Rock On

"Tum ho toh gaata hai dil ..... tum nahin toh geet kahan" - screams my junior's status message on Gtalk !  At first I didnt get what it meant but it didnt take long enough for me to realize that it was the lyrics of "Rock On". Just like him several other friends of mine too had "Rock On" lyrics as their Gtalk status message. Never had I seen any movie finding its way to so many status messages. 

Makes me wonder what was the one thing that made this movie different enough to capture the imagination of so many cool dudes and babes !  Being an guest expert in Behaviourial Sciences it surprising to me that so many people had fallen to the movie's charm though the movie had no Bikini scenes, kissing scenes, item numbers, running around trees, villain, the customary dishum-dishum  or SRK !!

For me it was the mature way in which the story was handled with the kick-ass songs. Unlike other Bolly movies it didnt show Rock stars as badly dressed drug sniffing over-tattoed morons. 

But what was in it that clicked for you ?.....................  Socha nahin toh socho abhi !!

The Art of insecure living

Last to last week a girl committed suicide because she was dead convinced that the world was doomed to be destroyed because of the big-bang experiment !! 

You wouldn't blame her for being outrageously stupid in doing it because the news channels were reporting it in the manner as if there was no tomorrow. Some of them even had the B-grade music in the background to announce the "pralay". That was a classical of journalism in India having gone to the dogs. Sensationalism had replaced common sense !! Take any god damned story, add some black magic music, show goddess kali and a sensationalizing reporter and you get a sizzling Bullshit determined to scare the hell out of you.

They say journalism mirrors the society. Do we as a society like to live in fear ? be constantly reminded that the world outside our homes is dangerous ? There are already enough real issues I dont think we need any 'engineered' ones. If we are destined to die .. we will ... even in the 'safe' 4 walls of our home !! 

There is no denying about dangers lurking around the corner but i dont want a hairy nincompoop telling me that on national television !!!