Celebrated the 63rd Independence day.Not mine though.
In true sense celebration is not what u do a particular day but how u feel it every single day.
Sometimes I feel I am a misfit in whatever I am doing.Am not exactly an MBA material..........Words from a friend long back.
Am not the typical "Mind my own business and make money kinds" which adds to my usual cauldron of wierd thoughts.
Coming back to what hit my mind this independence day was that I watched a perfect movie on a perfect day.
Really felt how independent is India on its 63rd I day.Independence leading to the roads of immiseration.
Peepli(Live) was a wonderful movie.It depicted - "How hunger can detach u even from ur family...... How actually
we all run behind stories and gossips.......And in the process completly clouding the real ones......We all want to
quench our thirst for masala......
Well, having lived in remote areas, somehow the connection between me and the characters in the movie was a good one.Rather
much more than being entertained, somehow I kept gasping with a feeling of "How true"......
I still remember, a young tribal woman from Madhya Pradesh coming at our doorstep for work.Timid, silent and seemingly very new
to world beyond her village she was offered to do some odd household chores at home.
Then one fine day she runs behind her husband with a stick....who gradually became one of those country liquor lovers......
On asking the reason why ?She replies- "ka karoon choti memsahab........uski rakhael hain" (Apparently he slept with another tribal woman in the jungle
nearby)
India is still a land where the rich show similar traits as the poor....Maybe the methodology to do the same is different.
The rich do it in elite stylo!!!!!! With their usual high modus vivendi........Illegitimate liaisons in an classy way!
When it comes BPL families, they rush for the jungle........ ;-) The rural modus operandi.
Aur beech mein rehta hain - Aaam admi.The actual bourgeois......Kuch "Immoral" karne ka man bhi karen to kaise karey?
Human desires don't change with class.But ofcouse, the external social forces do change the reaction to such emotional stimuli! :-)
As for the girl at our home.
She continued working with two little baby girls and the husband fled with the woman.Though the most hilarious part being
he came back after two months!
We all keep shouting of women empowerment, Peepli really depicted in the "Bhartiya Naari" of Indian villages.
The old dadima who lay on bed
and yet showed all the power by calling her daughter in law -" hai kultaaaa mar daala re mere bete ko...."
Empowerment indeed.....and the daughter in law also keeps yelling at her husband - Zinda rahke to kuch kar naheen paaye, ab marke
karlo!Again a great manifestation of how the Indian Women are getting frustated because of their so called Nikamme pati parmeshawars.
And the pati "Natha" is all set to lose his only asset, the land sings his way through the muddy -"Sajni" and Raghuveer Yadav turns back to
say -'Humari gaand mein lagi paree hain aur tumka sajni ki paaree hain bhaiyaa....Waho bhaiyya!"Raghuveer Yadav athwaa humare
chahete "Mungeri Lal jee" of "Mungerilal ke haseen sapne" fame has done justice to his role of an unemployed villager.
Well I don't blame the character Natha at all....There are a thousands Nathas in Indian villages owning barren lands and gradually
losing it to the government.The depiction of political leaders showering gifts at him (Hand Pump and the TV) was wonderful.
Hum tumhe Lal Bahadur Shastri dete hain..........Knowing not what to do with the unistalled pump for which Natha does not have money, his kids start
playing with it.
Starting multiple schemes in the names of some past leaders who have done a lot for our country as per our history books has not yet helped India.
Am not questioning the effectiveness of such schemes but the results haven't been very fruitful.
The Federal System of government in actual sense has become an easy tool to facilitate postponement of actual implementation
of schemes.The Centre and State always pass he buck.....End result - An Exercise in futility
The sequence which I find the most gut-busting is where the media persons run to find Natha and end up discovering his remains of paramount importance - "His Excreta".
The canny, machiavellian and story hungry mediapersons focussing their lenses at the remains and reporting -"Natha ek aam aadmi to nahin tha"
Indeed Natha, the character in the movie is not an Aam Admi but a perfect alter ego of thousands of Indian unemployed men and women in search
of a better tomorrow.Good job done Anusha and Aamir!
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