Friday, May 21, 2010

Aaya hai to jayega...

Hello all. It’s been a long time since we had a talk. Today I was totally drenched in the juice of ambivalency. It was the time when I happily went to board my train. I was overjoyed as usual. But due to the cyclone ‘Laila’, my train was cancelled. I was planning to go for next available train for Varanasi when I learnt that I have no time. My Grandfather had expired a few days ago and I have to reach there as soon as possible for his ‘Daswa’. My parents didn’t tell me this because they had a thought that I might lose concentration from studies and final exams. Now when I am writing this, the memories of my Baba (Yes that is what we use to call him with love) are just unfolding in a random fashion. The only solace is that his death wasn’t painful and neither his life was depended upon others. He was on his own till his last breath. It was past the midnight when he got a heart attack. He was immediately taken to a hospital where after a few hours, he said goodbye to this mortal land.
My Grandfather was raised in a middle class family where he was biggest among all his siblings. Naturally, he took the responsibility of all his brothers and sister. He had immense love for acting and he also did theatre for fun. He will be always a source of inspiration for me in time management. He was always used to outclass the young brigade of our family with his agility and quickness even in his sixty’s and seventy’s. He was in the habit of washing his own clothes and did every bit of his own work (irrespective of its genre). Although we have had several bashing and ass whipping sessions organised by him, but all that will now perish in the dunes of time and will leave behind its memories. Memories of love and him.
And one more thing happened. My semester exams were started on tenth of May. That day I told my friends a special style in which my Grandfather used to recite my name. It’s like ‘Binaaay’. (Vinayak was turned to Binayak in the first place and eventually ‘k’ went silent). So, they all started imitating it. Every time that special notation was used to call my name and it actually reminded me of him. It also continued today till we were unaware of the fact that he had left his holy body on Fourteenth. I felt like in whatever manner he was close to me in his last days.
Also my brother told me that he (Baba) said once that fifteenth May would be his last day. He died at four o’ clock on fifteenth. Intuition or what? Don’t know.
Anyway, this is the ultimate truth, You have to die some day. All that matter is how useful you can make your life.
In Kabir Ji's words:
आया है तो जायेगा राजा, रंक, फ़कीर |
एक सिंघासन चढ़ी चले, एक बंधे जात जंजीर | |
                                                            REST IN PEACE BABA.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Villainous Post.

OMIGOD, it’s here. May, the Holy month of Semester Exams, has arrived. This month, I bet, is named as ‘May’ because students are always discombobulated and agitated by chanting ‘I may pass, I may fail’.
According to my sources, impeccable as always, a survey conducted in India reported that the word, ‘May’, was taken exactly 18,743,902 billion times (Goats were not included in this survey). Had they been included, this figure would have crossed the amount of money our Honourable C.M Miss Mayawati has.
And leave that, have you guys heard songs of Ravan. Yo! In the name of Ravan, this time Rahman has stolen our hearts. He is the man.
Anyway, that was on a funny note.
Let me jump to today’s topic. While reading yesterday’s Newspaper, my eyes were stuck on a heading, ‘Dada Saheb Phalke award to the veteran actor Pran’. Pran was one of the best villains our Industry ever had. This compelled me to ponder and later, I triggered a debate, are we really losing our stereotype villains. By this I would like you all to conceive some scenes of ‘Koyla’, where you were get really annoyed by the atrocities of Amrish Puri. Not only ‘Koyla’, any film in which he played a grey shade character, you will feel like beating him black and blue, if you ever encountered him, anywhere. This is what the charisma of a villain is, rather was. The feeling of ill will arousing active hostility is what is needed to come if you see a villain of Hindi cinema. No doubt, Pran was really a reprobate on screen. And so were others. Sometimes, I have this strange feeling that as we have steeped in this new era of filmmaking, where we have started making high budget action movies, sci-fi, romantic, comedy, any genre, that personnel magnetism of a villain has been lost. Now, we don’t have Gabbar Singh, but we do have Mr.A. Characters like Mugaambo, Dr.Dan and so are in imminent danger of extinction.
I want to see that era back where villains were beaten to the pulp by the hero, where a satyr villain use to rape the sister of hero and then hero retaliates by killing him. No matter how develop we may become, these things always remind us of the movies which we used to watch while growing up.
And after all this villain talks, non sense I’d rather say, my roommate has promised me to cast me as one of a stereotype villain, if he ever made a movie *Sigh*.
So, again time for signing out. You are always welcome to comment and be my follower. Mugaambo khush hoga.
Please overlook my mistakes as no one is infallible. 
Love.