I am not Amitabh Bachchan or Shahrukh Khan , I know , I am Darshan Dave and believe you me I am as happy being myself as you are being you.....
khud ka project banata to hai par usse faayda kya hota hai ?, kitna kama leta hai usse ? , serials mein dikh kyun nahi raha ?, kaam nahin mil raha kya ? wapas kyun nahin aa jata apne home town ?.... mom has to answer such questions when I am locked in my studio learning and creating things for months ......and that too for a guy who has successfully worked in this industry for more than 15 years till date ...... I can imagine what others go through ......
This is not how industry works plz understand , our work is not how potatoes or cars or flats are sold for margins and profits , it is an inherent skill, several times I have seen several people from other walks of life getting inspired by artists , hiring teachers for their children for dance or singing or guitar and eventually those guitars and dancing shoes lie on the rack for ever.....it's not that easy , you all must have experienced ....., it is not a "Munaafe ka dhanda " for which you will buy talent in whole sale and sell it to the industry with some profit ..... we don't sit on the same chair all our lives , we don't follow orders , we don't walk on streets without getting noticed , people buy tickets to watch artists on stage and theatres , they buy subscriptions to watch us on TV , they are kind enough to request us for photographs and our teachers , all relatives and neighbours watch and remember us all the time by god's grace ..... BUT yes we don't know when and for how much our next potato will sell .......
Since there are no exams , papers , promotions or targets , the only thing that we have to do in our profession is ......keep loving our work..... it's people's job to sell you ..... so never ask an artist , to kya mil jata hai itni mehnat karke ,..artist ka kaam dukaan kholna nahin sirf create karna hai , dukaan apne aap chal nikalti hai agar aapki bhasha mein samjhaun to , humein har maal ki MRP yaad nahin rakhni padti... first he has an inherent skill which happens by luck and second it's his passion which money can never buy , madness to be locked in rooms and practice and create for years without getting bogged down by monitory pressure is not everybody's cup of tea, professionals can be made , artists are born , those who are born as artists , don't try to create , it gets created and what drives you to create is love for creation not money , you compose a song because you loved the feel of the notes , it's creation , when you churn out a song for the market , you steal beg borrow and survive on those who create.
So plz stop asking such questions out of ignorance, we earn and we can survive for long , if we don't set out with our office laptop every morning or sit in the same cabin every morning doing the same work ....we are not starving , understand had he been at the mercy of buyers every morning and sitting all his life facing almost similar clients and challenges doing the same job, he would not have had enough honesty to be able to create things that he loves making...... you don't get standing ovation , get invited as chief guests , loved unconditionally by people and have the power to affect people by your presence by having a conventional concept of security and growth..... so never talk like a paav bhaaji wala and kulfi wala ki itne ka maal kitne mein bika with an artist , all their lives I have seen painters and poets sit in their rooms and created without expecting much , Ghalib had all his life lived in poverty and today he is taught in the universities , I have seen painters in my building on the ground floor getting up early everyday and painting without knowing if it would ever sell ..... that power to be creating , putting your skill , talent and heart on a canvas and not knowing if it would ever be sold makes someone Picasso , else you end up making hoardings for ads.....you have to be a superhuman to practice practice and create locked in rooms to be able to have the impact strong enough one day that you make people jump off their seats and give you a standing ovation and for an artist that one day of glory is enough for a lifetime , don't equate it with your increments and turnovers ...... even if you could sell your potatoes more than his songs or paintings....
You might feel money has power, he is different , he himself has the power..... it is the same as hiring a bodyguard for safety and being powerful yourself ......, your value is your money, you have to roll in it all the time guarding and grabbing it , he will never lose his power, a businessman or corporate guy may always question what an actor or singer gets in terms of money , but had that been the primary concern he would have never become an artist, in our line you cannot do anything to earn money , that is the crux of my career till date, YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO EARN MONEY , people offer you if they can earn money through you so in our lives we don't think of earning money , we think of being that worthy , so you sound utterly ignorant when you think that we are also sitting on a footpath trying to sell our songs..... reality is we work for our satisfaction and fun , it entertains other , and if it does , other people generate money on those skills , and so do we but if we stop working for our own pleasure , this process doesn't even start ..... and we also will need to sell potatoes .... so I am not trying to demean anyone just trying to explain that there are different things that give you high ..... you can't be an artist and I don't want to be you .....
Once a very dear colleague Late Mr. Narendra Jha mentioned about a teacher of his town who just to poke asked him , humne to suna hai actors ko wo koi Filmfare.... oscar milta hai aapka aisa koi mamla baitha nahin kya ab tak ? ..... and Narendra ji came up with an amazing answer ...... he said " Sir har saal 400 teachers ko Bharat sarkaar best kaam ke liye award deti hai , to aapka maamla baitha nahin kya ab tak ??? " So if you are a businessman and you ask me ki kya kar raha hai ye sab gaana bajana, is sab se Shahrukbh Khan to ban nahin jaega to plz check if your surname is Ambani ...... else don't make a fool of yourself...... in one interview Urmila Matondkar had expressed that people feel like celebrities by degrading celebrities and feel special by not making skilled people feel special although they don't even understand that at least you know them to plan that you will avoid them or degrade them , they did not even know you to know you did that ....... so I , Darshan Dave , am not a celebrity but as an artist I think I would never want to have your money and your chair , as it will take me another birth to understand why you are doing what you do ..... you ask about my achievement not because you are seeing me in a bad position , you are just doing it to bring attention to what you are doing and I don't even have time to know that kyunki ab naya gaana ban raha hai .... :)
jin logon ko bhi mere is article mein attitude dikha ho , main unse haath jod ke maafi chahta hoon par I really wanted to say this...... because several behave really funny.
