The Rann Controversy

Well this is the true face of the political people roping in news channels. The actual news never ever reaches to the common man. In the movie, Purab Shastri is not roped in and is eventually made the CEO of India News 24/7 when Vijay Malik comes to know that his own son is involved in making the CD made the CEO of the news channel can only be possible if people like Vijay Malik exists. But in India, more than anything we all learn one thing that money is the biggest friend. Using it we can buy news, create communal riots, begging votes and then doing none of the promised deeds. Just filling up one’s pocket. In most of the cases, all the educated people just don’t watch the News channel. The reason is the main news is always hidden. In this sense many people trust the newspapers more than the news channels.   So many a times people read the new online too directly from the newpapers’ website. 

The works of all the major artists is very well cinematographed. Actually the reason why such a movie has gone a flop show is that, that we Indians do not want to accept the reality. And even accepting the reality is not the solution until and unless there are people like Vijay Malik and Purab Shastris being given encouragement. In the real world that Purab Shastri never ever reaches the Vijay Mallik because he is either boycotted, tortured and make him stand against his own family.

Now the common man is so much immune to all such kinds of movies because even if he knows that there is a foul smell coming out of a particular pipeline, he will not repair. The reason being that the pipeline itself is coming from dirty water so no use repairing at his end. Yes but if that muddy dirty water is made clean and usable then there will not be any problem of pipeline giving a foul smell. But now the question arises that how many of us, would want to step into that dirty water resource from where we get water for our daily purposes?? No one enters such waters. Because there are systems in it that has quicksand like properties.

There was a film, released a few years back by Madhur Bhandarkar showing the actual world of the print media journalism. Well the movie is harder than this one because in the end Konkana Sen Sharma is forced to take up that branch of News Media from which she found out that what the elite people do behind the face of the party and that had cost her job. Then in the end she changed her point of view to look at elite people. That’s the sad messege of the movie. That filth in our society is deep that good journalist like her, have to change their point of view in order to earn their bread. What could be more shameful than this? 

The 3 IDIOTS Controversies

The concepts that are touched in the film of 3 Idiots are totally new to the whole of Indian families.

The thing different with this kind of movie is that it’s a totally different concept. To let the child decide what he want s to do, is totally different a concept.  It’s a serious choice in todays world upto parents that they let the children do as per their liking if they chose the happiness of the child. Like it happens with R. Madhavan, who is so crazy about the animal photography but then he is forced into Engineering.  The result is that, that out of the three friends, Raju, Rancho and Farhan, Rancho is the only one who is able to get good ranks in Engineering. Farhan flunks day after day in Engineering. Raju believes that in pleasing  God, Goddesses and wearing all sorts of rings so that he passes in the exams. Rancho is the one who encourages them, to bring in the real Farhan and Raju. So on their graduation day Farhan find the courage to finally talk to his Dad that he wants to do wildlife photography. And finally Raju does wear those rings and bags a job in a good software company.

Yes, it’s a very different perspective from what the parents are brought up with. Because the generation gap between their parents and them was not as much as that between them and us. During our parents’ time, there were less career options, great limitations, less transportation and communication facilities and media facilities. But now, there are so many branches coming up. There are many avenues wherein if the student can get an overview of the whole subject and work in that direction. Students become more responsible, choosy and think futuristically that what are the prospects regarding his own growth, career wise, financially, can have enough savings and can still be a hot shot regarding his career and still enjoys what he is doing. This is the modern concept of SELF MANAGEMENT.

Hence, to bring into force, the concept of self management, in many of the countries, that kind of training begins right from the childhood. It maybe, selecting a party dress that the child attends as an example. Well suggestions are welcome from them always but at last its they, who say that they said what they felt like now you chose what you want to wear.  But if that’s the case in India the moment the child chooses something different for his parents, they take it to heart that he does not care about them and all sorts of other things. Now that’s the thing that should stop. It’s a very small thing to make an issue of but the damage caused by the parents on the child’s psychology is so immense that it lingers on and on and come out in a very rebellious way in the future.  Well the initial difficulty faced by the child of indecisiveness is taken by the parents that he doesn’t have his own thinking and just this kind of thinking ruins the child’s life forever and ever. Suppose there are two children in the same family the parents tend to compare the bright child with the indecisive child and consciously he thinks that he is a failure. Such children have a hard time facing anything in the world just with the simple thought that when his parents are not excepting him how the heck the whole world will. But the reality then changes that he is accepted by his limited number of friends and the world but becomes more and more rebellious with parents. If the situation worsens he takes up adverse steps like committing suicide.

Parents force their child to take up the career that they like. But if the child is not happy doing it then it does not mean that the parents made a wrong choice but it means that the child wants to take up the responsibility of his career on his own. As and when the responsibilities come he adapts himself and makes himself what he finally wants to be. Rather it is now parents choice to help the child be bright in his career by allowing him to choose or make him so dependent on them in every way that the child is lost in another world. In the latter case he becomes merely a child who just rebels against his parents for what they have done with his life. And it doesn’t matter how much time, energy or the money they have spent for making his future. And he questions all the closest relationships and wonders when he will be relieved from those relationships. And that’s the time he really needs parents but they don’t listen and the friends don’t help out. He really feels that he is being picked by his neck by this ferrous giant up in the air and no matter how hard he tries to reach the ground and free himself, he cannot. Because the giant’s grip starts getting tighter than ever before. 

Hence, it’s time for all of us to really come out of these kinds of situations. There may be majority of people who might have loved the film but then when the time comes for them to let their child do what they want, they back off. The reason that they give is that they have sacrificed so much in their lives and made a living and saw the dream that their child would become a doctor or an engineer. But maybe he just wants to become a Radio Jockey or study in some institution for dramatics or make his life in Human Resource Development or be an anthropologist and just travel around the world. The choice of the kid is usually considered immature because they are very well protected in their homes. But if the child is given everything and even then not given the choice of his own career, he will become a suicidal case of Joy.

Many a times the parents think too much beyond the capacity of the child. Like for example he cannot do good in his 10^th boards then they will worry that he will not be able to cope in 12^th Science and hence will just be a clerk or stenographer or an accountant which is not what they want because they themselves are Engineers and Doctors. And due to so much thinking of them the child loses his capacity to think about what is good or bad for him. Before he opens his mouth he is being mentally prepared for the next step not at all concerned whether the child wants to take it up or not.

On the other hand, it is also true that if the child cannot make it through in 12^th Science then he cannot dream of becoming the best astronomer in NASA, USA. He must know his pros and cons, his responsibilities and a fair idea about what will become of him after he does MCom or MBA. Will he be  able to compete with other and how in the very best way can he find a better job, better pay and and a better living so that he can support his own parents start his own family and look after each and every need of them.

So it’s a more asking children to choose what they like to do in the future and what not. If they themselves choose they flunk or they come out with flying colours, the whole and sole hero of his life is the student himself. Or the parents force him into something that he doesn’t like, then they will have to hear things like they have spoilt his life and that way they will lose him day by day and one day he will be no more for them.

Udaan Review

Udaan Review

The movie is a lot meaningful. The movie is more for those parents who are playing the character of Ronit Roy in real life. Udaan is a story which many of the parents do not realize but every child is affected negatively in his childhood and becomes a out burst in his adolescence. The main issue being is that the generation gap between our parents is like light years difference them the generation gap between their parents and them. Parents have to understand that and until and unless they except this fact, that they have to nuture their children with love, have to come at their level and see the world at their level also listen to them and feel from the child’s point of view, they won’t be able to give him the positive environment to the child.  Their inbuilt problem is that they can appreciate the movies but when it comes to the implementation of the same in their real life then they are not aware about how to give it because in their minds they are so perfect. I have seen parents reading books to a 6 month old child who does not speak but the senses in him are so strong then finally he develops a habbit for reading the books. All our parents teach us that India has a rich culture and tradition and rich heritage which we are bound to follow. All we learn is that being religious and well cultured and having ethnic values in our personality makes us a perfect person. But how to imbibe such values and the concept of simple living and high thinking is totally upto parents. Instead they just keep on comparing us to them at our age and teach us not to argue and strictly and blindly follow them. Some parents have a 5yr old girl, 3 yr old boy and a 6 month old baby girl and on top of that they host  a foreign teenager who also used to become so hyper at times.  One day all her kids were on a high and the teenager was learning different thing helping the mother. Then the teenager asks her why she doesn’t get angry at them. At that time she explain that if she gets angry and spanks them then they will never become good listeners and understand life. Then the teenager asks her why did she host her because the children are so small that they can hardly understand the cultural difference then she explains that they live in a very small twon, tshe wants them to no the other people of this world then gel well with them. The father in that family has an upcoming law firm which he recently established so when he comes home. So to spend time with them, he goes off to the office quiet late. But this so clearly open mindedly welcomes the three kids in their lives. And that teenager shared so much with both the parents so much that she never shared with her own parents.

I mean yes we do rich culture and heritage but we must give it to the coming generations in a way that they are better individuals than us. For that parents have to come at the child’s level and try and see, listen, feel and analyze things from his point of view. Instead comparing their childhood to his and that actually has a negative impact upon him. Not listening to him at his very tender age has worst impacts on his personality. Parents would not realize at that time and by the time they realize they blame the child himself for his negative personality. Instead if they be there when he needs them. I have seen parents who cancel their vacation just because her daughter wanted Mum’s help to wear a sari for a function. I have seen parents who have 3yearr old and 1 year old daughters and when he comes with his family to discuss work. He entertains our family and also keeps the girls engaged and happy. 

Because if the children get such a positive, helpful, healthy and trustworthy environment to develop relationships then they will be successful in building easier relationships in their lives be it in school, college, office etc. And if a child gets a negative environment trust my life that child will feel insecure and he will never be able to trust people who may like to have a healthy relationship with anyone. His world is shaky and he is not even able to love the most special person because its logical that if parents cannot understand the child for past 28 yrs then how can he trust the love of his life for a lifetime. Because if he is not able to trust the family relationship which is his true self then how can he trust anyone else.

Instead when the couple decides to have a child they have to work a way out to parent that child so he becomes really comfortable iin whatsoever relationships that he has to been. Otherwise it may happen that he mite not give back in a positive way and have all chances to do something that the thinks is negative. And whenever he goes away from his homeland he is really comfortable but that feeling of insecurity starts seeping as soon as he touches his homeland and tries to be one of them. Parents when decide to send their child on a year long foreign exchange in his teenage then the parents do not change their outlook towards him. N he leaves the love of his life back and spends rest of his life doubting and yearning for someone who now gets married after a decade.

Rajneeti Movie Review

Rajneeti is a movie based on Indian politics showing the dirt in the same. The height of cruelty is also shown. The relentless thirst for the power to be the president of the party takes away the lives of the loved ones. The movie starts with a girl having an affair with her teacher and ends up giving birth to a baby boy. This boy born out of illicit relationship is thrown in the Ganges because neither that girl is the only daughter of the famous politician against whom her teacher and herself, used to protest. But when the same girl’s sons are losing the game, then at that time the girl’s brother takes her to the son to win him in her sons side. One can think that in a country where in a mother’s love is considered so pious that it can only be got from a mother. Lots of praises have been sung in mother’s love but even that is not spared. What’s the character of that woman who throws away the boy in Ganges to save her father’s and her face?

There is no place for a mother’s love and the worst depicted is the height to which a woman has to fall down to save a man’s reputation. Its just a quicksand in which a man loses everything his pride, love, family in the name of power in politics.

It is known that a father and daughter relationship is unique; in a way that father knows whats the girl’s likes and dislikes. Knowing that Indu loves Samar Pratap who is the youger brother of Prithviraj. But the father takes the advantage of Prithviraj’s financial loss and puts forward the condition that Indu will marry the man who becomes the chief minister, then only, he will fund the party for the canvassing before the elections.

Well even the younger brother is at fault here. At first, he confesses his love for Indu but later on, marries her to his elder brother, Prithviraj. Samar Pratap then plays a game to avenge his father’s death and in the meanwhile he loses his love life, Sara and Prithviraj. Indu is at great loss because days before she finds Prithviraj’s love for her. Samar Pratap decides to back to US to complete his PhD so he urges Indu to fight the elections. After the death of Prithviraj and Sara, Brij Gopal comes to know the reality of Suraj Kumar (illicit son of Prithviraj’s mother) so Brij Gopal doesn’t kill him but Samar Pratap plays yet another game and kill both Virendra Pratap and Suraj Kumar.

So the relationship between Suraj Kumar and Samar Pratap  

So in other words, politics is such a game that it’s like playing a baccarat game. Here ppl go on throwing money unless their pockets are out and have no way out then only they go for a show of the cards. By the time the cards are shown one of them is sure to win and he does the show only when he guesses his win win situation.

A woman party worker uses her feminine powers to ensure that she gets a ticket to fight the elections. When this did not happen, she joined Virendra Pratap’s side and confessed in front of media that Prithviraj Pratap raped her.

In the Indian scriptures, a woman is highly placed wherein her power is used to seduce her lover but in moern day politics in India it happens everyday.

One thinks that how many times a girl, a daughter, a mother and a woman has to sacrifice her emotions, love, so that to keep the face of the male dominating her life. Any ordinary man cannot think of marrying someone else’s girlfriend nor can he allow his wife to sleep with other men so as to do his business successfully but since ages this kind of dirt is present in the Indian politics right from Nehru’s time.

There are enormous times of women questioning the male honesty. Indu does go to Samar Pratap to start a relationship when she comes to know that Prithviraj is not loving her but then when she comes to know that Sara is in his life then Indu finds her way out to love Prithviraj. But till the end, both remain faithful to their lovers. Samar returns to US with Sara’s mother after Sara’s death. Indu is pregnant with Prithviraj’s baby. That’s great if that happens in real life. I mean a girl only marrys the man who becomes Chief Minister. I mean what kind of male dominancy are we Indian women allowing and sacrificing even that illicit child from an married girl.

The overall cinematography and the costumes of the main characters are well addressed to the height of perfection. Actually the plot set out in the single party is also unique. It’s actually like palying a game of chess and using equal intelligence on the either side to get the power. The main character in this is Samar Pratap and how he gets back the power in his father’s name.

Raavan Review

Raavan is the modern story of the great Indian epic, Ramayan. Raavan is a demon who becomes so powerful through meditation, that is equal to God. So God decides to incarnate Himself in Lord Rama and then descends the earth with the prime motto to kill Raavan.

The movie is a fantastic piece of art and aesthetics. In this movie, each of the character either, Beera, Mangal, Ragini, Dev, or any other minor character is detailed out in an artistic way. Each of the characters here have their own pros and cons. Beera is an ordinary, uneducated man who ends up becoming a fierce enemy of the police because his sister is raped by the policemen on her wedding day. Ragini is the wife of the Superintendent of Police, Dev Pratap Sharma, who is kidnapped by Beera on her picnic. She is fearless and has her own mind and speaks it too. Dev Pratap Sharma is the Suprintendant of Police whose aim is to finish Beera by hook or by crook. Sanjeevani is the man who is on the both sides of Beera and Dev Pratap. He is man who is convinced by both, Beera and Jay’s way of fighting injustice.

The way, the main character of Raavan has been brought about by giving him less dialogues but more of words or sounds that clearly depicts his mood and his unpredictable nature of acting suddenly or landing up in a fight or ending up dancing in his sister’s marriage is uniquely and artistically crafted to perfection.

The character of Ragini in the movie is also artistically and aesthetically so well crafted that her fearless nature towards her own death and her strong will to fight against Beera and go bak to Dev is minutely detailed out to perfection that when served with such good cinematography and background music, the audience is awed by such a character.

Overall even side characters like Sanjeevani, Mangal and few of the main men in Beera’s gang have been so much detailed out to the core of the theme that only our five senses can appreciate them better than any words can describe.

 The second point appreciable is the totally unpredictability of each and every main characters action. It ended like Ramayan wherein Lord Rama is suspious about the piety and fidelity of Sita. That point makes Ragini run to Beera and fall in love with Beera. This is the point wherein sometimes one thinks that a demon is much better than God himself. How can one think of his own wife having an affair with a married, uneducated, wrong doing man.

This is the point every Indian man fails to understand in his marriage despite the fact that his wife cannot think of having an affair with some other man. In the end, Ragini falls in love with Beera on his death bed!!

On the whole, the movie is quiet an artistic piece of work since it is directed by Mani Ratnam, and Music Director A.R. Rehman.

The selection of the shooting sites, Tumkur in Karnataka or the great waterfalls in Kerela, Ooty, Jhaansi, Mahabaleshwar or Malshej falls in Maharashtra or the shooting of some of the shots. Like Ragini falling from a tree branch into the river, or Dev Pratap symbolically killing Beera in the newspaper with his cigarette, Beera tracing a pinch of fear in Ragini’s eyes for not killing her or Beera and Ragini having a conversation in front of the Great Statue of Lord Shiva.

The reason why both Mani Ratnam and A. R. Rehman’s collective work is a perfect piece of art is that whateer situation either of the duo gives the other, they search it out, work on its implementation and finally cater us the music and the dance keeping the theme a raging force behind each and every sound or the soundtrack that Mani Ratnam has directed the story about. This implies that the story strongly governs the music of the movie in order to make it a perfect piece of art and aesthetics.

A.R. Rehman has given such music background at the time when Ragini is all alone captured and left alone in the pit in the ground or may it be the soundtrack of Beera wherein Mani Ratnam wanted A. R. Rehman to introduce Beera as an jungle, unpadh, gawaar type of man whose logical skills have successfully turned him into a protector of his own men. The soundtrack of Kata Kata, is to show a rural wedding. So the music, the lyrics and the choice of singers also plays a very important role. Specially Ila Arun’s voice is a folkloric voice which is taken best advantage of.

Here again Mani Ratnam has shown a typical rural house, its entrance opening to a large courtyard and the mud house within it charpoi in the middle. Outside the house there is a tree with built in sitting space around; the small things that make a rural image. And the way the whole procession goes to a nearby temple to get the groom and the bride married and to feel that in our minds Mr. A. R. Rehman has given classic music using a fusion of folk music and semi classical touch.

Personally speaking, such a piece of art wrok finds its own way out to the its appropriate art appreciaters. Like a Heere ki keemat ek zohri hi kar sakta hai. Heera zohri ko aur zohri here ko dhund hi nikaalta hai at the end of the day.

Aakrosh Review

Aakrosh Review

Aakrosh is about honour killing. Well its one of those themes wherein we all have to go for arranged marriage in our own caste. The bride and the groom's faith is decided by the caste. Both a girl and a boy should marry in their respective castes. If they dont then their caste people will kill them to keep the honour of the caste. These people wont let the other caste not that certain people went out of the caste ans got married which is a shame to that caste. Now if the caste is the same then the horoscopes are matched. If the horoscopes match, then the families of the girl and the boy meet. And if they like each other's family background after a brief investigtion from both the sides then the girl and the boy are allowed to meet for the first time.

The criteria for the girl are very stringent. She has to be good looking. She should not be physically challenged. She should be proefficient in all the household work. She should be a virgin and should not sleep with any man untill after marriage. Otherwise marriages get wrecked. And there are no rules for the boys. This is what is heart breaking to me. They can fuck any number girls before and after marriages becuase they are the MALES, the superior sex of our country. And if all the above tests are cleared then the marriage takes place. Many of the times, the boy and girl meet each other on the first night and are forced to make love even if they dont want to. But most of the arranged marriages do not work. Because the main ingredient in the marital status is missing and that is LOVE.

If love does not exist thn its just a court of law's piece of paper and people regret it and keep it grudging for their rest of their lives. This is the main reason why majority of the arraqnged marriages end up into divorces or there is an agreement that both of them will be in a live in relationship with the persons they love. So the best thing for the bride and the groom is to get engaged in an arranged marriage and then prolong the marriage for about a year or so without seeing the horroscope just to know each other better. Because in our culture, marriages are a lifetime relationship.

 In a marriage the boy has to be best husband, the closest frnd and the best father to their kids and the girl has to be the best wife, mother to the her husband sometimes becuase after marriage their wife is their center of attarction and the wife should be so efficient that even if he is safe in her arms even though he cries, best frnd and mother th their kids. In every act that the husband does, the wife has to be supportive in his career, family planning, any plans for his kids. Marriage is a teamwork wherin both the husband and the wife be supportive to each others activities, feelings, needs, and collectively run their own family based on trust, friendship and love. 

The failure of arranaged marriages leads to a live in relationship. In a live in relationship, both the persons enjoy sex without commitment. They wnat to enjoy each other merely physically and make no committments. But then in the long run either of the couple starts expecting things from the other like marriage, kids etc and thats where the live in relationship ends resulting in two young talented, intelligent, modern youth of India in the dark dungeon of Depression. And if during the relationship the girl gets pregnant then she is blamed fully for it because the guy just wanted to ahve sex not kids in that relationships. But in such relationships, both the guys and the girls are at such an age that they are easily get dragged into depression.

I am totally against this whole concept of honor killing and the arranged marraige thing. The reason being that I dont believe that the couple should marry if they dont love each other and see a bright future in each other. They should believe in each other more than worrying that their horroscopes will match or not. Marriage is carefully choosing one's life partner in the present tense so that the rest of the life is easy in the future tense because one is already in love with his or her spouse. Why should a someone marry that person whom he doesnt like to talk even. Thats mind boggling.

What if the begining few years in a marriage are successful and the after years are dreadful that both of them end up in live in relationshhips.

The main reason for the live in relationship to be popular amongst the young generation of India is the phobia of arranged marriages, the fear of the honour killing and ecoming outcaste. Well becoming outcaste is not an insult and truly speaking if tomorrow every one has an intercaste on intercultural marriage then the whole caste will destroy itself.

What have we learnt after 60 years of Indian independence is what this movie is showing. Such a grace. If today Gandhiji would be alive we would have killed him the instant he was born because he wanted to eradicate castecism. And here we are performing honour killing to save the honour of our caste. Its a viciuos circle that has to be brkoen. Releasing of such a movie is a shame to us. We have disgrace Gandhiji on this matter of honour killing. We dont deserve to call him OUR FATHER OF THE NATION.

Overall the movie was fantastic. Fabulous acting done by Ajay Devgn, Akshay Khanna, Bipaasha Basu and Paresh Rawal. The selection of the set and the appropriate use of light, sound and the dark effect are immensely impressive. The act of honour killing is very precisely dramatised.

When the thre guys are abducted from the isolated place, the people living nearby that area would not help because if they would help they would get killed. The reason being the girl is the daughter of the head of the panchaayat in that village and always bribing the police. So the police can do illicit bussiness of killing and man slaughtring the common man and the politicians briibe them with money and posts like DSP, ASP etc. Its the most shitty game being played by the politicians and the security of this nation so the common man's complaints are never heard and he suffers a lot at the end of the day. And even the court of Law is bribed so that the police and the politicians are on bail and can do whatever they want and be the same assholes the moment they are out of the court. So the woan in the end kills them all.

Well I am not with that lady but there is actually no way out for the common man to get justice. So she is right. But had the police and the politicians been cooperative and sensible the common man does not be that hostile. Now the situation is no one listens to the common man and when he picks up the weapons they (politicians and the police) encounter him saying he was a terrorist. 

This is the main reason why the cream of India dont want to go for IAS, Army, Political Science instead they would prefer to be a clerk in a bank or a simple poen, and be the master in hs own field say Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Medical Sciece, Architecture. earn his living, fulfil his family needs and relax. And if his talents are not recognised here then he will move ab\road earn his name and the India will say that yes this Mr. X is an Inadian and we are proud of him because he is one of us. So hw do you expect the parents sending their kids on the 15th August and 26th January to hoist our Tricolour??? That way the Canadians are better atleast they value their common man's life. N the Palestinians are great because even if 13 poeple are killed by Isrealis they will kill 50 showing their utmost concern for the common man.