Rarely
do I go out for movies these days, contrast this to rushing from one film festivals to
another across the country. What started as a group soon splintered into individuals.
But saw all the great masters and yes some really amazing stuff. The last movie I saw in many years was Avatar, a Hollywood movie. So it
came as a surprise that I saw Gravity
again the other day, a movie twice in a theatre is truly rare. Gravity is an
amazing movie, and I am quite impressed. Though there are some minor problems
(NASA points to few) as also I found some dialogues jarring. The worst was English
subtitles that took the fun out of the visuals. 3D movies are here to say, it’s
an amazing conception. Gravity is a path breaking effort, watching it was a breath
taking experience.
Though
I must add people lack civic sense, they are rude and use mobiles quite openly
during movies. They cannot even keep it on silent mod. These things, beyond a
point, cannot be taught. The younger generation don’t imbibe values from aliens,
clearly concern for others is not in Indian family framework. Respect is an important
part of civic sense, it means valuing others and their presence. This leads to respecting laws. In the world of entitlements these are minor casualties, I
guess.
The
other day I was interacting with someone, I don’t know him –a mere acquaintance.
He was asking about what keeps a relation more specifically with children. I am
no expert on Human relation though I have taken few HR sessions!! I shrugged
and moved on, people don’t excite me that much. Later I caught myself thinking
about it. I guess there are three things Trust, Respect and Love…yes that seems
it. Love is unconditional as much as trust is implicit in any relation, so is
respecting the individuality. Rarely does foundation of any Indian family has
any of these, it seems coalesce of needs and urges. Keeping
these parameters it’s no wonder why Indians are so deviant, and they are reproducing
all the while.
Hypocrisy,
as defined by the liberals, in this context is reluctance to show how the reproduction
happens!! And so the mediocre Indian creative community latch on to Americans
for references. In this ruse lifestyle aspiration is what is pushed in, and the
need for specific products to fulfill these. In Indian context acting or making
movies is no big deal, few weeks and anyone can be an actor. The reason why directors
are now actors, while actors are singers too, singers are also directors, actors
are becoming directors, they are also cricket players, opinion initiators and expert
in trivialisation…it is all quite easy, nothing seems impossible. They also
bump into new talents in get together and ads; it is matter of coincidence that they
are also related to each other or someone they know!! So much talent is nauseating!!
I was reading Andre
Beteille, he writes “In primitive societies, the relations of production are
homogenous. The differentiation and specialisation are mostly based on
biological factors such as age and sex, and on kinship. Functional specialisation
is based, at the most, on specific skills of certain individuals.” These certain
individuals are mostly the technicians and the nearest we come to the intrigue referred
to as professionalism and competence. While talent is increasingly attributed
to youngisthan, for whatever reason, and hinged on kinship. Way to go ye
liberals.
