Monday, January 4, 2010

"Curb" Appeal of Maharashtra Government!

I was randomly browsing the News Headlines on Times of India. This caught my eyes. 3-idiots in ragging row My first thought is - What the heck is wrong with this government

First, why do even politicians bother commenting on a movie? Is it not just an entertainment industry? Do they do it for all entertainment fields? If so then how is it entertainment... doesn't it become a government controlled show? For any industry to grow it needs some freedom. That’s why some industries in India prosper and grow. Not because the government helps there, but on the contrary they keep themselves out of it, especially because they do not understand those fields. 3 idiots is one of the well taken movies in recent times. I have heard people even say that the movie is comparable to most Hollywood movies for the picturisation and all. With good movies becoming a rare occurrence nowadays why do our politicians always find it amusing to pick on crowd applauded movies mentioning words like ragging, violence etc especially where it is totally unrelated?
Second, when the government (rather politician) promotes violence themselves in different ways during elections, bandh, strikes, in the parliament when they hit each other with chairs, during internal border issues (like telengana and belgaum) etc., how can they even think about pointing fingers at the Movie Industry? Even morally what rights they have to do that?

Third, don’t they have better work to do? Maharashtra the second largest in population in India has umpteen issues that the government really needs to worry about. Every time it rains Bombay is flooded, traffic is slow, and can they spend this time taking steps for those things. To appeal the crowd, instead of curbing "Scenes" from movies, they should curb "some poverty and illiteracy" from their state. Please someone let me know, if there is a way to open their brains and put the right thoughts in.

I feel not just this government, it is true with even Tamil Nadu and a few other state governments. Lately they seem to think they can take up silly things and make it an issue and get some publicity by that means - Wake up Government! Your people are smarter than you think, it’s high time you get there! mmm will it be interesting if we can curb and criticize the government the same way they do to the movies or other silly issues.

2 comments:

  1. Okie.. Here I am!!! I completely agree that the government has to find better things to talk n fight about. but then again it's no coincidence that most of the public govt figures out there are as brainless as can be and are solely there to misuse the power of the government and ravage all the perks that they can. Like in some movie, we really need a young government, full of educated people, who have the country's people's best interests at hear (unlike what seems to be the case right now). take the whole state divide business. Initially having all the different states based on linguistic and cultural divides made sense. How much sense does Telengana make really? Oh you speak Telugu? Cool, so do I? Sounds dumb even as we picturize it and I can't believe that Sonia Gandhi caved in and made a "promise" in the first place. Everyone's acting stupid. WAKE UP INDIA!!

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  2. Jaya... thanks for dropping and sharing your view :) It feels nice to hear your comments.. i am hoping that day will soon come :)

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