Godmen vs Goodmen

Happy to be back to movie-watching. Saw MNIK (My Name is Khan), Leader (Telugu) and Love, Sex & Dhoka (LSD). Leader and LSD are made by guys who are good writers too. Not often in Hindi (unlike in South Indian films) one finds directors who are writers also. People like Jaideep Sahni who wrote Chak De, Rocket Singh etc have taken movie-writing for a career. Dibankar Banerjee on the other hand is writer cum director. His first movie Khosla ka Ghosla was outstanding. However, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye was so boring that I couldn’t watch more than half. LSD is a movie I think is in the Pulp Fiction genre. It was okie in parts but nothing great overall. “Leader” on the other hand was a decent movie but in my opinion Shekhar Kamula, the director of the movie is best at romantic movies as he seems to be slightly off-colour with other scripts. I was telling my friend who accompanied me that making a good movie (with good script) involves time with preparation time for script and planning. Quality seems to be deteriorating when makers come out with frequent releases. MNIK appealed to me no more than one dialogue where SRK tells a donation collector to give his 5K dollars to African non-christians. To lure the overseas audience, people like Karan Johar take up issues that are global and in most cases American. I couldn’t feel much for Rizvan Khan in MNIK as much I could for Geeta in Swades. There are so many India specific issues but it’s a shame that there are not many good directors to showcase those.

It’s corporation (BBMP) election time in Bangalore. Our area drainage had some problem and it was flooded a bit on the roads. I called one of the contestants (his mobile# was in the pamphlet he left with our security) telling him if he could fix it, he would get all votes. He looked a pucca rowdy and quite funnily replied me that he is contesting for the first time and so he is unable to fix it. :D. Instead he could have replied me that we guys don’t vote anyway and hence he doesn’t care to fix the issue. That at least is truth. On a serious note, it's such a pity that it's only fellow humans who clean it eventually. Wish the day will come (as Gandhiji wanted) when there are no scavengers and everything is machinised. We don't need ATMs to draw money. Real technology should eliminate such pitiable jobs out of action. We should stop revering people like Nityananda and start caring for real heroes. One hasn't seen any god-man/woman living an austere life lately. Their solutions are also for already affluents. Ridiculous!!. Remembered a line in a tamil song that goes as "saamikku padaikkira kaigaLai kumbittom...saakkadai aLLura kaigaLa vittuttom"...