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| Rajani Meloor, Meloor, Thalassery, Kannur |
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The intense love for the stage had made her act in the theatre for about 7 years without remuneration. Later Rajani Meloor chose acting as a profession and joined a drama troupe. To such a person, the amputation of a leg in an accident was the bleakest nightmare imaginable.
Yet with confidence born of 10 years of experience, she ventured to attend the drama rehearsal with the amputated leg. But the experience really shattered her. As blood dripped from the wound with every exertion, she had a difficult time trying to conceal the fact from her co actors. Sensing that her predicament was becoming a bone of contention with other artistes in the troupe, she withdrew from the scene and returned to her home, bereft of hope.
As days rolled by, all hopes drained out of her. It was at this stage that she saw the advertisement of R.V.Clinic, Palakkad. Bowing to the prompting of her husband, she underwent another surgery , which was like a second birth to her.
As she leaned to walk with artificial leg, her desire to act on the stage again came to the fore. She joined ‘Sneha’ theatre and started attending the rehearsal camp. Here the reception was different. The troupe was really keen to give her a second life in acting. They stopped the rehearsal as pain frequently made her falter. And during the first staging of the play, she forgot the dialogues in the midst of piercing monologue of pain.
But from the next show, her performance improved. She has already completed more than 500 stage performances with the artificial leg.
In her heart she remembers with gratitude her husband who followed her like a shadow during the dark period, her brother Ramesan, who first led her to the stage, daughter Harsha, few relatives and friends and a man called Anandan from Mumbai. He had sent her newspaper clippings of stories of handicapped persons who had come back to lead purposeful lifes. Strangely, she has never met him.
Courtesy: V.R.Jyothish, Vanitha December 15-31, 2003
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