LETTER TO AN ACTOR

To,
Mr Shah Rukh Khan,
Prominent actor (Bollywood),
Address- A lavish bunglow,somewhere along the sea side in Mumbai,

sub : A plea to empower India

Sir,

With due respect I beg to state my thoughts that I wanted to confide in you for so long.

First of all,I am one of your biggest fans.From Deewana to My Name is Khan , each of your flicks have been watched by me, felt by me. I have cried , laughed ,faught in real each time you did the same on reel.

You are a guy who made himself into a man on his own terms, never compromising on values, and never making adjustments in family life. You did things every Indian does, and achieved things the same Indian craves for.You revered the Gita, respected the Quran. You played Raj in DDLJ and the whole India fell in love,you enacted Mohun Bhargava in Swadesh, and the whole nation went back to the villages.This time , on behalf of the whole of India, I want you to play the role of an Indian.

Indian culture,the oldest thriving lifestyle after the Egyptians, a jewel which reflects the shine of valour, affluence, penance and honour. Indian Culture, a candle which is toward its end, of which most of the sons and daughters have forgotten about.

These days we watch 300, we admire the reflexes of the spartans, but somewhere we forget the courage and strength of Rana Pratap and Co. We watch without the blink of an eye the classics of World War-2 when the solidarity of the Azad Hind Fauz of Subhash chandra Bose, somewhere gets lost amongst us, when thw world remembers the jews and the Holocaust through Schindler's List , no body here cares to reminisce that sanguinity of Partition. We watch a 3 hour motion of Alexander, but then we forget the grit of Porus, who moved the former, the Great one.

How do we bring back that past to the knowledge of every Indian, sir? Through History books? Whose boredom has made these unforgettable incidents into Forgettable chronicles.Through leaders, politicians? who change the whole course of our past , just for a 5 year reign.

They are your films , which , apart from cricket have influenced every Indian.Films, that for the last 80 odd years have been giving a 3 hour fantasy life to a common man.

Perhaps.....no..... for sure...... ,a common India needs a 3 hour acting from your side to underatand the realities , stories , glories and of course the atrocities of India. The nation at the edge of becoming a super power cannot be one if it remains blind folded to its glorius past.

Rana Pratap, Samudra Gupta, Shivaji, Bose, they need to be endorsed by you, enacted by you, so that India can come to know how great India is.Ashoka needs something more than his love life to be shown by who, so that the world , let alone India can Understand the meaning of Greatness.

The patriot of India needs you to awaken Indians from the deep slumber they are in .


I have chosen a letter to interact with you in this e- generation of Twitters and Facebooks 'coz letters have made revolutions, haven't they ? Marx compiled Marxism through them, Gandhi became Mahatma through a pen. Be it the World Wars, or the Papal Conferences, be it the Nazis, or the red cross, they ran the world in thier own ways through letters.

And then, a man, called Jawahahar Lal Nehru, above all the comeplexities of power politics , away from all the intricacies of diplomacy, very innocently taught his daughter about Indian Culture through letters. With such powerful proofs of the power of letter from the annals of history , I have tried to write to you what I feel is to be done at the moment.

I will be grateful if you will act in the affirmative.

Yours Sincerely,
a common man( of INDIA)