The heart indeed yearns for a return to the good old FAPS days when one went about one's business without a care in the world and derived inspiration from the inspirational and divine utterances by teachers of the eminence of Mr. Wood, Browne and Mrs. Rego and Saxena, how I wish that I had access to Johnny Cash's grandfather clock that stopped short never to go again when the old man died; I'd certainly freeze father time in a warp forever and continue to be inspired by people that I would always look up to till my dying breath.
Our fickle mindedness and nocturnal tendency to turn virtual non entities into overnight celebrities has been on display for the last couple of days and this in your face display is certainly difficult to overlook, the talented and suave Virat Kohli is now being touted as the successor to the so called 'God of Cricket' Sachin Tendulkar and the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket over the last five years or so; agreed that his swash buckling knock against the Lankans was worth it's weight in gold and did certainly give rise to a renewed surge of patriotic fervour, yes the young man is indeed captaincy material and will make a good captain, but aren't we placing him on a pedestal a tad prematurely and anointing him vice-captain when either Gautam Gambhir or then Suresh Raina should be donning the mantle?? any answers ??
Has Mamata truly lost it once and for all? or then has she also started exhibiting delusional tendencies in addition to her megalomaniacal one's; her incoherent ramblings every time a rape or any other untoward happening occurs in her fiefdom certainly raises uncomfortable and relevant questions about her mental equilibrium and balance; or then is her paranoia with all things Communist, surely but surely beginning to get the better of her?
The wheels of justice surely seem to be turning in this country, so what if they take a generation in doing so? the filing of charge sheets in the Patna CBI court earlier today against Laloo Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra in the seventeen year old fodder scam certainly seem to suggest that Laloo's star is certainly on the wane and that he soon find himself firmly ensconed behind the bars of Patna's central jail where he truly belongs.
Why oh why is the Hindi film industry obsessed with prequels, sequels and remakes of old classics from the eighties and nineties; why can't we simply make films from the heart that deal with subjects associated with the common man like the recent multiple Oscar winner "The Artist"; now here's a film that connects directly with your soul, send you into raptures of delight and above all unabashedly celebrates the triumph of the indomitable human spirit, the last film that really made one go ga ga was "Paa" now here's a movie really worth emulating.
Sunndeep Chopra
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