Thursday, February 9

Hey You !!

I dread to post this. For me writing has always been an activity where I unload my mind. One could call it a sort of a "Pensieve", where all those thoughts which matter me are put down. But with putting them down, I tend to lose the intensity behind the thought, the passion with which they had initially created the furor in my brain is lost. I can't comprehend it, it sort of becomes a "task done" when the thoughts pass through my fingertips through the keyboard onto some server on blogger. I simply stop caring about them.
I lost the kick I used to get off ripping apart the silly cricket politics when I posted "The captain's secret diaries", I waned off the censorship issue after "Aaah..Respect my authoratah" and so on......

Why I don't know, maybe it's the type of generation we are in. Nothing lingers enough for one to actually taste it, everything is transient. Even the frustration is multi-directional. Sometimes it's the politicians, sometimes it's that idiot slow driver in front of you who has hogged both the lanes for the last 15 minutes by driving halfway on both of them and many more, too many ventouts..........The result is we are confused, rather I AM CONFUSED....Too many parameters to take care of...System overload.

(What I am trying to say has not quite come off in the above paragraph. I sincerely hope someone understands it.)

Saw Rang De Basanti. A very good attempt to say something which needs to be said. Excellent cinematography, good acting, great songs really kept one hooked.
It was multi-layered, and I was tuned into layer 2-B right from the start.
I especially liked the scene where Aamir breaks down for the first time. I don't whether to post this, but I admit I had tears in my eyes when I saw his frustration about not being able to help even when he wanted to. It was not because Waheeda Rehaman was in a coma or because there had been a lathi-charge or because it was an emotional highlight for the entire movie, it was the frustration of wanting to do, but couldn't do.

I have been thinking about me for the last 22 years, and that kinda has been getting to me.

I love eating, watching movies, I love my job, in short I do all that keeps me happy, puts a smile on my face. But that is not enough.
I wish to do something for someone who is not me.
I wish to do something, anything, I don't know what it is, but I sure hope I end up doing that.

So you see why I dreaded posting this ?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am still wondering about what I wrote !

Anonymous said...

This kinda feeling hovers in my mind too b4 blogging...
And, Aamir Khan breaking down in RBD is indeed shaking... I myself felt like crying seeing him so helpless... "Salla kisi da kuch fark nahi padta"...
And then a generation awakens!!!! that was a bit too much...
Anyway, on the whole excellent movie(except that one part) songs at the right place n right time, excellent cinematography, et al...

ENJOy...
Better and Better,
-JC

Anonymous said...

I will hold my comments about the movie but when we saw the movie here -- it did inspire us to do something for the country. and the funny thing is-- we can. we all can. some of us are making movies, some of us building a financial platform -- there is a way to contribute...to put yourself out there.

it doesn't have to be country-moving or earth-shattering. just enough to touch one soul...

Anonymous said...

Ya I agree that we all can contribute...It just that i hope it counts.

Anonymous said...

Yup RDB is a lovely movie... Excellent theme... a bit roughly handled in the second half though...but still a good genuine attempt at making a masterpiece...

Anonymous said...

Hey there, I happened to watch RDB too...!!

Anonymous said...

Aye Caramaba.. you've been tagged....

You have to answer these questions, or risk being hanuted by the Four Fings ghost!

***

4 Jobs that have left me demented or influenced

4 Movies I could recommend to anyone

4 Places, I've lived or linger in my memory

4 TV Shows, I may remember

4 Vacations, I will always remember

4 Foods, I enjoy

4 Place I'd rather be

4 Sites, I can always vouch for

4 Bloggers to whom I'm giving some homework

***

Anonymous said...

4 jobs- Sticking publicity posters on railway stations, influenced by Copywriting (The job I am currently doing inspite of being an engineer) for now thats all..

4 movies: Usual Suspects, LOTR, Snatch, Battle of Britain

4 places, vacations: Munnar, Nainital, Sinhagad (for that wonderful foggy rainy day with winds gushing at 50-60 kmph), My place in Goa.

4 TV shows: Simpsons, SouthPark, Whose line is it anyway?, Seinfeld

4 Food items: Varan bhaat (tup & limbu), Butter Chicken, Absolutely all vegetables, Puran Polis

4 places I'd rather be: New York on New Years, Some deserted island in the Pacific with year's supply of food, electricity ,a wide screen TV, DVD player and atleast 25000 DVD titles :-), A absolute archaic english town, An authentic German beer hall

4 Sites: IMDB.com, google Reader, m-w.com, entrancetothesh...umm hold on ...mavdya.blogspot.com

4 bloggers: simplyshiva, greenloco, sushi-bar, randommusings

there i have done the needful...now whats the reason behind the exercise ?

Anonymous said...

i think maverick all the emotions have a greater intensity initially.. tht time they r raw.. then u grow on them.. btw we hv some things in common i also like varan bhat & wud like to be in an old English town, actually i wud like to be in London wid P G Wodehouse.. :) wht say?

Anonymous said...

btw i know tht's impossible since P.G. Wodehouse is no more & tht he lived approximately 100 yrs ago