Friday, April 26, 2013

Ha Ha Ha !!!

I went for a play today! Well not exactly a play, was supposed to be some kind of a take/spoof on .. Something I dont remember.. Um, anyway.. It was kinda fun until the guy who was playing it on the big screen (operating the projector and giving running commentary on the mike basically) got a little carried away and kept playing the spoof again and again in case we -the audience, were not catching up!!Anyway, try to read on and catch up with me to know my intention of trying to make a story out of this not so particularly exciting spoof ! The intention here is to write about someone who has touched not just mine ,maybe all our lives at some point or the other!Johnny Lever! Yes thats right, Johnny Lever! When i bbm-d my friend Cauvery and told her I met Johnny Lever, her immediate reply was "ha ha ha" ," was it funny?".. No it wasnt! In fact, it was quite the opposite! As i saw him walk past me and sit in the row in front of me, a surge of emotions swept through... I guess anyone my age would assosciate him to childhood memories ... Of watching him on screen and laughing .. But for me it was a little more than that.. All i kept thinking was, God i wish Kishore maama was here, he'd have been elated! As a kid, he'd take me to watch movies mainly because " Johnny Lever is also there in the film"! And then i'd watch the whole theatre explode with laughter whenever he appeared on screen...My mother especially would start laughing even before he would mouth his dialogues! Anyway,The best part about the show was after interval when Johnny Lever was asked to say a few words on mike and his thankyou speech gradually turned into something that could give the present lot of stand up comedian's a run for their money! How he managed to do that with a thank you speech , gosh knows! That , was followed by a standing ovation from the crowd as he walked back to his seat.. They say people who can make other people laugh will have a lot of goodwill.. Unsaid blessings... Blessings in the form of laughter...! That would make him one blessed man now wouldnt it?To make someone cry with your acting is easy, but to make them laugh.. Man thats hard.. He has achieved that and how.. To the funniest man Indian cinema has seen..  "Ha ha ha"