‘Indiana Jones and the last crusade’ is a terrific commercial film. But it also has a few memorable scenes with great dialogues. Here’s one that encaspulates the sense of loss of a loved one perfectly. Most often one attempts to reconcile the past with the lost one, and as this is an ongoing process, one never finds enough time.
Oh, God. I’ve lost him. And I never told him anything. I just wasn’t ready, Marcus. Five minutes would have been enough.
What follows is a bit cheesy and even more commercial, but overall a terrific scene that is well written and brought on to screen, by the entire team. Here is the complete scene.
There is a beautiful ghazal from the movie ‘Alag Alag’, by the inimitable combo of R.D.Burman, Kishore Kumar and Anand Bakshi, picturized on Rajesh Khanna in a chawl. In the 80s, on Doordarshan’s ‘Chitrahaar’, I couldn’t help noticing an old guy sitting besides the star and enthusiastically ‘wah wah’ing both in anticipation and after the verse is sung. The rest of the crowd were full of junior artists and a few known actors, so I wondered who this senior junior artist would be. My research led to the reveal of the real person—Bhagwan Dada.
Inimitable combo of R.D.Burman, Anand Bakshi and Kishore Kumar
Bhagwan Dada
led a life that would be called chimerical in any other domain, but not so in
the world of light and dark. Movie industry is the place where fortunes change
overnight and shift from sprawling building to congested chawls, and from the
glare of hero spotlight to shade of filler characters. Bhagawan Dada had seen
it all. His famous step in ‘Albela’ is supposedly to have influenced Amitabh
Bachchan and Govinda.
Here’s Tabassum recounting her experiences with Bhagawan Dada and leaves us a reminder that no matter how big or small, nothing is permanent in this world/stage. There are many Bhagwan Dadas and Kasturi Sivaraos who can vouch for this fact.
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; … And one man in his time plays many parts…”- William Shakespeare
