Quick Gun Murugun, Mind it!

While browsing through Aamir Khan ( my favourite Bollywood actor and moviemaker ), I saw his latest post ( august 23, 09 ) in which he mention about a comedy flick named Quick Gun Murugun which he had watched recently.

In his blog he says "Just saw 'QUICK GUN MURUGAN'. Really enjoyed it. I think fans of the Channel 'V' character Quick Gun Murugan will love it. Its got so many rib cracking moments. And a very well pitched performance by the lead actor Dr Rajendra Prasad, and all the other cast. Its releasing on 28th so dont miss it if you are a Quick Gun fan."

I am a huge Aamir fan, and I believe whatever he says! So, I am going to watch it on the very first day, and will try to post my review.

Quick Gun Murugun is a comedy film directed by Shashanka Ghosh who earlier directed Waisa Bhi Hota hai Part 2.

To Jinnah with love, from Jaswant

I can understand the fascination of senior BJP leaders ( first Advani now Jaswant Singh) for Jinnah, as its impossible to believe that a cognac drinking and pork eating Muslim can become the demon that divided the country in the name of religion.

It can be impossible to accept the fact that India is divided by a man who opposed the Congress’s Khilafat agitation as he believed that it was endorsing Islamic religious bigotry. How come a modern, English speaking can be the sole reason for Pakistan existence whose Urdu was so bad that as one saying goes that when he once declared "Pakistan Zindabad!" he said it in such an anglicized way that most people thought he was saying "Pakistan's in the bag!"

How come he allowed his daughter and her daughter’s son to stay back in India, in spite of all the hatred and communal violence? There are many instances of Mahomedali Jinnahbhai life that makes him a westernized liberal Muslim, which must have fascinated Mr. Jaswant Singh to explore Jinnah’s true contribution to the great Indian partition.

It is not a new perspective of the events that led to the division of India, earlier also many noted academicians and writers (including Maulana Azad) have written about it in the similar line of what Jaswant Singh had.

What amazed me the time that Mr. Jaswant Singh deliberately chose to publish his research; at a time when BJP is going with its identity crisis, was hitting on the core BJP ideology is Jaswant’s way from becoming a senior marginalized party member to a revolutionist? Definitely, Mr. Jaswant Singh was aware of the consequence, otherwise he would not have reacted lightly. Was he thinking that an intellectual view cannot be seen as a blow to BJP ideology, as Mr. Advani, BJP's top shot have already been condoned of praising Jinnah as a secular leader in 2005.

It’s also sad to see that Jaswant Singh expulsion was finally signed and approved by Mr. Advani who himself once praised Jinnah as a secular leader. What is now making BJP warlike against one of its founder member who had served many cabinet minister ranks during the NDA days? Was it easy to kick out him as he made a view against the ideology base at which BJP sits as here is no one to support him in the BJP, after all he is a rootless politician, who had to move from the deserts of Rajasthan to the distant hills of Darjeeling for Lok Sabha rehabilitation.

I have not read Mr. Jaswant Singh's new book but who read and dissected it says that Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah is a little over 650 pages. None of the 20 odd members who comprise the BJP's think tank at the party's chintan baithak have read the book cover to cover. Had they read the fine print, they might have realized that the book is more a critique of the role of the Congress leadership during partition, doesn't eulogies Jinnah, nor does it castigate the BJP's new poster boy Sardar Patel.

One thing is for sure after telephonic expulsion of Jaswant Singh from BJP is that the party is going through an identity crisis and is desperate to establish its hardcore hindutva ideology, for which there seems to be no takers.

I am not here to support Jinnah or BJP, because as a young, educated and ambitious modern Indian I cannot be bring to boil on Hindutva as the Karsewaks and Sants of early nineties. I am sure most of the India’s youth is now focused on his career, dreams and life rather than BJP ideology of Hindutva. Whether Jinnah did it or not, it’s a history and let it be part of discussion of academicians and historians.

No Strings Attached!

Last week, I watched "Love Aaj Kal", a Bollywood movie that speaks about the meaning of love to our generation and how much it’s different to the love in sixties (1960-1969). At the core it talks about the journey of love, from realization to grand finale.

In the film, a modern, carrier focused and ambitious couple decides to break their relationship as they needed to focus on their carrier and dreams. They move to different continents after throwing a break-up party to their friends. As they settle into their new life, they tend to realize their love for each other, and eventually end up together after lots and twist and turns in a truly Bollywood style.

Is it really hard to get out of a relationship? In this film, they tried to make it easy by throwing up break-up party, then kissing good-bye forever, hoping for not see each other again. But, they made one big silly mistake; they kept talking to each other on phone, without a break, about everything. Come on! You have to be missing someone to make so many long distance international calls. It’s so stupid to first break-up and then start talking about everything in life over a phone or using INTERNET. This makes one more attached to ones ex instead of out of one’s mind and heart.

Lets face it, if you are breaking up with someone, you need to cut all your lines that connect you to your ex, otherwise you will never get out of it one hundred percent. It’s strange that our ultra modern and career centric generation takes love as a fast food, you have to just eat it fast and move it back to your life, which of course is not true. One has to face the bitter truth someday.

Suppose, that the couple of "Love Aaj Kal" decides to part their ways 20 years back when there was no cell phone and no internet, they would have had no strings attached to their break-up, and they would have lived happily ever after, far away from each other.

So, if you want to end, end it with no strings attached. :-)

Brothers Commitment!

Rakshabandhan aka the bond of protection is a Hindu festival marked by the tying of a Rakhi, or holy thread by the sister on the wrist of her brother. The brother in return offers a gift to his sister and vows to protect and look after her.

In my school days, Rakshabandhan would bring fear in the eyes of all cupids struck innocent teen, the fear of becoming Rakhi brother to the first love of his life. What happen if ones first crush think oneself as her Rakhi brother? What if someone has leaked my tender desires to the girl I love and to prove herself innocent she would come to me with a Rakhi. Also, there were girls madly in love with someone who sits in a adjacent row (my schooling was done under the watchful eye of famous Indian co-education system where a class room is divided into two mutually exclusive co-existing area based upon the gender or sex), feared that, Is he going to come with a Rakhi? and request her to tie her on his hand.

We really enjoyed making fun of our so called stupid friends, spreading rumors of someone intentions of tying Rakhi to the someone, the fear of those foolish eyes, the sadness of so called newly made Rakhi brothers and sisters, their bravado to accept the fate in front of bunch of jerks. No one ever dared to deny the request to become ones Rakhi brother or sister.

This was a scenario of a typical small city Kendriya Vidyalya, fifteen years back, in which I spent my wonder years. It was strange, yet true, that in our Co-Ed school, you can make friends only of your same sex. It was, you can say unaccepted, to have a close friend of an opposite sex. A friend to a girl can be a girl only and vice versa for boys. But, you can have a deviation if you became a Rakhi brother, it’s like a commitment from brothers side to the girls social circle that my intentions are pure and my love is brotherly.

It can look like a joke, but still these so called commitments from Rakhi brothers still part of our great Indian small town which constitutes more than eighty percent of our city population. I am not here to judge our society or culture but, can relationship between a girl and a boy be only limited to brother or non-brother.

Strange but true, still, if we see a girl hanging out with a boy, and we get to know somehow that, the boy is not her brother, we always smile at our intelligence and think "hmmmm... kuch to chakkar hai"( Something fishy is going around). Can a girl and a boy can never be best of best friends?

I have seen so called modern liberals doubting on a friendship of a boy and a girl, so, it’s only brothers commitment which is pure and genuine, and rest is JUNK.

It’s not about being ultra cool and modern; it’s about our mindset, which needs to get cleaned. Until and unless we are not able to accept the fact that a boy and a girl can be good friends or buddies without getting romantically and sexually involved, we cannot overcome this so called jinx.

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind?

Somethings that are not in our direct view or cannot be seen by our eyes get less important over a period of time........

Is it true that long distance relationships and the people that goes far away from you, are going to get out of your mind sooner or later?

Its been five years since I have started working for the same company. In the last five years many people came and left my team...and to my surprise.... at present I am not in a regular touch with any of those so called professional buddies, but there are a few, to whom I refused to get out of my mind as they were more than just professional buddies to me.

Five years ago, my life changed when I moved from a small old city to the buzz place, during the course of time I made friends, lost friends, missed my family, missed my pet, went to diiferent places of world where I coudn't have imagined to go when I was leaving my roots. But, my family, my pet and my dear friends were never gone out of my mind, as they literally were out of my sight

So, there are people who are part of your work/activity/routines (the replacables) and, there are also, the one who are part of your life e.g. best friend and your loved ones (the irreplacables).

Irreplacable never goes out of your mind even if they are out of your sight, but, replacable gets out of your mind as soon as you begin to write a new page of your life.