If you ask
me what was my earliest recollection of watching a movie?
It was Haathi mera saathi, in Jabalpur
If you ask on
whom are my favourite songs picturised?....some really incredible songs
If you ask whose
hairstyle many tried to emulate (including me, apart from ofcourse Bachchanmania)?
All these
were Rajesh Khanna. Terrific!!! He was phenomenal, though i must admit when i started
having understanding of movies it was Amitabh Bachchan phase all the way. And we
wanted some ‘fight’ movies....it was much later that Rajesh Khanna caught the
imagination, mostly because of the songs. It still does, some songs are eternal
and it has Rajesh Khanna face. Condolences
What happened
to songs and lyrics in recent times? They are getting rare (i recently liked
the song from Dabang, but these are getting very rare). Apart from Gulzar (he is eternal with amazing sensibilties) and
few more...there seem to be not many in Hindi film industry (ofcourse the mediocre
fellow who crept into RS, i cannot even recall a single song of this creep. Even
the kuch na kaho song is because of the picturing/music rather than sedate lyrics. The Lagaan songs -specifically devotional one i have heard as a child growing up in North. I am not surprised. Some
people have made it a habit of living on others, famous the better. As Crude woman says fluterring her false eyelashes “jab jab murga paidha hua hai thab thab biriyani bana hai”!!), hopefully the era of good songs returns.
Deeply saddened...i
was so shocked to hear about Elinor Ostrom. I had met her only few months back
in Bangalore and she looked quite hearty and healthy, and gave a speech that
lasted about 40minutes. Just couldn’t believe when heard the news. She
really was remarkable. This is what she wrote in her last article published few
days before Rio summit...
“The goal
now must be to build sustainability into the DNA of our globally interconnected
society. Time is the natural resource in shortest supply, which is why the Rio
summit must galvanize the world. What we need are universal sustainable
development goals on issues such as energy, food security, sanitation, urban
planning, and poverty eradication, while reducing inequality within the
planet’s limits”...... “We have a decade to act before the economic cost of
current viable solutions becomes too high. Without action, we risk catastrophic
and perhaps irreversible changes to our life-support system. Our primary goal
must be to take planetary responsibility for this risk, rather than placing in
jeopardy the welfare of future generations”.
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