Wednesday, January 27, 2010

India’s Changed Sur

Well I am one of those who grew up watching “Mile sur mera tumhara” on the Indian television since the year 1988…It was a new concept for the then, monocular television and captured the imagination of the audience.



Which has been now rehashed to…




Two cents of my imperfect observation:
• IST: Time has never been of essence in Indian culture. Also Population has increased in the last 22 years, enough to evolve an almost 6 min feature to 16 min 30 second song
• Family Values: You only add value to the society (and such features) if you belong to the right family :)
• Real and Reel: In India what shines is Bollywood then who wants to showcase the makers of India: the brains behind aerospace, agriculture and medical research, metro creators, the politician, human right activist, NGO managers, IT CEOs who placed India on global map, armed force personal, martyrs, policeman, educators, engineers, doctors, business person, sportsperson and the common man
• Skills: Bollywood actors can’t act when provided with two soulful lines. Give them three and a half hours of masala movie and they bring it to life.
• Transition: Clothing, music instruments, music (... nothing else was showcased) seems to show transition( read confusion, why else will someone wear a short designer dress to a local water body or a vest to school)

Why can’t we have following scenes in an “Indian” song?
• A gynecologist delivering a baby.. Figurative of our enriched human resources .. :)
• Metros, malls, luxury apartments, hotels and flyovers
• Map of Complete India :(
• Traffic
• Kid picking up his bag for school
• Students checking admission list
• Old parents showing on map the city in US where there kids stay
• A common man handing out 500 Rupee note to the vendor for a bag full of vegetable
• Taps without water and jungles without wildlife
• Widespread mobile usage
• Car dealers and laptop salesmen working over time
• Wedding celebrations
• Cutting chai and barista
• Roadside hawkers
• Sea of Commuters
• Interiors of the branch office of Global brands
• Street cricket

And say what we mean …

Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Flaw called Humility …

In life at any given point of time there is something you treasure, something you loathe, the one thing you really long for, something you wish would never change, something you feel is unfair, something you fell blessed about, something you know you have and something you don’t, something you dream for, something you accept and something for which the denial prevails forever…

The ability to sieve the encouraging from the ugly is what is called the positive attitude...

In more cynical words it is also the ability to dodge reality and see what you want to see…

In school, a girl with fizzy hair, in my class got a new haircut and proudly stated how her mom thought she looked like Madhuri Dixit.(Madhuri never had fizzy hair…). I remember the day very well as the same morning my mom refused to add sugar to my milk as she thought I was gaining weight. The two extreme reactions from the two moms left me confused…

Later I met some not so pretty, not so bright and not so accepted people who believed the contrary; these people are laughed at or ignored but the fact is they are actually blissful. We on other hand also demonstrate the same deficit and willingly accept in the hope of sounding smart, but are we?

The hue of life changes with the lens we see it. Then what harm can possibly dawn upon us for not calling a spade, a spade. Any way all of us are loved/hated, appreciated/criticized, detested/celebrated, so there is little difference in both state of mind except that one promises euphoria

If the fool’s paradise, is by definition a paradise then why not try it over the bed of thorns called reality

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