Sunday, January 31, 2016

Something from Panchatantra...

Who is not a fan of cartoons..and like everybody comic stories filled up my childhood like nothing else. Even when my friends had matured in watching news and other stuff I was still caught with animations. The animators these days really put life into their creations with their renditions and the making has made it near to reality perfection, a reason why the market is open to adults as well as children nowadays. But I haven't seen any serious approach been given to the panchatantra tales of our country after all there is a lot to learn from dying nature...

A tale of crows...
What does a crow know?? It basically minds its own business and works and flock to wherever its mind takes it away to and eats whatever it gets. It has a great sense of unity and detests whatever that is not unique to it. It makes its own noise and sports in junk and litter...
So what is the difference between a koel and a crow? maybe its just communication but the crows picks the koel by this defect and is behind the poor creatures life, a life it had nourished till long, the reasons for this act are known only to the crows but they simply chase and attack the Koel in the group of crows, the crow learns nothing from the Koel nor gives it an opportunity and all the  Koel knows is to share her motherhood.

The young Koel heartbroken and chased by its own people, away from where it once called home sings and sings to find other koels out in a sky filled by crows and its whole life goes in meeting other koels singing the most beautiful of songs which the crows can never understand but its said in the books of the tortoises that the eagles have ears for the koels song. But the Koel a crow once a Koel now and all this after he started singing and knowing how not to shut up how else can he talk about worlds so high above...

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Fan-atic

There is a saying that goes like this...
Don't argue with fools for they bring you to their level and then they beat you with their experience...
So what is the real reel world all about? cheap personal promotions or vendetta's, gangs and groups? name and fame, glamour, new age weaponry? or a jungle? What is the inside story? what is there that attracts people? is it our enthusiasm for stories or something else? but unlike books films are not not a great challenge to our brains, its stories already imagined, its already perspectives. We all have that inner child within us so its obvious that the world needs stories but then who is your grandma?

There are three debts to be paid by every human beings according to Hindu scriptures..
First Debt to God that can be repaid by dedicating one's life to the service of God - this is done by :

  • Service to all mankind
  • Reverence for elders, teacher
  • Practice of non-violence, truthfulness, respectfulness
  • Obeying scriptural injunction
  • Protection of the Earth
  • Vegetarianism or Purity in Diet
  • Moderation/Simplicity
  • Non-interference
  • Universality
  • Peace
Second Debt to sages and saints that can be repaid by
  • Reverence and and service to saints, sages and gurus
  • Transmission of the scriptural teaching and cultural heritage
  • serving the society and poor, without expectation of returns
Third Debt to one's ancestors
  • Can be repaid by raising one's family in accordance with the moral and ethical principals of dharma
Then again about the subject I am no page 3 writer, I used to be just a fan, mesmerized and hypnotized by the silver screen with a story in my mind and ready to work it out to make it big without a thought on what lied ahed. My family was confident to an extant and father a little concerned and he had warned me in his unique way to safeguard my ideas for the world would take new ideas but would discard the person; its the way the world works; without loyality, people have become just thieves, running around and finding management techniques for stealing each others money and Ideas. Nobody thinks whether he deserves it or not or does he qualify for that...


Communication is a resource and we have misused it like anything else. Words what it used to mean and what it is now, we are now obsessed with idiotifying things so much that it has directly mutated our sense of perception in unfathomable ways, serinity is in decline and maybe words are not for everyone but maybe somebody will take up the snake banner with time or has somebody already has?
So what lies behind those thrilling lovely posters and mesmerizing advertisments glued to street walls really hold, strip to know more...


Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The plot of a fictional truth - Experimental film making


Karl Marx had once compared business establishments with leeches, maybe ideologies change with time....

There are simply no characters, just fictional truths, people don't act here they are living here and we are them...this movie can happen in your mind or in a screen, it doesn't matter as long as the message is conveyed and its beyond boundaries, ethnicity, language and despondency. What is discussed is concepts, the basic is simple yet complex and talks of the mechanics of the society.

ACT 1 - Purchasing power

Its that power that money gives you, a sense of peace that everything is alright and a security if it goes wrong; human advancement has given new dimensions to this concept that is as old as human civilization. Here are a simple outlook on the causes and effects of the simple decisions you make and its impacts; everything are in circles and loops an important point is that what is discussed is just the tip of the ice berg after this comes in the part of intellects.

Once in a talk by Vandana Shiva she had the opinion that if the past century saw the youth marching towards war fields for the world wars the 21st century witnessed a different type of war where our youths where marching towards malls and brands...

Now lets break things to its basics without forgetting the BIG PICTURE, but you have to critically think a working diagram of the message being conveyed here; its being shown to you; one event leads to another and an another, its multiple events happening simultaneously and otherwise creating a complex economic Karma.

We are what we see...
What is the cost of entertainment? A television set we buy, hours spend in front of television or in a theatre? on a simple perspective its the common man's money being invested in Cameras, sets, acting, modelling and the fashion industry; the money invested in upbringing of a culture, the end results being seen on the streets, on our brothers and sisters; the idea is in at large but not in general.
And where else is he investing in? the free market gives him opportunities that are sky high to live in his own whims and fancies...his investment are on real estate, automobile industry, aviation industry, agriculture, pharma, healthcare...in short the whole world works on this purchasing power for its wants and needs and its convenience that has been winning lately...


ACT 2 - The Love potion - A kindergarten truth

This could have been rendered more beautiful but that part is for the intellects...

Time + Human brain & activity = Impressions and learning....

The Old Times
Couples met during weddings and falling in love was an after effect, a family thrived with mutual respect and understanding, the totality of a family was enjoyed holistically...



Now
Relationships lack discipline, its just lawlessness. Love is now more of being friends, more kind of friends with benefits but on a long term basis, a long adjustment, Think love and sex is being taught and defined by stories crafted commercially, infact people are being bombarded. Relationships thrive on Whatssap, facebook, televisions, movies or going out to a restaurant or a cafe...there is no effort in keeping the mind calm & serene or enjoying love as it is, it always has to be loud for obvious commercial reasons no wonder it can now be considered as one of the pioneering multi faceted global industry growing today; mobile networks, condoms, apparels, fashion, gifts, music, eat aways and many more for the bubble that the world misunderstands or has been taught as love. The rabbit hole goes deep and deep, this age is of multi disciplinary studies try linking the porn industry with this scenario; its something that the people are blind to, but ironically the followers are not its clearly a negative trend for healthy relationships, nationalists groups like the RSS, Congress and Communists should impart discipline and impart ideologies to the youth...Visualize the problem, understand it, study, comment and materialize it as a silent revolution...where is its demand and where is its supply and how is it affecting the nation in a totality...