Much to the delight of the readers of the blog(all one of them), my carpals are back to work and so here comes a post after a really long time.
But wouldn't it be a great idea if a blog wrote posts by itself? Something like quines, but more sophisticated so that it printed out different stuff each time, some of them sensical and some of them non-sensical, just like what this blog has :)
Anyway, back to blogging, questioning, answering and everything !!
Come August and "Independence Day" is what comes to every Indian's mind. The three colors of the flag seem to be everywhere. And this year being the sixtieth year of independence, the diamond jubilee year, it was more so special. From ice creams to huge hoardings, the three colors were the predominant of the spectrum.
But do people still remember why, how, when we became independent and what it means to be independent? I am not sure. But yeah, definitely, people are more cognizant about who Mr. Gandhi is, now. Stop a kid on the road and ask him who Gandhi is and more often than not we will get the answer - "Yeah, I know him, Isn't he the guy who acted alongside Sanjay Dutt in Lage Raho". Good that in one way or other, the man and his principles are still remembered in some way or the other. :)
One thing is clear. Movies have become the most powerful media tool in these days. From history to sports, you want to drive a point, movies is the way. May be it was like that always, only I am realizing it late. People dont seriously take some sport unless a top hero endorses the sport by acting in one of those sport-movies. And the real sportspersons, poor them, they do not have so much fan following, even though they are the ones who win real cups.
But there is a flip side to it too. Imagine Sachin's case, there are people who still complain that he got out on 99 in two of the last five innings he played. There is no limit to what people expect from you, once you are a hero :)
Guess all of this is part of the bigger saying "phir bhi dil hai hindustani". Only we can complain about traffic jams, while we are the ones causing it :)
2 comments:
Maybe I'm just way out of sync with the world, but when did a sport gain attention as a result of a top movie star acting in "one of those sport-movies"?
It was the exact opposite with Lagaan - the movie gained popularity because it deals with an already over-popular sport. Did Chak De cause such a stir in the hockey world? I didn't think so. No other movie comes to mind.
Well, you should be in India, watching all those news channels running news about all kinds of hockey played in India and interviews of all these hockey players. If not for the movie, this wouldn't have happened.
Of course, coincidentally India won a couple of championships too, right when all of this was happening. :)
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