Sailing through Hardships.
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and
achievers here and a beautiful crowd
like you
it’s a privilege first of all and i will
thank each and everybody
for that
we have heard many people saying about
their experiences
about how to win life i have not read it
but experienced it and i would like to
share my experience
so to start off with my father was an
actor
his name was mr surir he was an amrit
shuri of kanna film industry
and i was a pampered kid so i started my
life
with all the happiness and all the glory
so if you see me you can still see the
pampering
so
it was like that for me so my father was
more than a father
he was like a friend to me so uh
my interaction with my mother was very
minimal
to be very precise for around eight nine
years i would not speak to her
i would just say mom i want lunch dinner
so this was the minimal talking with me
and my mother
the maximum thing i would spend my time
with is my father so he was so
into me and i would do anything and
everything for my father to make him
feel proud
so this was my journey and we were very
happy family
myself my father my mother my brother
and everything was moving
fantastic fantastic to her but at one
point of time
when trouble comes it will come in
bundles
so one day my
house got robbed they took away all the
gold
silver everything which was in my house
okay it’s cool my father is there he’ll
earn it out again is what he said
exactly one week after that he had an
accident in an action sequence
so we had to put him into the hospital
so here like he was in an icu
for eight days for the whole eight days
i was beside him i did not go anywhere
it was just there for him to wake up and
say yes i am okay
so on the eighth day the doctor tells me
he is responding to the
treatment very well so you don’t have to
worry about it in another
15 15 or 20 minutes you can take a bath
will shift into the
general ward my mom comes and she tells
from eight days you are here
you have not even take a shower why
don’t you go home take a shower
come properly your father will be happy
when he sees you
so i said okay i went home
i took a shower i came back to the
hospital
as soon as i stepped into the hospital
the doctor said
your father is no more so
like for the eight days i was waiting
for my father to just see me the moment
i left the hospital
he has come to his consciousness he
spoke to my mom
he spoke to my brother but i was
unfortunate enough
that he could not speak to me so that
was the thing
which made me so angry
so that i
here we had to pay the bills in that
days
it was the most expensive hospital where
we had treated him
so it was around eight to ten lakhs at
that point of time
so all the cash was put into the
hospital
my house got robbed of everything so
myself my mom and my brother
were literally monsters because the
earning member of my family is normal
so this was the situation i got so angry
and i went into a shell i don’t drink
i don’t do any other things but i became
an emotional eater
emotional eating is like a disorder
where
whenever you get angry whenever you get
sad whenever you get
any emotions you try to eat just eat eat
eat
i would eat two biryanis now and again
if i
feel depressed another 15 minutes i
could have another biryani
because your brain stops telling you
that that is enough
so this was my case and my weight went
on to
253 kilos yes i’m not lying
that is me as you could see so 253 kilos
a depressed man in my own house my
mother took the initiative
to run the home so she did a small drama
company
known as karnataka which went from
one place to another place drawing shows
collecting money and making sure that
her birth kids was
comfortable it is not so easy ladies and
gentlemen
for a mother or a woman
was lost her husband and was doing shows
in
villages people see in a different
perspective
for two years she suffered that and i
was in my own
groove and shed i did not know what to
do
one day i gave a call to my mom asking
how she was
and that made me feel that it was not
right
so i went back to my mom i was in
theaters
i did all the theater work right from
music direction
acting everything i did for eight years
then it stuck to me that people are
forgetting my father’s name
because you represent your name your
family’s name your father’s name
so that struck me like i want that name
it should not perish so i came back to
film industry
as a junior artist inspired my father
being a legend in karna film industry
take it from me there is no shortcut to
success
there is absolutely no shortcut to
success
after my father was being a legend also
i was working as a junior artist
i was getting the roles which were
thrown away or which was
not so important so i used to get the
trolls
i used to do it but still i was
struggling because
you’re a big fat man and whatever role
will come to you because
people think that fair people and
people who do not look good or stupid
that is the conception
so i would be eating something i would
be falling somewhere i would try to
learn
and people used to laugh at me
what is this why do you see me like that
why don’t you see my talent then
i got my mentor which is mr sudeep
he’s a very big star in south india he
you must have seen him in davao
tree as a wheel so he called me one day
and he said
i came to know the idea what are you
doing here
i said sir i’m a junior artist he said
what are you earning i said 750 rupees
per day
he said why do you do this so i asked
what should i do
he said come into direction do a
technical field it will help you out
i took his advice he was directing a
film then
i went and joined as an assistant
but it did not show me because his team
and my
uh i did not get together
so after five to ten days i came back i
did not work with mrs
i went around asking for job everything
i did but nothing was working
nothing absolutely nothing was working
and every time i used to go and ask for
a job
seeing my appearance people would think
look at him how can he do a job how can
how can you give a job to a person who
is like 250 kilos
they do not mind whether you have a
talent
they do not mind your appearances is big
for them
so i i had to go and beg for job and ask
my ask my friend to recommend me i used
to go and tell so please tell me you
know my job
please tell them please recommend them
to give me a job that hurt me so much
that hurt me so much i broke down
i said no yeah this is not happening let
me
end it let me end it and
to be very precise i’m i’m telling you
i thought of committing suicide so i was
sleeping on my bed
looking at the fan and thinking that
okay now if i hang myself
will this fan hold 250 kilos
yeah this is what was going in my mind
because you don’t know
so who is going to take care of me so
this was running in my mind
then at about 4 35 i decided
okay let me give it a try at the same
time it may be
my father’s blessing or a coincidence my
brother
came into my room and he said ananda can
you drop me till
the ground i want to go for cricket
practice
was not so good i was having a smoke
then one voice came
what are you doing my uncle i said who
is this so again i saw mrs
he said what yeah what is your problem i
said i need work
he said i gave you and you will not
revise it so the team you work with
you will never be successful yeah if you
had told me i would have not have
that flaw but he said then he gave me a
work as an assistant director
from assistant director i became an
associate director from associate
director i became a director
and in my journey i gave this is my
seventh film and
i have given five blockbuster hits in
canada film industry
because i would like to tell there is no
shortcuts to success
and nothing will come into your life
nothing will play
a role of mentoring you or nothing see
you have to push yourself
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when when you start your work there will
be a lot of hurdles
there will be a lot of hurdles so every
time i see people trying to
telling me that
i’m not very good looking man he’s so
beautiful
he’s talented he’s doing that he’s doing
this
don’t see a problem as a problem try to
get around it and find a solution
because every man is born to do and
achieve greater things in life
it is not that you are restricted they
say
there are two kind of people one or
things inside the box
and the another one who thinks outside
the box i said who created this box man
break it break the box and be yourself
so lot of things like this has come into
my life
it has been a roller coaster i’ve seen
the peaks of success
i’ve seen failures also
because when you are successful when you
are successful you have to be grounded
you have to be very grounded is what i
have learned
otherwise it will take it will take to
your head
the two people in our industry
who could there are there are two things
either you should digest success or push
permit success
the greatest person who could digest
success and success
and who could maintain his dignity is mr
amitabh
and the second person who could vomit
and be so simple
and be slowed down to earth as mr
rajneem
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so be grounded because when success
comes to you
it lot of troubles it brings
so much ego it brings lot of things
for example like i was
listening to captain’s speech he was
so proud in telling like how soldiers
like protect us yes definitely and
it is very great that we have such a
soldiers such
pure-hearted people without any
fear of death face
opposition or enemies for us and another
another another person whom i would like
to
bring in our farmers who like day and
night
do their job to feed us so when when
in the industry i would like to tell
that we should respect in this part
when people were going through a lot of
troubles a lot of troubles
who came to our rescue who came to our
rescue
it is our own courage it is our own
will to survive so where there is a will
there is a name so we should we should
push ourselves
we should teach ourselves and we should
tell ourselves
that nothing is impossible in this life
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of your life so this is the
thing what keeps me going on from
one point to the other point another
point to the other point
so i started my journey i had my
downfall
i became super obese 253 kilos
then today if i’m standing here my
weight will be around 180
18 kilos 118 so i have shut down around
232 kilos to be very precise
so this is the journey which motivates
mine like my own strength
so i would like to pass it on to you
telling that you are all unique people
i don’t know some of the biggest
celebrities are sitting here some of the
biggest
achievers are sitting here every
so i would like to tell never let
yourself down
never think like your personality or
your appearances
is going to make any difference it is
your talent it is your belief
it is your courage it is your will which
is going to take you there
so always keep telling that nothing is
impossible to me
definitely i am going to be the winner
and you will be the winner
so this is how i keep myself motivated
so i think if my small
talk if there is any mistakes please
forgive me