What is the worth of a person? Can we put a price to it? We often hear people boasting I am “priceless”. Are they really? What exactly defines the worth of a person? Let me try and present my perspective here. I am not talking about earning capacity of an individual.
A traffic police catches a bike rider with some missing documents. Bike man offers 50 bucks and policeman talks rules. Bike man raises it to 100 bucks and still police does not relent. When the amount is raised to 200 bucks, policeman gives a soft warning and let go. So it takes 200 bucks for the policeman to give in. An officer in government cadre would say 200 bucks is too small amount, he might give in at 2000 bucks. A privileged official might give in at 20k bucks and people at even higher level might give in at much higher amount. So there is a price defined for every person.
Don’t get me wrong I am not talking about government official and bribe only. A auto rikshaw wala might observe that passenger has left his bag in auto. If the bag contains merely clothes, he might dutifully return the same to passenger or deposit at a police station. Will he do the same if it’s a wallet that he finds? Will he return the same if it’s a briefcase that contains a lakh?
Essentially the point is the real worth of a person is the price at which he bids good bye to the ethical standards defined. It need not be merely in monetary terms. It can be in kind or other variety of means. One fellow falls for girls other falls for exciting gadget that gets paid. One person gets scared of the power and gets rid of ethical standard. Every one has his/her own reasons to get compromised. Nevertheless that is a price for each person.
I don’t mean to say the class of individuals who don’t succumb, come what may, do not exist. They do exist. But they exist in very less quantity and they are also slowly getting extinct. Like save tiger campaign we really have a need to run a campaign to save these special individuals from getting extinct.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Teenmaar – Movie Review
Disclaimer: I am not a fan of Pawan Kalyan and if this review hurts your sentiments, it is merely due to the fact a spade is being called a spade and no malicious intent of hurting sentiments of people who cant see spade.
Now that I have given the disclaimer I am feeling light at heart. I don’t generally watch his movies during opening week. I avoid watching them in the first month too. I generally mitigate risk by reading reviews and consulting some victims before going to the theatre. This time I took an exception for two reasons. Second reason is I managed to get the tickets thanks to online booking system in multiplex theatres. (I voluntarily ignored the first reason as its my little secret)
Hey chikitha italiano pasta michealo. I know you did not understand this. Even I didn’t despite limited knowledge I have that pasta is Italian food. Movie is full of such dialogues which neither make sense to the story nor to the audience. Audience are saved because of this. Trouble lies in the rest of the movie which audience understand.
I did not watch the original hindi movie on which the story is based, Love Aaj Kal. Well to speak the truth the intent looked good going by the story. Story draws parallel between Love as it exists today and the olden days. Needless to say old love is nearly depicted as platonic and new one materialistic. Old love is depicted as firm in its existence and newer one opportunistic. This is what is supposed to be made as movie. You might ask why am I pissed off with this seemingly decent point? Well narration sucks!! Really!
It’s not new thing to us where two stories of past and present are merged in narration by the directors. Say for example Rang De Basanti does that very beautifully with out causing any boredom to the audience. Teenmaar does not seem to have such seamless integration in the narration which often bores the audience. The narration takes a dig at the confused state of today’s lovers, who don’t know what love means. To make matter worse it takes a dig at marriage system, when heroin realizes she is in love with other man a day after marriage. Sick, isn’t it? Pawan’s character has some resemblance to character played by ram charan in orange movie, I felt. He looked much more confused than Ram.
Music did not appeal a lot to me as I heard it frist time n screen. I am sure ANR would have felt bad for the way his hit song Basti Dorsani is used in this movie. Pawan’s action resembles that of what it was in Kushi/Jalsa despite the effort to show variation in the second character played of Arjun Palwai. Paresh Rawal holds real key to the movie with his narration of (G)olden love story to Hero. Trisha did justice to her role (despite the characterization blunder made) and might serve as crowd puller with her thigh and cleavage shows through out the movie. Other heroin neither had the scope nor the appeal. Director has left much to be desired as in the end I got confused if the message was supporting old love or newer version as they both seemed to have met same end.
Can some one help me understand what Teenmaar means and how its linked to the story?
Now that I have given the disclaimer I am feeling light at heart. I don’t generally watch his movies during opening week. I avoid watching them in the first month too. I generally mitigate risk by reading reviews and consulting some victims before going to the theatre. This time I took an exception for two reasons. Second reason is I managed to get the tickets thanks to online booking system in multiplex theatres. (I voluntarily ignored the first reason as its my little secret)
Hey chikitha italiano pasta michealo. I know you did not understand this. Even I didn’t despite limited knowledge I have that pasta is Italian food. Movie is full of such dialogues which neither make sense to the story nor to the audience. Audience are saved because of this. Trouble lies in the rest of the movie which audience understand.
I did not watch the original hindi movie on which the story is based, Love Aaj Kal. Well to speak the truth the intent looked good going by the story. Story draws parallel between Love as it exists today and the olden days. Needless to say old love is nearly depicted as platonic and new one materialistic. Old love is depicted as firm in its existence and newer one opportunistic. This is what is supposed to be made as movie. You might ask why am I pissed off with this seemingly decent point? Well narration sucks!! Really!
It’s not new thing to us where two stories of past and present are merged in narration by the directors. Say for example Rang De Basanti does that very beautifully with out causing any boredom to the audience. Teenmaar does not seem to have such seamless integration in the narration which often bores the audience. The narration takes a dig at the confused state of today’s lovers, who don’t know what love means. To make matter worse it takes a dig at marriage system, when heroin realizes she is in love with other man a day after marriage. Sick, isn’t it? Pawan’s character has some resemblance to character played by ram charan in orange movie, I felt. He looked much more confused than Ram.
Music did not appeal a lot to me as I heard it frist time n screen. I am sure ANR would have felt bad for the way his hit song Basti Dorsani is used in this movie. Pawan’s action resembles that of what it was in Kushi/Jalsa despite the effort to show variation in the second character played of Arjun Palwai. Paresh Rawal holds real key to the movie with his narration of (G)olden love story to Hero. Trisha did justice to her role (despite the characterization blunder made) and might serve as crowd puller with her thigh and cleavage shows through out the movie. Other heroin neither had the scope nor the appeal. Director has left much to be desired as in the end I got confused if the message was supporting old love or newer version as they both seemed to have met same end.
Can some one help me understand what Teenmaar means and how its linked to the story?
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