Yesteray evening I managed to get out of office and also get someone to go to a movie with me. Both occuring together is quite a rarity. Went to Forum.
Oflate this place has become quite a pain to go to. The traffic outside, the people packed inside, the crowd outside the theater door, the security rules, the pain of keeping your helmet in some corner in the ground floor to go to a movie on the 4th floor, and leaving all "inflamable" things including smoke pack with the security, and paying an obscene amount of money for front row tickets with the speaker blaring away, the a/c being toooo cold, the booking of tickets some 10 days in advance...It's kind of becoming mindless. Sometimes, rather most times, I think in the name of progress and easy lifestyle, we are becoming less happy...
The movie was about following Gandhi's principles and all that. It was shot quite well with a different outlook and some day-to-day examples and all that. Would I follow it, no, I have never been a fan of Gandhi. But, it was nice to see a different prespective and a change in story narration.
This is the second movie where they are trying to get the people of India a message, a movie with not just sex and love but also a 'moral of the movie'. The striking thing was the use of radio as a means of reaching out to people in both the movies, the other movie being rang de basanti. FM has in a way takenover TV. But then, with the RJs in demand and a dirth of good ones, quality of the shows has come down significantly, and so has the language, with the aim of mass appeal and political appeal, a mix of english and local language usage which is quite jarring to hear at times is making radio not too appealing I feel. But, for now, we can re-write the song "Video killed the radio" to "FM is killing the video".
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2 comments:
Haven't found too many from our generation who admire Gandhi (I guess I'm an exception). But I believe Gandhi is catching the imagination of the younger generation (the new ones) - at least going by the media reports. If he's I'm glad (an argument any day on that?)
Well there are lots of things that are kind of true with the Gandhi's ideas but its the mis-interpretation of it by the junta I dont like. And as a person who starts to hate things that a "lot" of people like, I ended up not liking the man. Its just me.
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