3 Idiots – MNIK – Formula for successful movies

I may sound like the Most Wanted if I quote I know the formula for successful movies. Before all the movie producers flock my house, let me make it clear that these are just my views(right or wrong) and there’s nothing new I ‘am gonna say here.

We saw huge blockbusters like 3 idiots and MNIK. In today’s world, the reason that they became so successful was the fact that these movies have multiple messages in them. People go to multiplexes paying Rs. 350 or so and if they aren’t satisfied enough they feel cheated. But again nobody knows for sure what makes a movie run, it could be some magic that audience find in a movie if it doesn't have any message (Ishqiyan??)

Let me count the messages that 3 idiots gave

1) Aal izz well – It’s about hope. Never panic. Whatever problem you’re in, believe that everything will be fine someday

2) Excellence – Strive for excellence and not success

3) Friendship

Now let me list MNIK’s messages

1) Truthfulness, Innocence, goodness - Be good and say truth always. You will have your laugh at the end

2) Love – A person who can’t have feelings succumb to Mandira’s love and goes all out to gain it back. But in reality, does true love ever exist? (for that wait for my next blog)

3) Don’t generalize – Don’t brand any community as good or bad. There are only good people and bad people.

My best line from the movie is, when the TV reporter asks Khan about what kept him going in such a long journey, he replies confidently ‘my son Sam’s soccer shoes’ haha lol.

Well, having said all this, I feel MNIK is unrealistic. The thought of dividing people into good or bad is not correct because nobody is 100% good or 100% bad. Everybody have their own perspective to life. What I think is, there are two kind of people in this world. Problem creators and Problem resolvers !! And my appeal to everybody is, please try to be a problem resolver as much as you can. In that sense, I’m proud to be a service provider engineer.

Do you know any movie which had maximum messages? I feel it is a wonderful movie named ‘Khuda Ke Liye’, my all time favorite. It’s again based on Islamic world mainly. Very very apt movie.

I am not a great writer or something but the other day I had a nice idea on which a movie can be made. Planning to do some research on it and develop a movie script. It’s again about some syndrome. Only people whom I have told about this are Alpana, Sreedevi and Mathad. So, please wish me luck. Dharma productions, I am coming to you. Else Farhan Akhtar ?

Take care till I come up with a new blog. Please get back if I bore

The Three Musketeers – I love RSS – My Men

I can proudly say that, I am a true fan of the three men in the world. They are RSS. That is, Roger Federer, Shahrukh Khan and Sachin Tendulkar. In that order. I don’t think there is any need for me to give an intro about them.

The reasons that I love these three are pretty obvious. All these three come from a lower middle class background with literally no influential parents or god fathers. They have done enough justice to their talents and remained in the top position in their field for a long time(Remember, reaching the top position is very easy but remaining there for long is next to impossible. Best example: Himesh Reshammiya :-) lol)

I am glad and feel lucky that I am almost contemporary to my favorites, RSS. These days I am on cloud nine in fact. In the last few days, Roger won the Australian Open, Sachin scored three consecutive test centuries and Shahrukh ? Wow. I fell flat watching him in MNIK today. It’s not that it’s the best movie ever made but I am 100% sure it’s SRK’s career best acting ever(Earlier it was Devdaas I feel).

It’s not that I am a die hard, crazy fan of these three. If I happen to meet say, Roger in a flight, I wouldn’t yell and faint and all that. I would just shake hand and say ‘hey Roger, how are ya? All the best for the future tournaments". But the fact is, I would not mind 10 more breakups just to see Roger’s one (leaning forward) topspin forehand winner across the court. I wouldn’t mind 10 more breakups just to see SRK’s that innocent dimpled smile and I would certainly not mind undergoing 10 more breakups to see Sachin step out of the crease and loft the ball high over the ropes.
I think it’s fair that I should be called a true fan of RSS.

Now, unfortunately, I am not a fan of any woman. It doesn’t mean I don’t like women. No. In fact, I love them :-)

Hindi is not India’s National Language !

I love history. I love history for the sheer fact that it can be viewed from any angle and my eternal efforts would be to know the true history. I feel true history is nothing but the ‘Neutral History’. Generally the history that we study in schools and colleges is often colored with state propaganda. For example, if Jinnah is a villain in the Indian history, he is a demigod in the Pakistani history. It’s true for every nation. Even in American textbooks it is written as if America is the world.

Now coming back to the subject, 99% of Indians have this misconception that the national language of India is Hindi. Wrong. Fact is, the Indian national language is English. Shocked? But it’s true. Please read ahead.

While India was getting independence, there was a question before the parliament as to which language should be the national language of the Indian union. Indian Muslims spoke Urdu and Hindi was spoken by Hindus in BiMaRU states (Bi; Bihar, Ma: Madhya Pradesh, R:Rajasthan, U: UP).

There was voting done in the parliament to choose a national language. Urdu and Hindi tied with equal number of votes. Then it was decided by the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi that our national language would be Hindustani, a mix of Hindi and Urdu (no idea about the script). Hindustani is the language spoken by the masses and understood easily by one and all. It doesn’t have complex terminologies of Persian Urdu or Sankritized Hindi. The language used in the Hindi films is, Hindustani. In my opinion, Hindustani is the most sweetest language on the earth not just because it’s my mother tongue.

After this, in the mid 1947 hell broke loose. India divided and what followed was the most brutal massacres of all time. Lakhs of people were killed and made homeless. Since handful of Muslims remained in India, then the Indian leaders decided that Hindi, with the Devanagari script alone would be the national language of India.

Our then prime minister Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru was modern in his views. He was pro English. He made sure that the higher professional education like engineering and medicine remained in English so that Indians would get global recognition(because of this English, the Indian software industry boomed in the late 90s, else Chinese have any day better brains than Indians. Every year in the International Math Olympaids, majority of the gold medals are bagged by the Chinese and Taiwanese)

Now, since most of the south Indians didn’t know Hindi then, (C. Rajgopalchari and Ambedkar supported English) it was decided in 1950 that English would be the national official language for the next fifteen years till which efforts would be made to popularize Hindi across the nation. (this is as mentioned in the article 463 of the constitution) and Hindi was included in the schedule along with 17 other languages as the regional official languages. Now the list is increased to 26 I guess.

Then the government did many things to promote Hindi, like inclusion of the same in the civil services, central government bodies like defence forces, railways and also opened Hindi prachar sabhas in the south.

Things went fine until the Jan 26th of 1965. It was the day when English had completed its 15 years term and as promised, it was the time for Hindi to be declared the national language. Meanwhile Nehru had died the previous year. On 1965 26th Jan, Hindi was declared India’s sole national official language replacing English. Anti-Hindi riots broke out in Tamil Nadu and some parts of north eastern states. Soon the government realized that it’s impractical to impose Hindi as the national language. And within two weeks government reverted back to English. This has continued till this day.

Hence Hindi was made our national language for merely two weeks in 1965, other than that it’s just yet another regional language. But our teachers and textbooks are still an ignorant lot stating that Hindi is our ‘Rashtra Bhasha’. Fact is, Hindi was decided to be made Rashtra Bhasha but was never made. It's little known tfact that the USA doesn't have a national language because they don't want to disrespect the minorities who speak Spanish. If we apply that logic then for the next 1000 years Hindi can not become Indian National Language because of such mind boggling linguistic diversity in the Indian state. However Hindi has grown tremondously off late in South India, thanks to Bollywood. Hope someday, all the Indians would be able to communicate in both English and Hindi.

I again hope that let the ‘Neutral History’ prevail in the world.