Dear Friends,
Welcome to the Blog. Sorry for the long gap in the updates. I was a bit involved in giving exams and finding accommodation.
In these troubled times (!) I saw a movie called “A Wednesday’. My family members liked it. I liked it. My relatives liked it. All my friends liked .
For those who could not afford to see it, the story is something like this.
It’s a Wednesday when Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher), the Commissioner of Police, Mumbai receives a phone call asking him to release four militants.
A terrorist organisation
, represented by one person (Nasreeudin Shah) in the film, places a bomb in the Police Headquarters of the Mumbai police and challenges them to find it. The police do find it , only to realise that it had been placed there for them to find it. The police are informed that more such bombs are placed in different locations of the city and if they do not meet the demands then of course the bombs will do what they have been manufactured to do. BLOW UP.The demands are very simple. Four terrorists who have been arrested should be brought to a secluded place and released. The government is forced to accede to this request, since no trace of the remaining bombs could be found.
When the terrorists are released, one of the Police Officers disobeys orders and takes one of the terrorist with him. At the point of release a mobile rings. When it is picked up, it triggers a bomb and the remaining three are no more. With due negotiation the fourth is also killed.
It transpires that the “Terrorist Organisation” is but one common man. He has got fed up of the system where the actual terrorists can blow any part of any city and cause death and destruction of people like him. This is his way of replying to the terror attacks.
A must see movie.
The question that came to my mind is how all the common people who saw the movie, including me, empathised with the idea. Mostly non-violent people were placing themselves mentally in the role of the hero/villain. How do you place the person who blows up people. Surely the villain of the movie.
Then how do you place the people who wanted such acts to take place in real life ?
These acts of mindless violence, more so highlighted and placed in our drawing room by the “MEDIA”, are eating into our well being.
Think my friends. Life as we knew it is no more. Those times when writing a letter once a week was considered the most responsible act by children away from home. And Now ?
Any way see the movie and report.
2 comments:
I see that the Banker without balance is loosing the balance of patience and joy that was not lost on the journey - oh, that fateful one! - from Patna to Delhi. He is rightly worried about the loss of peace and life as we know it - though at that time too - when the city was spared these bomb blasts - we were always full of complaints and whinings!
Since you are a new Delhi-walla- I might remind you that we are witness to these bomb blasts - sometimes thurmose bombs, another time tiffin bombs, radio bombs, and so many other types - these are here since early eighties. When we used to go to school, our parents were much worried - but being Dil-wallas, slowly we have got over it, and now carry on with the lives, as if nothing is happening - you might say - Life in the times of Bomb Blasts!
I urge you to apply to this dil walla club - you might even be accepted!
Now for the movie - sometimes, man, sometimes - I will see lots of movies - I have got a complete list of them -Hindi, English Punjabi, French, German - beautiful touching and moving movies - I will see them, all of them! i will not spare any one of them. And there are so many books that are waiting to be read, there so many places that are waiting for me with open arms (guides!), that I cannot wait, so good bye, man I am coming!
already watched and have recommended to a lot of friends and relative. the movies speaks for the comman man and hence touches all of us. Mr Pandey (the director is going strength to strength as his last movie 'Saher' was also well made and depicted the story of UP police and the criminals quite well. Another well made and low profile movie which is coming to my mind is 'Haasil' by Tigmanshu Dhulia. All these movies are a must watch for a true movie buff.
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