Simmi
The play was an amazing experience. Yasmin is a brilliant actor, her expressions, emotions and voice reflecting her story. One moment she had cheerful, happy tone remembering the good times, to the next moment living the pain and sadness due to the unfortunate turn in her life, it was brilliant.
I can relate to so many aspects of her life. I loved when she said that we Indian children cannot go ahead with our passion, goal unless we have our parents blessing and support. She was blessed to have Anand's support which not everyone has in their life. Not everyone gets that support, most of us have had to forgo our passion or skills because our parents did not understand what we wanted (the latest, 3 idiots depicting it so well).
There are people who are very focused and determined to get what they want while others who need encouragement and a slight push in the right direction. She got it from Anand and somewhat from Julie. She had failures but she still tried, didn't give up and now she is successful in her passion. This is what impressed me and i can totally relate as i have tried many times but circumstances didn't work in my favor. She started in English and moved on to a brilliant acting career which i am sure has been a journey of pitfalls, hard work and ultimately success. I started with Biology/Statistics and now I am trying for acting, so lets see where this takes me.
Her Yorkshire experience must have been tough, i have lived in London for a few years which was a great experience but my sister was sending her son from India to a high school in York. This was exactly why i was adamant not to let him go in a totally white, snobbish school, so i frantically tried and got his admission in Long island.
All throughout the play, i had a sense of reliving my life not in the life being exactly the same but the philosphical angle of it. The realization that Tariq loved her but she could never love him as much. I know that feeling, it makes you feel small and sometimes i feel like a mean person.
I know exactly what she was meaning by letting Anand take her the 1st time when she felt used and abused. I was never able to put it into words that we Indian females tend not to oppose having this misconception that they have a right or that we should oblige.
Overall, the play was brilliantly done.
I can relate to so many aspects of her life. I loved when she said that we Indian children cannot go ahead with our passion, goal unless we have our parents blessing and support. She was blessed to have Anand's support which not everyone has in their life. Not everyone gets that support, most of us have had to forgo our passion or skills because our parents did not understand what we wanted (the latest, 3 idiots depicting it so well).
There are people who are very focused and determined to get what they want while others who need encouragement and a slight push in the right direction. She got it from Anand and somewhat from Julie. She had failures but she still tried, didn't give up and now she is successful in her passion. This is what impressed me and i can totally relate as i have tried many times but circumstances didn't work in my favor. She started in English and moved on to a brilliant acting career which i am sure has been a journey of pitfalls, hard work and ultimately success. I started with Biology/Statistics and now I am trying for acting, so lets see where this takes me.
Her Yorkshire experience must have been tough, i have lived in London for a few years which was a great experience but my sister was sending her son from India to a high school in York. This was exactly why i was adamant not to let him go in a totally white, snobbish school, so i frantically tried and got his admission in Long island.
All throughout the play, i had a sense of reliving my life not in the life being exactly the same but the philosphical angle of it. The realization that Tariq loved her but she could never love him as much. I know that feeling, it makes you feel small and sometimes i feel like a mean person.
I know exactly what she was meaning by letting Anand take her the 1st time when she felt used and abused. I was never able to put it into words that we Indian females tend not to oppose having this misconception that they have a right or that we should oblige.
Overall, the play was brilliantly done.
posted by Yasmin at 7:06 PM
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