March 26, 2010

We all Need To work to make a living

We all need to work to make a living. I am trying to find some . Am I really trying to find some? Am I actually trying to avoid looking it in the eye even as it stares back at me ?

I don't know , but for all I know I am in a state of confusion , a state of continuous disbelief .

I know what I don't know and am clear regarding the things I am not clear. I know what I want because what I want is not what I want.

Time is my only hope . One day I will want what I want , know what what I should know and be what I should be.

March 6, 2010

NDTV Imagine-Small Screen's answer to meaningful Cinema

NDTV is undoubtedly urban ( read Delhi ) India's mouthpiece. What with intellectual anchors like Barkha Dutt, Vikram Chandra and highly liberal shows like We the People etc. followed by an unbiased coverage of issues relating to minorities and women's rights.

But NDTV's greatest achievement has been the launch of the most creative , original and by far the most decent entertainment channel- NDTV Imagine.

Yes sir , this is the channel where Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan was aired . The channel where Angrezi mein kehte hain sprung to life . This very channel took upon itself the responsibility to air Vijay Desh ki AAnkhen, Rajkumar AAryan , Seeta Aur Geeta. Take this " Do Hanson ka joda" how imaginative can one get? Oh yes ...one can still get imginative to create and telecast Pati Patni Aur Woh.

But no. The creative team at NDTV Imagine's programme selection department was just getting warm . For it has had the privilege of allotting prime time Television space to three shows who's name needs no introduction for the physiological, psychological,social,political, economic effects produced by it are truly biblical in proportions.
The shows are :

Raaz Pichle Janam Ka
Rakhi Ka Swyamavar
and ..............................................................................................................................................................
please hold your breathe for this one.....................................

Rahul Dulhania Le Jayega.

These three shows have proved that talented creative teams in India have arrived .
Steeped in decency and propriety. In close contact with the ground realities of the nation. Not by any means manipulated or rigged or schematic in thematic content and plot , these shows stand for all that is good about our culture and society.

NDTV IMAGINE has done it.

How deprived I would have felt had NDTV Imagine taken birth after my life span.

But to live and breathe in the same era and space in which the showmen of this remarkable channel do, is a privilege , an honour.

There are those who proudly proclaim that they have marched besides Gandhiji during our freedom struggle. I've encountered proud men who were there when the INA marched into Eastern India defeating the antagonistic contingents it encountered. I've seen them who lived through moments of sporting and cinematic glory. But I pity them , if they have not been witness to the birth and progress of NDTV IMAGINE as a force to reckon with in the Indian Television Industry.

It has been able to hire the services of great personages like Saroj Khan, Rakhi Sawant, Rahul Mahajan and of course that Graceful female who hosts the realistic and serious show Raaz Pichle Janam ka.

Hats off.

Pardon me dear reader if , due to the highly emotional state I find myself in , I may have ignored, failed , neglected , avoided, circumvented , skipped, overlooked, refused , forgotten to mention any other show where the limits of Imagination were employed . (To my mind comes the show where a group of girls were out to find grooms and were aided by their respective mothers....did this very channel air it?).

Acknowledgement:

NDTV IMAGINE WEBSITE
RAHUL MAHAJAN

Raaz pichle janam ka for helping me to discover the fact that I was an innocent man in my previous birth who was killed by the forcible intake of rotten Yash-Raj, Yash Chopra, Kunal Kohli romantic movies.