Arjun Sen on resilience & not quitting

Arjun Sen, the inspiration behind director Shoojit Sircar’s ‘I Wish to Discuss’, starring Abhishek Bachchan, visits Kolkata nearly twice a 12 months. As an NRI, he nonetheless carries vivid reminiscences of the previous Kolkata. On the similar time, he acknowledges the numerous evolution of town, significantly with the emergence of latest cafes throughout city. Those that have watched this gem from 2024, now additionally out there on OTT, find out about Sen’s highly effective journey of surviving over 20 surgical procedures, together with most cancers and rebuilding his life with resilience and goal.

Nonetheless, Sen doesn’t just like the time period ‘most cancers survivor’. As an alternative, he calls himself a most cancers winner. “At any time when I discuss most cancers, I am going again to the identical story time and again and it’s in regards to the previous. However so many individuals in my life, from my nurses and medical doctors to my daughter, labored exhausting to make me match. That’s what makes us winners and that’s what you will see that even in my e-book, ‘Unquit Endlessly’. For me, it’s not about profitable one time. Survivor means I received yesterday. However I’m right here to win day-after-day,” stated the writer, entrepreneur and motivational speaker.

It goes with out saying that Abhishek Bachchan delivered a career-best efficiency in ‘I Wish to Discuss’ and Sircar ensured that the movie was not only a tearjerker however an inspirational journey as properly.

A high-flying advertising skilled within the USA, Sen was given simply 100 days to stay after being recognized with laryngeal most cancers at 32. It was additionally the time his marriage had ended and he needed to co-parent his three-year-old daughter. The movie, subsequently, explored his evolving relationship along with her. Arjun made certain he took his daughter Raka’s permission earlier than the movie was made.

“She was very clear. She instructed me, ‘Baba, you’ve gone by loads and let’s discuss it’. She pushed me exhausting. As people, all of us attain a breaking level and with out Raka’s help, I wouldn’t have taken this route. When she noticed the film, she was very emotional. She knew the script beforehand as a result of I had mentioned it along with her. However on the finish of the film, she stated, ‘Baba, they missed essentially the most enjoyable dimension of you’. However you may’t do extra as a movie is only for two hours,” Sen laughed.

The truth is, he received his battle by surgical procedures together with his humour intact. He doesn’t mince his phrases when he says that with each surgical procedure he underwent, his possibilities of survival decreased. But he saved his humour alive, not solely throughout his medical battles but additionally in his e-book, ‘Unquit Endlessly’.

“There may be energy in not giving up. This e-book is about everybody’s story of not giving up,” he stated. And now, he’s taking this ‘Unquit’ motion to colleges and faculties the world over.

Sen additionally couldn’t cease praising Abhishek and spoke about how Sircar studied him not simply bodily however mentally, to deliver authenticity to the display screen. Now that each the movie and the e-book have been launched, Sen is engaged on the idea of self-love.

“To many people, self-love might appear to be selfishness, however it’s important,” he stated.