Moubani Sorcar, Kolkata : The art and craft of Acting is often treated as a book with a very flashy cover.As it takes a lot of
patience and inclination to read through a book with tough Bengali words when you have
pursued your education in an English medium school and was never exposed to the subject in
the extent of the foreign language and have evolved into an exclusive being who does not
understand the need to water a plant's roots , in this case, your own cultural roots, I think to me
acting is the raw, naked language, as natural as the nudity we are born with and then decided to
shun and cover because of our own taboos in understanding human life.
We all act, we all know how to act,it is intrinsic, but what we lose over time is the innocence with
which you accept the fact that acting is important to us.As we tread into a much more
professional world where there are labels and brackets, walls and barricades, we do forget the
reason why these barriors were created in the first place.The
whole of human life does not need
these walls, it is only to live in comfort, to be able to care and build better that the mathematics
of existential barrios were created.It is only when we see each portion of our body and put
attention to it that we can take care. But the barrios of today have found a new purpose.A
purpose to inculcate hate in others, to show that one is better than the other, but all this 'warfare
of comparisons' is no less damaging than the terror attacks that disintegrate the warmth in our
society.I believe that in the first place we must understand what we do. I have been acting all
my life.Without me acting who would react? Conglomerated reactions lead to current
occurrences in a moment, so should we not act with wisdom if we know this?
I am a human being and my heart beats several times a day, with every beat there is an impulse
confirming that we are alive and existing, it is that assurance and then the reassurance , that bit
of music which binds us together, in a uniform manner. Do we need anyone else to tell us how
to act?No matter how many theories we concoction, in our right to life is our right to act, and the
acting that we do is for a purpose directed by some supreme natural law, and I am not going to
quote William Shakespeare.So, this is how it is, as I column my experiences as an actress I
know we will strike a chord together, because yours and my story is the same, we speak the
same language, and that is the golden language of the heart. We will laugh and cry together.
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