Celebrating 100 years of Indian Cinema!!!

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      Movies are an internal part of our lives. I get surprised when I hear from anyone that they are not a movie liker and they never go to theater or bring CDs at home for viewing their favorite movie genre. Whenever we feel down, the first thing that comes into our mind is to play beautiful songs. They are part of our movies. Then we also feel like watching movies when we are too stressed because of too many ups and down in our life. The most romantic counterpart for girls and boys these days is to go to theater for a movie. They find extreme secrecy plus they get to see themselves among the characters of a romantic movie. In our India, basically all the movies rotate around a  boy and a girl and their complicated relationship. We have been enjoying this since ages and we still go to see such movies. It has been 100 years of our Indian Cinema and it seems as if there has been contribution for over than 1000 years. 

             The most respected personalities in our lives are the actors. The greatest Indian whom the majority of Indians rate is none other than an actor i.e. Amitabh Bachchan. Though Cricket remains to be a religion in India but its conditional. The moment our team starts losing continuously, we end up being a movie buff again. Let it be any season, watching movie remains to be our first love. And its so happening for us that we get to watch a new movie every Friday. Though some times, shits in the name of movies but still. These days Torrent plays it part differently. We get to watch uncountable movies because of it. There's no limit. Though movies are meant for entertainment but there are some movies that stays in our heart or sends out such a strong message that it sets a totally new mindset in our traditional ideologies. 

              The best example: The traditional mindset was to love a girl by holding her hands but Emraan Hashmi taught us how exactly a girl is to be loved. Haha. Just kidding. But seriously, movies have power to change our lives. The only reason why people liked 3 Idiots extremely is because it spoke what all youngsters wanted their parents to understand. We want to pursue what we are very good in but our parents want us to gain a job related to what we have academically learned. The reason why Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara never bores me is because it taught me many things about life. It showed how fear has to be exempted from life even when it seems as an impossibility to us. It taught me that the current moment of life is eternity while what comes in future is over to God and we shouldn't worry about it. Taare Zameen Par has given an outlook as to why shouldn't I judge a child over his academic performances. He always has an X-factor which gets submerged deep inside him because of lack of confidence and fear that people will scold him again for being an under performer. 

              Stanley Ka Dabba tells how there are several people who are seeing worst that we can't even imagine but yet whenever they meet us, they only state the positive sides of life and never let us know what they are going through. Kai Po Che is yet another movie that tells how we youngsters have an enthusiasm and courage to excel in whatever we feel we are good in. Udaan tells how hard it becomes to suffer the pain that comes from the source that is full of sin but we never take a step because of the respect that relationship carries. And later, in the climax, it tells how even a parent deserves slap when they don't understand the amount of torture they are affecting their child with. Movies like Lakshya has taught how even a nerdy becomes a responsible citizen of India with sheer determination and hard un-ending efforts. Rockstar shows how arrogance takes away all that we earn with our talent and conviction for dream. 

              Several movies have affected my life and its hard to list all of them here. But I can not thank more to these 100 years of Indian Cinema which grew up with every Friday and gave us some evergreen movies that shall always keep asking us to change ourselves for good. There are many movies that create an urge in ourselves to work day and night. Then there are other section of movies that explains why we should also take life easily and enjoy other beautiful aspects of it. I am not a great movie buff. I don't watch every movie in theater. I don't even buy DVDs every month. I am not even having unlimited data Internet plan that I get to download movies 24*7 and see them all one after another. But whatever selective movies I watch, I do enjoy them with heart which keeps me intrigued for many weeks in to it. To all the units that helps in creating a movie- Director, Producer, Actor, Singer, Music Director, Editor, Writer etc, thanks for working day and night to entertain us, the audience which has no better option than to switch to a Movie Channel on television and spend rest of the day with a smiling face and horizontal spine; when in tension. :-) I hope that one day I would be a part of Indian Cinema by contributing in any section of it. Let's see.

 Thanks.

 ABHILASH RUHELA - VEERU!!! 

Don't be your father's son. Make your father a father of a self-made son!!!

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     Luxury is what every human always craves for. To be specific, its very prominent among us, Indians. We have always desired to follow the Western culture because we feel that following our own culture makes other decipher that we are not as rich as them. Hence to prove everyone that even we are one who can stand with them we follow what they themselves follow. And this is how the whole world keeps pretending and never really tries to be what they are trying to pretend themselves as. I think that almost 70% of Indians are middle-class. Hence the better 30% always fascinates us, the middle-class-ians. But whom should we blame if we end up being middle class? Our parents or ourselves? First, its our destiny that we are born in a family where every time we keep our hands on a substance, we have to think whether we can afford it or not. But it is fine. At least being middle class guarantees that we are having roof over our head. Some are dying to even have that. 

               Good thing about middle-class parents is that they never compromise when it comes to our studies. You ask them to shelve out lakhs of money for a course that can fetch you good career ahead in life and they will do anything but will not make you sit idle and see your dreams moving away from you. Even if after all these circumstances you end up being middle-class for life, it will not be your parents’ mistake but yours. Its our chance to raise the status of our family by a level. If we fail in doing this, it can be said that we did nothing except earning just to feed our stomach. And even a beggar begs to feed his stomach. This is not for what we take education for almost 25 years of our life. There are bigger things to achieve. There are bigger things to imagine, create and convert them into actions and results. It has been high time since some of our young companions are resting because they have decided that since their father have achieved a level, they are just going to spend all their lifetimes in rejoicing over his accomplishment rather than moving up to next level. I am talking this for a very minor number of youngsters. Because one fact is very obvious that most of the youngsters are passionate and ambitious. They don't rely on what their father is going to leave for them but they are initializing themselves right from 0 and want to touch the heights that their father crossed and then want to achieve its double. This is LIFE.

              Suppose if your father owns a 2 BHK flat in outskirts of Mumbai which is in itself very expensive these days, owns a car, a bike, has 2 LCDs at home and at the time of retirement has 20 lakhs as his saving. A normal stupid Indian boy will take his life casual. He'll think that he already has a flat which will be of Crores when he would be of his father's age, his 20 lakhs saving will fetch him an interest of 10,000 pm at least for all his life time, the cars will keep helping him for some years etc. This is where a young boy gets into the zone of losers. In spite of this, he should challenge himself. He should think that when his father did it himself rather than getting any help from his grandfather, he should also make his own way rather than trying to survive on the basis of what his father created with his effort. Some of these losers will say that even my father didn't achieve this; he is eating on what my grandfather left for him. So just because your father acted as a loser, you will yourself follow the same criteria? What's the difference then? It's your responsibility to take your family to a totally new level. Your father is not God, he is another human being with structure of bones, flesh, muscles with blood flowing across them through veins. So, what he did is not right. Right is right. Follow it, not your father if he has been a loser.

                One thing should also be kept in mind. One shouldn't challenge his father that he would beat him severely and show him how a life should have been led than the way he made he and his siblings lead. I am not saying to win against your father's achievements. I am telling you to take inspiration from your grandfather, your father, and your uncles and do better than them. Only then will the family rise, only then will the future generation of yours will get to enjoy what you feel you were unable of by being a part of middle-class family. Your dreams should be to purchase at least a 2BHK flat in main Mumbai suburbs, own an expensive car for yourself, one for your wife and gift one to your parents, your whole house should be covered with centralized air conditioned system, every room should have a home-theater sound proof system and your savings should be at least thrice of what your father had as the inflation is increasing every day in India and the value of money is dropping on daily basis. 

                  If you lead your life the way other majorities of youngsters are, you will find that you have your own possession while your father's possession is working as a bonus on which you are not relying even for a bit of convenience. All you have is yours. Every middle-class father has done better than his father. This in itself makes us eligible to fight for our own needs against ourselves. Today, I feel so proud when I tell people that my father passed his Diploma with 76% and holds the position of Manager in a well-known Iron and Steel industry. I also feel very proud when I tell people that my mother is a Graduate with First-class marks because not everyone's mother is so well-educated. Now, it’s obvious that I need to do better than my parents to raise the bar of my generation's level. I am in Masters currently and I'm enjoying the studies. I am doing several other jobs that you all very well know. Some of them that you all are still unaware of will be known in some more months or years. :-) Whatever my father has achieved in his life, I would be achieving all of it and in less number of years than he took and then go for doubling the achievements. This will raise the bar of my family. And my parents will be so proud of me when they'll see that I carved my own way rather than sitting in the same vehicle that they purchased with all their efforts in life rather than going for a new one. :-)

                My parents are one of the best. And they will remain to be. I see my friends indulged in their household activities. My parents have kept me away from all these activities that aren't much productive. They have taught me a basic way of leading life. It's not that I don't know how to do those sections of work but it's just that my parents are giving me time to pursue my studies, dreams and passions. My mother has taken so many jobs that are meant only for men to do. She is a very strong lady. Of course, the strongest mother I have come across. And my parents don't have any glitches regarding me not doing those household works that my friends do for their family as my parents know that this boy is on his way to carve his own road. They know that he will never stop his work. They believe that our child will be known as the best example who gave his parents the best service in their old age and in last years of their life. 

             Today my parents have energy. They are 52 and 46 years old respectively. Considering 58 as retirement age, they have enough time and energy to do these works. The moment they'll start shrinking because of their old age, I would be standing independently on my feet. I will then provide them with all the luxuries that they would need. I will show them those parts of world which they have still not got access of. I will also make them feel proud that their son didn't live a life that every other friends of his did. I want to show them how their son has done something so differently that all the credit goes to his parents than him. If today I am writing this blog post and getting famous all over India, it is because my father has provided me with the resource needed to broadcast my thoughts all over the world through this laptop via the Internet connection for which he pays every month. So who should get the credit of whatever I achieve later in my life? :-) 

             Though I want to help my parents with their work but I have myself to do a lot for the future that I can't devote any time to them currently. But I know that this sacrifice will make me spend a good time with them the moment they will retire with things and sit back at home only to spend their time with me, their daughter-in-law and their grand-children. Then I would be gifting them a Car and would ask them to roam anywhere they want in India because this is what they never did in their life just to provide their son with the best of the facilities. Then that they would be done with all their responsibilities, I would be showing them how the standard of living has been taken to the next level just because of all the sacrifices they made for me. I will give them the gift of being different from other contemporary parents and letting their son utilize all the time of his life for his dreams and passion. This is how most of the youngsters think. The one who are thinking of eating what their father has left without consuming, better eat your shit or move ahead and carve your own way. Don't be your father's son. Make your father a father of a self-made son. :-) Yes!!!

P.S.: My parents are sleeping currently while I am writing this Blog and working on my dreams. Why? Because if I’ll sleep for the same amount of time for which they are sleeping, I will end up achieving only the amount that they have achieved. To do better than them and to leave the middle-class-ness behind, I will have to work more than them, sleep less than them and bring results that are unthinkable for them. :-)

 Thanks.

 ABHILASH RUHELA - VEERU!!! 

Kaisi Ban Gai Majburi Hai Yeh--> MAUT!!!

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            Every time we are being warned about a bad news, we always start praying God for not making us hear something which we can't repair. There are many things in life that are repairable while there are some which we can't mold it into the same shape as before. Life is unpleasant some times. The worst news that one can hear is about someone's death. No, it is not just about the death of someone very close to one but even if you hear that your enemy is no more, you feel bad. Because you never wish for someone to die. Yes, we do curse some of the government employees who trouble us or some other class of people but still when we hear that the devil is no more, we feel bad. Death is irreversible. And something that can't be brought back is such a scary thought. It has been for a lot of time that I have heard about people's death whom I knew personally. It is always hard to digest the fact. But then, you have to accept the worst.

              For my enemies, the worst that I can wish is to see them struggle all through their life but I would never expect or hope them to die. No. Never. Even when a relationship with someone is broke off, the worst that one curses the friend or the lover is that he/she would like to see him/her in a struggling phase and getting ditched by someone else. But we never say that I wish to see you dead some day. This is the worst that one can say. And if one says this, I would say he/she is the dangerous aspect of society. He/she needs to be put under a scrutiny because if someone is heartless up to this level, he/she can kill anyone any time. How hard it is to imagine someone wrapped up in white bed sheet, with cotton buds inside the nostrils, a pale yellow body, emotionless, eyes closed to never open again etc. I can not. 

             I remember the question asked to me in the final round of Fresher Party in my Graduation, "What would be the 5 wishes that you will ask God if you'll meet him?" Before answering anything else, I said that my first wish would be,"Hey God, please never let my parents die till the time I'm alive on the Earth". There was such a thunderous response in the hall that the echoes of claps and screams still stays with me. I was too happy to see that not only me, but everyone's soul accepted what I said with the same intensity with which I feel it. For this very answer and the next 4 wishes that I claimed, I won the title that evening. One of the special days of my life it is. This is how death scares me. No, not mine. But of the people whom I know. A friend told me how his brother committed suicide, I was unable to concentrate on anything else than think about why would someone do something because of which others can never fulfill their wishes which are imagined only with them. If I lose few people around me today, my life will always remain incomplete. Though I would move on but I will always feel that something is missing in it. This is what someone's death does to us. 

             The celebrities whom we love, the legends whom we idolize, the singers whom we listen, the performers whom we adore, we always wish long life for them. We never want their creativity to put the shutter down. We always want them to proliferate their level and augment the number of artistry that they are capable of. Recently, I have lost someone very close to me. I bought it with so much passion and love and accepting that the little being is no more is so unacceptable that every time I'm alone, I'm lost in the thought of all the moments when I had it. I can not vociferate whom I have lost but I can tell all that it was someone very special. Some one because of whom my outlook towards seeing pets, animals, pet lovers etc changed. The being can not return back nor can anyone else even if resembling the one that is gone can substitute it. The character, the person, the living entity remains to be unique and immortal. It can not be replaced by anyone else. The memories after the death remains. And that's the only criteria that makes us feel that the one who has gone still lives somewhere close to us, stays near us and always stands by us in whatever condition that comes. I hope the soul rests in peace of every good and innocent being who has left the Earth. May God bless them all with heaven. Death is scary and from now on wards, it scares me the most. Not mine but of others whom I love and adore. :-(

 Thanks.

 ABHILASH RUHELA - VEERU!!!