Transcript of Cinema Meets Spirituality | Sitaare Zameen Par special screening at Kanha Shanti Vanam

Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] When I got to know Daji is watching it today, I was most excited and I'm very keen to know what you felt about this story and this film film. You'll be surprised all of you also almost after four decades I have seen a Hindi movie. Wow. Right after my marriage, me and my wife went to see a movie in Jangir theater in Nosari. I forgot the name of the movie. Yeah. But that was the last movie I have seen. So you can imagine I have seen so many movies later on in English though because our master he was very fond of movies especially English movies and very few Hindi movies he watched. Though I have seen almost every day English movies over last 12 to 15 years of my close association with him. This movie surpasses all that I have seen so far. No, I am not praising this just for hack of it because Mr. Aurora is here. Gulad Aurora himself is here. It's not to praise him but it's coming from my heart because this bui conveys so many hidden rather very subtle messages which Vedas and holy scriptures have been bombarding but never understood. And even after watching this definition of what is normal to the world and when your heart speaks what is real there's big difference. The movie is all about showing what real thing is, not the normal thing is. You see, because this autistic children with Down syndrome etc. reflected in a very dramatic way. The entire holy scriptures has been essence. The entire essence has been conveyed also the message of the Gita. the final match if you see meaning don't expect the results you do your part and that has been masterfully dramatized bringing in the new wisdom in a real understandable way otherwise when you keep reciting these verses you don't understand them but when When you see such things practically being demonstrated, it touches your heart and I must congratulate Amir Khan for producing such a I would say many award-winning and I pray that he wins and wins and wins. [Music] You're clapping. You guys have been clapping non-stop and I didn't want to stop you and spoiled your fun. How many times do you watch movies anyway? So enjoy it and I can go on speaking but Amir himself share his views also. Well you know uh Daji this film has been a really learning journey for me as well. Originally it's a Spanish film called Champions and when Prasana the director of the film and Dia the writer of the film they showed me the original and they narrated the adaptation because culturally we adapted to Indian context. First time when I experienced it I just fell in love with it. I felt you know the film is saying so many hidden things in small small ways and it is teaching us just to be better human beings. It is teaching us to be more loving. It is teaching us to be less judgmental. It is teaching us to be happy you know and so many things were in this film that I was so drawn to it. And uh I remember this process of starting the film making the film started uh a few years ago and a lot of my well-wishers told me that you know nowadays action films are doing well and people only want to watch action films in theaters so perhaps you should not make this film. Yes sir. Yeah. Why don't you make an action film? So I was dissuaded from by people who are close to me who were concerned about me and they were saying something quite practical. They were not wrong in what they were saying. But I'm not a practical person. Gi what happens to me is that when I come across a story which just touches my heart very deeply and I feel that this is something I must share with everyone what I have felt what I have experienced it's very important for me to share it with everyone until I do that I cannot do anything else so I could not do anything else I was unable despite the best of advice given to me I was unable to do anything else until this story which had got into my bloodstream I had to bring it out of me you know so I'm so happy that the way I felt when I first experienced this material and the script I'm seeing today after 2 weeks of the film in theaters all of the audiences are reacting exactly how I reacted when I experienced the original so it makes me so happy that you know we have successfully touched the hearts of so many Indians and this is a topic which is very close to my heart. I think you know one of the biggest strengths that we have as human beings is love, forgiveness, understanding and empathy. And this film teaches us all those four things. So, so I'm so happy that this film has connected so deeply with audiences across the country, across the world actually. And it it really tells us that as human beings, this is what we really love. This is what we really want, you know, to feel joyful, to feel connected, to be able to uh to be able to offer something to people, you know, and that is the emotion that this film brings out. In fact, I would say that in many ways, you know, the film u resonates with the heartfulness way. Definitely what what what is taught by you DiS you know which is very much following the heartfulness. Yes. See I tell you one of the most fundamental principles of heart pundas practices. We have shown time and again various actors here where afraid of taking bath. One of them yourself lift afraid of the lift others afraid of so many everyone had a background. So in heartfulness we do believe that every thought inculcated by your parents their behavior also what you face from the world it impresses you. It designs you in some way. It makes you think in certain way. It makes you feel in certain way. Your new normal keeps changing all the time. reality is evaded. So we have to move away from what the normal is according to the world. I have to create my own real world from inside. And that's where the samscaras we talk about in heartfulness. Sanscaras are nothing but residues of your consciousness that is affected by your own personal actions or others actions on you. And we tried to get rid of it somehow. In the movie you have shown either you face them or develop the understanding to erase those samscars. Then the fear will go. See it has the whole thing. I would say I would not be able to make such a movie but you did. You have created a movie that reflects the paka philosophy of heartfulness. They say thank you. I'm so happy to hear that. I'm so happy to [Applause] you know I would love to hear from one of you all or some any of you all who have any questions or comments I would love to hear. So from from Cayamat to Cayamat Tak. This journey we all have been your companion and when the industry launched you in cayamatak you were compared with the flamboyant superstar Rajesh Khana's glamour and from that time now when we see this movie the depth of emotion the depth of sentiments which you have portrayed head certainly reminds us of the great Guru Dut who played with emotions so well and conveyed the meaning of various kinds to society. It's a great thing. We all are so proud that we lived in a time when you are the actor, you are the creator that's thank you so much. Thank you Abir. Amazing movie beyond what sir says and what I've seen so far almost every movie irrespective of emotion depth this common theme was competitiveness Joja Viand and even this dangal it was quite competitive yeah dangal how competitive you are in personal life beyond of course movie industry is very competitive and what drives you to always pick a team which has to end with winning. Well, you know, I have to say that I am a very competitive person by nature. Uh but I don't think I have that quality of negative competition. I just love it when I see good work and even if that good work is not done by me, if it is done by somebody else, I am unable to stop myself from gushing about it. That's how I am. I like to learn from people and the only person I'm competing with if I am it is with myself and so for me at the end of the day you know it is uh if you want to win anything or you want to win over it should be done with love with love you can you know uh win anyone over is what I believe so that's how I look at competitiveness Miss Namaste. I have a very interesting story. You asked about this. I used to play a lot of tennis. Di as a kid I was very fond of sports and I used to play a lot of tennis about 5 hours of tennis and I was pretty good at it. So I used to be ranked in Maharashtra subjuniors and when I used to come home uh I my mother is a very strong influence on me. So when I used to come home she used to ask me what happened did you win? Did you lose during the tournaments? She used to be waiting for me and whenever I came home she would be the first person to open the door and she would say and usually I used to win. So my answer used to be I won. She would get very happy. She would give me a hug and then we would sit down. My mom has always been very fond of tea. So we used to have tea together. I'm talking of I must have been 11 12 that time. That was my age, 11, 12. So one day I came home and she asked me uh did you win or lose? I said I won. She was very happy. She gave me a hug. We sat down to have tea and while having tea just as if she was talking to or thinking to herself she started saying she said you know the boy who lost to you today he must have reached home now and his mother would have asked him the same question I asked you and he would have told his mother that I lost. So that boy's mother must be feeling very bad right now. When she conveyed that to me, it hit me so strongly. Di must have been 11 or 12. Suddenly I was thinking it. How is it possible that my mother, she has not even seen that boy, she does not know his name. How is it she's thinking about his mother and I have just you know won a match of tennis but I have not thought of all those things. So from that day onwards that that was the biggest lesson my mother taught me that you may win but you must think of the other person the person who has lost to you your thoughts should be with that person your emotions should be with that person and that was the biggest lesson of my life I think since after that suddenly I felt did I make a mistake by winning but more importantly she taught me the lesson that we are all human beings. The next time I played a tournament and I looked at my opponent who was also 11, 12 years old like me, my whole viewpoint changed. Suddenly I was looking at his eyes. Suddenly he was a human being. He was not an opponent. He he ceased to be an opponent after that. I still tried my best. I still played my best. But the emotion was quite different I think. So you know that's my thoughts on competitiveness actually. Lovely. Namaskar. Gajendra Gajendra. That's all. Uncle Heartfulness. Third. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are all grateful the heartfulness family to pour down the essence of our heritage in a very simple way uh through movie visual graphics very powerful dialogues and it touches our hearts and we and we are thankful for recognizing heartfulness and we do appreciate that. Thank you. Thank thank you Taj. Thank you. Thank you. And I really appreciate the work that you've been doing, your team has been doing in bringing uh you know so much peace, happiness and joy to so many people across the world, me included. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Applause] [Music]