Re: [nukkad] Sonia Gandhi

["aryaone" <>]

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Indian Rediffji wrote:
> Rajesh Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Sunil
Dutt and the guy who played Krishna on Mahabharat, the female who played
Sita in Ramayan  - they have won on the basis of their being stars. NO
ability. NO background. NOTHING.
>

FOREVER FANTASY

Much later in life I had the opportunity to see once more all
the time honored films of younger days.

I discovered how we swallowed impossible theatrics as whole
even when these were impossibilities, clear fantasies.

Sohrab Modi's Kundan was an unabashed lift-off from Hugo's
magnificent Les Miserables, written in lonely evenings as he
sat in exile on the chalk cliffs of Dover.

Raj Kapoor's ever present theme stolen from "Oh How we danced,
when the moon was ..." ran mainstream in all his productions, and
some of his nephews nieces as well. What was ripped off without a
"may I please" survived to be legend for the Indian public.

Sholay was made up of several segments lifted from Westerns,
with the music to boot. It ran to break box office as never before.

In Aah, Raj Kapoor falls in love with one sister [Nargis] finds he
has TB, woos the other to put Nargis off so she would forget him
without pain, flirts something awful breaking all bounds of
propriety common sense decency, falls at the feet of Pran, in this case
a good doctor friend, pawning off Nargis, fades into the sanatorium
to make a return when the woman is getting married, with Mukeshji
as tangawala, to be decanted on a doorstep, dead as a doornail, while
the barat passes by.

Point. What was utter illogic captivated tens of millions, and by the
ease with the oldies are found, sells still.

What caters to fantasy is far more acceptable to people, educated and
not, village dwellers or city folk, that any reality ever did.

People bring the same need to politics, choosing what
appeals to the fantasy.

Which is why middle aged men with paunches win votes when
they act Ram of Ayodhia, rath, unshaven armpit and all.

Did someone say realism in picking candidates?

Arya.

















































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