Wisdom Drop-37

Posted On: 25th November, 2025

Dharmendra : 1935-2025

“When a Star Walks Away, Light Stays Behind.”

Some lives arrive not as visitors but as seasons —
they bloom across decades,
they ripple through the hearts of strangers,
they turn reels into memories
and memories into soft lanterns
that accompany a nation for a lifetime.

Dharmendra was not merely an actor;
he was a fragrance carried by time —
sometimes heroic, sometimes tender,
sometimes roaring with laughter,
sometimes trembling with truth.
The screen was only a window;
the light behind it was always human.

When the curtains finally fell,
India did not feel darkness —
it felt silence,
the kind of silence
that follows the passing of someone
who had unknowingly become
a companion in our growing years.

A star has walked away today,
but light —
true light —
never retires,
never ages,
never leaves.
It simply drifts into the everyday moments
of those who once loved it,
quietly teaching them
how to live with courage,
how to love with sincerity,
and how to smile even when the story ends.

For in the great cinema of existence,
some characters die,
but their kindness becomes immortal.

-IAS Monk