MY FIRST AUDITION

I was in my sweet sixteen, studying Intermediate with a heart full of dreams and hand full of goals. My passion is to be a part of the film industry, I never thought of a certain role, because I am interested in dubbing, acting, direction. When I busy in completing my records in the vacation, there was an audition going on radio.

The audition was conducted by a TV channel and auditions went on a radio channel. It was quite simple that the candidate should send their audio clip of any dialogue through a number in WhatsApp. It find very interesting and simple. So, a made a try. My mother was not having a smartphone, so I went near my aunt, to my surprise, she agreed and gave me the phone. I recorded my favorite actor dialogue and send it.

My college started. Having zero expectations of my first audio auditions, I was doing my work as it is. After one week, then came a large shout by my aunt, you got a message saying that you have been selected. As it was my study time, I didn’t bother about that. After having my dinner, I went to it with a doubt, that did my aunt really see that message with spectacles or without. The first time, a medium of media liked my voice. That feeling was so shocking that it became the first most happiest moment in my life.

The message says,” You have been selected, your first round will be on the next day at our office”. Now, the problem starts. The timings were 10am to 11am, I will be in my physics class where my class is surrounded by one junior lecturer, two vice principals, one principal.

My aunt herself gave an idea that, say you have a doctor appointment for 1 hour. My mother agreed, my brothers were thinking that if I was enough talented to et selected for an audition.

The next day, as I am a topper, my principal agreed to my appeal with a saddened face that I am going to miss my classes. The office was near to my college, so I took a walk. There were hardly 10 people in the audition set. On that day, first I saw my favorite RJ in live, he was so handsome that I couldn’t utter a word. The audition was saying a dialogue in the microphone. As there are very less people, 2 candidates were giving auditions at the same time. I spoke with my co-participant and we became friends. We took a selfie with our favorite rj and left the place.

There were hundreds of people who send their voice, in which 20 people were selected, and I am one of them. I was overwhelmed and I thought this was enough for me. The next week, I again got a message which said you have been selected and your next round will be a duet round, in which 2 members will be countering each dialogues. I took a half-day leave, and an afternoon 2pm, The selection started. In the 10 participants present there, I was the youngest. I got a partner, he was from another district, and working as an employee. We got half an hour time to prepare. I, my partner, and his friend we started thinking and prepared a paper with all counter dialogues. First, it was a rehearsal to check our voices and sound frequencies. After that, we went to the recording studio. It was air-conditioned. I came to know my weakness, that I can't bear the ac for more than 10  minutes. I  can't tell them to switch off the Mac, so it was do or die situation. No editors, in the office. If there was a mistake, we should start from the beginning. At the first take, he loses the track, for the second, I lost, the process was going on. And I found that my 10 minutes were completed. Hands and legs were shaking, I was trembling by fear. And the process completed without any takes any more. I made it worst. It was my first and worst performance on the camera. I know I won’t a single chance after that. But my only pray to god was my partner should be selected because he has shown his excellence on the stage and very ambitious about the movie career.

The results were revealed and I got no chance, but very happy to my partner, he got selected. Today, I am seeing him on screen.

This is the only incident gave me a little hope that I can cope up with films. I want to be in the industry and after my graduation completes, I will be ready to participate in any auditions.