Masana ndi masana pamene ndinafika kunyumba kwa Nafisa Ali Sodhi ku Defense Colony, Delhi, ndipo mphepo yachilimwe imakhala yolemera kwambiri. Ndinadzilowetsa (palibe belu la pakhomo lolengeza za kufika kwanga) ndikupeza Ali Sodhi akukhala pa sofa ndi bukhu. Amawoneka wodekha komanso wonyezimira monga ndimayembekezera, mutu wa imvi komanso mizere ingapo yomwe ikuchita pang'ono kusokoneza kukongola kwake kowala. Palibe zodzoladzola pankhope pake, tsitsi lake limamangidwa mwachisawawa, ndipo chilengedwe chonse chimakhala chosangalatsa komanso chokhazikika. Sindimapitako kokongola. Sindinakhalepo ndi nkhope, pedicure, manicure ... palibe. Ndimangosisita nkhope yanga ndi zonona nditatha kusamba ndipo ndi momwemo, akutero kukongola kodziwika bwino, yemwe adavekedwa korona wa Femina Miss India mu 1976 ndipo anali wachiwiri wachiwiri ku Miss International mu 1977. Ndakhala wokwanira komanso wothamanga, koma tsopano kuti ndili ndi chithokomiro, ndanenepa ndipo ndimakhumudwa nazo.
League ya Champion
Ali Sodhi ali kutali ndi mafuta, koma tiyenera kukumbukira kuti anali wochita masewera olimbitsa thupi, ndipo miyezo yake yolimbitsa thupi ndi yosiyana kwambiri. Wobadwira ku Kolkata pa Januware 18, 1957, kwa wojambula wodziwika bwino Ahmed Ali ndi Philomena Torresan, anali wothamanga kwambiri pasukulu, yemwe adakhala wokonda kusambira ku West Bengal koyambirira kwa Seventies komanso ngwazi yosambira mdziko mu 1974. Ali Sodhi anali ndinachitanso joki kwakanthaŵi ku Calcutta Gymkhana mu 1979. Ndinakulira mosangalatsa kwambiri ku Kolkata. Tinkakonda kukhala m'nyumba yokongola ya atsamunda pamsewu wa Jhowtala. Ndinaphunzira kusambira ndili wamng’ono. M’masiku amenewo ndinkatchedwa ‘mwana wamadzi wonyezimira’ chifukwa ndinkapambana m’mipikisano yonse yosambira.
Nyenyezi zachilengedwe
Ndi maonekedwe abwino a Ali Sodhi komanso kuchita bwino pamasewera, anali wodziwika bwino ku Kolkata ngakhale asanaganize zokhala nawo pa mpikisano wa Femina Miss India. Kotero sizinali zosayembekezereka pamene adapambana korona ku Mumbai mu June 1976. Kupambana kwa Miss India kunatsegula njira kuti Ali Sodhi atenge nawo gawo la Miss International, mpikisano womwe ukanachitikira ku Tokyo. Zinali zosangalatsa kwambiri. Ndinali wachiwiri womaliza ndipo tinatengedwa ku Japan konsekonse m'magulu otembenuzidwa kumene timakankhira anthu ambiri. Pambuyo pa kupambana kwake, burashi ya Ali Sodhi yokhala ndi Bollywood idabwera mwamwayi. Rishi Kapoor adawona chithunzi chake pachikuto cha The Junior Statesman , magazini yotchuka ya nthawiyo, ndipo anaiwonetsa kwa abambo ake a Raj Kapoor. Onse awiri adachita chidwi ndi kukongola kwake kodabwitsa. Raj Kapoor adamupatsanso filimu moyang'anizana ndi Rishi, koma abambo ake Ali Sodhi, omwe sanasangalale ndi lingaliro la mwana wawo wamkazi akugwira ntchito m'mafilimu, adakana.
Komabe, amenewo sanali mathero a maloto a Ali Sodhi a Bollywood. Pambuyo pake, atakumana ndi Shashi Kapoor ndi Shyam Benegal pa tsiku lobadwa la Raj Kapoor ku Mumbai, adapatsidwa udindo wotsogolera. Junoon . Bambo anga sankafuna kuti ndichitepo kanthu, koma chifukwa chakuti ndinali nditangokwanitsa zaka 21, anandiuza kuti ndisankhe ndekha. Choncho ndinapezerapo mwayi ndipo ndinasamukira ku Bombay. Liti Junoon ikupangidwa, wopanga mafilimu Nasir Hussain adafuna kuponya Ali Sodhi mufilimu yotsutsana ndi Rishi Kapoor. Monga womalizayo akulemba m'buku lake Khullam Khula (HarperCollins), komabe, kuyimba kwawo pazenera sikungachitikenso nthawi ino: Pafupifupi nthawi yomweyo. Junoon , Nasir Hussain anali kukonza kontrakiti kuti azigwira nane ntchito Zamaane Ko Dikhana Hai . Idasainidwa, kusindikizidwa ndikuperekedwa, ndipo zonse zidali m'malo, pomwe abambo ake adaponyanso sipinari pantchitoyo. Iye sanagwirizane ndi zigawo zingapo mu mgwirizano.
Ngakhale kuti Ali Sodhi wamng'ono adagwirizana ndi diktat ya abambo ake panthawiyo, kulephera kupanga ntchito m'mafilimu kunali kudandaula kwake kosalekeza. Ndikunong'oneza bondo kuti ndinamvera bambo anga. Sindikadayenera kumumverako za ulendo wanga wamakanema. Kanema ndi wopatsa mphamvu, wopatsa chidwi, komanso wosangalatsa… Mutha kukhala chilichonse chomwe mungafune; Ndiwo ukulu wa kanema, akutero. Pambuyo Junoon mu 1979, Ali Sodhi anabwerera pambuyo hiatus kuchita Major Saab ndi Amitabh Bachchan mu 1998, Bewafaa mu 2005, Moyo Mu A... Metro mu 2007 ndi Yamla Pagla Deewana mu 2010 ndi Dharmendra. Anachitanso filimu ya Chimalayalam yotchedwa Big B mu 2007 ndi Mammootty.
Super Trooper
Junoon anali ndi tanthauzo lalikulu m'moyo wa Ali Sodhi m'njira zambiri kuposa imodzi. Chifukwa chimodzi, chinali panthawi yojambula filimuyi pamene adakumana ndi mwamuna wake, polo player ndi Arjuna Awardee Colonel RS 'Pickles' Sodhi. Malo omenyera nkhondo mu Junoon adawomberedwa mgulu la amuna anga kotero ndidawadziwa maofesala onse. Iye anali mbeta yekhayo. Pamene anabwera ku Kolkata kaamba ka chiwonetsero cha akavalo ndi machesi a polo, ndinamdziŵa bwino koposa. Ndipo pamene ine ndinapita ku Delhi kwa Junoon koyamba, anandinyengerera ndi akavalo. Ndinkakonda mahatchi, choncho chikondi chonse chinali pafupi nawo! Ali Sodhi akukumbukira.
Komabe, chikondicho sichinali chophweka. Iwo anachokera m’maiko osiyanasiyana, anali ndi zaka 14 pakati pawo, ndipo Sodhi anali Sikh, pamene Ali anali Msilamu. Ngakhale kuti mabanja awo amatsutsidwa kwambiri, banjali linakwatirana ku Kolkata ndipo linatsatiridwa ndi la Sikh kunyumba ya Maharani Gayatri Devi ku Delhi.
Ali Sodhi wakhala akugwira nawo ntchito yothandiza anthu, koma atangosamukira ku Delhi kuti adatha kukulitsa chilakolako chake mokwanira. Anayambitsa thumba la Orissa Cyclone Relief Fund pamene boma linakanthidwa ndi mphepo yamkuntho mu 1999. Iye analipo pamene chivomezicho chinakantha Bhuj, Gujarat, mu 2001. Anagwira ntchito kwambiri m'midzi ndikuthandizira kumanga nyumba za 340.
Chisamaliro cha odwala kachilombo ka HIV ndi chifukwa chomwe chili pafupi ndi mtima wa Ali Sodhi. Pamene ndinayamba kugwira ntchito kwa anthu omwe ali ndi kachilombo ka HIV/AIDS mu 1994, palibe amene ankasamala kapena kuchitapo kanthu. Ndinaganiza zopanga zolembedwa za nkhaniyi ndipo ndinapita kunyumba ya odwala HIV ku Delhi kuti ndikafufuze. Mkhalidwe wa odwala omwe ndinawawona pamenepo unandisokoneza ndikundipweteka kwambiri. Chotero ndinapita kwa nduna yaikulu panthaŵiyo Sheila Dikshit ndi kumuuza kuti ndinalibe ndalama, koma ndinkafuna kusamalira odwala HIV ndipo ndinafunikira malo ochitira zimenezi. Anandikhulupirira ndipo anandipatsa chilolezo. Ndinatsegula nyumba yangayanga yosamalira HIV/AIDS yotchedwa Ashraya m’mudzi wa Rajokri, Delhi, ndi Action India, ndipo ndinaiyendetsa kwa zaka zisanu ndi zitatu. Ali Sodhi adayendetsanso pulogalamu ya DOTS ya TB kumeneko. Tsoka ilo, adayimitsa mu 2009 pomwe ndalama zidayamba kutha.
Sanjay Grover, yemwe wakhala akugwira ntchito ndi Ali Sodhi kuyambira 1996 m'maudindo osiyanasiyana, akuti ngakhale anali wodziwa bwino kusonkhanitsa ndalama ndikulumikizana ndi boma, pamapeto pake zidakhala zovuta kuyendetsa nyumbayo ndi ndalama zochepa. Anali ndi ndalama zake zonse pantchitoyi. Ankapita kumadera a kuwala kofiyira kuti akaone momwe odwala omwe ali ndi kachilombo ka HIV akuyendera ndipo amawalemba ntchito kunyumba. Ndalama, komabe, zinali zovuta ndipo zidakhala zosatheka kulemba ganyu madotolo pamitengo yoperekedwa ya Rs 15,000 ndi anamwino a Rs 6,000.
Nyama yandale
Kwa Ali Sodhi, kulowerera ndale kunali ngati kuwonjezera kwachilengedwe kwa ntchito yake yachitukuko. Ndinalibe chidziŵitso cha ndale, koma ndinali ndi ndewu mwa ine. Ndinalowa nawo ndale kuti ndipeze nsanja yokulirapo ndikuloledwa kupanga zisankho. Adachita kampeni yoyimira Congress Sheila Dikshit mu 1998 pachisankho cha Delhi State Assembly. Pambuyo pa kupambana kwa Dikshit, Sonia Gandhi adapanga Ali Sodhi kukhala membala wamkulu wa Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee.
Ali Sodhi wazaka 47 atalandira tikiti ya Congress kuti apikisane nawo zisankho za 2004 Lok Sabha kuchokera kudera la South Kolkata, adalumphira pampikisanowo, koma adalephera. Adapezanso mwayi wina wopikisana nawo pachisankho mu 2009 pomwe adapatsidwa tikiti ya Chipani cha Samajwadi pampando wanyumba yamalamulo ku Lucknow. Koma kachiwiri, iye anagonjetsedwa.
Kusamvera kwa Ali Sodhi ku SP kuchokera ku Congress kudakweza nsidze zingapo. Komabe, atagonjetsedwa, adabwerera ku Congress mu November 2009. Pakalipano, Ali Sodhi sali wandale, ngakhale akupitirizabe kukhala mbali ya Congress. Sindimagwira ntchito chifukwa ndimamva kuwawa kuti ngakhale ndimatha kwambiri, sindinapatsidwe mwayi. Ndimawakonda Mayi (Sonia) Gandhi chifukwa zinali zosavuta kugwira nawo ntchito. Nthawi yapano, komabe, ndi nkhani yosiyana. Congress lero ikuyenera kutsimikizira anthu za kufunika kwawo. Ndi phwando lofunika kwambiri koma zonse zomwe amachita ndizopanda pake.
Ngakhale kuti ndale zakhala zikubwerera m'mbuyo m'moyo wa Ali Sodhi, alibe ntchito ndipo amamugwiritsa ntchito kuti apume pantchito kuti azikhala ndi ana a mwana wake wamkazi wamkulu Armana, kukonza ukwati wa mwana wake wamkazi Pia ndikuthandizira mwana wake Ajit kupeza malo mu Bollywood. Podziwa motowo, komabe, sitingadabwe ngati atatuluka m'bwalo lakumanzere ndi kutidabwitsanso.
