It had been a very busy year and equally boring. I didn’t get to enjoy my summer holidays also. I was trying to focus on my studies and had also joined one of the best tutorials in Bangalore. Though I was not scoring very well, I was atleast trying to. It was all because of my dismal performance in 1st year that I had completely lost confidence.
Life went on in the same manner till I finished my mid-term exams. Life was very mechanical and boring again. I had decided not to join the theatre workshop this time as my parents were totally against it. But as they say, “Man proposes but God disposes”.
One morning when I was walking in the corridor of the college, I met the then Principal of my college, Mr.Sheshadri iyengar. He was a great theatre artist himself and after my performance as Vidushaka, I was his favorite student because the role of Vidushaka was his first performance too. He suddenly asked me whether I had joined the workshop this time. My answer was in negative. He then persuaded me to join the workshop. I was flattered when Mr.Iyengar himself was asking me to join the workshop as people who know him would also know how unfriendly he can be. I respected him a lot and did not want to say no to him and I joined the workshop even in my 2nd year.
This time, I did not inform my parents about me joining the workshop. I didn’t know how ominous this decision will be. The new director, Mr.Joseph from Kerala was selected this time and we decided to do a play written by Shakespeare called “As You like It” and I took up the role of a villain this time. Everyone in the group was junior to me and I was the leader of the whole group. Another friend, Adesh sometimes used to pitch in but he was not into acting this time.
I had to suffer academically this time around because I had to face the board exams. I had bunked my classes at college and at tutorials and had only 18% attendance. Though I did not have any problems with the college, it had a huge impact at my house and my parents were very angry on me. It was a big drama at tutorials also and eventually I somehow participated again in the competition and again won the “best role in the group” award.
My teachers were very sure that I will not get through the exams that year but fortunately I scraped through and could manage a decent percentage in the board exams with a CET rank which got me into a mediocre Engineering college.
Finally the drama had ended and I came out of a huge pressure but stopped all my Theatricals in my engineering. Though I had selected a Branch with no or very little future prospects in Engineering, I somehow could manage to get into one of the biggest IT Service companies of India, Infosys technologies as a software engineer where I have been working from past 1 year and 9 months and which I will be quitting this weekend.
At the end of this post, I would like to thank Mr.Naresh Mayya and Mr.Sheshadri Iyengar, the two main people who changed the course of my life, gave me an identity and helped me to recognize my talent.
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