The One-of-A-Kind Conversations with the soul One-of-A-Kind

Dear Sushant,

Firstly, Kaise main kahu shukriya, tera mujhpe ehsaan hai 🙂 And, out of those many letters written to you, this is the one being shared. Hello, to my distant star and that one-of-a-kind soul.

That is how I would have greeted you if I ever met you in person. I do not know where to begin from, you know I am always clueless. So, let us just talk about my afternoons back then. I did watch you in Kis Desh Mein hai Mera Dil, but I would not lie about remembering it since I’ve a very faded memory of you being in it.

But the best time was the one watching Pavitra Rishta. I did not have a TV back then, but we had a computer, and I used to attach the set-top box to it, just to enjoy Pavitra Rishta at 3:30 pm along with having lunch, after returning from school. And after you left the show, I stopped watching it.

After around two years, the most popular face of television was about to make his debut in the big industry, and I was already happy at the idea of it. You were playing the role of a Gujarati boy, who was a (rejected) district-level cricket player, but with a million dreams in your eyes to fulfil the wish of making it big.

I being a Gujarati, I was instantly connected with you in the movie. It was so much more like my own life; the lack of money cannot sum up your dreams in a shell. And Byomkesh, uff, anything that had blew my mind becomes my instant favourite, and this was one such character!

The charming Shiv and the confused Raghu were equally intriguing too. The versatility you portrayed, and the sheer diligence behind each one of them, simply leaves a person spell-bound.

And MSD, damn, how many more times are you going to fascinate me to watch this masterpiece. I love this whole journey of 3-hours so much, because of how simply yet magnificently you worked in this project.

You did not over-do it, which would have been expected if someone else portrayed it, and you kept it so subtle that I never felt that you were ENACTING someone in the film.

That is the purity of a truly dedicated artist. That is probably where I finally felt you met your level of brilliancy. Your role as Lakhna still feels so underrated, no one likes talking about how well-scripted and necessary the character is. You were even hurt by it, and took a break from social media because of it, and then I was hurt by it. Paradox much 😉

The beauty of Mansoor Khan, I can talk about it and months would not be enough. Ab kya hi bolu main, those minute details you conveyed, and I noticed from my perspective, did say so much in so few words. Tum sikha rahe ho, jism ko humare, Roohdaariyaan. A heavenly soul Mansoor is, and you are probably enjoying with him right now I guess… Say my hello to him.

Samar is the witty you, the real Baadshah. He was not the King, but the Emperor, with the whole game in his hands. And Anni, my true guide in so many senses. He guided a wandering soul to her correct path. Just kept all the reality in front my eyes.

I loved the idea of failure more than success after it. And my weird convos with Manny. Tum jaise aaye, waise hi chale gaye na aakhir. Khair, I had so such wishes to roam with you in your stupid secret places around the city, and just laugh seamlessly about it.

But right now, I am so jealous of the mini party going over with all of you being a part of it, in that starry night. Can’t you all just party here with me, I mean I am not that bad too. Just come alive, even for a while, just once. I know you are reading this, and it isn’t so hard to be true right?

That is it, a part of the endless conversations about how I had talked to you about your many characters and you portraying them.

I might probably write about the conversations on various other things of my not-so amazing life, and your dreams, and musings and science and what not.

Probably. Until next time. :):