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The Humility of a Great Actor Happy Birthday Mr Danny Denzongpa

My Mentor Guru and Guiding Light

Evergreen personality Mr Danny Denzongpa.

 

People get knowledge reading books joining powrful groups clubs.

 

I got mine at the feet of Mr Danny Denzongpa.

 

36 years of nonstop learning he became the character I became the man clothing the character.. I began to think like the character he was to play.. I would visualize his accessories running around Chor Bazar.

I would source his fabrics get them vegetable hand washed hand dyed aged and it was not just the actor but the director adding his views so it was Late Mr Mukul S Anand and the look of Khudagawah my contacting late Karim Lalas kids for the original safas kulas from Swat his sandles hand made Inna village of North West Frontier.

So I learnt..

Every role Dannyji played was a challenge as a designer for me Army was his look that he liked very much and here two weeks went to put it on his body the dress and the drape.

Barsat Pukar Ghayal Ghatak with Mr Raj Kumar Santoshiji my director Guru pleasing him was never easy he could sometimes be a bigger taskmaster than Dannyji.

 

I would watch the trials make up and go deep into the character and this one actor Mr Danny Denzongpa made me complete.

He got rid of my rough edges.

 

There were times when everyone left he would talk to me on Spirituality on Life on Art Sciences I would listen avidly.

I would listen to the flute of the Master in silence..

He is a Buddhist I am a Muslim but it did not matter I had done kar Seva at Leh Ladakh with the Tibetan refugees.

His Holiness Dalai Lama sent me his biography and thanking me for my love for the Tibetan people.

On my birthday last year Mrs Danny presented me a Lama dress as I find spiritual solace in it.

 

I told Dannyji in some future time to help me join a Tibetan monastery to control and manage my anger.

 

In my life I worked with a lot of actors but in my life it was Mr Danny Denzongpa who made me from inside what I am.

 

I learnt my art my craft under him and it all started in 1986 with the making of Boxer.. a film directed by Mr Raj Dadhoo Sippy..

 

I have worked on two of his under production films too.

 

Dannyji for me is reality and folklore.

 

 

Happy Birthday Mr Danny Denzongpa

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Uploaded on October 25, 2018
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