Part 96: So many questions! Imagination never dies!

Let me go back to very nice lines of article about Arvind.

But when he talks about Kajol a smile escapes his lips.” On the sets of ‘Sapnay’, some one had to coax me to talk and someone had to coax Kajol to stop talking talking,” he laughs. “God! She’s live wire- on and of screen.”

These lines always put me into the imagination till today because Kajol is Kenny’s favourite actress in Hindi. Just a thought. If the movie would have made after the release of ‘Sethu’, instead of Prabhu if Kenny played that role? What Kenny would have felt while dubbing for Prabhudeva in the dark room? Seriously I may ask this question to Kenny if he has the time to answer. I know the fact both Kenny and Kajol are livewire on and off screen. If they had acted together how it would have been? Whether Kenny would have been able to fill the innocence that was required in “Vennilave” song? Whether I would be able to accept the climax? Whether the movie “Sapnay” would have been a real dream? Whether Kenny would have accepted the role? How would have been the song “Hoo la la” then?

Let me keep this topic aside. Let me go back to 1989. Kenny was the chosen hero for the movie “Nila penne”, which he could not do just because he got the offer when he was doing the first day shooting of his debut movie “En Kadal Kanmani”. He just couldn’t accept “Nila Penne” with Divya Bharathi as the leading heroine as he didn’t change his commitment like other heroes. He could have accepted the role but then the producers would have been in trouble. Kenny thought about the problems of the producer’s right from his debut. As a result he had put his future in big trouble.

Kenny’s loss was Arvind’s gain. Though ‘Nila penne’ in which Kenny was suppose to act didn’t exactly set the box office on fire but Arvind was noticed and he even got the break to work with Mani Rathnam’s ‘Dalapathi’ and ‘Roja’! Here Kenny’s movie didn’t get complete till the next two years. If Kenny had accepted ‘Nila penne’ then what would have happened?

Once again Kenny was supposed to be the hero of ‘Bombay’. Arvind got selected at the very last moment. What was the trauma and pain Kenny had gone through during that time; it’s only him who knows. We can just feel it and feel sad but it was Kenny who has suffered it all alone. If he would have acted in ‘Bombay’ then? How he would have performed for the songs ‘Uyire’ and ‘Kuchi Kuchi”?

Along with one question thousand questions will arise but no one can give the exact answer. We can just keep them in our imagination. As Kenny’s opinion if he had got the success long back now he would have been vanished. Really? May be because of the possibilities of wrong choices with the success. In his viewpoint he is absolutely right. But our imagination never dies. Isn’t it?

And in the showbiz dreaming never dies. The impression that our industry projects is that of glamour, money, beauty and the parties and the scandals that go along with the territory. Now, that’s a completely distorted image of the industry. Behind the glitzy façade, there are years and years of struggle.

By the way while mentioning about Graphology and Psychology I left one more important thing. Yes it’s telepathy. I don’t know why right from the day I started to read Kenny’s interviews, I was wondering because I always felt that he is stealing my feelings. It was something like he was putting my feelings into words. There was no chasm at all. Each and almost all feelings were same. Or I felt so? But how is it possible? How there can be so many similarities between him and me in our thoughts? How? Whether surely was he the person for whom I was in search of? My sixth sense gave me the green signal. Then he would show my other my friend! I knew it was not Mala or Bina. It was someone else. A lady who’s name will start with the letter ‘S’. Who is that? Where is she from? What she does? Only questions. No answers.

“If someone could answer my question it’s only him. Kenny! How I can reach unto him? Reaching may not a big problem but how can I ask all these things with him? Whether he has the time to listen to my words who is absolute stranger for him? What he may think? Whether he may show my other friend? Whether she will accept me in her life as a friend?”

So many questions. I was totally confused.

I had to confirm that whether he was the person who was supposed to enter in my life or not. But without meeting, investigating, discussing and understanding him it was not possible.

So on that day I took the firm determination to know and understand about the nature of this mysterious person in a much better way. But that day I didn’t know the fact that within the next five days I might get a chance to chat with this ‘Prince’ Chiyaan!

Not only the lack of chasm between Kenny and I later lead to the major confusion but also because of this I found my one more special friend who made me spell bound in a very different way through her action!

But that day (Decemeber 13^th) I never thought the next year on the same date I might speak to my special friends together after the shooting of ‘Anniyan’!

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