Sometimes a person is overcome by a very strange feeling. This feeling cannot even be explained. It seems to you that there are people in this world who can never die. You cannot even grant them this right. What you know is that these individuals have crossed the boundaries of being human, have become a value for the people, and are etched into their memory. They are an address of love, a door everyone will open.
Yesterday, time silently came and knocked on one such door. That door where Rasim Balayev, radiating light, lived.
Rasil Balayev is gone…
Time came and drew the curtain on an epoch.
It was as if the lights suddenly went out in Azerbaijan's cinema hall.
It seemed as if Babek's sword fell from his hand. Nasimi's voice joined the winds and became inaudible in the distance.
It was as if Rasim Balayev's departure also killed the characters he created…
At this moment, you feel that death is sometimes a misunderstood end. Rasim Balayev's death is not an end, because he is not one of the artists who die. He was one of those who turned deaths into art. How could he himself die...
He lived the roles he played in such a way that he brought them to life.
In the examples of Babek and Nasimi, we saw that sometimes an actor's role recreates history.
Therefore, you think that Rasim Balayev cannot die. What dies is the old scenery of the stage.
Rasim Balayev was great, but he was accessible to everyone. Everyone shares their photos with him on social media.
Rasim Balayev was great, but he never raised his voice to show his greatness.
Rasim Balayev was a genius, he never belittled others to show his genius.
He was a great and brilliant artist, he never once said, “I am an artist.”
He was a child with children, and an adult with adults.
I remember well, for the 10th anniversary of Modern.az, we wanted to get 10 seconds of footage from each of 10 interesting personalities. When he learned of our wish, he gladly expressed his consent and, upon meeting, did not hesitate to express his desire to participate in the anniversary event.
Today, Azerbaijan bids farewell to an era in the person of Rasim Balayev. I am confident that Rasim Balayev will radiate even more light with this departure. This light, with Nasimi's voice and Babek's sword, will resonate throughout the world.
Because Rasim Balayev is now a memory, a school.
Yes, time will pass, generations will change...
Cinema will be renewed…
But on the screens that open every day, a gaze will surely appear...
Upright, proud, unshakeable, smiling Rasim Balayev...
Look, then we will understand why there are people in this world who can never die. Why they have no right to die...
