User_gary Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
Bow down to destiny
The film which was to have a DVD release is now running to packed theatres
in the US and UK? How was that journey?*
Yes, we started off making a small film, and like it happens with all small
films we never knew what would happen next! And when our distributor who was
based in US backed out, we thought we would land up on DVD. But thanks to
Fox Star Studios, who put us on the big screen we made it. I bow down to
destiny for that! And how we got a great composer like Rahman and an actor
like Anil Kapoor from India is also destiny!
Could you please explain to me what "bow down to destiny" means in this context?
I know "destiny" means fate in general. Similarly, bow down to someone means "be servile to someone" or something like that. But I can't understand them here.
in the US and UK? How was that journey?*
Yes, we started off making a small film, and like it happens with all small
films we never knew what would happen next! And when our distributor who was
based in US backed out, we thought we would land up on DVD. But thanks to
Fox Star Studios, who put us on the big screen we made it. I bow down to
destiny for that! And how we got a great composer like Rahman and an actor
like Anil Kapoor from India is also destiny!
Could you please explain to me what "bow down to destiny" means in this context?
I know "destiny" means fate in general. Similarly, bow down to someone means "be servile to someone" or something like that. But I can't understand them here.
Top answer
"bowing" is something you do as a mark of respect. e. to my/our good fortune).
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"bowing" is something you do as a mark of respect. I assume "I bow down to destiny" means "I give thanks and respect to destiny" (i.e. to my/our good fortune).
In the second instance, "destiny" seems to have the usual sense of "fate".
In the second instance, "destiny" seems to have the usual sense of "fate".
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User_garybow down to destinyIt just means that he acknowledges his luck in finding a distributor who was willing to put his movie on the big screen.
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