2008-01-23

Shitty movies!!

I really really fail to understand what is wrong with our society. Firstly I have developed this terrible dislike for any movie with any of the following in it: AKSHAY KUMAR, Fardeen khan, Tushar Kapur, Ritesh Deshmukh and Govinda with very few excepions. With no sense at all and utter bullshit that movies like Welcome, Dhamaal, Fool n Final, Om Shanti Om(sadly) and chup chupke; to name a few; show it seems shocking that people actually applaud the nonsense. It makes me question the intelligence of Indian society. And to all those who have to tell me that "dimaag ghar pe rakh ke jaana chahiye", I'd like to say: "sorry dude but my brains are not detachable and unfortunately can't stop functioning". I had always heard about the "herd mentality" but yet it shocks me to see such a blatant example. Not only are these movies and their songs rubbish but they are always remade from other English, Tamil, older Hindi films and even French movies with no acknowledgement whatsoever to the original idea. Not only can we not create original movies but we cannot even copy properly!!!!Almost any song today is likely to become a hit if it is played a few times and is made in a film under a reputed banner. How else do you expect songs like "dard-e-disco" and "ek uncha lamba kad"?????????? It seems that the Bollywood that we are all so proud of has little originality and meagre sense. It is most shameful for me to say that films like bheja-fry, koi mil gaya and black which showed talent and a different idea were also blatant remakes!! Bheja fry being copied dialogue to dialogue from a French film "La' Dinner game" does not have a single new character or joke and though great by Indian standards is pathetic remake if you have seen the original.I really don’t know where to look to find out what has caused this. Maybe it is he schools where we are taught what is already known to us without encouraging us to create something new. Schools where we are taught to respect what everyone else makes except ourselves. I know it just movies and entertainment but it is reflective of the nature and thinking of a majority of our society. Should I call this an "intellectual" drain or "no brain"?Is the 'creativity' a notion of the past and 'mimicry' the trend of the day? Do we really have nothing new to say, nothing new to show? Is everything new and good always supposed to be non-indian? Are we always going to rely on our past to make us proud? A past in which we played no role. Is this what is becoming of the Indian society?

God

"The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. 'Whither is God?' he cried; 'I will tell you. We have killed him---you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.'" "How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us---for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."

Life is a mystery

Life is a mystery.......Seems like that is going to become my tagline..... Like you know "Mountain Dew: Do the due"... lol.... For the first time I really dunno what to say..... I can get philosohical, sad, or random but cannot figure out my mood right now.