Yesterday I watched a program on BBC Entertainment called "Extreme Makeover". They pick an underprivileged family, break down their old home and build a brand new house- all in a week's time. This time they chose the family of an eight year old girl who had cancer. During the course of building the house they invited other cancer survivors for a small project. Of the children, there was a teen aged boy who was in remission but had lost a leg to the disease. He was wearing a prosthetic leg.
Whenever I see a prosthetic leg I am reminded of Sudha Chandran and her movie "Nache Mayuri". I remember watching it with my family. By then we had shifted to Bombay (as it was called then) and we lived in Chembur. The song "Jhoom jhoom naach Mayuri" had already become popular on Radio and "Chayageet" and being a dance enthusiast I was really excited to watch the movie.
My father bought tickets in advance for a Sunday show at Sahakar cinema in Chembur. As usual the four of us piled onto his trusted scooter and were off. I enjoyed the movie and even cried when Mayuri had that dreadful accident where she loses her leg. I think Shekhar Suman also "acted" in the movie if what he does can be called that. Sudha Chandran was one of the greatest success stories of the Jaipur foot. The dances in the movie were brilliant and exhilarating...or so I remember.
On our way back from the movie, our scooter skidded on an oil spill on the road and I remember thinking for a split second if even I would lose a limb. We were lucky to escape with a few minor bruises and scrapes but that movie day will always remain in our memory as the only accident we had on our beloved green Vespa.
2 comments:
if it would have been me, I would have loved to victimise myself and think about getting the Jaipur foot myself.
I used to love being the underdog in my imagination.
I need to see a shrink I guess
Don't we all love playing victim? As a child I imagined all sorts of bad stuff that would gain me some sympathy and cheer when i triumph over it
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