00:00We are a little spoilt and we are a little too comfortable
00:05and I think that is a wake-up call for all the young Parsis who are in this audience.
00:12My mom always, whenever I leave home, no matter what I do,
00:16I'm 56 years old, I'm going to be a grandfather this year,
00:20but she talks to me like I'm a schoolboy and says, where are you going?
00:23For those who don't know me, my name is Boman Irani and I'm an actor, just in case, just in case.
00:39My grandmother was 17 years old when she got married in Iran.
00:45She came in maybe 80-85 years ago from Iran and my father was in her arms as a one-year-old
00:51and they came from their little town in Nasrabad across the desert on a donkey,
01:00really, on a donkey and they caught a little dhow, they got onto a little dhow
01:05and they sailed from Yazd to Bombay, now Mumbai.
01:10What I'm trying to tell you this story about is that we're living in times which are modern,
01:15but what is very, very important is that we are a little spoilt and we are a little too comfortable
01:24and I think that is a wake-up call for all the young Parsis who are in this audience.
01:31I think it's a wake-up call because I think that Parsis may have done so much
01:36and we have such eminent people from the community who have made us proud.
01:41So I'm going to sing for you a song which is representative of all people who work really hard in life
01:48and they achieve their goals in the way that they want to achieve their goals, their way.
01:54The song is called My Way and it is made famous, I hope you like it, it's made famous by Frank Sinatra.
02:12And now the end is near
02:18So I face the final curtain
02:24My friends, I'll say it clear
02:30I'll state my case, which I'm certain
02:38I've lived a life that's full
02:43I've traveled each and every highway
02:50And more, much more than this
02:55Sing with me
02:56I did it my way
03:03I think Parsi moms are wonderful, you know
03:06My mother brought me up as a single parent
03:09She kind of inculcated all those instincts in me which she must have seen as a person
03:14who went and dealt with the little business that we had, a little shop that we had in Grant Road
03:20selling chips, a little bakery
03:22And she keeps sending me to the movies every day
03:25Instead of saying, watch or do your homework, she would say, have you done your homework?
03:29And I would say, yeah
03:31And said, go and watch a movie, which movie is playing across
03:35And I would say, Pyaasa, she's saying, go see it again
03:38Sing again, you say, why?
03:40She says, go watch it this time for the lyrics
03:42Go and see it again for the cinematography
03:44Go and see it again for the acting
03:46Go and see it again for the music
03:48And she made me understand the mystery and the beauty of cinema
03:52And it really, really happened at a very, very young age
03:54And I'm always grateful to my mother who single-handedly brought me up
03:58And gave me, and not made me feel that doing movies and acting is a waste of time
04:04Only for dreamers
04:05My mom always, whenever I leave home, no matter what I do
04:09I'm 56 years old, I'm going to be a grandfather this year
04:12But she talks to me like I'm a schoolboy
04:14Where are you going?
04:16I'm going here, dubbing, Delhi
04:18Why Delhi?
04:20I'm doing this, very good
04:22She says one wonderful word, which is very cool, I thought, for an 88-year-old woman
04:27When I walk out of the house, and she says, hey son
04:30I said, yes mom, sparkle
04:34All my life, I lived in the pretense
04:43One moment, let me live now
04:47All my life, I lived in the pretense
04:53One moment, let me live now
04:57Everybody!
05:04Na na na na, na na na na na na na
05:09Give me some sunshine, give me some rain
05:14Give me another chance, I want to grow up once again
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