Amma, I wanna be a movie star :D
"Amma, ummm I think I wanna be a movie star". If I'd ever had mustered up every little ounce of courage within me to walk up to my mommy dearest and say those 10 words right on her face - it would have been nothing short of permanent banishment or a life time premium membership to a shrink or an episode of hardcore Bolly-Tolly-Molly-and-SandalWood melodrama(SandalWood is the kannada film industry those who never knew). I do not hail from a family that thinks Mohanlal is the neighborhood chaiwalla or that Amitabh Bachan's probably the Minster of State for Rural Welfare. We're the conventional Indian family, more like the desi Simpsons. We lapped up every Lal'ettan or Mithunda flick with glee, but filmdom is and will always be taboo to the conventional Indian Mother. A son bitten by the acting bug was looked upon with the same disgust as a son who just confessed that he swings the other way. Get it? Yes, I was shamelessly in love with the histrionics of our Su