Beyond the Curtains !!

Recently, I came across this real-life documentary film by Mira Nair called "Indian Cabaret", based on an era when cabaret dancers were living a dual life in Mumbai. Though Mumbai has always been perceived as a progressive city, one can clearly state that back then, this city was still struggling with liberalism approach and open-mindedness. Prejudices about the cabaret dancers and their mysterious, dark life were strong as ever. But, above all this, what I realised is that there will always be things which are not being told, seen or experienced but still be there, like the cabaret dancers. You might not have seen them but couldn't deny their existence. Such things are impeccable in their own ways. There is always a space, an array of canvas to be specific, beyond our perception. There are whole new sunrises, sunsets, moonlights and universes we haven't seen or heard of or experienced and explored. We will always be amazed to know that such things even exist. Things that stood still in all extremes, which survived against all odds. Acceptance does not define such things and such things do not need the approval. This might sound fiction to us but in reality, such are the things that keep us going, just as the inspirational determination of a Cabaret dancer to love her profession beyond all prejudices. we spend all of our lives staring at the curtains on our windows but hardly bother to push them aside and open the window. Once those thin curtains of presumptions are aside, it will teach us to look beyond the usual, it will make us flow and if we are lucky enough it will make us free to soar beyond the curtains !! 

"Kinaare" by Mohan Kanan !!