Monday, August 28, 2006

Zindagi aur maut to uparwale ke hathon main hai alampanah

Hrishikesh Mukherjee the great filmamaker of all times. The great entertainer of all generations who touched the heart of every cinema viewer with his heart touching films. Be it Guddi, Anand, Abhmaan or Golmaal his films carried a magic without the big sets and loud music. The films were from the life we live and not we aspire for. The characters taken from our friends or someone from our neighbourhood. The films filled with instances we face everyday in our life. But by adding his magic touch he made those instances memorable. He not only entertained, his films also carried a message a very important message, the message of love, compassion, sweetness and fun in life. The films he made still after viewing a thousand times have the power that can make one cry in the last seen of Anand when Rajesh Khanna's character is lying dead and the tape recorder plays " Zindagi aur maut to uparwale ke hathon main hai alampanah, hum sab to rang manch ki kathputliyaan hain jiski dore uparwale ungaliyon mai bandhi hui hai, kab kaun kahan uth jayega koi nahin bata sakta. Ha ha ha........."
Hrishikesh Ji has passed away after playing his role of adding sweetness to our lifes but through his memorable creations he will keep reminding us that life is to live and we should enjoy every moment of it.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Floods, Attacks, God having milk and Sea water turning sweet

The most amazing thing that has happened to India was the issues find their way too fast to talk shows, tv news channels. The way a cola bottle looses its fizz in a few minutes of getting opened the same way the issues loose their fizz in a few days because the news is made for the masses. The TV news channels show what sells, without any committment to the profession. The media is supposed to help irradicate what is wrong in the society. There are many more things to talk and make people aware of not only issues there are many things which people would like to know. There was a documentary on India based on th youth working at call centres it was shown on National Geographic, and it was produced by Canada Film Board. But Indian media has more time to show trivial things.

Every day there is a show like Khauf, Mano YA Mano, Kaal Kapaal Mahakaal showing things like rebirth, old haunted havellis, haunted individuals. Might be these incidents are true but what is the need to promote such things. The only motive I think its to reach to the masses of India who have been believing in such things and the TV shows only reconfirm and solidifies their believes. The TV channels atleast the Hindi news channels are not contributing to the society through these efforts of theirs. I atleast dont think so. If anyone has any other views do put ur comments.