My Ideas And Thoughts

I guess this started from the movie Raja Harishchandra in late 1913 and today we stand as the largest producer of Movies in the World. Though I am not a Movie Freak as I have hardly been in a theatre but I guess the answer why I don’t go lies in my first line above. Out of 1000 movie made in this country annually hardly any movie has any sense. The Percentage of fruitful & practical movie in India is just 1% according to me. Every Director and Actor comes out saying that his movie is Different and has everything that audience will like, it’s very close to reality and at the end it turns out to be at the very same concept of 2 boys loving the same girl or some twist to the same idea, with some different place where the film is shot and equipped with some nice stunts. This is the only concept I think that 90 % of Indian Directors are revolving their story around for last 2 decades. Apart from these there are some of Kings in the Industry who I believe are just Over Rated Actors. Their main tool is either Showoff of some prop or Style of Clothing. The Basic Sense of Acting is absolutely missing in many. (I am sorry for being so critical but I am being very frank, the whole credibility in Indian Cinema is missing and Apart from infusing Millions of Rupees and Star Dust, there is nothing in most of the movies) Some of the Movies are just blindly copied from some foreign hit and is represented in Indian style. I don't realize with so many topics untouched, why a sensible Director needs to copy someone.

In a country like India which has got a Strong Literature and The long Proof of History, I believe we can Direct Completely Original Scripts and can make the Finest Movies in the World but unfortunately apart from handful of Talented Directors no one is bothered to make sense at the Big Screen. Amir Khan who always comes with a bang is one of those Actors who has kept some standard and limits atleast he has a very good sense of Acting. Few Actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Asrani, Anupam Kher, Kadar Khan, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Om and Amrish Puri, Kamal Hasan, Rekha, Simi Garewal, Rani Mukherjee, Tabbu, are few of the names who have shown their versatile acting from Theatre Shows to Cinemas. It is very unfortunate that after Mother India we haven’t produced anything to get just nominations at Oscars till Salam Bombay and Lagan. The Movie that Won Oscars for India was nowhere near the Actual India. I still have no idea about which India Mr. Dany Boyle wanted to portray and comparing it with Lagaan I feel that Poltitics and Discrimination again played a leading role at supposed to be one the Most Fair and Reputed Awards. Apart from Rehmann, for me, this movie was just mediocre.  

People really fascinate with Hollywood make movies like Lord of Rings, 300 etc but I guess our Mahabharata is “BAAP of all these Movies”. We just need someone with Guts and Talent to make this for Big Screen. Many Directors by now have tried their hands and failed miserably apart from Legendary B.R.Chopra who is our only success till date.

People ask me why I don’t see movies much. Most Movies can so easily be anticipated and guessed to perfection that there is no interest left whatsoever to waste money on them. The mere concept of every movie is the very same. The few recent movies like A Wednesday, Ghajini, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Nayak, Pukar, Rang De Basanti, Tare Zameen Par, RHTDM & few more made some practical sense to me.

Though I have many more things to say about this topic but I would conclude by saying let the difference be maintained between us and any other Tom Dick and Harry or we will loose all our Creamy Artists if we continue to work in this fashion. Many have already left the Industry and many more are on the way & we will be just left with all over rated actors with complete meaningless and uninteresting stuffs on the big screen. 

And please People there is NO BOLLYWOOD IT IS INDIAN CINEMA …….

PS: The above Blog may offend many but I would appreciate if it is not taken personally as I have a bad habit of writing frankly. These are just a part of my Thoughts and are not at all aimed at anyone.

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Mukul Gupta 

Mr Shashi Tharoor said these words when he was unwillingly following the Fake Congress’s Austerity Drive, but I guess he said the right words at a very wrong situation. When we board or leave the plane, we all greet the Airhostess with one of the finest English Words with a fake smile but the Real Cattle is not seen at the airport. It is seen when we board Metro in Delhi or Local in Mumbai. We are rather worse then the cattle while walking on the road or taking a metro or driving/parking the car. I mean we don’t have the basic Common Sense or Manners.

This happened today when I stepped out at Rajiv Chowk from Dwarka line Metro to changeover for the Red line. Suddenly I saw mob around the stairs leading to the tunnel/underground Metro. There was some problem with the metro hence the Services was cancelled and so Metro Authorities Genuinely blocked the way so that people don’t unnecessarily step down. But they forgot that we Indians have got this ancestral treasure of doing what is said not to be done. I could see first few people crossing that Bars, then few following them and then most of them STUPIDILY GETTING DOWN WHEN THEY COULD HEAR THE LIVE COMMENTARY BY A METRO PERSON REQUESTING THEM NOT TO GO BECAUSE SERVICES WERE CANCELLED. I could easily calculate that just 10 people were ready to hear him and to follow his instructions while all other desperate CATTLE got down to see themselves if it was actually working or not. Most of them returned within seconds at the very same pace smiling at the guard and telling him that the Train is actually not working. HOW SHAMEFUL IS THAT SMILE? Does that smile show that next time they would heed to what someone say or it was to show that we are born like that and this thing has happened zillion of times and it’s not new? There were College students whose parents are spending almost Lakhs so that their child could get the best of the Education, there were the most EDUCATED PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY – People with the best of the Gadgets of this world in their hands but what they lack is a pity Common Sense.

This is not the first time for me and I am sure all of us have many such experiences when we drive on Road and see a Villagers trying to cross the road on Green light having Subway just 2 steps away. Person spitting on the electric pole like a dog does at the nature’s call. Roads being repaired at the office hours causing huge chaos, street lights working in daylight and not in night. There is a Fire tender but without water. DTC buses make sound from every corner except the horn. Zebra crossing being used by the animals only and that too only when it’s green light for them. A car being parked at the non parking & no tolerance zone, Rickshaws coming absolutely the wrong way, Some Bikers feel that their father owns all the Indian roads and this is the Talent Hunt for next DHOOM’s JOHN so they can drive their highly modernized bikes in any fashion to impress absolutely no one (I bet their Gfs would not even appreciate that stunt or driving skills if its been done for her)

I have written this blog  not because we all don’t know this but because I suppose that next year when there will be People from 70 Nations here in Delhi for The Commonwealth Games, they would click these pictures to show their Family members who are not here to enjoy these moments with them. This is something unprecedented for them. I like my country very much and I hate and refute back when someone abuses our land at our own face but what to do? We cannot even act for those 10 days in a well civilized manner just to show off to the world, so I just hope the Games do not bring Shame to this country as may be Delhi might improve by then but just improving Delhi wont even help.

No one is ready to change; if someone tries to teach these common manners by either awareness programs or either by penalizing then he is called to be the Dictator or Incompetent to deal with the situation, like Dr. Kiran Bedi( First Women IPS Officer) tried to do but was not allowed to take over as the Delhi’s Commissioner of Police because of her tough stands at these issues( She even Towed away Mrs Indira Gandhi's Car parked at No Parking who was PM that time - is just one of her many examples). I feel sometimes that HITLER was born in wrong country. The situation has come that there is need for the toughest of the law for this land not to stop but to educate the Educated Cattles.


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Mukul G

I find most of my friends greatly impressed with the Culture of the so called Western People. They want to be like them or they do not want to follow theirs. The same happens when some Tourist visit this Land of God and get so fascinated with ours. I remember that whenever I go to the ISKON Temple in Mathura or Holy Land of Rathakund, I find some Foreign Sathus Chanting Sanskrit Mantras much better than I can do or even much better than those of our fake Saints roaming on the Streets there. I have also been in the fight with my some friends when I said that as an Indian one must know about their own religion and culture before praising someone else’s. We have forgotten most of the Writers, Poets who have remarkably written so well that even once glance of their Poetry can completely change someone’s life. I may also challenge here that atleast 60% of the youth cannot even speak our National Anthem properly and those same talk of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and what not.  

Today, People have actually forgotten how to treat their Elders. Touching the feet of their Parents is laughed at just because the youth does not want to bow down in respect or may be as they want to follow western culture. I hear in the News that a Daughter Killed her parents just because they opposed her love, the daughter so easily forgot the love of her parents of some odd 2 decades for a love that has just lasted for some months. When the Person touches his elder’s feet, he is made to realize that this is in respect and they will always be the more experienced guiding factor to them even though you become The Richest Person on this Earth. May be the Parents were wrong but the respect should and must not die.

The Youth wants “live in” relations first because they might have seen Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie doing the same and enjoying almost all the pleasures in their lives. A couple there may get kids even before their marriage and still want to be called as single but here when two people tie their knots they are bound with an unbreakable string. Has anyone ever realized why they do this marriage thing at a time when the candle costs more than the cake and the kids do watch with parents getting married with the boy/girl friends standing along them as the Best man? Italian PM who is attributed to be in relation with a girl as young as her daughter and now her wife wants a divorce which will impact the PM’s Pocket by almost millions of dollar. I guess this is the reason why they hate to be couple till they grow old enough to find none. As far as my country is concerned all the rituals being done has got some meaning which the foreigners have also appreciated and tried to marry in the same fashion, its just the reader need to find it as I have hardly attended any marriage so I cannot enlighten you on that aspect but In India the relation starts with a Sacrifice, Compromise and Cooperation. But unfortunately very few understand their meaning. As per the Books, most of the marriages that end up in a court room were Love Marriages or the one that were started from some lunatic Dating sites. Though there are many loops in our Rituals including dowry and other stuffs but I am not gonna bring them here.

Lastly English has become the most important language in India. Most of our Young Citizens do not really like to communicate in their Native language and hence our country has almost lost 200 languages like Khasi because the Child wants to learn English and want to be at par with the world. A person is laughed at when he is unable to pull out some good words from his throat. Then I may here remind you that Japanese still use their own language in their official format. The Chinese the Germans and the Portuguese are some of the Nations who are still not well verse with English because they strictly follow their own language in their country.  If you want to follow some one atleast follow them properly as when Englishmen ruled the world they atleast spread their language to 195 nations and almost 7 continents speak English now but here we are killing our own language, more so humiliating the others who are honestly using theirs. I am not against English at all rather I feel every person should know atleast 3 languages. FIRST IS HIS MOTHER TONGUE, SECOND HIS NATIONAL LANGUAGE AND LAST BEING THE INTENATIONAL LANGUAGE.

JAI HIND!!!!!

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Mukul Gupta

I think no one in this world can say that he does not know this name “The Michael Jackson”. Today I write this post just not to tell how Great Legend he was but to tell the Other Side of the Story which I think took MJ away from this world. And I thank God he was a free man now, Out of all the allegations, abuses, criticism, vulgarity against him and what not. It was just not the cocktail of some doses and injection that killed him but a sweet poison that he was drinking everyday and every night. What did he ask from the world, just a help to save this world, just a two hand noise and not single hand beating? He alone faced all that inside a big mansion where he had nobody to share that pain with him. The company that he enjoyed was also targeted. Yes!! The love for the kids was taken in a wrong way. He was trialed just not once but twice. He was brutally killed everyday as long as the trial was on. Police and the People gave him depression, heart strokes and a good amount of beating everyday.

Let me start with the opener, he was criticized or was made an object of suspicion when he wore masks as he tried to cover most parts of his body. I would like to remind that he was suffering from VITILIGO where your Blood Cells change their colour and a man turns White (even if he is white). The rarest of the rarest disease which hardly few know unlike me. This disease is not dangerous or to be scared of, it’s just the change of colour but on the way it gives humiliation, irritation, isolation and for most you feel bad about yourself turning ugly day by day. Just imagine how MJ would have felt as he was such a big artist whose earning and fame was from his FACE. People told what not, speculating about his face surgery, sleeping in the gas chamber so that he could turn white. No one can imagine if he could ask something from God he would have asked his own colour back. If the skin turns white, most of the layers under the skin become sensitive to the sun, dust etc. At some juncture of life you physically also start weakening as he did. Hats Off to that man who survived the major transition blow.

The people then criticized and blamed him of his relations with children. I think no one can prove that still. The first case against him was quashed due to lack of evidence and then in the next he paid huge money to that boy in the fear that he might be molested physically more by the local police as they had already made a mess out of him. I think everyone remembers his Neverland’s Video where he told about what happened to him at the hands of the local government bodies.  If people really listen to his one song “They don’t really care about us” I can assure you that even a dumbest of the person can understand that he actually tried to tell his past by very simple means which he mastered.  This all stupid things that happened in his life made him more and more dependent on drugs which rather helped him to sleep so that next day he can come right back on the stage to show his best innovative moves to same people who actually made him to weep last night. Has any POLITICIAN (who promises of every damn thing in this world to win election) made such a big park for kids anywhere in this world, which he made just for nothing? I don’t know why people always take love in wrong direction whether it is daughter-father or a husband-wife relation.

I think still he had fault in him, who the hell told him to win hundreds of awards at the most prestigious functions, to be the best seller most of the time, to break all the records and to set millions which no one can ever break? Why he became such a popular man within a decade that the world mourned at his death, call it Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German etc these all people never knew how to speak English but they all knew how to speak his name. How the world could forget what he gave? Where is “We the People” that he sang uniting the whole world with single string? I don’t even remember how many best choreographers in this world picked up his dance steps to become rich and famous.

Don’t really know what we all have missed in this “50 show concerts – This is It “. May be some new moonwalks, may be sun walk this time, some more splendid songs and a real fun of watching him dance all over again on the stage. I really hope that his Soul Rests In Peace and the God soon reincarnate him so that we could listen some real good, innovative, something new and interesting back again before we die. 

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Mukul Gupta

My inquisitive nature prompts me to write on this sensitive issue, why Indians were recently attacked in Aussies and just not there but most of the parts of the World. Are those a racial attack or something else? May be Asians are still considered to be the third world. But one thing was proved to this world recently that India stands at the top. The Global slump last year proved this, when most of the countries including America, Japan, and UK toppled, India stood as the second strongest economy after China. Americans, French and some other Manufacturers ran towards Indian Market which was still growing especially Military Aircraft manufacturers who wanted desperately to bag hundreds of Fighter Aircraft Order in their Kitty. We reached moon within just few years of the making of our Space organization (ISRO) and became 4^th Nation to do that. The cost of the mission was whooping 4 times less in comparison to NASA and was 95% successful. No Nation in world is able to hold such a diverse form of religions together under one roof. We stand alone to fight against terror, which America realized after 9/11 and came to support us that to just in words. The form of rituals, heritage and culture of this country attracts millions of tourist from Europe and America. This country is unfortunately surrounded by countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh which have actually never learnt to live in peace, they breed and preach Terror. China on the other side is fighting for nothing, just out of ruling the Asia and on some border disputes; it continues to make cross roads for India. India faces death of thousands of Army personnel and innocent people just because there are some extremist groups promoted by our neighbours fighting for a cause which even their Religion do not permit. The world appreciates this Fight against Terror but then never comes out in total support to curb this. With this situation as a small country we still stand far better than many others which make me Proud that I was fortunate to be born in this country.

But I think these attacks are not because of the situation around us but because even after 60 years of the Independence we never raised our standards. We still are the same. The Politicians that this country got were all greedy for the power that was a reason of the partition. Most of the country’s roads, parks and colleges are named after those politicians rather being named on our Martyrs or the Freedom fighters who are responsible for its existence. Foreigners who come to this country looks at the pathetic living standard at the lower - middle class level, people are living in slumps, fighting each other at the middle of the road for nothing, Railway lines around slump areas are smelling like rotten pigs. Marathi, Guajarati, Bengali, Bihari comes before INDIA. 90% of the ministers are corrupt with Criminal cases on their heads, people still don’t know their power of vote and 40% of Indians don’t turn up on the voting booths. But they all want change. The basic way of driving on roads and general awareness is missing in this country but still we want a change. Everyone wants their situation to improve but without changing themselves. Politician blames opposition, Minister Blame his staff, staff blames people and people again blame the Government. But none is ready to accept his fault. Still 50% of the population elects a person not because of his work but because of his caste or religion he belongs to. There are unnecessary reservations given at the higher education and for Jobs when the primary education system is a big failure but of the vote bank politics injustice is done to many. Most of the deserving candidates are left Jobless or they have to go abroad to find a Job and all these things make him either bear all the pain and hatred at the foreign land or he is made to return helpless.

The story stands straight till we ourselves do not improve how we can expect others to improve and to change their thinking about this country. We have never raised our standards; the country still fights for the basic things till we don’t offer our own people a better place and opportunities we can not expect same status like other countries. It does not in any way means India has not improved, it has shown substantial and remarkable changes but still with this competitive world we need to run twice the speed. We need to earn respect by ourselves, rather than to expect it. The improvements should start from our home; we need to relearn our basics, our culture, our script and history so that we don’t repeat the mistake which has brought us great losses. I still remember some quotes that the greatest thinkers in this world have written for us:

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.     - Mark Twain.   

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.     - Albert Einstein.

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Mukul Gupta

The media is the mirror of the youth of that country, but when the mirror is spoiling the young minds, I think then it needs to be either Replaced or Censored. When I say media it does not only relate to the News Channels (Print and Electronic) but also the daily soaps and reality TV which is hardly any reality. I feel really pained when these greatest influencing modes of Communications have just become a puppet dancing for Ads and TRPs.

First is the News Channels: Many a times after watching the news I realize that after some time they themselves backtrack there previous report saying it was from their sources and now they have got a different verified reports which is opposite of what they were crying on and then takes the full credit for this change. If some one does something it’s a matter for cry and if nothing is done then ofcorse it a matter to be reported. Does these dual stands of media making any sense? Is this what they call responsible Journalism?  A sensitive matter such a Kandhahar Hijack is pulled out of proportion even after so many years, does anyone report how the passengers and the cabinet ministers (who took decisions for them) felt at that point. I am sure they had sleepless nights. In Delhi at Batla House there was an encountered where we lost our very best encounter specialist, a politician came out saying it was fake and then out of generosity gave a cheque to his family but have those news channels reported that the same cheque bounced, as the figure mention in words were different to that mentioned in numerical. News channels try to defend a terrorist but they have never shown the cry of our armed forces who walk without proper shoes in the Siachin Glacier defending our borders. Sanjay Dutt was shown a relieved man but what about those who lost there life in the Mumbai Blast. He was shown wearing a lucky shirt but none showed the tears of those who got the shrapnel in their chests. They make Sachin, the God of cricket one day and the same man is asked for his retirement when he was bowled out for duck on the other day. They have got a magic wand which can change the life of people within hours. Today every month almost 80 farmers’ suicides do not make any sensible news but Priyanka Chopra goes for a blood sample check makes the highlight story.

These ridiculous behaviors of the media is been rather used by the anti groups to make their task easy. The terrorists are not being hanged just because HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION wants publicity so there is debate in media about banning death penalties. Most of the Channels I found are biased towards a certain community or a party because doing so gives them high TRPs. Some clever minds use the media as a tool to get their work done & it is surprising that news also state that it is done for the publicity. Due to this carelessness many important issues that deserved a proper media attraction are left untouched.

The reality TV has found a rather easy way to get popularity. It now uses show of skin to attract attention. The more vulgar the show is the better profit it makes. Most of the shows today aired are scripted so that they can either induce the acts of vulgarity or can promote the double meaning talks. The growing rapes, murders on pity things, robbery are the definite result of these. Most of our population is either unemployed or uneducated hence these things make an easy bad impression on their minds, they take reel as real. Thousands of families are ruined because of the pathetic, out of real world serials which are actually making the people confused about their lives. In this country when some FANs opt for suicides just because their favourite Actor or Leader died, it clearly shows that these channels really make a great impressions of their minds.

I don’t know what method can stop this, the one used by Hitler or the one by Stalin but for sure there need to be some rationalization and scrutiny on what is right and what is wrong. There need to be a law that can check on the reality of the news and shows aired. They should have a certain proof of what they show so that some rumor does not take the shape of fire, it should not create panic and hatred in the minds of people as at the end of the day it is the common man who has to face the consequences. It does not in any way mean that I am against Democracy but I stand for not fancying your rights on someone else’s expense. Our right ends the very moment when other person’s right begins. I also appreciate the work media does. The biggest power in the world today is of the pen. There have been great changes when people started penning down their thoughts. Media has the biggest responsibility of changing this world and to make it a better place to live in, hence, which they should understand and should not force their thoughts on the people. Their work should not be just confined to criticize everything that happens around; they have no right to downplay some one without knowing the truth, as there is always the OTHER SIDE.