Just wrapped the song for Colors promotion, redone. I said it would be a long night, and so it is. Took along the team from the channel, just so we do not have a repeat of the previous night - a rejection. Sujoy of Ghosh fame and with Aladin for the moment, had an ‘alaap’ to dub as well. And that also was undertaken.

There was approval for both the efforts and hopefully they shall stay.

‘Realization’ yesterday sent many in remorse. There was apprehension on what exactly was causing the desire for a realization to our limits. And many felt that there had perhaps been an incident that may have caused this trait of negativism. No, there was nothing of the sort, but yes there was a feeling of wanting to revisit myself and to face it and talk about it to people within the EF. I have the liberty to do that, as much as you have the liberty to feel the way you did. That is what the EF is all about. To ask, to question, to seek explanation.

I believe just as ‘realization’ becomes topical when we comment upon limits, so also does ‘approval’. It is not an uncommon expression and neither does it not have the importance of presence in the life of us mortals.

We seek approval from elders, from peers, from friends and colleagues. An approval signifies concurrence in thought word and deed. It is important that we are told or made aware of that an approval has taken place. It confirms, what one may have decided individually, but not been too confident of. At my work in front of the camera, we seek approval every minute. Did the shot go alright, did the performance invite approval. We seek approval on the way we dress socially, on what we may say in the company of others, on our beliefs and thoughts, on the actions of others.

At our work station there will always run approval - on the work that was commissioned to us, on its integrity, its competence.

In public life we constantly seek approval. We go to canvass for work on the approved shoulders of those who mattered and those that would bring on the responsibility. Polity approval puts the seat of power onto one individual - the candidates run into each other on an even playing field, but the individual person exercising his or her democratic right, votes his approval. Their approval remains with us for 5 years ! We approve our life partners through marriage. It is one of the most strongest approvals that a human makes. Just the power of the words ‘I do’ approve each other for a lifetime. Look at the sanctity of those approved words. Two humans hitherto unknown to each other spend a lifetime together as husband and wife, on an approval.

It is approved that a nation shall go to war with its neighbor or at some distance . The action has been approved through the rights given to those that sought our approval. We approve the house we choose to live in, its decor, its capacity and its final upkeep. We approve of our staff. We approve who shall be entertained in the house and when and how. We approve much ….

Approval then is an integral part of our existence. It rings true at all turns.

I approved the existence of the blog and you approved of it by coming to it in hordes.

When life is full of so many approvals, which is the approval that you have approved to be the best ? Answer me, for I await your response .

Aadaab, Satsriakaal, good night, namaste…

Amitabh Bachchan