Shashank Arora
With this actor, it’s a fascinating yet unfathomable conjecture the path he might take next. Despite his well-known, rumbustious mockery of all kinds of masks he sees around him & his courage to keep tearing the masks off his own face that could have allotted his tempestuous talent a space within the film industry a long time ago, despite his lightning-quick ability, when needed, to dash through, but also his gift to slow down, nuance, stretch & spread the time of those moments when we begin to reveal ourselves to our own eyes, he remains secreted in his own being.
His boisterous, irrepressible élan remains strangely coiled in a mystical intoxication, almost as though he’s spellbound by his own reverie of the world. His performances often evoke dreamlike rhythms, not really held by the gravity of our familiar world. His gestures are at times so quick that the emotion is not something expressed but created in the space around him. And, at times, the voluptuous unfolding from one posture to another is like watching a tree touched by the wind – it remains unmoving, but everything about it moves. I believe there’s an exceptional adventure that this actor is going to take us on – an adventure not only journeying through human emotions, but into the deeper cosmos within us where the blaze of our life takes on incandescent forms, rhapsodic, manifold, some momentary & others endlessly lingering, and always indeterminable. It is like Parvati’s dance of creation, where joy takes shape in the immediate apprehension of the life-affirming possibilities of what is to come into being.
Many joyous returns of the day, Shashank, and may you return for us with many more joyous performances.
Anup Singh is a renowned and awarded film director. His films include #Qissa and #The SongofScorpions
Star cast for The Song of Scorpions include: Irrfan Khan, Golshifteh Farahani, Waheeda Rehman, Sashank Arora
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Ankahi. Unsaid. 