Children’s day

meant a fancy dress competition in SAV. More than me, it seemed my mom and sis were expecting this very day since the start of the year. Every year they used to contemplate and come out with some interesting character, get the dialogues for the character and also the dress, and put me in hell lot of trouble to dress and enact the way they had originally envisioned .

While I was at Rockfort, for the fancy dress competition it was not necessary that the student must deliver any dialogue at all. All that was required was some B-E-A-utiful dress, which will enable the audience to understand whom/what you are trying to portray, stand before the judges, pose for a photograph and leave  

 

Thinking about it now, it makes more sense as to why they call it ‘fancy dress competition’. Here in SAV, I had to talk with actions, or rather enact the character which was damn new to me. I did VaVuSee, Ovvayar and the last eligible year it was Draupadi. While the first two fetched me 1st places, the last one, I was not at all interested. Doing draupadi meant, getting myself less dignified among my friends, and coz of that I spoiled the enacting part.

Over these years there had been a pair of eyes that had been monitoring me. I was taken grated by those pair of eyes and from then on I did some role in all of her shows for each year’s school annual day. She was instrumental in getting my histrionics shaped well, for it involved not just delivering dialogues, it thought about nuances of acting, singing, how powerful words can be with expression and how beautiful silence is. Every year she would put me in some character, whether small or big, was not at all my problem. All I cared was my classed getting cut

The final piece of glory came to me when She decide to caste me in a main role while I wan in 9th grade in Meera Bhai. That was pivotal in making many heads turn my side. The performance was classic, and I owe it to her till date. She did take so much pain to get me there.

 

A place in that little stage, which altered many equations over the years….I always owe her one, and not a day has passed without thanking her.  When I said ‘not a day’, YES I meant it. I am always indebted to Mrs Veeramani.

 

Many times my best friends had asked me, how I could just act anything (in life)……well here is the answer to it…..Saga continues…..