You harbour it.
I show it.
Anger.
Taking it for granted
That one will bend one day.
Both know, both will.
Why are you so obedient? I want to shout.
Not willing to let go, just coz I said don’t bother.
Then the heart interferes
To make both realise
Time together is too less
Too less to waste the night
Called to hear your voice
Unexpectedly you tried to make me smile
I did.
Ego not wanting to let you know I did
Hung up.
Action replay.
Again realised, the anger was not worth wasting the night
So now you heard my voice
And convinced me never to let it fade
So here I am, to let you know
Goodbye to you, I will never bade
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
The cons of being “intelligent”
Many things happen with us during the course of our lifetimes. Many leave happy memories many leave sad ones. Whatever they leave behind, we try to get into the thick and thin of the issue to decode it in every way we can. We rape the issue so much that we fail or overlook the fact that the issues have had some impact on our minds. We the so-called “intelligent” species strive to always get to the “core” of anything that we come across. Let me explain with an example.
I recently watched the Delhi 6. And yes, I did like it. May be cause I was able to decode it ‘my way’ and understand what I thought the director to convey through the film.
We had a huge debate over lunch one afternoon in office. A senior had watched the film too and thought it was pathetically horrible and without any message. She insisted on how she could make no head no tail of the existence of the kala Bandar in the movie. I insisted and tried explaining how it was just a metaphor for all that does not exist (exactly like the kala Bandar that did not exist at all) and we yet believe that it does! The kala Bandar, I felt was the dark shades of human nature that we don’t like to bring to surface yet harbour within us. Religious intolerance, suppression of women, rumour mongering etc etc. were some of the underlying topics touched upon in the film, with religious violence taking precedence over all. Another senior supported me by saying that only English Literature students can decode work of art better than the rest as for them everything is open to interpretation. I am not yet an Eng Lit student. Hoping to be very soon though.
The senior kept arguing how, as projected in the movie, (actually only the mind’s manifestation) the kala Bandar killed/attacked many, not a single murder was shown. I countered saying that that was exactly the whole point of the film wherein something does not exist yet we have it in our heads and blow it out of proportion, leading to loss of life and property many a times.
The whole idea of discussing the argument was, why do we have to be/act intelligent all the time? Why don’t we take things (sometimes) in a way somebody wants us to see them? Why do we always have to decode something so badly in order to know where it stemmed from? May it is because of this tendency to decode life that directors and other creative people pay heed to minute details in order that other so-called intelligent people can decipher what they are actually trying to say.
I’m not against questioning something you don’t understand or don’t approve of. All I’m saying is why don’t we just appreciate the beauty of some things the way they need to be witnessed?
Another example is the film Dhoondtey Reh Jaaoegy, which is simply leave-your-brains-home entertainment. I laughed generously throughout the film, thought I could appreciate silly, stupid humour along with a like-minded friend. But, another friend, who is the more intellectual kinds thought the movie was a total waste of time cause she found nothing funny about it. We are definitely entitled to our opinion, but does that mean we don’t laugh at things, really asinine stuff? Anyway I’m no one to judge who should laugh at what, and may you will think my sense of cinema sucks, I don’t care any which way!
Intelligence is not always the coolest thing, so I think. Laughing at myself, once in a while, only does me good. Buuhahahhahah
I recently watched the Delhi 6. And yes, I did like it. May be cause I was able to decode it ‘my way’ and understand what I thought the director to convey through the film.
We had a huge debate over lunch one afternoon in office. A senior had watched the film too and thought it was pathetically horrible and without any message. She insisted on how she could make no head no tail of the existence of the kala Bandar in the movie. I insisted and tried explaining how it was just a metaphor for all that does not exist (exactly like the kala Bandar that did not exist at all) and we yet believe that it does! The kala Bandar, I felt was the dark shades of human nature that we don’t like to bring to surface yet harbour within us. Religious intolerance, suppression of women, rumour mongering etc etc. were some of the underlying topics touched upon in the film, with religious violence taking precedence over all. Another senior supported me by saying that only English Literature students can decode work of art better than the rest as for them everything is open to interpretation. I am not yet an Eng Lit student. Hoping to be very soon though.
The senior kept arguing how, as projected in the movie, (actually only the mind’s manifestation) the kala Bandar killed/attacked many, not a single murder was shown. I countered saying that that was exactly the whole point of the film wherein something does not exist yet we have it in our heads and blow it out of proportion, leading to loss of life and property many a times.
The whole idea of discussing the argument was, why do we have to be/act intelligent all the time? Why don’t we take things (sometimes) in a way somebody wants us to see them? Why do we always have to decode something so badly in order to know where it stemmed from? May it is because of this tendency to decode life that directors and other creative people pay heed to minute details in order that other so-called intelligent people can decipher what they are actually trying to say.
I’m not against questioning something you don’t understand or don’t approve of. All I’m saying is why don’t we just appreciate the beauty of some things the way they need to be witnessed?
Another example is the film Dhoondtey Reh Jaaoegy, which is simply leave-your-brains-home entertainment. I laughed generously throughout the film, thought I could appreciate silly, stupid humour along with a like-minded friend. But, another friend, who is the more intellectual kinds thought the movie was a total waste of time cause she found nothing funny about it. We are definitely entitled to our opinion, but does that mean we don’t laugh at things, really asinine stuff? Anyway I’m no one to judge who should laugh at what, and may you will think my sense of cinema sucks, I don’t care any which way!
Intelligence is not always the coolest thing, so I think. Laughing at myself, once in a while, only does me good. Buuhahahhahah
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