This is Dr Brahmanandam, a very famous Telugu comedian and actor.
He holds the Guinness World Record for the most screen credits for a living actor, appearing in over 1000 plus films to date.
He is the highest paid comedian and till the last decade, he was there in almost every big movie that released. His appearance in trailers was considered as one of the major USPs to pull people to theatres.
Since last few years however, he reduced his movies drastically. One of the main reasons was his health and his inability to work longer hours like before. He told that he has abused his body by overworking for years that now it is not cooperating and forcing him to give it rest.
In one of his interview with his colleague and fellow comedian Ali few months back. He shared about all his experiences, break due to health, philosophies and some funny incidents they both had during their shoots and travels.
Towards the end, Ali told ‘Thank you for coming to my show and spending so much time here. We should travel together again. We both should act together again. You should get back your lost glory. And Young Brahmanandam should be back…’
Brahmanandam just smiled and told ‘Yeah we will act and travel together. But expecting me to get back that old glory is not correct. My body has aged. Right now I should limit myself to just seeing and enjoying what new guys are doing. If I think of competing by running with them, my knees won’t be able to take it.’
One hardest part about getting older is,
For most people, their body ages faster than their mind. Their mind might want to do many things but their body won’t just cooperate.
And that makes them feel helpless.
A very simple example to be observed is many people want to travel to a lot of places. Hillstations, ancient rock cut temples, long road trips, diving. But they dont do it in younger days due to responsibilities, lack of time and money.
Later, when they finally feel like travelling, they find that
1.they cannot travel to hill-stations as their lungs can’t handle low oxygen levels anymore or their body can’t tolerate cold winds.
2.they cannot go road trips as they cannot sit longer with backaches or
3.they cannot see ancient temples as their knees cant climb steps anymore.
Desires just keep getting smaller and smaller due to their abilities.
An aged body forcefully controlling the active mind and calming it down by saying—come to reality, you just cannot do all that anymore. Those times are gone—is something only old people know.
