THE OTHER SIDE: 2019

New Zealand Terrorist Attack

New Zealand Terror Attack on 15^th March 2019 on two Mosques in Christchurch is another violent attack on humanity similar we have witnessed in past 20-25 years on various places of USA, France, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, Norway, etc but what make it standout from the rest is the involvement of social media in it and the way it brought New Zealand to the terror map.

The terrorist live streamed his killing which reached several around the world and also published what he called a manifesto of 72 pages on his social media page spreading his venomous hate before shooting in the mosque. The hate social media namely Facebook, Twitter and What’s App generated has seen much similar consequences in India also when mobs were organized to brutally lynch someone just because his/her eating habit, religion, gender, color, dressing sense was not like them. The hate messages were so high that government on courts order forced to direct these platforms to regulate them which resulted in some changes in their policies and their advertisement reflected that too.

But the hate they generated is continuous; it creates an inferiority complex in a particular person by projecting some another person who belong to some other religion, caste, color or region as the enemy of that particular person. Such messages say that ‘They’ have snatched their jobs or hurting their religion or occupying their nation as if ‘they’ have come from somewhere else. The mind of people of read such messages gets whitewashed easily and they develop hate for these 'Others.. They take What’s App messages as gospel truth and never thought a second to verify the claim made in these messages. As a result hate comes out in such brutally violent incident. Earlier some terrorist organization used to do this job by luring some dissatisfied youth but who to blame now when people are radicalized sitting in their homes?

A hard hitting satire by The Telegraph (Kolkata)

Similar kind of thing is happening with first Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who is labeled nowadays as the reason for all the problems faced by India in present time. Messages defaming him are circulated and people tend to believe them without verification from any source. Even government ministers are involved in doing this.

‘Ati Mare Mati’ a Sanskrit saying which means ‘excessive of anything is wrong’. First cheap internet is provided. Secondly they are kept on internet through apps for almost everything related to governance so people use more internet and than the work for engaging them in social media also done. Please spot violent and hate tendency in people around you and try to help them with facts even if he or she is related to a party ideology. Leave such groups who have an agenda of propagating hate.

For now prayers for those who were killed just for silently praying in their place of worship. #PrayerForNewZealand. #PrayForLynched and pray for social media addicts to get some senses. Good Bye. God Bless New Zealand. God Bless India.

Top 10 Hindi Film Songs of 2018

If movies wise the year saw flop from some big budget heroes we were able to witness some good music in songs of this year. Heeriye from Race 3, Husn Parcham from Zero, Suraiyya from Thugs of Hindustan are some of the good dance songs from films which didn't do good at box office. Here is the list prepared by me to celebrate songs of 2018:

1. Dhadak (Dhadak): Ajay-Atul which were more to Marathi music than Hindi music whenever displays there talent here give their best. This song sung by Ajay and Shreya Ghoshal aptly expresses the emotions of young lovers. Music like the film is also inspired by original Sairat but works here as well.

2. Dilbaro (Raazi): Shankar,Ehsaan, Loy trio spread their magic once again by beautifully capturing essence of Kashmir in this song. Sung by Shankar Mahadevan, Harshdeep Kaur and Vibha Saraf the song absolutely deserves a place in this list. Lab Pe Aati Hai rendition by Sunidhi Chauhaan is also good. Gulzar's sahab's Lyrical magic is visible in all songs even Ae Watan is a beautiful patriotic song.

3. Dil Meri Na Sune (Genius): Manoj Muntasir has penned beautiful Lyrics for this Himesh Reshammiya number sung by Atif Aslam whose velvety voice suits such songs best. The film didn't work out well but this song and another one sung by Arijit Singh 'Tera Fitoor are melodious.

4. Tera Yaar Hun Mein ( Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety): Rarely we heard songs based on friendship and that too in this emotional way. This song is sung by Arijit Singh, composed by Rochak Kohli and the lyrics are penned by Kumaar. Remixes Dil Chori Sada Ho Gaya, Chal Kudiye Ne Chal Ho Tayyar are also good. Bum Diggy Diggy Bum Bum become the party song of the year and Subah Subah is also good.

5.O Saathi (Baaghi2): Another Atif Aslam sung song which made it to the list. Beautiful lyrics and Music by Arko gave a romantic touch to the action movie. I would also like to mention 'Lo Safar' from this movie which also liked by me.

6. Paniyon Sa (Satyamev Jayate): Composed by Rochak Kohli and penned by Kumaar this song is sung by Atif Aslam and Tulsi Kumar. The song gives romantic relief in this action packed drama. It is melodiously sung and composed.

7.Qaafirana (Kedarnath): Something romantic and that too in Arijit's voice you have to like it and that exactly happens with this song. You suddenly fall in love with this Arijit Singh and Nikhita Gandhi sung song composed by Amit Trivedi and lyrics written by Amithabh Bhattacharya.

8. Mere Naam Tu (Zero): Shahrukh Khan has many love songs featuring him but this one featuring him as a dwarf is special. Has beautiful lyrics of Irshaad Kamil and sung by Abhay Jodhpurkar. The song is composed by duo of Ajay-Atul.

9. Badnamiyan ( Hate Story 4): This movie has many beautiful songs like Boond Boond Mein, Tum Mere Ho, etc. This song is sung by Armaan Malik, penned by Rashmi Virag and composed by Baman-Chand. The hate saga take romantic turns with these songs.

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10.Naino Ne Bandhi ( Gold): Akshay Kumar I think take interest in songs of his movies also that's why he delivers many good songs through his movies like this one sung by Yasser Desai which has music and lyrics by Arko.

Apart from these songs some others remain on my waiting list like Aaj Se Teri (Padman), Kar Har Maidan Fatah(Sanju), Naina Na Jodi (Badhai Ho), Aa Jao Na( Veere Di Wedding), Nainowali Ne (Padmavat), Tera Hua (Loveratri), Ziddi Hai Dil (Namaste England) etc. Hope we hear more good songs this year also.

RIP Kader Khan

I was late in writing this post but I am not comfortable with the fact I didn’t give tribute to this man whom I admired very much during nineties and the admiration increased as I knew about his writing skills as script writer and dialogue writer for many hit Hindi films. He died on 31st December 2018 giving sadness to his love one’s in the end of the year.

Kader Khan was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1937 but got his education in Mumbai where he also became a teacher. His acting was noted by yesteryear’s character actor Agha who recommended him to Dilip Kumar sahib who offered him two films which started his film career. His first film was Daag with Rajesh Khanna and then he did many films with him. I recognized from his films in the nineties where he was mostly doing comedy with Govinda. On watching more of his movies I realized how versatile actor he was with films like Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni, Dariya Dil, Ghar Ho To Aisa, Hum Hain Kamal Ke , Baap Numbari Beta Dus Numbari, etc in which he was almost the lead actor of the film.

In films like Desh Premi, Suhaag, Parvarish, Amar Akbar Anthony, he played a villain. Khoon Bhari Maang, Kishen Kanahiyya, Coolie No. 1, Hero No. 1, Sajan Chale Sasural, Judai, Koyla, Himmatwala, Ghar Parivar, Bol Radha Bol, Raja Babu, Sooryavansham, Aankhen, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan and the list is endless which determines how great actor he was. Some movies look incomplete if we imagine them without him. He also appeared on television shows but it didn’t work well. He was script and dialogue writer for many south films also. Sharabi, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar and many Amitabh Bachchan films were written by him.

He spend his last few years after falling ill outside India in Canada where his children are settled and sadly no one from the film industry with whom he worked never cared for him. Neither news channels nor gossip magazines give any news about his whereabouts in these days. Only we heard some rumors on social media time to time which used to worry his well wishers.

He will remain alive with his films in our memories forever. Whenever we will thing about family loved humor we will always think about him. RIP Sir Kader Khan.

Curtains Down #2018

This year was not much good for me as I suffered a disease from which I am recovering and giving less time to writing but I thought to write a good bye post to bid adieu this year mixed with different feelings.

This year should be called as the year of marriages. We witnessed big fat weddings of Mukesh Ambani's daughter, Deepika Padukone-Ranvir Ranvir Singh, Priyanka Chopra-Nick Jonas, Sonam Kapoor-Anand Ahuja, than we have marriages of Kapil Sharma, Alka Yagnik's daughter, Kulbhushan Kharbanda's daughter, Saina Nehwal and many more other marriages. The year which started with Bheema Koregaon violence which become the epicenter for government and Dalits tussle increased when government made changes in Dalit atrocities bill.According to some experts this along with farmers distress made ruling party lose elections in Karnataka first and than in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chatisgarh.

There remain tussle in Indian judiciary and government also which subsided slowly and give way for new chief justice of the country Justice Ranjan Gogoi. Government criticism remain the highlight of most of the year as there role in not supporting removal of article 377 was not liked by LGBTQ community, Rafale scam, ruling party support to Kathua Rape accused, rigidity in making Aadhar mandatory, government's silent approval to mob lynching, Love Jihad killing, communal hatred were evident when some ministers seen supporting these ideologies. In the later part of the year the controversy over RBI Governor Urijit Patel's resignation also sparked controversy.

We have lost eminent personalities like Sridevi, Rita Bhaduri, Steven Hawkins, Vinod Khanna, M. Karunanidhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Kavi Kumar Azad, etc. Kerala floods remain the most devastating event of the year while MeToo campaign rocked almost every field of personalities.France's victory in FIFA World Cup 2018, kiki challenge, Nipah Virus, Statue of Liberty, Winter Olympics, Asia Cup 2018, Asian Games 2018, Under 19 Cricket World Cup and many other events remain in news in the year 2018.

Hoping that 2019 eases difficulties faced in 2018 I wish Happy New Year to my readers.