Bollywood

  Watching cine awards functions on TV is like having éclairs. You In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war’s rattle With groans of the dying.
pick one and decide not to have another, but by the time it has begun to melt in your mouth, you How can you censor my thoughts? What is right, what is not? How is it you decide, What I should feel inside?
hear yourself saying: Ok, one more and that’s it. Then one more, and one more. Similarly, when you Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
run into an awards function - there are a dime a dozen these days - while channel surfing, you say: Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
“Oh no, not again!” But when they announce one winner, you instinctively wait to see the next Always be ready to speak you mind and a base man will avoid you.
winner, and the winner after that, and so on. And even before you realise, you’ve spent about six The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
hours in front of the television, switching it off only after the Best Actor has collected his Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
trophy. I spent the entire day watching the Filmfare awards, even though I knew, courtesy Filmfare ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
magazine, who had won all the big awards. And I am glad I did so, or else I would have missed Javed Love is so powerful because being loved causes one to love oneself. Nothing contributes to the self-image more than being loved by another. When the words “I love you” are expressed to you for the first time, your world blossoms, your heart glows with inspiration, confidence and thoughts of the mountains you can move. It’s more than an emotional kick; suddenly you like yourself more than you ever have before.
Akhtar’s beautiful acceptance speech on getting the Lifetime Achievement Award. The film industry, An economist is a person who, when he finds something that works in practice, wonders if it will work in history.
he said, served the country like no one else. “We don’t engineer riots, we don’t blast bombs,” he Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
said. “We only give dreams to people. We also make them laugh. And at times, we let them unburden Adhere to truth, for truth leads to good deeds and good deeds leads him who does them to paradise. Falsehood is wickedness and wickedness leads to hell.
themselves by crying in the darkness of the theatre.” How true! No other industry champions national A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
integration more than Bollywood. Workplaces throughout the country, accept it or not, are divided Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
between cultures and religion. In states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, caste is the wall that often Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.
separates cubicles. In Tamil Nadu, the divide is often between Tamilians and non-Tamilians; and There was a roar and a great confusion of noise. Fires lept up and licked the roof. The throbbing grew to a great tumult, and the Mountain shook. Sam ran to Frodo and picked him up and carried him out to the door. And there upon the dark threshold of the Sammath Naur, high above the plains of Mordor, such wonder and terror came on him that he stood still forgetting all else, and gazed as one turned to stone. Fire belched from its riven summit. The skies burst into thunder seared with lightning. Down like lashing whips fell a torrent of black rain. And into the heart of the storm, with a cry that pierced all other sounds, tearing the clouds asunder, the Nazgûl came, shooting like flaming bolts, as caught in the fiery ruin of hill and sky they crackled, withered, and went out.
among Tamilians, between Tam Brahms and non-Brahms. In Kerala and West Bengal, the divide is mainly A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
political. Forget workplace, I know a family in Kerala where the father and son don’t get along Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. KJV
because the father is an admirer of Indira Gandhi while the son is a communist-sympathiser. But in We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Mumbai, all differences melt. Even as I write this, the song playing on my Winamp playlist is Kitne A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
bhi tu karle sitam. It is a hit song from the 1981 film, Sanam Teri Kasam. The singer? Asha Bhosle, Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
a Marathi. The composer? R D Burman, a Bengali from Tripura. The lyricist? Gulshan Bawra, a Punjabi. The major concrete achievement of the women’s movement of the 1970’s was the Dutch treat.
The heroine? Reena Roy, a Muslim. The hero? Kamal Hassan, a Tamilian who could barely speak Hindi Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
then. Together, they have given an unforgettable song that has no region, religion or caste. Time My soul, be not disturbed By planetary war; Remain securely orbed In this contracted star.
was when Muslim actors assumed Hindu screen names so that the Indian audiences could identify with Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.
them. So Yusuf Khan became Dilip Kumar But today a real Dilip has become a Rahman, and that has not To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society — reverence for life.
prevented him from becoming India’s No. 1 composer. As for the Muslim actors, they proudly flaunt What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
the ‘Khan’ in their names. Fathers can’t tell their daughters not to be crazy about them just The Time of Your Life
because they are Muslims. Ask yourself: does it ever cross your mind, when you are watching Rang De I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Basanti, that Aamir is a Muslim? Or that, Mohammad Rafi was a Muslim, when you listen to the songs Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.
of the 1950’s and 1960s? If we choose to be blind to such divides in day-to-day life, imagine what a If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
paradise India would be. The previous sentence might sound like a Sunday Sermon, but then, how many Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
of you know that one of the most popular Hindu devotional songs in Hindi cinema, Man tarpat hari The successful man is the average man, focused.
darshan from the film Baiju Bawra, was created by three Muslims? Shakeel Badayuni wrote the song, This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: “Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center.”
Naushad set the tune, and Rafi sang it. If a small nation called Bollywood can do it, why not India? God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Sriram Savarkar blog can be accessed at http://sriramsavarkar.sulekha.com/ If you have an Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. KJV
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