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  18 years after the release of Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, IndiaFM Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burden- some detail of little things.
caught up with ‘Salim Langda’ himself - Pawan Malhotra and the film’s director Saeed Akthar Mirza. Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Clearly feeling nostalgic on reminding them of today’s date, the two shared with us what was special If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?
about this cult film for them.Though this moderately budgeted film produced by the NFDC could not I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
get a lucrative release because of stern competition from biggies, it did carve a niche for itself He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows he breathes but does not live.
in the time that it ran. “It was released at the Novelty theatre at Bombay. We got only a one week Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.
booking because a big film had left and another big film was coming in a week’s time. It was FIRST MURDERER: WHERE IS THY CONSCIENCE NOW? SECOND MURDERER: In the Duke of Gloucester’s purse FIRST MURDERER: So when he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out. SECOND MURDERER: Let it go; there’s few or none will entertain it. FIRST MURDERER: How if it come to thee again? SECOND MURDERER: I’ll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; he cannot swear, but it checks him; he cannot lie with his neighbour’s wife, but it detects him: it is a blushing shamefast spirit that multiplies in a man’s bosom; it fills one full of obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold, that I found: it beggars any man that keeps it: it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well, endeavours to trust to himself and to live without it. FIRST MURDERER: ‘Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the duke.
houseful till the last day last show”, says director Saeed Mirza. Adds Pawan, “Even in the 5th week, Come gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.
there was demand for black tickets in Aurora theatre in Matunga. And in Gaiety and Galaxy, except Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
the first show, the whole week was houseful. In Ahmedabad and Surat it ran for100 days.” The film Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,— Sweet is pleasure after pain.
was shot at actual locations in the inner alleys of Bombay. “We were shooting on the real streets in It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.
a very rough neighborhood. It was an incredible experience. People meeting you and opening their The rose is fairest when ‘t is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears.
hearts to you was wonderful,” reminisces Mirza. “We shot at Dongri but we never had any problem with The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing—and then they marry him.
the crowd. If we asked them to stand behind the wires, they would happily oblige,” said Pawan. One Every great man is unique.
wonders why the word ‘Langda’ (limp) in the title? Pawan explains, “Though I didn’t limp in the The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
movie, I walked a bit crookedly. I was called Langda for the peculiar style of walking”. He also Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
recollects a funny incident, “After the release of the film, I was once traveling in an auto and the Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
auto-driver said, “Sir, aapka paav to thik hai!(Sir, your legs are fine!).” And where did Saeed get Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.
the idea of a character of a crookedly walking thug being the main protagonist of the film? “Where SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus.
else but from the streets of Bombay. When you see young hoodlums in Dongri, Nagpada and Mohammad Ali When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart’s hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet, And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us?
Road, you wonder what makes them the way they are. It’s also a sociological study of young Muslim I’ve continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I’ve learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
hoodlums. The character of Salim Langda is a combination of several characters rolled into one. They Tell him to live by yes and no — yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
think they own the world but they are actually on a dead end street with no exit.” Finally, if one A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.
recalls, at the very beginning the film was dedicated to Safdar Hashmi. Pawan explains the And now someone’s on the telephone desperate in his pain Someone’s on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine Someone’s got his finger on the button in some room No one can convince me we aren’t gluttons for our doom.
connection “Safdar Hashmi was a Communist Party Worker in Delhi who also used to do theatre. He died The only difference between a rut and a grave is their depth.
in some industrial area near Delhi whilst he was performing a street show when he was hit by a Lathi We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns. Probably the origin of the slogan: Guns or butter.
on his head in one attack. So the film was dedicated to him as even Saeed believed in communalism True it is that many find some of the speech on the Internet to be offensive, and amid the din of cyberspace many hear discordant voices that they regard as indecent. The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs’ experts put it with such resonance at the hearing: “What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is that chaos.” Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. For these reasons, I without hesitation hold that the [Communications Decency Act] is unconstitutional on its face.
and Safdar was a theatre artist also. He was just doing his work of acting and people who disagreed At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
wrongly attacked him. Despite of not having an intimate relationship with Hashmi, Saeed, I and the The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.
others felt that this is wrong and nobody has a right to attack any artist and so the tribute was to You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
show support to this cause.” And finally out of curiosity we asked Pawan what was his remuneration Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
for this reasonably budgeted film and the actor doesn’t hide. “Rs. 10000 because it was an NFDC Humility, that low, sweet root From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
film,” he ends laughing. Also Read: Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro: Movie Review   I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

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