Tuesday, October 02, 2007

dadagiri to gandhigiri

The greatness of this man was his simplicity. Lets discover the Gandhi in ourselves


Very few people carry their reel life image to real life image with such panache as Sanjay Dutt; though Salman keeps flexing his mucles every now and then only to follow a close second.

Sanju is original Moombayya bhai who has been there, done that and showed the people what and how things gets done behind the curtains. Everybody knew that underworld existed only in newspapers till Sanju baba brought it out in the open with his quality flicks.

Now he wants to shed "bhai" image and promote the new concept - Gandhiri and he has done it with aplomb. The Sanjay Dutt starrer - Lage Raho Munnabhai has triggered Gandhivaad, which till now existed only in the minds but seldom practised. Gandhi, the face of Indian freedom struggle was always revered conveniently, only to be remembered on Public/ National holidays and forgotten on other days.

Never in the last 2 decades that i have seen "Gandhigiri" being discussed by Indians openly with so much of interest. Surely the student community would talk about him as they read in the books but as they grew up soon realised how out of place his ideas were in this materialistic world. What would follow then is pseudo reverence, not to mention the umpteen jokes doing round the corners, when Gandhi is remembered for all the wrong reasons at all wrong places at wrong times.

Hats off Sanjay Dutt that he pulled it off so nicely in Lage Raho Munna Bhai. I am not sure how far he would succeed taking this image to real life from reel life, but his movie has already started a new cult of life - Gandhigiri. The movie had definitely made people look back and think. They are questioning their current stand. Gandhi's idealogy is not transient but enduring.
Let's break the circuit....

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read this story and taught that ur blog has that insight

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups:
Porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."



Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."



So please, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee.
Live ur life in a simple way

DUSTY BULLET said...

thats was inspirational. thanks!!
i m not sure i would discuss stress of my life in alumni. but certainly things that we damn care here may become precious.

Anonymous said...

Dear its not that we are not aware of these things, But we neglect them due to simple reason But when we really take a call on this issue then it too late
Keep Posting Dear ---NMIMS

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