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Portrait of a director – Manmohan Desai

Last week, I was discussing cricket with some friends and the talks veered off into what has probably been the most debated cricketing topic in recent times - Saurav Ganguly. Saurav was the original firebrand - the rebel who was known for his unconventional stances that went on to become cricketing folklore. Talk about removing his shirt in the balcony at Lords, keeping rival captains waiting for the toss and many other instances of gamesmanship, Saurav has etched his name as the enfante terrible of cricket. And then, he also went on to become the most successful test captain in Indian cricket history. The devil’s workshop that my mind usually is, it started thinking about a cinema parallel to …

Every second of every day we are approaching towards the death. We can ignore anything and everything in the life but we can not ignore this fact that one day death will finish this cycle of our activities and we will have to go from this planet.

Before that event happens death shows us its face many times in our life time through death of people living around us. It does not allow us to become oblivious towards its strong existence in our life. We may try to avoid this realisation but it is knocking our door every moment.

We are in the race of death
There is no certainty in life
But there is no uncertainty in death
One day death has to keep hold on each one of us
And desultory feet of our life will be stopped

A death around us changes our life. A closed person’s severe illness changes the course …