Ram Kamal Mukherjee Instagram – “Kya ghum hai jisko chhupa rahe ho?”
Bengali actor Nusrat Jahan looks at me and says, “You take the best selfies, you have to teach me,” while Celina Jaitly had once mentioned in Egypt, “Ram we all need to learn this art of lensing from you.” Even miss oh-so photogenic Paoli Dam says, “You know the right profile, and your selfies are the best.” And I was surprised when selfie king Karan Johar at the National Award after party in Delhi said, “Hmm, what’s with your 5 seconds timer, dude?” And seeing the result, he promptly corrected, “Accha, you got the light right, not bad!” Toodles!
Hemaji (Malini) had once asked, “How does your skin glow?” She thought it was omega oil from the fish that I consume as a Bengali. But she was surprised to see the same glow after I had quit fish for almost a decade. Now, of course, she gives credit to my parents’ DNA.
My fav Rukmini Maitra feels that my ‘revealing’ morning selfies are burning hearts of many. While women envy my affair with phone lenses, men insist I stop posting my solitude selfies on bed. Eh!
But, let me share a fact today. The art and beauty of a selfie are to fall in love with the subject. And when you ‘are the’ subject, falling in self-love becomes tough. Nah, nah, it’s not narcissistic. It’s artistic. Just like, seeing mirror is, and showing mirror isn’t!
One quick tip: After taking a selfie, one needs to adjust the saturation, temperature, highlights, and crop the frame right. Those who believe in raw images, they are even happy with their aadhar card photo, so we can count them out. For the rest, take selfies only when you care for yourself a little more than your neighbouring selfie.
🧿❣️ | Posted on 01/Mar/2024 14:31:55
