Mockery: Of the government, by the media, for the country!

Finally after lazing over it for so long I got myself to watch Peepli Live, the much talked about film produced by Amir Khan and his better half. The storyline of the film revolves around the farmer suicide in Maharashtra when they saw no escape from debts. The interesting thing in the film is that it was a hit on the box office without having superstars in the star cast. In today's world this is the genre of film that can awaken the country.

In today's extremely commercialized world, there are still people and villages who blessed with electricity for barely few hours of the day. And here we sit in the city criticize the authorities if we have to sit with out air conditioning for just 30 minutes. This one scene in the movie caught my attention where one of the politicians gifts Natha ( lead character ) a television for committing suicide. Look at the irony, the town does not have electricity to beat the heat, will the television run on goodwill? So is right to electricity for the creme da la creme of the society? It reminds me of the incident narrated by a friend, she was in Khan Market, most poshest colony in Delhi where they were removing cemented tiles and replacing them with red stone. And she thought to herself, there are people who walk miles to get to a road and here they are taking out absolutely perfect tiles to make it look even better!


As media students, in the moral conduct, we are taught to state the facts sans any prejudice or biases. So why is that we get into the rat race of running after the TRP's of the channel rather than stating the facts? To get a 'different from others' news this one character in the film goes on to shooting the feces of an alleged dead man. I was flabbergasted at such a scene, so is this the role of media?

All I ask is, we the people, when are we going to have our rang de basanti  moment. When will we get up from the slumber and work for our nation? Or are we happy being a part of Microsoft and NASA and losing our identities as citizens of INDIA..

The choice is most certainly yours.