Sunday, April 08, 2007

Some quite uncharitable and not quite right thoughts

These are some of my most uncharitable thoughts about the world's nicest things in general.They are my views as i see then standing where i am....they are nasty but yet i've never been able to think otherwise from what i've seen and observed. But lets start as the whole thought started ......its like some links strung by a strange thread and once the chain is formed one sees how strong the thread is that holds them together.

Across the web read some reviews of Nishabd (nah did not watch the moview)and some comments on them that made you wonder like real hard. They say a man of Amitabh's stature should not have done it...Why pray....Well its not right on his part to be like that...they say...hmm well point taken...but then i say ...its not right for him to have done Baghban...

I think a lot of what was defended by Amitabh in there was wrong. It was very well presented as if he was the grievously injured party but well..... Actually the scene was pointed out by my very own quick eye ...my sister coz...i usually dont notice much....She says hey what is the guy trying to feel bad about when people tired after working like slaves in offices want to have a good nights sleep the guy hammers on his typewriter and one is supposed to feel bad that he's asked to be quiet. he could have done that in the daytime .

But then that was a tailor made role for the ever right Amitabh...Actors and all uncles and aunt gush over how right and perfect his end of the movie speech was Welllll.
I wonder why the parents track of the suffering parents are ever missing in movies. Why is it not shown how wonderfully they managed to do time management between children office and parents.
Most movies show parents doting on children and they children grow up to be monsters who throw them out.....but while they were doting what about their own parents...is never shown.In fact the finest i liked in the genre was 'Kal aaj kal' wherein Raj Kapoor goes crazy by his father and son's demanding ways.And such is the position of most of todays' generation caught between two very radical generations.
This hardly means i feel one should not be considerate towards old people and be inconsiderate and throw then out....hardly but then dont the older generation also need to understand the changing realms of the world....that work ten years ago is not the same today.

When Dad came home those days work was like left at office ....can the same be said of work today...email cellphones and stress ...yeah people need to manage them true...but that needs support of the very people who complain of not enough care and attention.

Ok many things in there were over the board in the movie , esp hema malini's ever green concern which they add a track to justify .....but its fine as it was done with a good intention...is it???...maybe RGV says the same about Nishabd. Strange but could be true.(Some other time abt RGV's movies.)
The main point is what Amitabh or any great xyz does is his business and we are better off either enjoying it or shunning it...why claim rights over their choices.Why is he the custodian of our culture and morality. Sometimes i write why is Society so against individuality...but then i realise isnt Individual the opposite of Society.I guess thats about it.

Right and wrongs are based on the side you are standing, the view you have and the hidden and unhidden forces at play that create that view.
From where i stand and what i see i hate most charities.

General Charity...like those missionaries...So many of them get money and feed those half starving and about to die people food and clothing...and thats about it. They give them a life. How noble.But is living enough? Does happiness ...hope for a future beyond 2 square meals not count.
Ever seen outside melas , temples banks.....so many able bodies beggars....and people do their bit of charity by dropping a coin ...some even fifty to hundred ruppess and thats it. He still stands there for years after your regular deeds of charity .
Isnt't is more noble to give them the potential to earn food....no donations from businessmen dont help here ...jobs created by businessmen and getting some of these lazy people to work is noble. But thats not charity isn't it. Thats business...and we dont consider it much noble.
Animal Protection groups: Save them sure do i too like it...but when dogs become more important than humans you have to question?
I wonder if Maneka would say the same for dinosaurs too if they came to eat her. Ask her to come home at 10 in night in a dog infested locality and lets see how much she stands by her views.
Evironmental Issues: This ones my greatest dilemma....When i was a child used to watch some program on Sunday and yeah wished to be an environmentalist esp with my love of chemistry then. I love trees...i love forests...i despise those who fell trees but then i ask myself....
I live in a city with amenities and most of them cause pollution...then how can i prevent someone say from a village expecting the same and thus causing more pollution.Its like some one said US polluted all it could to become a dveloped superpower and now how can it prevent developing countries from doing the same. What exactly are the ethics of this argument. Very doubtful.

Save the girl Child...Ok done...Saved and she lives on...is that enough i ask again.
As i wrote previously tooWhy save someone to live a life of neglect , hurt and most importantly unwantedness.
Why grow a unfeeling biological specimen called foetus to a feeling humane being and then crush its spirit by reminding it at every point of that saved life - its deficiencies and its unwantedness.
Will the government or the womens groups make them feel wanted.....loved cherished.
NO...It is only when the one who bring her into this world want her can she belong truly to this world and live to be the wonderful being she was to be, does it make any sense to bring her into this world till then let em bury them.

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