Saturday, February 14, 2015

Shalini Kumar


It was the first time they were shooting together. On the sets of Amarkalam, directed by Sharan, the first scene being shot had Ajit, in anger, flinging a knife.

As it happened, he flung it dangerously close to co-star Shalini, close enough to inflict a skin wound. Ajit panicked. But Shalini, throughout, remained calm. Ajit was to say later it was this cool, composed manner of hers that first attracted him to her, made him take notice of her.

Shalini's father Babu said later that it was a good omen -- though one wonders whether too many romances have begun with one party throwing a knife at another and drawing blood, albeit accidentally.

Then again, these are not ordinary people we are talking about here. Take, first, Shalini, object of Ajit's undisguised adoration. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalini_Kumar 
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Shalini+Kumar

Ajith Says "My state of mind, for quite a while, has been unsettled," says Ajit. "There was the problem with my back, the break-up of my earlier relationship, my films were flopping... I was very unsettled. My life has been a bit like a river -- starting small, tumbling over rocks, finally growing as it nears the plains, all the time searching for a peaceful end in the big ocean..."


That mindset was what attracted him to Shalini in the first place. As he puts it, "She is only 20, but she has this aura of calm composure. On the sets, she is quiet, very hardworking, very respectful to her seniors... and with all that, she has this very endearing smile..." 

Ajit, meanwhile, is aware his life is about to change again. "A friend once showed me a poem," he recalls. "In it, the girl is described, by a friend, as beautiful. She replies, 'I am not beautiful -- it is my lover's vision of me that is beautiful.' I think I am like that. I am not personally a very good or handsome or wonderful guy, but Shalini's vision of me is. And from now on, I am going to be the Ajit that Shalini visualises -- a calm, composed human being at peace with himself and his world.' 


Also See
http://sevenhillsinformation.blogspot.com/2015/02/ajith.html