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Memorable Moments Of The New Millennium

The games time plays with man. And it never stops playing. It keeps teasing man. It keeps forcing him to think, to wonder what this whole thing called life and its connections with time is all about. Try thinking of some of these games time played some twenty odd years ago, and plays with the same players now...

Amitabh Bachchan is a struggling actor. Jaya Bhaduri is an actress who shows great promise. Randhir Kapoor, the eldest son of the late Raj Kapoor, is the leading man, Babita, the leading lady. Amitabh and Jaya fall in love, get married. Randhir and Babita also fall in love, get married. They have children. The Bachchans have a daughter first, Shweta and a son, Abhishek. The Kapoors have two daughters, Karisma and Kareena. They are all part of showbiz, the cream of it. Randhir soon turns director even though he has the potential and the promise to make it as a mature natural actor. Amitabh becomes a superstar, a phenomenon. Jaya Bachchan and Babita give up acting. Randhir continues directing films with a touch of his father’s class. A young man, `JP’ Dutta whose father, OP Dutta, is a writer is one of Randhir’s talented assistants.

Time passes. “JP”, surprisingly leads a movement of his own. He starts off as a director and makes enlightened films like Ghulami, Hathyar, Yateem, Kshatriya and the biggest and most powerpacked of them all, Border. HMV, the music company is the constant factor. Its music keeps playing on and on. Time fails to have any effect on it, on its music...

And time doesn’t stop. It is more than twenty years later. People have come, risen, fallen and even gone into other worlds. Trends have changed, traditions have been challenged, values have been thrown out but Amitabh Bachchan still stands steady like a titan, like a rock as steady as The Rock of Gibraltar, even though he has a grey beard now. Randhir is still trying to make a film under his father’s famous banner. The children have grown up and have decided to follow in the footsteps of the family. Karisma, daughter of Randhir and Babita, becomes the first RK daughter to make it in films. Abhishek and Kareena also take to acting as a career. Jaya, surprisingly is now making a comeback after twenty years and Babita watches the drama unfold...

Today, April 18, 2000. It’s a very special day for JP Dutta, for the
Bachchans and the Kapoors. Abhishek, and Kareena, the younger daughter of the Kapoors are to be presented before a distinguished gathering of celebrities from all walks of life from all over the place. The occasion - the eagerly awaited release of the music of “JP’s” film Refugee. It is even a great day for every man, woman and child who has worked to make ‘JP’s’ dream and movement take one more giant step ahead. The celebrations begin.

Ashish Vidyarthi dressed like a typical farmer from Rajasthan walks among the crowd, speaking to them all the while in a Marwari accent. He reaches the stage and suddenly switches over to shuddh English. He talks of the man and the maker called `JP’, a director more than a man (“or a fantastic blend of both man and maker”) who doesn’t believe in the impossible. ‘JP’ in one of the most humblest and softest voices heard in recent times thanks his entire unit for co-operating with “a mad man’s antics” to make Refugee what it is. “The film could