Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Awefome Kameenapan!!!!



Firstly forry for the late blog...but better late than never...

As I sat down to watch another VB (yaar apna Vishal Bhardwaj) flick in Fame Lido, Bangalore I was expecting another good movie from the brilliant VB but he proved me wrong. It was not good it was fcintillating, fuperb, awefome!!!

From the starting monologue "ye duniya badi kutti cheez hai aur if duniya mein kutton ka firf ek hi jawaab hai.....Kaminey" to the end "naam hai Fophia aur ye 'f' ko 'f' nahi bolti" Kaminey is a masterpiece, a roller coaster ride where you don't get time to catch a breath. Story, dialogue, acting, music, lyrics, cinematography, editing, everything is awefome in this Kameeni film.

Kaminey is about Shahid Kapur as G...g..g.. Guddu (he stutters) and the awefome Charlie (he lisps..bachpan fe hi 'f'(s) ko 'f' bolta hai..). Charlie is a gangfter who dreams of becoming a bookie at the race course whereas Guddu works for an NGO and is in love with Sweety (Priyanka Chopra is great in the role of a fiery Marathi girl) who is the sister of another gangfter cum aspiring politician Bhope Bhau (Amole Gupte delivers an outstanding performance) who hates immigrants in his city especially from UP. For Guddu, Charlie is as good as dead and for Charlie, well this line says it all-kaali billi agar rafta kaat jaaye to thik hai par agar uf manhoof ka chehra dikh jaye to maiyyat pakki hai... Kaminey is also about Charlie and Mikhail. Chandan Roy Sanyal is just fantastic as the coke addict mental best friend be it the friendly mini-fight scene before the dhan te nan song at the discotheque or the scene where he calls himself Tope Bhau. Kaminey is about that fateful night when the lives of all these characters get entwined in an absolutely Kaminey way.

VB has done an awesome job with the script based on an idea by Cajetan Boy, a writer from Nairobi and keeps viewers clued to the screen with the twists and turns. The dialogues are just mind blowing. Charlie says "ye life badi kutti cheez hai", "pefa kamane ke do raafte hain, ek fortcut or doofra chhota fortcut", "Vaat tab nahin lagti jab tum koi raafta chunte ho, vaat tab lagti hai jab tum koi raafta chhodte ho". Sweety says "to kya maine tumhara rape kiya hai?"

The music and background score as expected from VB is awefome. Starting from the superhit Dhan te nan to the title track Meri aarzoo kameeni, mere khwaab bhi Kaminey and the ballad pehli baar mohabbat ki hai, the music is superb. Gulzar saab as usual has penned down outstanding lyrics be it the title track or Fatak, the song about aids awareness. The background score uses Dhan te nan to good effect and even the peppy song duniya mein logon ko..dhoka koi ho jaata hai. Tassaduq Hussain's cinematography is brilliant. The way he has captured the rain-drenched Mumbai adds to the entire experience of watching this superb flick.

All i would like to say is go and watch this movie in the theatre to enjoy the cinematic brilliance of Vishal Bhardwaj and you will come out singing Dhan te nan.......

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Samvatsari Aaj Kal..!!!

August 24, 2009 : I observed a fast on Samvatsari like every year. My sis, cousin and I were sitting idle at home watching Love Aaj Kal which was about Love of the past and Love in 2009 when I decided why not write a blog on Samvatsari Aaj Kal becasue so much has changed in the manner in which Samvatsari is spent. So here I go......

Samvatsari Kal -
Samvatsari is the last day of Paryusana(or colloquially Pajushana) - the eight or ten day festival of Jains the day on which Jains observe a complete fast. The whole day was spent in prayers and contemplation. A yearly elaborate penitential retreat called samvatsati pratikramana was performed on this day. After the pratikramana Jains seeked forgiveness from all the creatures of the world whom they may have harmed knowingly or unknowingly by uttering the phrase— Micchami Dukkadam. As a matter of ritual, Jains personally greeted friends and relatives Micchami Dukkadam.

Samvatsari Aaj -
Cut to 2009. Samvatsari is the last day of Paryusana(colloquially Pajushana) - the eight or ten day festival of Jains the day on which Jains are supposed to observe a complete fast. As a matter of fact many don't observe a fast and instead observe an ekyashana (eat once in a day) and so many others don't even bother to observe ekyashana. The whole day is spent watching tv, movies, chatting with family and friends and waiting for next morning when we can finally eat/drink. This is the story of most of us, exceptions being elderly and religiously inclined people who spent the day in prayer and perform samvatsati pratikramana like my Grandma. After the day is spent doing nothing we go off to sleep to get up exactly at sunrise(sometimes even earlier) to break the fast and then we eat to our heart's content. The fun part is normally we might never get up this early but then the empty stomach can do wonders :D As a matter of ritual, we still personally greet friends and relatives Micchami Dukkadam and/or Khamat Khamna but the personally usually means sms/phone calls instead of personal visits of yesteryears.

I am no staunch follower to question what is right and what is wrong in Samvatsari Aaj..but what the heck of a difference in Aaj and Kal !!! and yeah...if i have knowingly or unknowingly hurt you or your feelings by this blog...Khamat Khamna !!!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Bangla Bandh!!!!

Friday July 17, 2009. First time in 400 days the office was closed for an unofficial reason. The reason - a Bandh called by Congress to protest against the attack on its MLAs at Mangalkot. Buses were burnt, roads blocked, vandalism was the order of the day with the police just watching the tamasha like impotents. The city has become a playground of political clashes, even as reports of vendetta and violence pour in every day from other parts of Bengal. The 24 hours that i had to spend indoors caused me to think a lot about this brouhaha and I have got certain questions and answers (from the administrators of Bengal) :

Q: Why could not the police stop the vandalism?
A: The police say they did not have any instruction (so expected of the Calcutta Police) to deal strictly with the vandals.

Is it not the constitutional duty of the police to protect the public and public property? or is the bandh like an emergency for the police force where constituional laws stand dormant and the law of the President (here the party who called the bandh) is the law of the land. why are you being mere spectators to such lawlessness?

Q: How were the Congress MLA's attacked in the first place since adequate police cover must have been there?
A: DG, Police Bhupinder Singh says,"maybe police were outnumbered".

(Bravo Mr. Singh!! what a million dollar answer!! huh :| how much more incompetent can the police force become?)

Q: Why did public owned buses not ply as promised?
A: "Yesterday, so many buses had been damaged and set on fire. So we decided not to bring out state transport buses today. There was insecurity."-Sumantra Chowdhury, transport secretary.

Great job CPI(M). if you are afraid how the hell will you protect the citizens of West Bengal who have been electing you for decades?

Q: Why did the Congress resort to violence to protest against violence?
A: ------------

Reason unknown as even the Congress cannot justify this one. After all who can justify such vandalism which cripples the entire state machinery?


Q: Why did not the Govt. take a proactive stand?
A: “The people’s recent mandate (Lok Sabha polls) didn’t empower us to take strong action to ensure peace and normality. Let voters now judge the worth of those they have invited to replace us.” - a secretariat member.

So are you taking revenge for your loss in the Lok Sabha polls? I believe you don't want to win the Asssembly polls either because some more incidents like these and the people will surely elect a new Govt. after decades.

With a brave Govt. and even braver police force like ours, Bengal will surely prosper beyond measure... :|

Wait!!!!! I have been blaming the state machinery all this while but what about us citizens? Why are we sitting quiet? Why are we so afraid to step out of our houses during bandhs? Do you think the vandals can actually harm lakhs of people if we all step out? Why are we electing the same stupid Govt. again and again? Don't you think its time for a change of ideas and ideals?
Watsay people????

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Truth or Lie ...don't know but very interesting

"the following piece is not written by me. it is composed from excerpts by other writers"

Very Interesting History!!!!!

At the very beginning of his book, 'The Nehru Dynasty',
Astrologer K.N. Rao mentions the names of Jawaharlal's father and grandfather.

Jawaharlal's father was believed to be Motilal and Motilal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru.

We all know that Jawaharlal's only daughter was Indira
Priyadarshini Nehru; Kamala Nehru was her mother, who died in Switzerland of tuberculosis. She was totally against Indira's proposed marriage with Feroze. Why? No one tells us that!

Now, who is this Feroze? We are told by many that he was the son of the family grocer..The grocer supplied wines, etc.. to Anand Bhavan (previously known as Ishrat Manzil) What was the family grocer's name?

One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers, the paternal and the maternal grandfathers. In fact, the paternal grandfather is deemed to be the more important grandfather in most societies.

Why is it then, nowhere, we find Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather' s name? It appears that the reason is simply. Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather was a Muslim gentleman from the Junagadh area of Gujarat.

This Muslim grocer by the name of Nawab Khan, had married a Parsi woman after converting her to Islam. This is the source where from the myth of Rajiv being a Parsi was derived. Rajiv's father Feroze, was Feroze Khan before he married Indira, against Kamala Nehru's wishes. Feroze's mother's family name was Ghandy, often associated with Parsis and this was changed to Gandhi, sometime before his wedding with Indira, by an affidavit.

The fact of the matter is that (and this fact can be found in many writings) Indira was very lonely. Chased out of the Shantiniketan University by Guru Dev Rabindranath himself for misdemeanour, the lonely girl was all by herself, while father Jawaharlal was busy with politics, pretty women and illicit sex, the mother was in hospital.

Feroze Khan, the grocer's son was then in England and he was quite sympathetic to Indira and soon enough she changed her religion, became a Muslim woman and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque. Nehru was not happy, Kamala was dead already or dying.

The news of this marriage eventually reached Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (better known as Mahatma Gandhi) . Gandhi urgently called Nehru and practically ordered him to ask the young man to change his name from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with change of religion, from Islam to Hinduism for instance. It was just a case of a change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze
Khan became Feroze Gandhi.

The surprising thing is that the apostle of truth, the old man soon to be declared India 's Mahatma and the 'Father of the Nation' didn't mention this game of his in the famous book, 'My Experiments with Truth'. Why?

When they returned to India , a mock 'Vedic marriage' was instituted for public consumption. On this subject, writes M.O. Mathai (a long-time Private Secretary of Nehru) in his renowned (but now suppressed by the GOI! ) 'Reminiscences of the Nehru Age' on page 94, second paragraph: ' For some inexplicable reason, Nehru allowed the marriage to be performed according to Vedic rites in 1942. An inter-religious and inter-caste marriage under Vedic rites at that time was not valid in law. To be legal, it had to be a civil marriage .'

It's a known fact that after Rajiv's birth Indira and Feroze lived separately, but they were not divorced. Feroze used to harass Nehru frequently for money and also interfere in Nehru's political activities. Nehru got fed up and left instructions not to allow him into the Prime Minister's residence Trimurthi Bhavan.

Mathai writes that the death of Feroze came as a relief to Nehru and Indira. The death of Feroze in 1960 before he could consolidate his own political forces, is itself a mystery. Feroze had even planned to remarry.

Those who try to keep tabs on our leaders in spite of all the suppressions and deliberate misinformation, are aware of the fact that the second son of Indira (or Mrs .Feroze Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi was not the son of Feroze. He was the son of another Muslim gentleman, Mohammad Yunus.

Here in passing, we might mention that the second son was originally named Sanjiv. It rhymed with Rajiv, the elder brother's name. It was changed to Sanjay when he was arrested by the British police in England and his passport impounded, for having stolen a car.

Krishna Menon was then India 's High Commissioner in London. He offered to issue another passport to the felon who changed his name to Sanjay. Incidentally, Sanjay's marriage with the Sikh girl Menaka (now they call her Maneka for Indira Gandhi found the name of mythological Lord Indra's Court dancer rather offensive !!) took place quite surprisingly in Mohammad Yunus's house in New Delhi. The marriage with Menaka who was a model (She had modelled for Bombay Dyeing wearing just a towel) was not so ordinary either.
Sanjay was notorious in getting unwed young women pregnant. Menaka
too was rendered pregnant by Sanjay. It was then that her father, Colonel Anand, threatened Sanjay with dire consequences if he did not marry her daughter and that did the trick.

Sanjay married Menaka. It was widely reported in Delhi at the time that Mohammad Yunus was unhappy at the marriage of Sanjay with Menaka. Apparently he had wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his choice. It was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay died in the plane accident.

In Yunus's book, 'Persons, Passions & Politics' one discovers that baby Sanjay had been circumcised following Islamic custom, although the reason stated was phimosis. It was always believed that Sanjay used to blackmail Indira Gandhi and due to this she used to turn a blind eye when Sanjay Gandhi started to run the country as though it were his personal freedom.. Was he black mailing her with the secret of who his real father was? When the news of Sanjay's
death reached Indira Gandhi, the first thing she wanted to know was about the bunch of keys which Sanjay had with him.

Nehru was no less a player in producing bastards. At least one case is very graphically described by M.O. Mathai in his 'Reminiscences
of the Nehru Age', page 206.
Mathai writes:
'In the autumn of 1948 a young woman from Benares arrived in New Delhi as a sanyasini named Shraddha Mata (an assumed and not a real name). She was a Sanskrit scholar well versed in the ancient Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her to hear her discourses. One day S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru's old employee, brought a letter in Hindi from Shraddha Mata. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM's house. As she departed, I noticed (Mathai is speaking here) that she was young, shapely and beautiful. Meetings of Nehru with her became rather frequent, mostly after he finished his work at night. During one of Nehru's visits to Lucknow , Shraddha Mata turned up there and Upadhyaya brought a letter from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply and she visited Nehru at midnight...' Suddenly Shraddha Mata disappeared.

In November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent looking person to Delhi with a bundle of letters. He said that a young woman from northern India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out but left the child behind.

She however forgot to take with her a small cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were found. The Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined and was told they were from the Prime Minister.

The person who brought the letters surrendered them...'I (Mathai) made discreet inquiries repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts. Convents in such matters are extremely tight-lipped and secretive.

Had I succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father was.'

Coming back to Rajiv Gandhi, we all know now that he changed his so called Parsi religion to become a Catholic to marry Sania Maino of Turin , Italy . Rajiv became Roberto. His daughter's name is Bianca and son's name is Raul. Quite cleverly the same names are presented to the people of India as Priyanka and Rahul.

What is amazing is the extent of our people's ignorance in such matters. The press conference that Rajiv Gandhi gave in London after taking over as Prime minister of India was very informative. In this press conference, Rajiv boasted that he was NOT a Hindu but a Parsi. Mind you, speaking of the Parsi religion, he had no Parsi ancestor at all. His grandmother (father's mother) had turned Muslim after having abandoned the Parsi religion to marry Nawab Khan.

It is the western press that waged a blitz of misinformation on behalf of Rajiv. From the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the big guns raised Rajiv to heaven. The children's encyclopaedias recorded that Rajiv was a qualified Mechanical Engineer from the revered University of Cambridge . No doubt US kids are among the most misinformed in the world today! The reality is that in all three years of his tenure at that University Rajiv had not passed a single exam. He had therefore to leave Cambridge without a certificate.

Sonia too had the same benevolent treatment. She was stated to be a student in Cambridge . Such a description is calculated to mislead Indians. She was a student in Cambridge all right, but not of the University of Cambridge , but of one of those fly by night language schools where foreign students come to learn English. Sonia was working as an 'au pair' girl in Cambridge and trying to learn English at the same time. And surprise of surprises, Rajiv was even cremated as per Vedic rites in full view of India's public.

This is the Nehru dynasty that India worships and now a foreigner leads a prestigious national party because of just one qualification being married into the Nehru family.. Maneka Gandhi, though Indian, herself is being accepted by the non-Congress parties not because she was a former model or an animal lover, but for her links to the Nehru family.

Saying that an Italian (or any foreigner) should not lead India will amount to narrow mindedness, but if Sania Maino (now Sonia) had served India like, say, Mother Teresa or Annie Besant, i.e. in any way on her own rights, then all Indians should be proud of her just as how proud we are of Mother Teresa. OR
Saying that any other party which comes to rule India is better is again equally worse. The point is Indians who nominate the people to stand in these elections; and the people who vote their rulers (i.e. the authorities) must know that truth eventually come out some day. Don't allow the famous land of India (our motherland) to be looked down by others.

JAI HIND