Peepli [Live] the Movie - Reactions

"I'll commit suicide :("..

"No i'll :("..

"why will u? I'll commit suicide :( "...

"no no... nothing doing i'll commit suicide :("...

"hmmm ok...u commit suicide...but don't you dare not turn your back on it :) :)".....

"ummmm ..ookkkkk :( :("

Peepli [live]... a peep into the lives.. of the people (farmers/media/politicians)...by the people (media/politicians)..to the people (sitting in front of TV/reading newspaper with "blindfolds") .....

Me being an Indian..with Agri background (my most "grand grand" and some "grand" generation people.. did work to feed the nation )... and now doing my masters in "Agri-Business Management" ... this movie was something I wanted to see for sure..(in spite of last two tragedies of going for a movie in the 1st week itself) ..... On a fateful day... classes got cancelled and luckily we got the tickets (thou 2nd row in the front... :( )...

Talking about the movie.. well its a good movie...after all its been "perfected" by Aamir Khan!! :P the plot was too good.. Thou the issues were serious ones and brought out the "open" truth in a much clearer way..(which we being Indians shudn be feeling proud about...) the way everything was handled was simply great... even the "Somanto" thing.... :) :) m sure no one dozed off or fiddled with their mobiles during the show... The screenplay.. the dialogues and of course their comic timing and delivery were refreshing.. :P..... 

The utter desperation to make a living..so that their families can breath normally .. drove a shameful number of poor farmers of our "glorious 63 yr old" India.. into committing suicide. For they thought.. their death will bring in some money into the crumbling home...and fill the bellies of their children who smelt the food days ago... I am not exaggerating.... we sitting here in the so called urban/metro sky scrapers wouldn't know... we think its the interior Africans who die of hunger and poverty... true... but what about our own "interior Indians" ??? ..... One may argue.. its up to the person to sculpt his life.. Instead of begging.. or committing suicide... one should work hard and make a living ...and prosper...but I ask.. what if a person doesn't have the tools to sculpt one??? Should he beg..borrow or steal??? In fact, we are the one to blame... we readily purchase commodities for a higher market price from supermarkets with a false impression that the product and prices are standardized.... on the other hand we haggle with our cart pushers .... ask for free dhaniya/pudina/mirchi !! 

The utter desperation of the media to make money has made them forget the basic purpose of their very own existence. Today, the world of media is like a glam world and all they are worried is the TRPs.. the "glossiness" of the so called news they cover. True... competition increases efficiency... but too much competition is !@#$%^&^%$#@#$%^&*)(*&^%$#@!@#$%^&* !!!!!!

The utter desperation of the politicians to grab that chair , has well.. re-defined the term politics!! .... The blame game.. the shameless scams... the astonishing bribery... the scary world out there... has somehow overshadowed the few (exceptions) politicians who do good. Oh by the way.. we don't know if that's again true.. coz.. "information" today can be easily manipulated and every one in that filthy world has learnt the "game" well. For more clear picture, you may watch Rajneeti.. (another wonderful movie)- here gain.. its the competition between multiple parties that's making things more shittier. I am no expert but somehow believe a bi-party system will be much more efficient. However, in a diversified country like India..a multi-party system with stringent screening might be required. 

The point I wanna make by this post is not to tell you what you already know... but to kick and remind you... that.. if nothing is done now... to correct the flaws... India would soon be in a situation.. where...

We would have Mercs and Volkswagen to show off..

But no fuel or place to ride it.....

We would have huge open lands to show off...

But no one to cultivate a grain.....

We would have N number of buildings / sky scrapers to show off...

But people in it would still be !@#$%^%$# .......

We would have our "zero" "algebra" "trigno" etc to show off....

But millions of Indians still wont know what they are.....

We would have millions of Indians spread across the globe to show off....

But not one in India to do the same....

I must confess... My contribution to this great nation is negligible... and so I don't have the right to say anything to you. However.... I am willing to start....are you????