Life Around Me: August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Happy Janmashtami: My favourite Actors who acted in the Role of Krishna-3:- Nitish Bharadwaj

Nitish Bharadwaj, who just made the role of Krishna like a Real-Life Character! I was immensely influenced by him during my childhood days! So always thought him as Krishna after watching Mahabharat. He was the Ultimate One in my eyes... I became interested to know about Lord Krishna only after watching his performance in Mahabharat. Even when I started my Blog-'Purnavataar', it was his picture only that came to my mind while thinking about the an image to include in the heading. My interest about Krishna was completely indebted to his performance in the role of the Lord. Wonderful work throughout the whole series, specially Shantidoot episode and most importantly in all the Geeta episodes!

Here I am ending the last part of my posts on the actors playing the role of Shri Krishna. Again I am stating that the headings of my posts are not any ranking or any special liking for any particular actor, it is just that I couldn't fit all the pictures and information in a single post, so decided to divide the whole Content into three posts.

Jai Shri Krishna

Happy Janmashtami: My favourite Actors who acted in the Role of Krishna-2:- Sarvadaman Banerjee

Continuing with my series on Actors playing the role of Shri Krishna, now, in this 2nd part, I will write about Sarvadaman Banerjee. He acted in the role of Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's Shri Krishna TV Serial. Really a Great Work! I loved to watch the Geeta Episodes delivered by him! In the initial episodes it was difficult for me to consider S D Banerjee as Krishna because I was a great fan of Nitish Bharadwaj's acting in Mahabharat. But gradually, as 'Shri Krishna' progressed, and I followed it regularly, I started loving the performance of S D Banerjee. He has delivered all the scenes with Great Sincerity and Great Emotion!!! As we think about the Emotional and Blissful element in the Lord- that have been brought forth by S D Banerjee in a Nice Way! In comparison to earlier episodes, I loved his performance more in all the later episodes of the serial (much much more than the initial episodes ). I feel, gradually he got control over the role of the Lord after a few episodes and after that delivered all the dialogues of Shri Krishna with such Ease that I always feel blessed whenever I watch him on screen.

Another point i want to mention here- Sarvadaman Banerejee has done an Excellent performance in a Sanskrit movie based on the life of the great sage Adi Shankaracharya(Movie has the same name)... there he is just Awesome!!! I loved his performance! The Knowledge and the Devotion- both have been present in him throughout the whole film... Indeed a great film to watch!

His Dedication towards his work makes his works (films/serial) truly worth watching!

Happy Janmashtami: My favourite Actors who acted in the Role of Krishna-1

On this auspicious day of Janmashtami, I decided to write about the actors who played the role of Krishna on-screen and Influenced me a lot. But sadly, could not include all the pictures and informations in single post, so now I am posting the first part here. (The numbers in the heading are not any ranking or any partiucular order, they are a part of the whole series of three posts, which is the reason of the inclusion of the number in the heading)

Now, I am starting with Swapnil Joshi. He acted in the role of young Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's Shri Krishna Serial. He has done such a nice work, that he just took the hearts of all the fans with him... His playfulness, his emotions, his philosophical discussions- all are delivered by him in very very Natural Way! I love to see him on screen. All his scenes are full of the Bliss and Love which we relate with the Lord. He has also shown serious acting skill in all the scenes of deep Spiritual discussions. Swapnil has been truly the image of the Lord who is very easy to approach. His performances in Vrindavan, Mathura, Gurukul and Jarasandh, Uddhava Vraj Yatra episodes- all are Great! Truly he has made the young Krishna come alive in front of us by his Wonderful Performance!

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Reflections on a Rainy Day

Today it is raining heavily here in Delhi. I was sitting by the window throughout the whole day, watching rain, because there was no electricity:) :). I was, in fact, enjoying the rain. I never loved rain, specially getting drenched in the rain:(. But today, I was at home, so was able to Enjoy the drops failing from the sky.

And suddenly I remembered a scene from a film I watched recently. It was a Sanskrit movie named– Adi Shankaracharya. It is about the great Seer of 8 th century, who made the tough Vedas and Upanishadas easy for us by writing extensive commentaries on them. Later I will try to write about the film in details.

There we have a nice scene, where he says to his disciples that “Shudhhe hridaye, sarvam shuddham” (When the heart is pure, everything else is Pure). (At 2:30 min of the video)

And after that we have some lines from his famous work ‘Bhaja Govindam’ , where he tells us to turn towards God, as that is the only way of our Salvation.
If anyone is interested, Here is the Video of that scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-uHt9ib1w&feature=related
(It starts from 2:30 min to 4:25 min. Again it from 5:23 min and continues till 6:10 min.)
The following is the portion of Bhaja Govindam covered in the scene:-

sampraapte sannihite kaale

nahi nahi rakshati Dukrijn karane .. (1)

Oh fool! Rules of Grammar will not save you at the time of your death.

angam galitam palitam mundam

dashanavihiinam jatam tundam.

vriddho yaati grihiitvaa dandam

tadapi na muchchatya ashaapindam.. (15)

Strength has left the old man's body; his head has become bald, his gums toothless and leaning on crutches. Even then the attachment is strong and he clings firmly to fruitless desires.

bhaja govindam bhaja govindam

govindam bhaja muudhamate .

Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda.

punarapi jananam punarapi maranam

punarapi jananii jathare shayanam.

iha samsaare bahudustaare

kripayaa apaare paahi muraare. (21)

Born again, death again, birth again to stay in the mother's womb ! It is indeed hard to cross this boundless ocean of samsara. Oh Murari ! Redeem me through Thy mercy.

bhajagovindam bhajagovindam

govindam bhaja muudhamate .

Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda.

I was So Touched by the messege, that today it just came to my mind while watching the rain and kept on repeating itself. It was Really a nice experience!

And here is the link of the text of Bhaja Govindam:-
http://www.shankaracharya.org/bhaja_govindam.php

I added 2 photos of the Black Clouds of a typical Rainy Day at Delhi (the first one) and at Kolkata (the second one) in today's post. Enjoy:)...

Jai Shri Krishna

Monday, August 16, 2010

Tulsidas Jayanti

Today is Tulsidas Jayanti. On this pious day, just want to dedicate this post to the Great Saint who gave us the nector of Devotion with his greatest work Ramcharitmanas. By composing it in Avadhi language, he made it easy for the masses to grasp the essence of Ramayan, which was originally wriiten in Sanskrit.

These are 2 links I found out about Tulsidasji:-

* Detailed Info about Tulsidasji
https://sites.google.com/site/goswamitulsidasji/home

* Short Info on Tulsi Jayanti
http://www.hindu-blog.com/2008/08/goswami-tulsidas-jayanti-2008.html

* An of course we always have the Wikipedia to find just anything Smile

. Many related sites are also mentioned in this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsidas

Jai Shri Ram