The Unfollowed Feature Of Fraternity

Fraternity is one of the most important, yet the least followed features of Indian Democracy. This may be one of the oldest and the most sensitive topics and discussed newly again every other day. I don’t need a reason to write about it. That doesn’t mean I don’t have one.

The Constitution itself contradicts. It says all are equal and all can express what they feel. What everyone wants to express is “I am above you”, neglecting the first and following the latter. Elaborating, the Constitution gives the Freedom Of Expression to Indian citizens, but forgot to define the ambit of expression. Hatred being one among such feelings that can be expressed. And feelings do clash. Whatever may be the problem, why all of us blame the government? Why does it always rotate around the government? There are many things we do just for our self-satisfaction. However, coming back to Freedom Of Expression, the government treats everyone equally. But as per the Indian tendency people put themselves on the top (We are next to no one). It is said that too much freedom is not too good. But here even this limited freedom is doing no good.

This is our absolute foolishness to believe that we can stop public scathing in a country where we can’t even stop the public disposal of waste (I mean all kinds of waste). The method government adopted to teach people how to enlarge their bladders, to improve their ability to control the inevitable rush and to maintain cleanliness at the areas which are on the verge of becoming urea deposits, is to stick religious posters at the affected areas. The posters idea is just a precaution but not the solution. Here is why, generally people go to specialists to get the stains on their teeth removed and here in Indian Democracy people purchase the stains on teeth in the form of 2X4 inches shining silver packet. They turn this enjoyment into criticism by spitting on the posters of religions, other than their own. They call it the magic in the mouth, Gutkha. The Google describes, “After gutkha is consumed, it is generally spat onto a wall or at the ground, causing an unsightly red stain that is quite resistant to the elements. Some building owners have taken to combating this unpleasantness by painting murals of gods on their walls, with the idea that gutkha chewers would not spit on a god.” This attitude may be vague, but the intension is clear. One suggestion to all those guys, if you really want to spit, do it on the political party flags that hang every other step you take.

According to a famous quote, the human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. These subspecies got themselves divided further into groups called “Religions”. You are never alone in this society. Irrespective of whether you right or wrong there is always a gang supporting you and opposing the saying, “If two are thinking alike, then someone is not thinking”. And so, the religious communities came into picture. These communities have old, experienced men as well as youngsters vulnerable enough to be exploited and ready to light their soul with the spirit of religious chauvinism. These people don’t have their own identity and they are trying to make an impact on other s lives through religion. Why does the government permit to establish religious communities? Why do people attend the debates conducted by these communities?  To prove their religion great? No, but to prove other religions are not great enough. During these so-called-debates people go wild enough to abuse the others, ignoring what actually is expected of them. How can one comment on other religions without following them?  There are only questions no answers, just one simple word Chauvinism. Respecting ones own religion, traditions and culture is so very obvious. Even a dog does that. Respecting everyone else around us is what is called Humanity and that is what that differentiates us from animals.

For all these people I would like to recommend Bombay, the magical movie released in 1995. I would like to show them the Dargah s amidst the Temples, the rituals in which people be a part irrespective of their religion like Deewali, Moharram, Christmas, Holi., I feel the necessity to show them the Temple, the mosque and the Church that lay side by side in a colony (I am not sure of the colony name, Near Bicha Reddy Sweets) in BHEL. Just the below picture helps you, rather helps me make few people understand better .

The Ganesha Temple and The Masjid side-by-side in Secundrabad.

A Muslim woman making her son dress up as Lord Krishna

A more lively example would be the below link. It is the article published in The Hindu ( It’s a newspaper name in this context, not religion)

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article2375059.ece

People know fraternity by name, but not the meaning. They may know meaning through dictionary, but not in real life. May have experienced in real life, but not outside the family. May have experienced outside, but only through friends. But the percentage may be very very less. But however “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less of that missing drop.” Let there be no dearth of such drops in the ocean. And the responsibility is our hands.

The Universal Problem

Maddening Movies

Bollywood these days is merely surviving on South Indian movies. The dance masters, the stunt masters, few actresses and of course stories. Soon we are even gonna see a top Tollywood(T) hero bounce into Bollywood(B). By the way, like all others this is not for the survival of B-Town, but to disseminate the ambit of our hero. The T industry is very intelligent when compared to B because it has people quick enough to grasp the depth of USP s of Kollywood movies. The B people found it a little later. May its just another safety precaution they took up or may be waiting for an auspicious moment that sets its fate right or may be the producers are still recovering from their previous 'Blows', oops I meant 'Hits'. 

      The chocolate boys still exist in B and it is making all the efforts change that image to the choco lava image.(Choco lava in my opinion is more matured and tastier than chocolate). And they are trying to achieve this we-call-it-life-time-achievement by making Grade-C and below(if any such grade exists) movies, songs, dialogs and dance steps.

Heroes from ages + Heroins in Mini-shorts + Transparent sarees + Spoof/Sequel of previous movies + Witless comedy = B-Town movie

       The sarees are getting lower and lower and the skirts are shrinking higher and higher, couples are still dangling their feet in water sitting on an wooden bridge, forgot to mention the foreign locations.

A few good Samaritans have swerved from this path to portray Indian politics and its tactics. Great are those directors who tried to put the melodrama-higher-than-Indian-cinema(I mean politics) in just 4-hrs. But the hare-brained audience love only love stories. A few others also deviated from the usual love stories. Even I don't know what good they did by deviating. Love stories show the good things that happen in life and these new trend setters have shown the side effects of love. What all they targeted is women. And the one statement they use to cover the deviation is "It s a modern women s character." They never consulted any woman on this matter. What they did is just follow their conscience.

       No one needs to explain the embarrassing situations faced by the actors during award ceremonies. They make fun of their own clan. 

       And coming to our T industry, the veterans still pamper their kids. A few tricks our technicians follow to cover the facial defects of  heroes are super cool. The hero wears pair of sun glasses which almost covers the the top half and dons a beard which hides the bottom half. The defects are now called Style Sutras.

Bright-colors + Foreign-locations + Full-hype + New-artists + Old-stories + Remix of an old song = T movie.

T industry still runs on its hot favorite cliche dialog "Pellam ni control lo pettukovadam radu neku." I still find this dialog in movies. In T-town the hero is backed up by his mother and sister, while his father bites his head off. Or else both the parents defend their first-hero-then-their-son, in whatever pathetic situation he might be in. Its always the heroine who asks the hero about his crush and our hero simply replies "You will know when the time comes." It is a moment of pestering for our souls and a 10-min song + blushing for the protagonists. And the lyrics makes you wonder whether its an English or a Hindi song. No where to find a purely pious Telugu song. The songs gives us a feel that everyone in this world is obsessed with the hero and his own rules through an introduction song which as mandatory as filament in a bulb. A movie must contain an item number which is as important as a electrical contact to the socket which out which the bulb never glows at all.

       There is one common entity to both B and T. I am not sure whether to call the entity a human or anti-human. Actually I am sure of decide I cant use a single adjective or even a plethora of epithets to describe him. He says "Ignore me, I don't care". Neither do we. But whats lingering in my mind is we can ignore only homo-sapiens. I think while doping this creature with senses God forgot to click the common-sense check-box or may be misspelt it as nuisance.He s a movie maverick. The visage is of a director, but the character is of a destructor.

       Indian actors still feel applying grease all over the body, binding themselves in huge chains, rolling on carpets as methods to seduce the opposite gender.And they are on high boom with their side businesses . No, I am not talking about endorsing brands. No, no, not even IPL. Its their singing skills. There s always a 50-50 reaction to this. But personally I neither love nor hate, neither like or disgust those songs. But I surely can say I would listen to a song many more times if sung by an actual singer. There is no deficiency for film names in both the film industries coz the now songs will become future movie titles. So, as long as songs exists so does the movies (irrespective of whether stories exist or not).