Be in the War for the One Thing — Cinema

If you want everything, you’ll get nothing.

If you want one thing badly enough, you can bend a year to your will.

Cinema is not a hobby. It’s a battlefield.

It demands your time, your attention, your ego, your excuses. It doesn’t reward half-belief or weekend passion. It rewards obsession, discipline, and the courage to go all in.

If cinema is your one thing, then stop negotiating with yourself.

Go offensive.

Offense means you don’t wait for permission. You don’t wait for funding to feel confident. You don’t wait for the “right time.” You write before you’re ready. You shoot before you feel safe. You learn while bleeding.

Defense is comfort.
Offense is creation.

Achieving anything meaningful in cinema requires a ruthless clarity. This matters more than distractions, opinions, and temporary pleasures.

Trends will come and go. Noise will rise and fall. But focused work compounds quietly.

Write script after script. Make film after film. Let multiple projects breathe at once — the way the Guinness Record holder Darshakaratna Dasari garu once did, turning discipline into destiny.

Make mistakes fast. Fail forward. Build momentum. Respect the craft, but don’t worship fear.

Cinema doesn’t belong to the most talented — it belongs to the most committed.

If you stay in the war long enough, with intention and integrity, something shifts. Skill sharpens. Vision clears. Confidence becomes earned, not borrowed.

Do this, and 2026 won’t just happen to you.

2026 will be yours.

Not by luck.
By focus.
By offense.
By choosing cinema — every single day.

-Manohar Chimmani