JayaHo Rehman

A R Rehman(Allah Rakkha Rahman) proved again the best musician in the world; holding two Oscars in his hands in the 81 Acadamy Oscar Awards function for categories Best Original score and Best Original song.

No Doubt!!!
He is the “Legend”
He is the Music Magician.
He is Music Maestro.

What not; as a whole he is the glory to My India. He is humble in his thanks speech even,How great? And sensible he is!

“Though I have nothing; but I have a mother and her blessings”
“God is great” he said this in his regional language Tamil.

It reveals and reminds us the perfection of our life and dedication in work.

"All my life I had a choice between hate and love. I chose love and I am here," said Rahman after receiving his second golden statuette.

There may be 1000 critics to talk about “Slumdog Millionaire”, but I strongly feel it unveiled many true facts about India, What’s wrong in that? We are like that hence we are...I am strong enough to accept the true fact. Why should we hide ourselves? Keeping all these discussions aside A British director - Danny Boyle’s Vision about India in the form of “Slumdog Millionaire” won the 8 Oscars out of 10 nominations in best categories including Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

When A R Rehman got Golden globe award for his “Jayho” song from this movie and when I came to know that he was nominated for 3 Oscars for this film I strongly decided that; he will definitely get at least one. But I am pretty sure; all this happened only due to a British Director for this film. If it would have been directed by other than British man; keeping the technical crew for the film as same as now I don’t think it would have happened. But what ever the reason our talent got reputation globally. Rehman is the first man who received 2 Oscars in a same Acadamy awards function. This is enough! He proved it.

He conveyed this message in an interview. I felt those are really pleasing and inspiring.
“Be open and Do some thing Original” – this is the best message to young talents.
According to me Rehman has given so many better scores in many Indian films prior to Jayho; But this time laurels pored in because of British director, the arena he choose and the prodecers Warner Bros. Rehman has spelled his music combining Kawaali and sufi tunes.Every body are pleased with his rocking scores.

Here is a list of scores which we can’t forget for our life...I bet! No music lover leaves his Tune “Chayyaa Chayya from Dile se movie” Not only Chayya Chayya... There are many more Gajini – Behka Behka;Tu meri Aduri;Roja,Sakhi,Guru,Mumbai ,Jeans,Taal,Rangeli – Tanhai ,Premikudu,Premadesam – Mustafa, Hello doctor,Iddaru – Sasivadane, (Narumugane -Tamil) This list goes on and on.

Slumdog Millionaire – Oscar Award details

1. Best Picture: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. “It has been collaboration between hundreds of people. All of us are here to share this moment. This was an extraordinary journey,” says the Slumdog... team.
2. Best Direction: Danny Boyle for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
3. Best Original Song: A R Rahman for ‘Jai Ho...’ (Slumdog Millionarie)
The Indian music maestro, AR Rahman wooed the audience while performing ‘Jai Ho’ on stage as a nominee for Best Original Song.
4. Best Original Score: A R Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire . “I have nothing but my mother and she is there with me. I thank her for making me coming all this way with her blessings,” said a proud Rahman.
5. Best Film Editing: Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire
6. Best Sound Mixing: Ian Tapp, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke for Slumdog Millionaire. “This is just not a sound award, but a history being handed over,” said Indian receiver Pookutty.
7. Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire
8. Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire. “The cast and crew of the film told me so much about India and writing,” said a proud Beaufoy.
From bottom of my heart this is my hearty congratulations to Rehman and this post is dedicated to you.

Is it Moral Policing ??

Well, woke up on the wrong side of my bed again! My mobile silently spoke, its 13, the count of the no of missed calls for today, before I woke up to another hectic day. Routine calls except one, from Bharat, my senior at college who was quiet a sensation after he proposed a girl on the final farewell day in front of our college gate, It was so romantic.. But the girl felt embarrassed, we were told, by Bharat anna. The good news was they were blessed with a baby boy now. Thank God!, it was four years back, the moral policing team was not that active then. Had it been the case today, he would not have dared to propose her in front of the hostel gate.

After the forgettable episodes of Kushbu snippets in Tamilnadu, the activists have shown their rouge face once again in Mangalore. This time just before the Valentine ’s Day. They even threatened to play spoil brats if they see couples outside cuddling, smooching or even walking together on V-Day.

If you see who's behind most if not all of these incidents it always ends up at these extremist organisations -- such as DPI, PMK, RSS & VHP which play a major role in Indian political system. PMK is even part of the central government.

A posse of hard-line Hindu activists barged into a pub in Mangalore last month and roughed up young women clients who were enjoying a quiet drink. This assault — by members of a little-known organization called the Sri Ram Sena, or Lord Ram's Army — caused outrage among many Indians. This barbarian act triggered a national debate on the rights of women in a fast-changing society where traditions still run deep. There were serious voices heard everywhere. The Indian media carried indignant headlines condemning the "Talibanization" of India. But the hard-liners justified their pub attack. They deliberately publicized it as an effort to stop the "un-Indian" and "loose" behaviour and to prevent India from falling prey to "Western deviations" (such as allowing women into watering holes clearly meant for men) to protect and safeguard the Indian culture

I am not here to delve in to the, what is right, or, is it right? debate. We need answers to solve these problems. My take on this with the small amount of brain I have.
----> If you analyze the system and scenario closely then we see a lot of factors and actors involved in it. It can be observed that neither pub culture nor moral policing are the root causes of these incidents. These are just the side effects of the disturbed family life of modern India. When the young force does not get the culture and family value at the family level, then these kinds of incidents are bound to happen. When both the parents are busy in money making and parties, how do they expect their children to learn social life and their cultures? The joint family system has gone and so is the family bonding. Parents do not have time for their kids and mostly think of giving pocket money instead of quality time, and the kids have enough pocket money to get into such kind of activities. In most of the cases the differences in the family life and the disturbances in everyday life results in further disturbances in social relations. Now the question of what should be done!
Counter-publicity like counter-terrorism is one way. Whenever moral policing happens a forum should be formed that is able to protest as much to generate equal publicity. This will enable people to see both sides of the coin.

----> Citizens should be imparted the motive and ill effects of so called Moral Policing else we won't be different from Muslim countries where religion is more important than growth of country, freedom and residents.

---->We should make the general public aware of what's really happening here and tell them they shouldn't let this happen. Grass root level education & exposure-to-the-real-forces-behind would be a good start.

---->Having mixed elements in the government results in a distorted outlook towards the society. what stars off as a clash of ideologies or sometimes ego, culminates as moral policing... take the ban of the movie "FIRE" while shooting for "WATER" it was merely a clash of egos between the director and the so called "moral police"... or sometimes the government pitches the idea of ancient Indian culture or the "HINDU" culture to twist arms... this all is done because a majority of the society still has the narrow outlook. so, a confused government leads to anarchy at the grass root level.
Any takers!! Suggestions welcome :)