Post "3 idiots"

Okay...I watched 3 idiots and its just awesome! I want to watch it again and again...

It's first of a kind movie I should say which is at par with the book...that it is based on "Five point someone" by Chetan Bhagat.

The core idea that the movie puts forward is to be knowledge sucker and not marks sucker!

And not to mention when Amir delivered the dailogue " saying if you seek knowledge, success will be automatically there, in fact success will run behind you" reminded me of Phadke sir (my HOD at Ruia) saying "exams are just a side effect, they just come and go- we should have a lecture even a day before the exam" So very true...I always feel!

Also, I think the movie has glamorized or rather brought into limelight...the geek, the nerd, the out of the box thinker...in every class! And this ability to ask questions and thinking unconventionally is there not in just a few from the class but in fact every born soul on this planet...but our education system is far too much against questioning and is to all the extents marks oriented!

No wonder Americans and Europeans of Indian origin win noble prizes in Science...cause education system here,doesn't allow you to think of nothing except marks and peer allows you to think of just a good college-an awesome placement-an excellent package-a decent spouse-children and thats it...thats life!

Telly tour...

Jus happened to see “Bazigar” movie recently and when the famous song was played “ yeh kalli kalli aankeh …tururu tururu..yeh gore gore gal tururu tururu…” I jus couldn’t stop stop laughing…on the lyrics…on srk, on kajol, on their dance, and on myself too cause I used to enjoy dancing and singing that number!

I got a kind of flashback…of my childhood telly experience…

“Kasturi-supri…chai ka mazaa…!” some chai ka ad song…spoofed by my cousins to tease me…so basically I used to dread this ad big time then…!

The bournvita ka ads,

The Cadbury perk ka Preeti Zinta’s ad,

“Mango Frooti…fresh and juicy”…the

“doodh, doodh…doodh hai wonderful pi sakte hain roj glassful doodh, doodh…”

the nirma ad with the toing…. kinda music ;

"jarasi hassi dular jarasaaa…Amul; The Taste of India..aa.aa” and few others with which I associate my childhood and my tv hours with…!

The “Wednesday 7pm” wala “chitrahaar”

…the “Sunday 7am” wala “rangoli” and

10pm wala “superhit muqabla”

…the only musical treat on television…available then…

The detective thrillers…I just remember “Tehkikaat” and “Raja aur Ranchoo”

Sunday mornings were special and unlike now when I spend my Sunday mornings sleeping…the schedule used to be quite busy then…

7-8 Rangoli

8-9 Shree Krishna

9-10 Chandrakanta

10-11 The jungle book

Also “Small wonder” “Bewitched” “The Famous Five” “Duck tales” “Tales spin” “Cindrella” “Captain planet-he’s the hero..Brings pollution down to zero…” were my favourites….!

Yup, there were also some programs that left their mark "Surabhi" was one of them, hosted by Renuka Shahane and Siddharth Kak...this was one show that i never missed...

I think the first movie I watched in theatre was “Jurassic Park” and was really scared on watching it; the funniest part was…I thought we were going to some park that day…!

I also remember watching movies like Anjali, Halo, Mr.India, Andaz Apna Apna and responding to the emotional ups and downs too…

Even the few TV hours we used to have were interrupted with power cuts and then would begin with “candle light entertainment” whole building ka Baccha Company used to be out of their houses. Playing hide n seek…antakshri...n what not…and the kind of uproar we used to have when the power was back…used to be deafening!!!

Today, the telly experience is way different…it’s overdone, I feel!

Back in time it was a treat, a perfect balance of everything…but times have changed and so has the TV!