We all have a GABBAR SINGH in our life, who in reality is not as bad and menacing as he looks. It’s just that we’ve never seen the other side of him. The GABBAR we have in our life is perhaps playing just a role.. he is there to teach us “Jo dar gaya, samjho mar gaya.”

Each of us also has a THAKUR in our life, whose past, whose world, whose other side we don’t know.. because we never bothered to find out. How sad.

And of course each of us has a JAI or a VEERU in our life, who we deeply love and who will leave us one day.. for good. And that’s a lesson for us to value our friends and the people we love while they are still alive. Go tell the people you love that you love them before their GABBAR fires on them. Life happens in one continuous take; THERE-ARE-NO-RETAKES.

The only difference between REEL-LIFE Sholay and REAL-LIFE Sholay is that in the second version we are the actors, we are the script-writers and we are the directors and producers.

And so often we forget all that and we live our life as if life is “happening” to us and we are simply the audience!