Dear Amitji,
Good Evening. Mitti ki soundhiya khushboo ki yaad dila di aapne. The rain enjoyed by the young and grown up alike is a special feeling of being under the pouring clouds. The drenching gives a special pleasure of the rain. One can say a special natural holi with clean colours. The only colours visible later when the sun comes out of the rain clouds. The colours of the rainbow. Not always but when present give us the span from earth to heaven or horizon to horizon.The Director’s presence of mind needs to be appreciated and shooting in natural downpour may bring that special omen to the film. Capturing moments that need not be instructed to smile and be happy. Natural reactions of happiness captured on celluloid will have their telltale special effects. The usage of nature to the fullest makes the scenes so special. No undue cuts might have been ordered. Who wants to cut happiness spontaniously generated by minds freeing themselves like children in flashback of life.Hope you and everyone will enjoy and remember this for the rest of their lives. A downpour on sets converted in to scenes of the movie. Away from artificial rythmic showers which a layman also makes out is parallel to Gardner watering plants.The heat of North India and especially the region you lived is terrible. Very difficult to bear and so much care is needed to save life from sunstrokes so common there. I was having daal with the raw mango gittak for the khatta effect and remembered pannah the summer drink you mentioned. Your mother prepared with surahi water. Life was lived with support from nature to the maximum. How many of us still enjoy shade of a tree in summer. We would run to an AC room and pass the afternoon heat. Nature is lost and left behind only for special occasions. Truely we tour nature once in a while whereas earlier we lived immersed in nature.Amitji whole my life I have not used a few things and prominent amongst them is a rain-coat or an umbrella. However very recently a few years back my friend came to know this and gifted me an umbrella. A big black simple one. He had also gifted exactly same one to another of his dear friend. Unfortunately first time I used it on the day of his funeral. To my utmost surprise I saw same in the hand of his other friend and he knew that the two were purchased together for gifting to both of us. I haven’t used that umbrella again but it is a very valuable possesion. Sometimes what we can’t buy easily becomes a habit and one learns to live that way. Without raincoat and an umbrella decades lived hopping and jumping as the rains stopped or selectively getting wet and drenched.Another thing I am used to live without is a wrist watch and a ring on any finger. My freedom of time you can call. My father tried giving me watches so also I got from father in law but my habit of not using them remained. Now I don’t even have a wristwatch under my ownership. Ofcourse there are many other things which may seem stupid but I am what I am. I don’t use shaving cream. No aftershave. No perfume. No powder. And may be many other essentials people or my children can’t live without. Second pair of shoes is a luxury. When my wife bought 2500/- shoe for me I was upset it is so expensive and did not use it for more than a month till it became absolute essential.All said and done rain makes us children again. Your heart danced to the beats of the childhood and as you rightly said we feel you describe children and secretly visit your children in heart.One last question would you still have lunch with me who does not know how to use a fork and knife. I prefer eating with my hand and am happy with minimal in my plate. Even a sabji roti or daal chawal is ok for me. My preffered sweet dish is jaggery and best snack is a creamroll or khari. Will you play in the rain with EF. A rain of love and affection. There is always pleasure in small things of life seldom they can be purchased. God gives them in abundance to everyone and wants it that way to enjoy life.Good luck to the man who saw happiness in a passing shower.
Regards
Ravi P Malhotra
My additions:
Ravi Malhotra becomes my senior by being a part of the KVIAN culture. I respect a lot the kind of education and the atmosphere that was present in the Kendriya Vidyalaya in India. He is from Dehu Road, and I did my schooling in KVs at Air Force Station Agra, Aberdden bazaar, Port Blair and IIT, Delhi.
Please do not go by the order in which persons are being added here, it has nothing that could speak of any priority, it is by chance that Rose was first and Ravi sir makes his appearance only today! I definitely can not put everyone at the same time! can I!
Abhaya India March 20 2009 9:57 AM IST.
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