Tuesday, May 31, 2011

It's amazing how certain words acquire such specific meanings in specific contexts. The words 'struggle' and 'chance' for example, can never mean the same thing to a non film walla as opposed to someone who has spent years in Bombay trying to get one opportunity to do what s/he wants in films. These two words sum up a range of experiences and emotions so specific to any dreamer in the city. Struggle becomes a shared experience, a phase, an obstacle, and also something that defines and makes valuable the possibility of a 'chance'.
So many must have gone through this ordeal for these words to have such fixed alternative meanings.

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