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 …
7 comments:
yeah...this new version is so celeb heavy....actual India is missing..
human rights activists, NGOs - all these achievers look good on paper but not on screen. Can a megha patekar wear a designer dress and stand next to a waterfall ... she might protest right in front of the waterfall ...
Now, i'm no Hindi expert but one thing u gotta observe is that the old one says "sur ki nadiyan behke sagar mein milen". There's no scope for integration in our land - its the seas (read overseas) that we present a united front ...
Yaaaaaaaawnnn...I can't comment on the video, I fell asleep half way through the first one. What were they thinking anyway? And what's up with 'Aishwarya Rai Bacchan' and her bashful expression even in this song? Yuck!
And you are right, if they wanted a new version of this song, they could have shown the newer India. Nothing patriotic about this video.
What? You gotta kidding me by saying there is a flaw in the new Sur! It rocks dude! As blank as the current state of our country!
Where there is Telangana, Marathi Manoos, Delhi minus Biharis and Section 370 for Kashmir, how can one expect the sur to gel.
I feel the song is reflective; As disturbing as the current situation of India.
As Russel Peter says it.. Mind Blasting!!! :D
I'm not sur-e what this all about.
Well written Priti
And I could see Deepika Padukone completely lifeless in her 2 lines .. I don't know what Shilpa Shetty was doing there .. It was pretty idiotic and boring
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