rajarsh

first of all...appologies to mr. bachchan...for the title..sir, i am an admirer of yours...howevr i beg to differ with your view...indian movie industry is aptly titles as bollywood..and so is the title of this blog... the other day i saw the year 2007's biggest commercial success...om shanti om...it struck me after watching the movie that these filmmakers make a huge moron out of us...throuout the movie they satired on the indian(south movies included) movie scene...yet the movie was effectively presenting the same garbage stuff...stylishedly garnished...as its core story line... then i realised that these movie makers are nothing but businessman..shrewd ones... as far as my understanding of the term art goes it is something by means of which we bring out our emotions in a creative way.....and based on my perception i ask myself..are the movies made by these people a subject of art?...how are they artists? its so freaking funny that how shamelessly thaey copy movies from the wes...

human beiings are obsessed with landmarks...especially with the multiple of 5,10,25....this year i turned 25...as the clock turned 12 announcing the 1st day of august...i was gripped with a sense of terrific overwelhming emotions...and before i could get a grip on myself...my eyes were all welled...till date i dont know what had gotten into me as i was laying on the upper berth of the train...going back home after a near month trip to the u.s.a. ...at that moment my phone also started ringing..with eager friends trying to wish me...infact a friend even asked if i were crying or it was a cold or something...it was kinda obvious... so i have had completed 25 years and had just returned home after a half way trip to the world...and when i sat down for the annual introspection of the passed year as i do on the 1st of august every year(as i write it i feel silly...)i couldnt help but do it for the entire 25 years of my life... i would have to say that so far i have a great time...if i were ...

recently i went to a seminar on environmental protection and the laws in india to deal with that.it ws a very enlightening discussion and at the end of which i was left with the most basic of question which wasnt answered by anyone to the best of my satisfaction...why do we need to protect the environment so badly?we wont live that long after all to see the doomsday...so why care?....i was left pondering over it.i understand all the jazz about the fact that we have to give our coming generation the perfect place to thrive and all that....but c'mon...we just cant be so freakingselfless...its so not humna...so what is it that makes us so worried?...heres a theory..may be a little far fetched and perhaps too bizzare...but heres a theory by me anyways....when hamlet made the famous "To be or not to be..." monologue he was basically referring to the unknown territory we might have to tread when we die...we have no clue what happens...all the sweet music of the paradise theory ...