Ok... i recently watched two movies that released... one was "A wednesday"... a really well made fast paced film by Neeraj Pandey and the other was "mumbai meri jaan" by apla marathi maanus Nishikant kamat...
I was thinking about both of the movies and realized of different they were in their treatment as well as their subject.. even though they talk about the same thing...not exactly.. but about 'bomb blasts' in general... both of them have mumbai as the city...
well other than the filmmaking differences.. i wanted to talk about the story and the perceptions of these filmmakers... for those who have seen both the movies.. one of them ends in a one minute silence by all the characters(which are common people) of the film and the other is of a common man taking a drastic step and blowing up few terrorists.. his point being that common people cant take this anymore and if the government/police wont take nay action, the common has to do so...
the two films even though they talk of the same subject, have absolutely contradicting endings.. in one.. it shows people living in harmony and accepting other people of different color,religion, race and the other shows a man taking a drastic step... so what is it that we live by.. do somethig or just sit and say"chalta hai"... hum sab bhai bhai... what is it that most of us live by??... after such an incident takes place.. we all live in fear and discuss such important issues( some of us dont eve n do that_) for the next few days... and then forget it... we like to believe( atleast I do) someone amongst us will do something to improve the predicament of our city/state/country... i like to believe that" i believe that i will be the one doing so"..this evidently is not true.. but it atleast makes me happy.. and then again get bakc to your life and forget all these issues... but its better off if someone else does the dirty work...
anwyay... let me end it at... if noone else there to criticise.. the best are the politicians...
thsoe damn fools dont do anything!!! :P
and i can sleep peacefully.... its not my fault....
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
first attempt...spare me the insults....
Ok... here goes.... my first attempt at blogging.. have been toying with the idea for a long time now... say maybe 2 years... well was looking for something to write about..Alas, I just realized..thats what my blog is... looking to write about something... anythiing.... everything.... no clue how long this endevour of mine will sustain but... here goes...
last week... on the great networking site "orkut"... i was cleaning up my scrapbook... in other words.. deleting anything and everything that had been written...while doing so.. i just realized.. in absolute filmy terms.. how my life flashed by me as i deleted the 2000 odd scraps... 30 at a time...its quite crazy i think.. how as i glanced over what all had been written to me over hte past one n a half years... i got mental images of myself in these different phases of my life...
now i dont want any of you 30 year olds telling me hwo one and a half year cant mcomprise of multiple stages..well for me it did.. it started off last to last december...you see many scraps from people who have quit orkut... and figuring out who it is quite wistful too... its shows up as a scrap written by "the user does not exist".. and there i sat wondering who spoke to me in what manner in that phase of my life... that in itself is a puzzle... fun i must say...
well getting back... the story goes on from december 06 to october 08... so its quite ggood to read all your messages from people who for all you know.. dont even remember you now...( just to check that i have messaged a few of them...I HAVENT GOTTEN A REPLY AS YET...GRRRR)... well as i went along.. i read and noticed how my close relationships have changd... my friends circles have changed.. and how people have changed... me most of all... in day to day life i would never realize this.. but jus doing this simple delete delete delete... it showed me how my life.. along with others has changed..some peoples' drastically and others subtly... but PEOPLE DONT REALIZE MAYBE....
i guess i end with the ever so cliched line.... ce la vie.....
last week... on the great networking site "orkut"... i was cleaning up my scrapbook... in other words.. deleting anything and everything that had been written...while doing so.. i just realized.. in absolute filmy terms.. how my life flashed by me as i deleted the 2000 odd scraps... 30 at a time...its quite crazy i think.. how as i glanced over what all had been written to me over hte past one n a half years... i got mental images of myself in these different phases of my life...
now i dont want any of you 30 year olds telling me hwo one and a half year cant mcomprise of multiple stages..well for me it did.. it started off last to last december...you see many scraps from people who have quit orkut... and figuring out who it is quite wistful too... its shows up as a scrap written by "the user does not exist".. and there i sat wondering who spoke to me in what manner in that phase of my life... that in itself is a puzzle... fun i must say...
well getting back... the story goes on from december 06 to october 08... so its quite ggood to read all your messages from people who for all you know.. dont even remember you now...( just to check that i have messaged a few of them...I HAVENT GOTTEN A REPLY AS YET...GRRRR)... well as i went along.. i read and noticed how my close relationships have changd... my friends circles have changed.. and how people have changed... me most of all... in day to day life i would never realize this.. but jus doing this simple delete delete delete... it showed me how my life.. along with others has changed..some peoples' drastically and others subtly... but PEOPLE DONT REALIZE MAYBE....
i guess i end with the ever so cliched line.... ce la vie.....
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