Friday, September 21, 2012

OMG : old wine in new bottle 
 Oh My God is a 2012 Bollywood satirical-comedy-drama movie that satires organized religion directed by Umesh Shukla. 
The movie's story is about the atheist who owns idol shops (mainly hindu god idols )and his arguments asking god to pay for his shop's damage in earthquake.He decides to ask to pay penalty to god because  insurance company replies him that earthquake comes under act of god for which insurance company is not liable to pay back to its customers.And then kanji decides to fight legal battle against god who caues damaged to his shop.The story revolves around kanjilal's character , his atheism and making fool of people to sell idols ,his decision of sending legal notice to god and agents o god means priests of different religions , his emotional struggle with family , Gods entrance in his life .
Story of filing case against god and opposition by priests , societal pressure are shown in typically Bollywood manner , the heroism which kanji's character gets after proving his some points in court is now generally used to many film to highlight importance of mass media in contemporary times.In one scene where kanji inspecting  demolished site of his shop with his colleague and kanji fights  with his rest family over his act of blaming the god in front of public.Wise man whos  source of income is demolished would care about the the shop wont fight with family that too in public.some times Director using old used formula to attract the audience that is dance sequel by sonalshi and  Prabhu Deva .
Movie fails to establish emotional relationship between god and kanji.In last scenes only we came to know the relationship between god and kanji the protagonist in the movie.It would be more entertaining if audience were exposed 

Thursday, September 20, 2012

India Against System ? 
Since the last year number of NGO's gather under the banner of India Against Corruption to fight against scams and scandals happening in country mostly by political leaders. The last year in 2011 when India won the world cup after that there was empty space in media at the same time there was campaign by this group of NGO's started in Jantar Mantar to amend Lokpal Bill. Delhi based news channels give exclusive and wide coverage to their protest , surprisingly after the ,media exposure supporters drastically increased and the movement went become mass movement ,there are some more points to look out 
1) Electronic Media's helping hand - 
After the media exclusive coverage and time to time update about the movement it became "event" were some people came just to get opportunity to screen on TV, there were food stalls ,people came in freedom fighter's attire, celebrity turning up on the stage shouting slogans against corruption , By seeing this drama many people posted this video on social networking sites ,discussing started over it this all happened because of electronic media's attention.
2)Anti Politician Attitude 
Generally we are told in India politics is last stop of all gunda's so many people just hate politics and politicians , they dont vote and completely negative approach towards he system unfortunately that class is middle class and upper middle class .IAC put forwards this thought only in different tone of Lokpal and asking government to change the system
3)Organizers’ failure 
The movement did not have clear cut ideology or program to give to their supporters .The only demand was for Lokpal bill and to punish corrupt politicians but movement did not talk about corruption in the other fields may be to secure their funds .Failure of these resulted in violence against media who showed faults of the movement from the battle ground ,many considered shouting slogan or candle march will work to amend lokpal and to punish the corrupt politicians but it did not worked . Organisers and leaders were only busy in gathering more and more people and gaining media attention and to remain in lime light , they fail to give ideological , long lasting structural base to the movement which will keep the spirit even if movement stops.
4)Political Party
After constant criticism on the system by the agitators , many asked them to come in the system and change then gave them challenge and it was necessary after the point when IAC was possessing extreme cynicism about the system .Many of the leaders want to work as a pressure group which will not join politics but look after the politics and take center stage to guide the common people and raised voice as a watchdog or whistle blower. Mostly senior members like anna , justice hedge , kiran bedi were not ready for electoral politics.The young blood in the organisation want to challenge established politicians by bringing so called common man in electoral politics , Kejrial by that time became important leader of the IAC .Many of political activist advised him instead of working as mere pressure group they need to join politics and give their supporters option in election in order to bring reform they want to. Forming political was never on the agenda of the movement agenda was amending lokpal to reduce corruption .
5)future
However kejriwal cant go in Indian Public with India Against Corruption name , they are working on the name till date.Kejriwal started his by party without announcing its name how strange it sounds !Kejriwal is now putting corruption charges on dominant and influential leaders in many parties.The name decides border for their party that is party will only to fight corruption its has not spoken its take on other matter such as social and religious issues .Only grabbing media attention can give them eyeballs not strong base , ideology ,structure to run a party

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

व्यंग चित्रे

Mr.Trivedi with his cartoons

असीम त्रिवेदी ह्यांची चित्रे व्यंग चित्रे ह्या प्रकारात मोडत नसून तिरस्कार चित्रे ह्या प्रकारात जास्त मोडतात त्या वर टीका होवू शकते पण चित्रे देशद्रोह होवू शकत नाही . इंडिया अगेन्स्ट करप्शन च्या तिरस्कार वादी राजकारणाचे हे परिणाम आहेत आणि सरकार चे अपयश .इंडिया अगेन्स्ट करप्शन ह्या संस्थेने गेल्या वर्ष्या  पासून केलेल्या आंदोलना मध्ये सातत्याने संसदीय लोकशाही वर अत्यंत कडक शब्दात टीका केली होती , मध्ये मध्ये पण टीका सुरूच असते .इंडिया अगेन्स्ट करप्शन ह्या संस्थेने मांडलेले लोकपाल बिल भारताच्या लोकशाही संस्थेला धक्का पोचवणारे होते , आणि ह्या संस्थेला त्या चे काही वाटत नाही .ह्यांचा मते संस्डते मधले सगळे नेते चोर आहेत , ह्या प्रकार च्या विचार त्यांनी मांडला आहे .news channels च्या माध्यमातून हा विचार अधिक प्रभावी पणे पोचला .news channels चा TRP टीम अन्ना मुळे वाढत असल्याने त्यांनी सुद्धा २४ तास अन्ना  आणि टीम ला कॅमेरा समोर ठेवला .कोणताच विचार नसलेल्या ह्या आंदोलना मधून जागृती झाली पण निष्पन्न शून्य .
               टीम अन्ना ने मंच वरून संसदेचा अतिशय  प्रखर शब्दात  निषेध  केला.जमा  झालेल्या समर्थकांना योग्य तो कार्यक्रम टीम अन्न ने दिला नाही .मोर्चा , निषेध , टीका , राजीनाम्य ची मागणी ह्या सारख्या तात्कालिक गोष्टींवर  वर भर दिला .ह्या चा परिणाम म्हणजे इंडिया अगेन्स्ट करप्शन समर्थक सरकार वर कोणत्याही पातळीवर टीका करण्यास शिकले .ह्या सगळ्या चा फलित  म्हणजे  त्रिवेदी ह्यांनी संसदेला संडासाच्या रुपात दाखवले .एकेकाळी संसदेला लोकशाही चे मंदिर म्हणण्यात आले होते आणि आता त्या चे असे रूप भागण्यास मिळत आहे .राजकारणी कितीही जरी वाईट भ्रष्ट असले तरी त्या चा अर्थ संसद आणि राष्ट्रीय चिन्हांवर खालच्या दर्ज्यावर जावून टीका करणे हा मार्ग होत नाही .ते निषेधार्य नक्कीच आहे , पण त्या वर देशद्रोहा सारखे गुन्हे लावणे म्हणजे अभिव्यक्ती स्वतंत्र वर हातोडाच आहे .१०० टक्के दिशा हीन सरकार  ला आता की करावे हे सुचत नसल्याने आपल्या विरुद्ध बोलणाऱ्या कलाकार , पत्रकार ह्यांना त्रास देण्या चा सरकार चा विचार दिसतो .ह्या प्रकारे अटक करून आपल्या वरील भ्रष्टाचार च्या अप्रोपा वरून लक्ष्य विचलित करण्याचा सरकारच्या डाव आहे   म्हणतात न "if you cant convince them confuse them "

Monday, September 10, 2012



New political situation -
Raj thackray is giving controversial comments on almost every event in maharashtra  earlier it was not like this .There is clear cut agenda behind this raj's action earlier raj's party was only working to get the votes of the people who want to try new political option and party was functioning as eating up votes in election.Now when there lack of opposition from opposition raj is becoming unofficial opposition in state and that too by public's choice.
                     Recently Raj Thackeray met shivsena leader and his cousin uddhav thackray , he met to ask about uddhav's health.In shivsena two main leaders balasaheb and uddhav are just recovering from major surgeries and it will take time to run party as earlier .Balasaheb is now very old and can not work as he used to be.Uddhav's style of operation sena is totally different from his father.Many party workers are having difficulties to coping up with uddhav's way and are actually liking Raj's aggressive way.In future time it might happen that both this parties come together and that will form alliance and they move out RPI from the alliance.BJP will only be hurdle for MNS and Shivsena if they want to get into alliance.BJP vote bank and Shivsena's vote bank is fairy same ,so shivsena might be playing hindutva card to that vote bank and make our vote bank sure about them.
new political situation will be difficult there will also be kejriwal's new party coming up.
One can now only do guesswork no one could predict the future . 

IBN lokmat prime time debate –
IBN lokmat is collaboration of network 18 ‘s IBM and lokmat group.This channel launched 5 years back and it was second Marathi 24 by 7 news channel .This channel headed by well known Marathi journalist Mr.Nikhil Wagale .
“Aaj cha sawal “(todays question) is the name of prime time debate show of this program. This comes on 10 pm Nikhil Wagale anchors the show. As other show this show invites all the related , concerned people .First anchor introduce the topic then sometimes video or news about the topic is shown and later debate starts .Show that 5-6 breaks and show is nearly runs for one hours , this program has given more importance as compared to other channels who rum debate show for 30 minutes or two debate for 20 -20 minutes .Nikhil wagale sometimes criticized for domination over the debate but sometimes to handle fight panelist it is necessary .When Nikhil Wagale is not available then Alka Dhupkar handles the show .Many people tune on this show to watch Nikhil Wagale on this show , one can say that he is the USP of this show.

Loksatta Edotorial content-
Loksatta  is Marathi daily of express group .Express group follows certain values for journalism those we can see in any medium of their media house. Loksatta’s  slogan is “lokmanya lokshakti that is well accepted power of the people .Loksatta has been political balanced and always projected itself as a intellectual newspaper. Editorials in this paper are following different page layout .In this paper Editorials come on 9th page , it has only one editorial below that they carry article on current topic by journalist or  people who are aware of current topic. There are two more columns on current topics which are type of editorial but given less important .Below that there is article on spirituality by “chaitanya prem” , he basically writes about hindu spirituality .Besides that they have a cartoon column there.
Editorials are usually carry centralist view point .Feature article which comes under main editorials are always worth reading , generally senior journalist like sunil chavke , prashant dixit writes in this space , on Saturday girish kuber editor of loksatta writes .Once in a week journalist frm paper its self writes on blog posted by people in Marathi to connect to e world and publicize  good writing. However editorial page of this page is most read according to one survey, one can easily get the reason by having look on the content