For a kind of person, who bought
all newspapers available in town just to cut off Sachin’s picture and paste in
a notebook and preserving the book as a treasure, who spend his spare time by
watching Sachin’s old matches in Youtube, who watches IPL just to see the glimpse
moments of Sachin in MI’s dugout, this “SACHIN : A Billion Dreams” is a world’s
yummiest cake frosting with the world’s tastiest cherry.
I was never fully convinced, when
government instructed all theaters to play National Anthem before playing the
movie. Whenever I went to theaters, I stand for National Anthem without any relevance and purpose. Honestly I confess, I wasn’t that patriotic when I
stood for National anthem in theaters, mean whileI used to check whether everyone was standing
or not. This time, the case is different. I can feel the patriotism all of a
sudden, a kind of unique feel, sense of proudness – Goosebumps!
All these years, in my life, I
have never gone for theater alone. I used to go with my family, relatives and
friends. Never alone! This time, I asked my busiest friends to join me, few
were reluctant and rest were available on Sunday. If it’s any other movie, I
might get compromise. The experience was a like, watching a cricket match in a
stadium. The moment when the clips of Sachin getting 200 runs came, the
audience went crazy. It was like, myself sitting in Gwalior and cheering. This
was one such instance. Without time machine, I traveled back to Shivaji Park, Karachi,
Sharjah, Perth, Centurion, our own M.A.Chidambaram, Wankhade and watched Sachin
playing. One of my dreams which I thought I can’t tick in checkbox is watching
Sachin playing in the stadium. But now, I can console myself.
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| When I awkwardly copied Sachin |
We want to know, how our super
hero would have thought when he face problems, criticism. At the least, we love
to read in articles. How the feel will be, when you got to know, what was in
your super hero’s mind – in which most part of them were describing by the man
himself. I have a feeling that, I'm beating around the bush with loss of words. May be yet to return to present. It’s all together, totally a different film with Vera-level
feeling.
I keep disappointing myself by
not writing, for last few months. Be it my days as a Soft skill trainer, days
when I was idle at home, MBA days, Vardha
Puyal, TN Political Attrocities, Jallikattu, about my trips to Pondicherry, Yercaud, Vedanthangal, Munnar, Wayanad, of late Rajnikanth’s fan meet and many
more. Somehow, few getting postponed and
I dropped few as it got expired to showcase. I don’t want that happen this time.
This is for the very special character, I brought into my life – S A C H I N. I'm not sure about the second part of the previous sentence, I still have the doubt, whether I brought him in my life or he marched himself into my life, but he’s
big part of my life – no doubt in that. If you have read, very special
character – I literally mean – VERY SPECIAL – Zero Level Exaggeration.
