Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur On His Dyslexia: “How Did I Become A Chartered Accountant?”

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who revealed a few days in the past that he’s dyslexic, adopted up with a put up explaining that he thinks visually and questioning how he ever grew to become a Chartered Accountant. In a tweet shared on Wednesday, Mr Kapur wrote that he remembers telephone numbers as “musical rhythms.” The Mr India director, who certified as a Chartered Accountant after graduating in economics, tweeted: “Lessons of Life: I compensated for my dyslexia by imagining all the things visually. Or as rhythm and tonality. Explains my love for the visible arts and music. I even keep in mind phone numbers as musical rhythms. How did somebody like me ever change into a Chartered Accountant?”   

See Shekhar Kapur’s tweet right here:

Lessons of Life : I compensated for my dyslexia by imagining all the things visually. Or as rhythm and tonality. Explains my love for the visible arts and music. I even keep in mind phone numbers as musical rhythms. How did somebody like me ever change into a Chartered Accountant? #dyslexia

— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) May 10, 2023

Earlier this week, Shekhar Kapur revealed that he was “utterly dyslexic” and has more and more found that different creatives are too. He additionally tweeted about hating math in class and defined that synthetic intelligence helps. “Lessons of Life: I’m utterly dyslexic. And discovering an increasing number of artists, poets, musicians endure from dyslexia too. Are you? With AI I’ve developed a love for visible arithmetic, however in class developed a hatred for Maths… in fact! With dyslexia, numbers made little sense,” he tweeted.

See Mr Kapur’s put up right here:

Lessons of Life : I’m utterly dyslexic. And discovering an increasing number of artists poets musicians endure from dyslexia too. Are you?

With #AI I’ve developed a love for visible arithmetic, however in class developed a hatred for Maths…ofcourse ! With #dyslexia numbers made little sense

— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) May 8, 2023

Shekhar Kapur, 77, made his debut as director with 1983 movie Masoom. He then made the much-loved Mr India, starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Amrish Puri as Mogambo. After the critically acclaimed Phoolan Devi biopic Bandit Queen, Shekhar Kapur went worldwide, directing Elizabeth, it is sequel subtitled The Golden Age, and The Four Feathers. He most lately directed Shabana Azmi and Emma Thompson in What’s Love Got To Do With It?