Lost Sparrows.......

Way back in early 90s, me as a kid of around 7 or 8, I used to frequent Bangalore with my grand parents and parents, I used to spot a lot of Sparrows in and around Sankey tank, Tata Farm, and generally in and around the area of UAS.

For me as a kid Sparrows were a special companion. They came in droves twittering freely, accepting feed from us fearlessly whenever I went around the aforementioned places with my elder cousins. When we gleefully dived at them in our attempt to catch them, they would fly away in a flash-only to return challengingly chirpin and fly past our eye brows menacingly yet very gently........

With the population of the city galloping, with 5000 people being added daily to the existing ones, parks and spacious houses have simply vanished without trace (thanks to the real-estate mafia) and huge sky scrappers being built instead. The verdent greenery and the serene atmosphere which was the hallmark of our Bengaluru, is covered with green house gases and dust.

In the mindless race between development (at what cost!!) and nature, the former has won (an illusion of course)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bangalore or as it is now called as Bengaluru (just for the sake of a few kannadigas like us!) is no more a home for these little winged charming ordinary yet extraordinary beauties..... They do not get the love and the care of the people they want to live with. They have flown away to a far off place unknown to mankind.......Perhaps they will never return!!

Slumdog Millionaire Sucks.......Fucks!!

The film Slumdog Millionaire doesn't have the sincerity and the straightforwardness of a "Salaam Bombay" or the films like "City of Joy" nor does this perfectly disguised tale have the cultural integrity or the firm rootedness of the above mentioned scripts. The real Slumdogs are the producers and the promoters of this film who are stashing in millions worldwide.

It is really the xenophobia......its a well cinematographed film.....but it lacks soul. The film is a modern version of the fucking West's view of India in general, and United Fucking States of America in particular. Its a well-made caricature of our mother country. The entire narration is a germination of a terribly sadistic and complex(!!) mind with the only aim of satisfying the western idea of India.

When the fucking USA wanted Indians to embrace them warmly and their companies and by extension their businesses all the Indian women who contested the global beauty contestants won and now when the the mother fucking western world is in a worst crisis, losing their businesses and jobs to Indians; this is a well-timed "flick" to showcase India as a land of open air toilets, slums, communal riots, arson, corruption, child labor and every possible negative thing that the mindless hypo critic West can think of and paint our mother country as a "Slum dog" but whereas the real DOGS are the masters in the Western world or more sarcastically referred to, by themselves as the First world..........

The sound track by the talented musician A.R. Rehman and the performance of the child actors who were picked up in the slums of the Mumbai in and around Victoria Terminus, who are by far grossly underpayed by any yardstick (500 pounds) are the only things which live up to the hype.

We have better mainstream films than this sadistic piece of chicken shit which is endorsed (read it directed) by a protagonist called Boyle, and the actors who cant even utter some hindi words like their mother tongue.

Just turn on to some of our best made mainstream Hindi film industry (not bollywood) blockbusters for a better entertainment than watch-ing this Idiotic piece of crap.