When I see old videos, I try to see more than just the actors. Like the trees in bloom with their leaves dancing in the wind. Those flowers withered and leaves fell, all buried and decomposed in the continuous cycle of life. Yet they graced an old video with their passing grace, and the image of a long gone spring or summer is captured forever, with the effect of a long gone breeze and the sunshine from a long gone day.
And the people too, not just the main actors, the passers by, the crowd, common people who got to save the images of their youth for another centaury. They would have lived their untold lives thereafter, but they did make their mark in the history of time, however small. There is something to remind the world of their life.
And the main actors, the dreams in their eyes, the effervescence of youth, yea, we do know their stories.
Take a look at this song from Suhaag raat 1948, a young Bharat Bhushan and very young Geeta Bali in their Himachal outfits (?). This was her very first movie, her only chance to turn the life around and save her family. Did the horror of the past(not just hers, the whole nations, or so to speak), haunt her when she was putting her make up on? As we all know, in her short life, she would find success and love and ultimately fate would take her away while she was reaching for stars.
Bharat Bhushan on the other hand would live a life, full of up and downs. But in this eternal moment, they are both fresh and hopeful. And the trees, look at those trees..
And the people too, not just the main actors, the passers by, the crowd, common people who got to save the images of their youth for another centaury. They would have lived their untold lives thereafter, but they did make their mark in the history of time, however small. There is something to remind the world of their life.
And the main actors, the dreams in their eyes, the effervescence of youth, yea, we do know their stories.
Take a look at this song from Suhaag raat 1948, a young Bharat Bhushan and very young Geeta Bali in their Himachal outfits (?). This was her very first movie, her only chance to turn the life around and save her family. Did the horror of the past(not just hers, the whole nations, or so to speak), haunt her when she was putting her make up on? As we all know, in her short life, she would find success and love and ultimately fate would take her away while she was reaching for stars.
Bharat Bhushan on the other hand would live a life, full of up and downs. But in this eternal moment, they are both fresh and hopeful. And the trees, look at those trees..
This is another song from the movie.
I wonder what she was thinking when she was walking through the fields. Her whole life was ahead of her, a life of promises. And I love that lonely tree in the background. What would have happened of it?
Life indeed is capricious, but may be we shouldn't just let it pass by, when we have a shot at finding our dreams. Lets all reach for the stars!
