Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Where are the Moolahs, Maulvis, Fathers and Pandits ?

A small scene in the movie or a small article in the media can hurt the sentiments of our people, for which they can destroy marketplaces, stop the trains and transport, close the schools and colleges and can bring the whole life to a standstill. Reason, they site is that it has hurt the sentiments of the people/religion/nation or whatsover it is. And whatever they have done is the reflection of the national sentiment.
Does a small cartoon or picture or a writing has such a sentiment?
Recently in Kendrapara, a district in Orissa, some people of a community didn't participate in the Pulse Polio Immunisation Camp, saying that it may retard the growth of the child and lead to impotency. After much counselling by the health workers, some sent their daughters but not their sons. This is the level of knowledge and literacy there, it was a national press item, but where were our maulvis and pandits. I don't think this can be of any cause for them to come forward.
Till our so called messiahs and godfathers behave in such way, India can never be free from such dreaded diseases. A day will come when every second person in the country will have an HIV infection and the disease like Polio will be found only in our country.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Fanna: Dekhna Hai Manna - Lekin Zaroor Dekhna

Fanna...BJP...Narmada Bachao Andolaan...Aamir Khan...Burning Effigies..All News Channels......Discussion forums...Wah Kya Publicity Hai !

The more you restrict the people, the more is the curiosity. The same thing happened with Fanna, there was a blanket ban to screen the movie in Gujarat but people watched it, and will watch it. Maybe not in the theatres, pirated DVDs hai na.

I too watched it ! of course I never miss a Aamir Khan movie, but there was lot of curiosity to watch it in the first week, rather than waiting for some more time. Media Zindabaad!

Fanna !
Shero Shayari ka Kya kehana


Movie is good, editing is good, cinematography is excellent...the story has many flaws, but overall a good one to watch.

Kajol is Blind, she is blind even after she gets her eyesight back, she never even thought how a Muslim person, a local city guide ( maybe 10th pass or graduation without honours)... can return in the form of a Hindu Army Captain after the interval. Kajol's house is like those cindrella stories which we used to visualize while reading comics ...a beautiful house, snow falling outside the window panes and with all the modern amenities..... The location of the house is such that there is neither a single shop nor any market nearby but the house is completly stocked with all the items right from stacks of Whisky bottles for apna Rishi to fried cashewnuts. Even after a heavy snowfall outside, the electric power in the house is there for 24 hours, as well as the NDTV 24X7 channel (a paid channel) which you usually don't find in most of the two or three tiered towns.

Aamir khan and his kid can take hot shower and bubble bath in the bathtub but poor Kajol has to fetch a bucket of water from the nearby flowing stream. The retired Colonel has a Radio signal in his house, I wonder why and who has given him the permission, at least the HAM radio would have made some sense. Aamir Khan can become a Captain in the regiment in the place of someone...Vow he can become anyone and anything ..Zaroor Shaktimaan hoga.

Well ! enough of critics...Movie is good...the old lucknowi moolahs with Hookhas ( the la-hol-vil-ku-vat types) will definetly like the shero shayari as well as the broken hearts, who can rewind the dialogues, note it down and can put in the love letters and slam books to impres their dilrubas.

Kajol is gorgeous...Costumes are nice.....specially the lengthy embroideried skirts. Taboo's role is simply waste

Everyone dies in the end, except Kajol and her kid. Now if you want me to make a sequel of this movie, what will Kajol do to earn her living

Bheek or Moojra ?

Movie is a good entertainer for a weekend ( popcorn ke saath)