GURU

Guru brahma
Guru Vishnu
Guru deva
Maheshwara
Guru sakshat para brahma
Tasmay shree guru e namah

I bow down to all my gurus, I will fall short of words to express my gratitude towards them, but still I will express it in my own little way because its very necessary that I tell them their worth.
It is said that it’s a guru who can make your life or just spoil it, a complete guru will help you reach the pinnacle of success, I have not reached to any pinnacle of success but I know the change they have brought within me and I m proud of this change, I am some where happy with the person I am right now.
My school principal professor Nafiza Diwanji, she is an ideal teacher for me. I remember many a time she used to help students during exams, she used to explain them the answer and then ask them to write and check it then and there, she always said that exams are meant to test how much a child has understood in class, its not meant to make two children fight and compete. A lot of people couldn’t understand her but wish I could tell her that how much I respect her and how much I love her.

When I came to college and started participating in plays my first director Deepal Doshi said one thing again and again, that we are participating to do a good play and not to win and then all the directors I have worked with said the same thing but that’s when I realized what Mrs. Diwanji tried to say, that when you learn you must not compete because when you step in the professional world that is one thing that you can not escape, later on I realized that competitions are also a means of learning experience and these competitions are organized to give a platform to students to experiment and explore, for example if I win best actor I have discovered 1 dimension, one talent within me. Next time I must try something different, say direction or lights or may be some other role all together because once you step out this cocoon there are no platforms for experimentation and its better if we explore our potentials at this stage, but many a times these competitions make you fight and compete to such an extent that you start playing politics, you stop exploring and start using formulas for winning, u stop experimenting and you start repeating things that always work, that’s when we stop growing. Deepal was absolutely correct and I am happy he made me realize this very soon.
The man who taught me what is discipline, hard work and passion is Girish Dhoke, he is the man who never compromised, and he never gave up. Girish is the man who changed my life, the way I look at things. He is the person who forced me to think and in the journey of juloos he has become my great buddy. He is the one who inspired me to have good motives behind everything I do, he has not only been a great guru but has actually been an amazing guide, and he has not only made a difference in our lives but helped us make a little difference in others lives too. I can never do justice when I start showing my gratitude towards Girish.

My tution teacher Kokila mam and my political science teacher Maya Mirpuri have been so caring and motherly that I have realized that a teacher may not always give you best education but may just give you enough support to become the person you want to be. Both of them had the zest to become a complete teacher before being a great teacher, they both often said that if I cant bring a minute amount of change in you as a person, If I cant convince you to give up your bad habits, I fail as a teacher and that’s why I love them the most. The amount of support I have received from them is what I will never ever be able to return it back to them.
Anshul Pandey is my coolest guru, he helped me come out of the box, he encouraged me to think differently, he is the person who actually made me realize what Deepal wanted to say, he taught me what it takes to do things differently and he let us all witness the magic of thinking out of the box. He taught us the magic of under playing, its better not to preach and be in your face , coz its easy to spoon feed and mock someone and make them feel down because that makes your task easier, when will you challenge yourself as an artist to convey things by under playing? Anshul taught me one thing that you can never make people work, they will give their best when they want to, all you can do is motivate them, he is the person who taught me what passion is, what work is and what is the correct way of looking at things. In the simplest and coolest way anshul has taught me so much that I can not express my feeling towards him, but can just say that I thank him from the bottom of my heart.
And I can not forget my Reiki teacher, Madhuri, my school professor Padma,
All my directors and teachers; Alok Ulfat, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Hussain Syed, Prince Shah and most importantly my PARENTS and my sister RESHA who have been the greatest gurus in my life and my late. Nani who has given me immense of knowledge and unconditional love.
Thank you all