too just because of your selfish attitude of playing safe. Santiago was the hero who started the next morning and Nagesh is the real life Santiago.