Yesterday I was watching tv, kept changing channels until my attention was caught by a debate on Star News.It was about Rahul Mahajan’s Swayamwar.Some five or six people comprising of 4 girls ( unmarried & eliminated from Swayamwar ),2 men & women respectively, were airing their views on how able Rahul is in the form of a husband ? The girls spoke for Rahul, a man spoke against the Swayamwar programme saying it is against the Indian culture & so on.Really, personally I feel bored with such reality shows.Many tv channels, in the name of reality show telecasting anything…….. you see there are dance competitions, singing as well, comedy programmes, programmes like Big Boss & Sach ka Saamna……..and all these progrmmes come under one banner that is the reality show.Actually I don’t watch any such show, instead I prefer to watch a good movie, preferably Hollywood.Because bollywood movies except a few are all nonsense.The same thing , the usual stuff….. the actors in Bollywood movies are more eager to flaunt their muscles than the acting skills, actresses try to look more sexy & glamorous than to be putting good acting skills on the screen.The stories of the bollywood movies are more or less the same.Really we need to understand what is a real movie.It is not what we see on 70 mm screen, the actress dancing on an item song in skimpy clothes, the villain holding the gun and shouting a dialogue at the actor ----- main tere tukde tukde kar dunga….. enough, it is unbearable for me as a movie lover.
Our sensibility about cinema is unfortunately very limited.The same is the case with the good programmes on tv.If we read some good books instead of watching such junk on tv, I think that would definitely be helpful.Every book gives us some good experience; reading a book & finishing it with proper understanding gives you an immense pleasure at the end.
Some actors are very popular, that doesn’t mean that they are great actors, unfortunately most of the youngsters don’t know what a good actor is.More especially the girls, they are mad after bollywood stars, the criteria that a girls likes particular actor is just that he is handsome, having a good physique…. Just that.
Fortunately I have watched some good movies.I am really grateful to my friends here in Libya for giving me some good world movies to watch.Coming here I have watched very nice movies….especially here I want to mention a movie of Kate Winslet titled “ The Reader “. This movie won Kate an Oscar.Kate Winslet is known to us for “ Titanic “.But the real acting skills of this wonderful actress can be seen in The Reader.I was deeply touched & moved when I watched this movie.The same is the case with another wonderful movie named “ The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas “.This movie is mindblowing….even a stone would shed tears if it is made to watch this movie.
When I go back to India I would like to lend some good world movies in my collection to my friends & former students.I want them to watch a real movie and appreciate it.They should know what a good movie is……they should know what a good actor or actress is……. and they should promote it to their friends.The city film clubs & societies are doing this job, but it is not so extensive.Atleast that is what I noticed in Latur ( my city ).So I would like to be an instrument to spread good world movies to my friends and people related to me.