analogous to be honest I am professors
as nice and very Provost I have except
that I am gonna start something not so
nice I do believe they you are honestly
it’s kind of bordering on being is not
any less fashionable the school of
cynics bigoted people who not I on a
dressing it up in the table when you
found twisted isms people are different
races please others religious and
otherwise one might ask of us life I
think my speech my talk with such are
not so nice topic uncertain organized
not we lose all faith and become free we
don’t give received in a in negativity
Lancer is no reduction but you sure need
to know the ground reality that are
invalid only then do you think of your
way of always way of counting this each
week a way of reaching barriers which
given the current climate is much needed
in all the earth
and walks of life society and that is
precisely what students had job
University to they push the boundaries
they preach the very and that is why
it’s so much fun to be here every time
every single time I can align myself
with the way most people in here
people as they do here should argue
debate discuss openly something that’s
becoming a rarity increasingly in the
best was before the default it doesn’t
really bother me anymore
do not repeat on which area I was a
little faster indeed because I’m so
festive to speak from personal
experiences I had to turn to my own life
and I realized I’ve done and actually
don’t a number of things to heart in my
life of purpose and some of them
actually let me pick loved the way they
come I have been quite rebellious and
it’s one way I have back so I push
I’m most afraid I’ll find out that I
want to be humble I’m gonna talk about a
few of those thing for that time
see the thing about phrases like
breaking barriers putting two types
pushing the envelope stopping period no
no no is the other while ago when I
walked in so the dynamics of the line
that they finally imported how much
power for a struggle as if I were a man
so will I you know during my in my
travel period in my doing my struggling
days I did this and that I wrote about
everything but the thing is when you are
actually up against something we’re not
actually up again tasks you send them
realize it you’re just doing it in peace
of course there are no sleepless nights
okay to the bouts of depression son
anger when you hit major
roadblocks on the way to achieving after
achieving I would say on the way to on
the way to your destination I would say
but then that’s gonna be there all your
life that’s another thing about the real
world at all your trials never end
because at different stages in your life
you’re dealing with different duties
personal and professional aspirations
and at different levels now I started
acting very young when I was 18 when I
had no clue what I wanted to do I was
studying and I was fairly good at it and
kept doing that alongside acting for the
first few years I actually wants to do a
film makeup but my entry to this world
have post-college roots right I kept on
working as an actor my father passed
away two kalyana now I needed money and
realized that it did and I pushed back
my plans over to the penis treatment
accorded I kept working in between well
a fairly big young Bengali television
star huh
I’m surprising everyone in 2006 I
pretended like in your few good films
started happening at that time the bomb
collection release fountain I released
along with a few other films and got the
faxes deserve all the pain I was
thinking of becoming a name to reckon
with in the zone of voltage that is
Bengali cinema but guess what I even
surprised myself with this one I applied
for a scholarship for a master’s degree
in the UK look at both the scholarship
and the university and I left her
English to conceive a one and a half
year master’s course in filmmaking
leaving everyone girl friends pure
goodness everyone why did my mother by
my mom absolutely stunned so everyone
thought I was top rating Matt will be
leading a career on the up straight for
this and for a master’s degree but you
know what I guess I needed to breathe
easier to be a little more confident and
complete needed to see a little more of
the world that’s the reason why I ended
that was important at that point in time
again steps can be done as breeding
ponds barrier on some level but that
sabbatical indeed was life-changing it
rains more than one and I returned
planning to make more things make more
things and act less actually
but creating these has something stored
for you once I returned all the big fish
so-called victims of mine for which most
people knew me Judy Kanani and vices
travel and M locket how about those
everything started happening after that
once I returned and I cannot mess with
the flow
again but I also had to make my own
movies so I did start making films as
well it’s meat seven years since I
returned from England and I’ve been
balancing acting and making films and
now also producing trying to produce
some exciting content for the internet
and hopefully for the biggest screen as
well in the future and this brings me to
the biggest challenge the biggest
barrier that I’ve had to deal with so
far you know the film industry in our
country especially the regional ones the
smaller ones like ours with a college of
industry next you can will be insulated
you know it’s kind of almost incestuous
in some way it tries to categorize you
it kind of you know it depends a lot
everything there’s a lot of mutual
affiliation at the same time alright so
what I’m trying to say is this industry
tries to categorize you to figure you
out to graphic you have some bracket to
label you not being able to do so who
makes people it has to be very very very
uncomfortable and I think you relabeled
or bracketed and I say as an
intellectual you know I really wish I
was I was the end percent of the
intellectually made me know and I really
wished I was intellectual at least 10%
of what I wanted to be biggest maybe put
them at the damn gate return nothing
news to show people in like you know the
lower podium but not lower higher but at
least like making and others but for me
I think the use of this term for me it
makes me feel like that it’s an insult
to the true intellectual in the world
so you know my opportunity the steps
I’ve taken in my life so far
my multitasking my addition ships
starting with added movement in
everything is mangled up when I was all
of my tea my hand points and man
domestic without a two letters to
the odd characters like the recent
closet transgender instrumental of our
creativity Luda and making it inhabits
today’s world the two sons of the town
at least an attempt all of this I’m
pretty sure has contributed towards this
level dispatch and let me tell you an
otherwise perfectly happy with it as
long as I see the Precision’s of my
audience and rich and I’m really
fortunate about this I do my clientele
might not be as biggest the 4.0 watches
but the plankton that is there for the
type of film that I do there are very
very loyal lot I really believe in that
and I’m really really put them I think
of myself as a true group in going and
if there are any good qualities in me
most of them I owe to my identity as a
Bengali but I must also admit that a
large section of Bengali still find
themselves rather uncomfortable with the
idea of being hyper active practice
being enterprising seeing a multitasker
and the one precision when I get to hear
the most these days about me is why does
he need to do some anything why can’t we
concentrate on one white are the movers
our team one thing at a time I think
this also comes from not being able to
figure it individual out I feel and my
question is I can do all of it with a
certain amount of quality in all that on
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so what’s your go don’t get me wrong I’m
very fond of my my fine touch to quote
my colleague find us to people but again
I’ll reiterate that you need to be aware
of the realities who are living this you
are dealing with and the barriers that
you are trying to breathe
we just appearing after I or someone
like me and it just be like the one that
I work in I have to deal with
hence this topic and these points it’s
the training
now the question remains why do I have
to do so anything how do I say this it’s
the creative or something more something
else that keeps private you could
probably pick up that way actually and
I’m not necessarily talking of money or
pain here although I will mind any of
that like a lot more money the more pain
would have thought that but what is more
important is another way to express
another way to contribute if I may say
so another means of exploring this
abstract matrix matrix like domain that
connects the heart the mind the society
the people that we often call art very
simple journey so far has been quite
crazy with this do share of success and
failure but it’s also good it’s really
great and good when you know standing at
36 I feel all you become eventually
starts with what you grew up with and
I’ve been extremely fortunate with that
my father was thought about done young
man
high humble happy with little a
fantastic musician who never thought of
making money of them with art but became
a journalist or his life and shame on a
deep believer in God but his own version
of God nothing institutional
a God that he inherited
from the winner my mother has no filter
bleach a family of writers as well
authors social activists with very very
strong socialist leanings together that
they gave me and in business and
environment which resonated with the
finest of international and Bengali
thoughts and ideas and most importantly
an open liberal environment climate both
of them they came from very very humble
backgrounds and also led a very simple
sometimes even difficult life but there
was no dearth of literature cinema and
music never I was never told to become
anything they were the ones who grew
very dispersed by getting married
without any support or it’s from their
respective parents or the families they
did it and they almost really penniless
tea absolutely they got to decide to get
married and they did and the be
happening without any support from
anybody with the unlimited means they
lived a very very happy life heredity
today I would think they also broke
barriers by realizing that their son
needed to eat nutritious food and hence
any taboos against any kind of me shall
not be allowed yes you got that right
not even I can see I’m sorry if I’m not
entering try to tend to people with
apologies for them but yes that’s the
environment that’s the Kolkata that the
India I grew up it’s from them that I
thought perspectives of the world and
the country that we live in the India
that was one ambition and another threat
now if I broken any barriers in my life
because I adapted from any as I said
between increases yearning to pass
I wish sometimes everyone for being dead
on this journey and for being here today
for tolerating this rather personally
for hearing it out for getting me out
and I haven’t been here to be mad men
fighting over here today it’s truly an
honor
I wish you all the very best with
everything that we want through lady
whisper in your life and I wish that you
wish me luck – but everything that I
wish to do in my path that lies ahead
thank you [Applause]