Sense vs sensational

As already obvious I am a huge movie buff and love to read books and articles on how a film is conceptualised ,written, cast ,shot ,edited ; how an actor prepares or a cinematographer visualizes ; what is the director's vision and things which are really about the craft. But such articles are really not even 1% of what media writes about cinema. Most of the promotional interviews too have the (ironically) path breaking questions like how it is to work with each other or a funny incident on sets. Lol😂  I understand paparazzi is interested in celebrities and their personal lives. All of us are curious to some extent. But how much is fine?  We find articles ranging from Salman's nephew to who is doing who, star kids participating in a school competition to even how some star kid has a hot girlfriend. Recently Kangana-Hrithik issue was blown so much that a famous daily had a full page displaying  personal mail information with important words highlighted! How ridiculous is that! As individuals we always fear being judged for what we are. But when it's about celebrities it doesn't take even a full minute to form an opinion. It's also about  media sensationalism where there is no word called 'neutrality' .I feel saddened by such humongous media attention on a frivolous issue. Forget cinema, even if there is a serious debate in Parliament, its reported as how someone gave it back to someone else or how the former shut up the latter as if its happening in a rohit shetty/prabhu deva movie where dialogue-baazi happens between the hero and villain to prove who is stronger. We absolutely fail to have a rational debate. If a celebrity gave any statement against popular opinion, time is not spent to counter what he/she said but on how he doesn't have the right to have that opinion. I just wish that so called increasing literacy rate over the years has some actual effect on how we understand democracy, or atleast on the basic etiquettes of having a meaningful debate!!

I know there exists a whole community which craves for sensible  journalism be it any field. It's visible every now and then on social media. Thanks to internet that we atleast have a space to appreciate and encourage good work. Some hope!!

When life sucks..

Few days ago I had so much to write. My thoughts were flowing incessantly and it was difficult for me to pin down a certain thing among many in my head. Then suddenly came a string of failures in my life. What was definite according to me became a fantasy in a fraction of second. It's painful to deal with failure when you know it's your fault, atleast partially. But its mind numbing when you are not even responsible for it. It is challenging  already to convince people that you deserve success but to maintain the self confidence that you are still worthy is the bigger challenge in a crisis. So with the state of mind of a tragedy movie and the melancholy feel of jagjit singh songs in my head ,my thoughts were in a never ending abyss when I saw the interview of one of the few individuals I really tremendously look up to -Anurag Kashyap !

This brilliant man at the starting of his career had made 3 films but were not releasing due to censorship for several years. But he made it through all that and gave us Black Friday, Gulaal, Dev D, Gangs of wasseypur. I am not much a fan of dark films and sometimes can't even handle his way of portraying violence, but I am a great admirer of his cinema and his undying passion for it. Last year ,he had given us Bombay velvet - his dream project for a decade with a massive budget never attempted by him before, which later happened to become a commercial flop. Well,worst part didn't end there. Along with loosing his money and a part of his confidence this man was surrounded by an industry which was sadistically happy about it. But instead of sulking in it ,he found his flaws soon, accepted it and is already prepared to showcase his next venture this year. What made this happen was that he didn't let the failure suck him up inside.

Similar phase comes in everyone's life. When you hit rock bottom you really don't ve anything to loose. All that needs to be done is that you shouldn't let those negative draining thoughts to pull you down and let them sink and drown you, but just go ahead and believe in yourself no matter what. Keep doing what you want to do. One day or the other the world will notice and applaud ! Even if not , you will be peaceful and happy!  😃

Me vs society

Remember my post about life being a quadratic equation? Well from few days my mind is going round and round finding solutions for one such complicated equation of my life.

Meanwhile it was mothers day yesterday and it made me think about my complicated but beautiful relationship with my mother. I have been the focus of her world for years now. She raised to me to be an independent person with enough freedom to create my own set of thoughts and beliefs. Often we don't agree, major reason being that we belong to different worlds and our perceptions are most times different if not opposite. I am a pure sagitarrian guarding my freedom at every occasion possible and she tries to put the free spirit I am into the frame of society. Our priorities mainly differs when it's about individual vs society. I can see her point too , since i do agree that certain rules are very much needed to bind and maintain a stability of sorts in the society. We are all social beings and societal approval is needed for a peaceful co existence. But does it guarantee inner peace ? If not then what's more important?

Coming to think of it , all our decisions are mostly directly proportional to either the importance we give to what we believe is right or what society upholds as right. We are often like pendulums dwindling between these two extremes trying to find our ground somewhere in the middle. Its a fact that we are entities of this whole and if we change, the society changes too. But this constant evolution is a very slow process. Therefore, trying to be the change we want to be in the transformation phase becomes the hardest part of being a part of the society.