OLD MONKS -
Our country is so much spiritual that if you switch on TV early morning you will find so called  spiritual  leaders delivering messages to audience on majority TV channels , FM channels.Every channel has one hired spiritual leader , this is case with general entertainment channels like sony,z tv etc not in case with music channels.News channels hire astrologers to update their viewers about how their rashi , respective planets going to affect their day business.
Spiritual leaders with help of their rich institutions have established themselves in media industry , they have separate channels like aastha , sanskar, dharma etc.Spiritual guru's like ramdev, aasaram are not running NGO they are running kind of company which sells goods for religional practices , like companies. Theses people have large funding , land allocated to different departments , here followers work to please leader just to increase their importance in the institution.Majority of these so called spiritual leader's institutions have property worth crores while real NGO are lack of findings in India.

In India people always want someone who guides them about spirituality , teach them how to live better being a monk ,so many take advantage of these factors dress like monks and run their spiritual business and make money out of it . Those are now agitating against black money are themselves not cleared income tax departments's necessary documents Before following anyone one should cross that person , ask you consciousness what is correct and what is not 

how artificial Bollywood is 

I just saw trailers of Teri Meri Kahaani .The tagline is "thrice upon a love story", as the premise is set between 1910, 1960, and 2012.However there must be song according to the so called rules of bollywood masala films. There is a song "hum se pyar karle tu "in which shahid  seen dancing with group of boys and opposite to them priyanka chopra heroine of the movie dancing with gang of girls.

I was stunned by watching this. Period in which this drama takes place is said to be 1910, is the filmmaker is so stupid to ignore the fact that in that period women in India were not allowed to talk loudly in public forget about dancing in mob that too in street.Either film maker is unaware of this fact or he just want to sell his product so called artifact .

We usually observe such stupidity in Bollywood films , film makers here just want to make movies for mass audience and to fooling typical emotional audience.We have talent but some of our film makers are not using it to enhance of level of entertainment. There parallel theater and films are working on abstract concepts which commons can not easily get . There is only one amir khan in Bollywood who finds golden mean between social and commercial film , and thousands like SRK self proclaimed kings.

Vsion to Television

Vsion to Television

 Satyamev Jayate(indian telesion show) ...it had everything good anchoring , real life stories ,evidence , relevance , emotions , music , social awakening , message ,made in India concept of the show...if artist make proper use of television medium it may work in changing the image of TV from idiot box to informative box.

                    The show is kind of chat show based on social more specifically  domestic issues which could be avoided by counseling .Amir and his team trying to show and highlight the social problems which could be avoided by common man by possessing scientific knowledge  .However amir knows the family is the base of Indian society no matter what you religion is , he is trying to show issues to which large number of Indians are affected or could be affected .However Amir has not yet touched the issues which can only be solved by government like naxalism .The topic selection and its presentation is nice.Following are the sequence which show follows
1) Amir appears on TV sitting on steps just to make people feel Amir as their friend , philosopher, guide and not a superstar
2)Before starting the actual issue Amir gives his real life experience related to issue and increase his familiarity to audience and to issue
3)Amir gives introduction to the issue and explains with charts and statistics 
4)Amir invites 3 victims one after another of the issue to talk about before that audience are shown video clips which explains abut that person
5)Amir then invites lawyer, doctor, N.G.O to talk on the issue and different aspects are exposed to the audience
6)Amir then give concluding speech , give advice and and invites his artist to perform a song over a issue (generally it is seen that audience really get touched by the song and often cry )


The show reaches to audience through all the  channels of star including regional (with regional subtitles) as well as it broadcasts on dooordarshan.Amir chose non prime time TV slot to broadcast the show....show will be on sunday morning ..program will be of 13 episodes in which 10 have been shot ...and few episodes have tested on dumpy audience ...and re -produced 1st episode coz that was nt got favorable reply from sample target

Amir becomes emotional when victims tell their story

          It is criticism on the show that show has not showed the interviews of the persons who had committed crimes  a balanced show critics wants to see the other side of the crime .
The main unique selling point of the show is emotions as Amir khan says in advertisements “dil pe lagne chahiye” mr.khan is successful in provoking the emotions and causing people to think over the message .Songs are played at the end of episode are hits on you tube ,”oo re chiraiya “ by swanand kirkire for female infanticide, foeticide and “haule haule” by ram sampat on child sexual abuse are mind blowing and deserves standing ovation
However this is one of the sensible and informative sow on Indian television , I personally don’t miss single frame of this programme  , I hope will surely cause audience to think and make them introspective
Hope for the best
Vande mataram ,satyamev jayate

Dil Dosti Etc 

Our bollywood movies many times showed us unreal world .If film maker want to show college life then he shows happy go lucky groups with stereotyped characters. (1 stud , 1 diva , 1 nerd , 1 fatso ,1 simple girl,1 tomboyish girl pick up any random movie you will find this characters with or less difference)friendship is also been sweetened by bollywood , 2 or 3 best friends ready to sacrifice their lives singing songs.

In this backdrop some films are exceptionally well .Dil dosti etc is one of them .In this film story has been told by semi narrative way , one character of the story , apurv tells the story of his college life  .He belongs to rich business family , freedom seeking , somewhat introvert , flirtatious , searching meaning in every action that satisfies him.The main protagonist is sanjay mishra character played by shreyas talpade . He is bihari middle class student, some what conservative ,studying delhi university , IAS candidate but interested in college election and general politics .

story revolves around them .story goes like this

Apurva meets sanjay during ragging sessions , got familiar with him later got in to sanjay's close friends circle . Apurv , well in impressing girls , he meets one school girl called kintu in book store and started dating her , he used to go to brothel and later involved in sex worker "vaishali ".On the other side sanjay come across model  cum college student prerna  falls in love with her. Due to middle class values followed by sanjay , rich  modern prerna had fights with sanjay and some what start getting attracted to his friend apurv .Apurv doesnt mind flirting with his friends girl friend.At last when sanjay wins the election he search for his gf prerna and friend apurv . sanjay finds them in a room got shocked ask them reason for doing this sadly and angryly , he goes out and mysteriously found out dead on the streets.

However story deals with mentalities of the people belong from different social strata's . middle class values are always is subject of condemn for rich and vice a versa .I think problem lies here both groups maybe seeking dominance over the society and that's why the struggle is fight for survival .Being a boy who raised in middle class conservative family i can relate my self to sunjay's character not with apurv's character .In this struggle between mentalities , i found sunjay's view was right , i felt apurv's character is only good at exploiting the things and just want to use each and every thing   for personal enjoyment .

Sanjay's honesty in love , his greed for power really impressed me is the effect of the protagonist  portrayal of the role or is the effect of moral values imposed

Raktacharitra and Gangs of wasseypur : similarities and differences 
Revenge is the purest emotion as mentioned in Mahabharat Raktacharitra and Gangs of wasseypur are the movies which basically talk about revenge.In these two movie protagonist kill people , abuse them badly , reach high point in cruelty but they have enough reasons to get sympathy and because of those reasons its ok with the audience even if protagonist kill innocent people.It is said ' If you argue correctly you are never wrong ' this is 100% true in this case.

However both these movies are dealing with post Independence era and power struggle.Raktachritra is about Paritala Ravi criminal turned politician from Andhra Pradesh who takes revenge of murder of his father and brother.Gangs of wassepur(GOW) is power stuggle between pathans , Qureshi and Ramadir singh .The basic difference between two movies is  Raktacharitra is for masses and GOW is for masses.The reasons provided for voilence in Raktacharitra are too simplified and one can easily follow the story that is killing pratap ravi's father and brother.In G.O.W.  killing of sardar khan's father is shown  but one needs to understand why sardar khan think he will not shoot Ramadir singh instead he says "kehke loonga "(will take revenge) .

In Raktcharitra pratap ravi's father shwon as Dalit leader who unites Dalit people living in anadpur  to fight against local MLA Naagmani readdy. In further scenes in movies struggle between Dalits and landlords is missing , two clans only fight for survival , revenge and for supremacy .In GOW Qureshi , Pathans are main rival but Ramadir singh emerges as a landlord,businessman,politicians who stirs the situation and become bahubali of the area.

Later Pathan fights with singh as well as Qureshi's to dominate the region.

The difference between protagonist is very interesting . Ravi's character in Raktcharitra is shown as man of his principles , there is scene where Ravi's girlfriend asks him ,'why didnt you say no to my father when he asked you do you believe in god, you could have answered yes and impressed my father.Ravi replies to her saying ,"I dont do things which I dont like "

Director has tried to collect moral support for the character for the violence he will be performing in later parts of the film.

Extremist and society

Men and women do not usally mingle in the ultra religious Afghanistan unless they are related and praties involving both genders are are and secret affairs.The Taliban during their rule from 1996-2001, had banned all the entertainment ,including tv and music and barred women from working , interacting with men other than family and leaving home unescorted by a male relative(Time Of India 28august 2012).

If we look at the extremist all over the world we can easily draw many common points

• ·         Extremists are always rigid , do not ready to change
• ·         World should run according to their will
• ·         Securing their interest is more important than others
• ·         According to them women must abide by all the norms to protect culture
• ·         They criticize others culture , try to others culture out of their community

Above are the similarities which extremist all over the world share. Like in India Shriram sena attacked youngsters who are coming out of club in Bangalore , the reason given was party goers were not in decent cloths. Now question arises what is correct measure for decency ? and in democratic republic country like India don’t we have a right to wear anything that comforts us ?

Extremist grow because there are sections in every society which are not happy with the changing situations they are orthodox which like to live in past. These extremist people take advantage of this and propose false ideology with using irrelevant information and weird logic. In  order to avoid this government must start direct dialogue with citizens .Some politicians have started what they called as “janata darbar” but is this kingdom and is leader a king to call it as a darbar ?There must be initiative for dialogues not for address.

Recently Mumbai police arrested criminals involved in raza academy riots , many of them are under 20, misguided by extremist ideologies .Instead of  filing criminal charges police offered them counseling. This was purposely done to show them how they were wrong and make sure they themselves will not attempt same things and will prevent others from doing it. That’s the power of dialogue  and a way to end extremism . 

Dahihandi - festival / sport / event ?????   what should we call ?

India is a country where politicians are lack of funds to build road , toilets but they have always money to spend on festivals rather showbizz evet such as Dahihandi.

                          Since last few years Dahihandi festival is growing like an inflation in Mumbai and its suburbs.Till now all the gullys , roads have their own Dahihandi , So when dahihandi festival comes political parties revive their so called charities and arrange competition.Main agenda behind all the political leaders arranging dahihandi competition is just get their name famous in their constituency.Without following moral restrictions and social responsibility over political parties all support and spend lakhs on the festival.

                          Some times govinda"s  (male/devotee player who takes part in the festival ), gopika (female player/devotee )gets hurt during performing their skills.Being marketeer rather than organizer spends more on marketing of the event rather safety.It is to good hear that some organisers are provided vima security to the players.

                         There is nothing wrong in marketing ones culture in limit USA have been doing it  since many decades .Dahihandi is not only hindu culture its India's culture we need to take to the world with removing unfair practices.Some politicians want to establish this as a sport .(huush ...good they are doing something).I think it can be sport but to include dahihandi in athletics, players , authorities , bodies need to work harder . 

Good wished to those who are w