I had returned with disturbing thoughts after watching Khuda ke liye.. I felt I needed to do something.. I wondered in which world I am living.. So much was going around me, I was unaffected and so unawre, ofcourse I have read in papers, but never realised those things happen for real..The impact of the movie was within me for a couple of days, but then it dwindled away..
More movies came, Aamir, A Wednesday,New York.. all had similar tales to tell..Incidents like 9/11 ,26/11 occured, I was affected yes, but again, life moves on..I was at CST the very next day like many other "aam aadmi".
Today it has arisen again, I watched Kurbaan..I have never bothered to find out anything more about terrorism, than the fact that people turn terrorists for their long-lost rights, the twists thru which life took them etc etc.. It didn't occur to me ever,read, I consciously didn't bother, that there was one thing common to all these traumas, it was always something regarding a Muslim. I didn't bother because it was hard for me to generalize it like that, I have many friends who are
Muslims, and I have never heard even one of them say, how much trauma their comm face!I have never seen them have any problem just because they have a Muslim name,may be I've never been to the post-9/11-US, or for that matter, even outside India.. I actually don't know why all this hatred and revenge is for.. But somewhere deep down this is scaring me..I went to a Muslim ilaaka today to get my furniture and cant find any reason, but I was disturbed, shit scared to stand there alone..I somehow fled..What/who is responsible for this.. The same me, who has grown up in a Muslim dominated place, who has played with,spent most of my childhood with,friendly n nice people who believe in Islam.. The terrorists who are just a handful of Muslims, see the impact they create in the society. Whose rights are they fighting for? Rest of the Muslims, who live their everyday life peacefully, earning for themselves and their family, and who are suspiciously looked upon everywhere? As Vivek Oberoi says in the movie, this is not what Allah wants.. Khuda ke liye, I wish these acts see an end..
Nov 22, 2009
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ha ha ranjitha. so you bought the proverbial 'vadi' and got the well deserved 'adi' as well! good! for the non-mallus it shud translate as 'buying the stick (vadi) to get yorself beaten (adi)'.
ReplyDeletemovies/tv/print media all tamper with your brain and get yourself in a tizzy. but then, experience is the teacher. let me not lead anyone through short-cuts.
btw...no gyaan from me. i feel my presence here made your friends flee (as i see no more trp ratings for your blogs).
i recently saw the movie 'three idiots', with my wife and duaghter. we had a great time laughing and laughing (am seeing a movie in a theatre after about 10-15yrs). it was really worth it.
today i visited the auto expo 2010. it should be renamed 'auto-sexpo', i guess. the amount of female exposure and exploitation is too difficult to explain. as such my flight to delhi landed amidst 'kohra' (fog), the pilot having missed the runway start and having touched down halfway(luckily delhi has a 3 km runway). this morning it was thick kohra again and one couldn't see even the tip of one's nose. amidst all that i saw shivering models with chattering teeth dressed in minis and skimpies, exposed to the cold only for a few rupees more (just 10,000 bucks for an 8 hour exposure). and i saw a live cabaret at a popular auto mad!ker's stall (god! what does india want to showcase?...the booming numbers of auto models to take india into the polluted, pockmarked future or the semi-nude to almost nude models to take india's culture into the doomed future?) i have acrymonius tons to write about the event but that will be in another's blog. here let me be nice and good? maybe your young company would now resume their journeys through your pages?
bye and have a peaceful time.