Talking the Walk , The memorable hindi film lines

If you think only shawshank redemption and The matrix had those lovable and memorable dialogs; I am sorry you are wrong. May be you will have to stress your brain a bit and try to recollect some lines that have defined the Indian Cinema culture.
Here are some lines I have taken from India Today

Sholay (1975)
“Kitne aadmi thhe?” Gabbar (Amjad khan)
Bollywoods greatest villain the Gabbar singh asking this very trivial question to the “Are -o-Sambha”. As he said the words the crowd in movie hall stood up to applaud. Students of cinema have studied this dialog as a masterpiece. Not one or two the whole script of the movie could have been considered as classic qoutes.
From “Itna sannataa kyon hai bhaai?” to “Basanti in kutton ke samane mat nachana” almost everybody had a classic dialog in this movie. However I liked Jaya bhaduri who doesnt utter a single word but says a lot. A true genius.


Deewar (1975)

“Aaj mere pass gaadi hai, bungla hai, paisa hai...tumhare pass kyaa hai?” Amitabh
“Mere pass, mere pass... Maa hai” Shashi Kapoor
It was not just a dialog but it tells us about importance of maa in an Indian Cinema. It got very popular but the dialog delivery and timing showed by both actors was classic.

Yaadon ki Baarat (1973)
“Kutte, Kamine, main tera khoon pee jaoonga,” Dharam paji
Difficult to say why this line got so popular as garam dharam always threatened his enemies in this fashion.

Souten (1983)
“Jinke ghar sheeshe ke hote hain, who batti buzake kapade badalte hain” Prem Chopra
I love this dialog. It resembles a dialog of Rajkumar in words but its meaning is so insulting. A insult line I have used for so many.

Vishwanath (1978)
“Jali ko aag kahate hain, bhuji ko raakh kahate hain,jis raakh se baarood bane usey Vishwanath kahate hain” Shatrughna Sinha
You must have got it as an SMS but this famous dialog was delivered by the shotgun sinha in his unique way.

Deewar (1975)
“Main aaj bhi pheke hue paise nahin uthata” Amitabh Bachchan
A signature dialog from the angry young man of his time. Dont know how many fans repeated that dialog to their friends.

My 5 Fav.

A beautiful Mind
Men's triumph over nature's cruelty. This movie made me crazy. It showed me what exactly a movie should be like and shattered my understanding of acting and direction.
It's not just about a genius who scored a victory over a psychological disease it's about limits of human mind, determination and power of love showed by our beloveds
There is no time in man's life when he should accept his defeat. One never looses a battle until he stops fighting. That was the message given by this film through unmatchable acting skills showed by Jeniffer Connelly and Russell Crowe and superb direction from Ron Howard. He later made one more masterpiece with Russell called 'Cinderella Man'.
I remember each and every frame of the movie and almost every dialog. I have seen this movie so many time and every time I saw it I found it as beautiful as I found it for the first time.

Bichhoo
Nope. Its not the movie again. Its a marathi novel I read some 12 years back. I don't even remember the author. The book I guess never got aclaimaition in the world of literature. However that book has got a permanent place in my mind.
Its about a tribal man and his young daughter chasing a panther in a forest. The novel proceeds with the view point of all three including the panther. The panther is young and wants to escape to a far away place which he thinks is safe. While the tribal man wants to kill the panther for his skin. The young daughte is not old enough to understand why her father is so desparate to kill the panther and develops love for the animal. The man get more and more despo. As he cant find the panther and the girl starts fearing her father. At last he gets a clear opportunity to kill tha panther while the panther is a jump away from the place which he thinks is safer for him. The man realizes that his chase has damaged the emotional world of his daughter and spares the panther. The panther too hurt and exhausted from a long journey rests in peace in the same forest.
It was a first thick book I understood fully.


Ruchi- The restorant
A best place to hang out with friends or without. Exotic veg dishes and lip smacking ice creams. I like the left side AC room facing the road. I have my regular table over there and I like to watch the vehicles entering the city while tasting the filter coffee or black current ice cream.
One good thing about this place is that it is not usually crowded unless you come there after 8:30pm. The waiters are not at all hostile and its extreamly clean.
My fav. Dish is Dahi batata puri a special type of chat which tastes so well only in Ruchi.


Hazaron khwahishein aisi
Again its not the movie nor the song. Yeah! Indeed the song is my fav. One as well but here I am referring to the Gazal Maestro Jagjit Singh. A singer blessed with divine voice that straight way touches your heart. When his melodious voice is coupled with Galib' meaningful poetry you get a reason to forget this world and get involved in an experience. An experience that makes you understand the beauty of words, music and feelings.


Computer Networks
By Andrew S Tannenbaum is a book that made me fall in love with computer networks. It might sound weird but I do love Computer Networks more than anything else. No matter how much you learn there is still so much to be learn. I have high regards for the author who has touched almost every aspect of computer science.

Doordarshan Nostalgia

Days of Doordarshan

Spending countless hours before the screen is a fav. Timepass these days. Many people have got RAS by pushing the remote buttons continuously. However there was a time when watching tv was ultimate experience after the days hectic schedule.

My house was one of the few who had televisions in the village. My neighbors gathered to watch the popular serials at that time starting from Hum Log to Recent ones like shaktiman. Here are the few serials I remember and happy that I saw them.

HUM LOG
Very contrary to todays no brains daily soaps which show pretty women clad in expensive sarees and jewellery and moving around in big sedans this serial was truly a family drama. A middle class family with their every day problems and some unforgettable characters alikeness's Ram and a mausi whose name i cant remember. Written by /manihar Shyam Joshi a low profile marathi author this serial was a landmark.

Every family of that time could see characters that resembled them or their surroundings. Love, hatred, faith and fate the serial showed all this in a manner that made this serial a classic.

RAMAYAN
Despite of poor production values this serial was a mega hit on tv. Arun Gowil and Deepika lived the indian legends on the tv screen. Directed by Ramanand sagar this serial gave every indian an image of Ram and Sita which they could imagine.

It was not just the serial but it was the faith of people in the epic that pulled them to this serial. The serial too in my opinion did justice to the story and portrayed the perfect couple well on the screen. I still remember how eagerly I and everybody else use to wait for this serial every Sunday. People stared the tv not only with amusement but with a faith as well.

MAHBHARAT
'Mein kaal hoon' use to be the first line of this serial. I loved the character Arjun while everybody loved Krishnaa played by Nitin Bharadwaaj who had almost become synonymous with Lord Krishna. I use to cry if they did not show war scenes in one episode and my mother use to have tough time explaining why the war did not take place. She use to tell me that the Arjun's arrows had got over that is why the war was postponed. I read mahabharat many times after that and every time I came across Arjun in the book I visualized the Arjun in Mahabharat.
This serial helped a generation to understand the value of mahabharat and introduce the convent going kids to the different characters in the worlds biggest epic.
Hardly any ones knows much about mahabharat these days and reading such books are considered to be waste of time or getting communal. The true wisdom in the story remains untouched in todays society while the legend of Krishna remains prisoned in the Temples only.

WAGALE KI DUNIA
Frankly I never appreciated this serial when it was being aired. It was after 5 years that I learnt that the serial was an television incarnation of legendary cartoon figure 'The Common Man' by R. K. Laxman. The common man was heard speaking for the first time the serial. Wagle had his own Dunia which was not much different from the world around each one of us. Today the Indian Middle class had changed a lot and the story might look irrelevant on modern terms however I liked the serial when it was re-aired on DD-Delhi 5 years later.

REPORTER
This was a serial that inspired me. Especially the first few episodes of struggle and failures faced by a journalist portrayed by Shekahar Suman. I think I am one of the few people who have seen him performing a serius role so well. Supported by Nandu 'Makarnad Kulkarni' this serial was my and my fatehrs fav. We together use to see this serial while struggling not to sleep. 10:30 was too late in our house at that time.

FAUJI
It was then when I loved Shahrukh as abhimanu rai a commando in Indian Army. His impeccable acting soared patrotism in the hearts of we kids.
The scene in which a soldier dies while controlling his sneeze was the best scene I ever saw on television. The serial shares a corner of my heart along with Abhimanyu Rai. However I dont find Shahrukh there.

MALGUDI DAYS
Malgudi was not just a small village but it was a prototype of India. Swami was not just a character but a figure represented Indian children. I did not posses the vison to understand this serial when it was aired for the first time but I wa it on POGO recently. Each small story had a message. A message that touched our hearts and forced us to look around us for the characters in the episode. Swami was a hero in every house at that time. It showed the cosmopoliton metamorphism of Indian villages very nicely. I am yet to start earning otherwise I would have bought and read the origianal book.

VIKRAM AUR BETAAL
Many people heard these names for the first time when this serial was aired. However I was already familiar with these characters better than anybody else through the original stories. Vikram in reality was the best king India ever saw and his greatness was spread with this stories. He had answer for every question Betaal had his comittment to his duty brought him back to the Samshaan.
Every story had a message that was discussed in form of question and answers by vikram and betaal.

I am really nostalgic about this characters and I feel bad that my kids perhaps will never get to hear about them.

GUL GULSHAAN AND GULFAAM
Kashmeer is beautiful and this story took Kashmeer to every part of India. Everybody loved these characters for the reasons I never understood, I never understood the serial may be my young mind was not developed enough to understand horros and tormoils of the valley.


The list does not end here there are many more names which I am not able to recollect right now. You are not always an idiot to sit in front of the television. However recently I have stopped watching serials for the only reason that I feel very stupid watching them. I watch only CNBC and HBO/STAR MOVIES these days.

Some Poor Kavita PKs

Poor Jokes च्या धर्तीवर PK म्हणजेच काही Poor Kavita
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मी आहेच प्रेमांत वेडा, दुसर्य़ांच्या प्रेयसीना चोरणे माझे काम आहे
मजनूला सुध्दा वाईट म्हणते लैला माझ्या पुढे ।
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बसवून प्रेयसीला जवळ रात्रभर, लोकहो
जे काही करत नाहीत ते कमाल करतात
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प्रेम नसेल माझ्यावर तर,
मला एकांतही चालेल

माझा एकांत तूझ्यासाठी,
कदाचित आनंदाची बाब असेल

तोडू नकोस हे संबंध,
काही नाही तर शत्रूत्वही चालेल
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पिंजर्यात मला सांगताना सख्या,
वाईट वाटून गेण्याची गरज नाही,

जळून जे राख झालं,
ते घरटं माझं कशाला असेल?
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जिवन जर असेल आणखीन एक दिवस
तर मी ही लढेन आणखीन एक दिवस
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तू गेलीस त्याच्या बाईक वर बसून तर मला त्याचे काय? जेव्हां उठेन;
तेव्हां घेईन एक पेग सोड्या बरोबर.....


(this is not at all funny, श्ब्द कदाचीत वाट्तील विनोदी पण feel the pain in it., he is drinking to forget her but not ready to accept the FACT that she means a lot to him)
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स्वर्गांतून माणसाचे बाहेर येणे ऐकत आलोय परंतू,
तूझ्या घरातून बेईज्जत होऊन बाहेर पड्लो मी,

आकांक्षा आहेत ह्जार अशा की,
प्रत्येक आकाक्षेवर थकतो मी,

असेन विजीगिषू मी परंतू,
प्रत्येक वेळी कमीच पड्तो मी ।

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दुःखे एवढी होतीच नशीबांत तर देवा,
ह्रदय सूध्दां अनेक द्यायची........................

नव्हतेच नशिबांत माझ्या, ओळख होणे तीची,
जगलॊ असतॊ आणखीन तर, त्यात सूध्दां वाट बघितली असती,
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On Project Duty

Started my project.........................

Its time for me to take a brake with other people's projects and start doing my own project. I have started my website specially dedicated to the project. The title of the project is
"stock market analysis using artificial intelligence'.

Mostly a theoretical project its probably one of its kind. More about the project can be found on
http://akshar.frihost.net/aipro/

English First

English First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For any country aspiring to be an economic superpower needs excellent education system and the cause of worry is that India lacks exactly in the same thing. Around 40% children in India especially girls never complete their primary education. Education is a topic very close to my heart so I have decided to devote a blog to it.

Chotu is a boy who works in the Hotel near my house. Every evening he comes to my house to watch movies on cable. Since our TV is free that time none of us mind. Seldomly even I sit with him to watch movies. I was astonished to see that he has seen almost evry movies that comes on Zee Cenema or Filmy and even few english movies on AXN. He remembers even the finest details which being an movie lover even I cant recollect. His little mind is full of the things they show in movies those fights, romance, tragedy and super natural things. He has not even gone to 1st std. but he does not regret it. Today he is 14 serving tea and samosa's i nthe dirtiest hotel in my neighbourhood and movies is the only thing that perhaps stimulates his brain and makes him think. It is not difficult for me to understand that he perhaps tries to relate his life to the life shown in movies.

I remembered my childhood when I hardly got any chance to see many movies. One reason was we had only doordarshan and second reason was that I had to study. I use to see at the most 1 movies per month and never remembered the story.

What I am trying to say here is that when you are a kid in 1st std. whatever you see and hear makes a huge impact on your life. What skills you develop in your life largely depends on your childhood learning. Compared to america or britain the quality of primary education in India is bad that we cant even cosidered it as education. It is a process that makes student hate learning and even if they learn what they learn hardly helps them in life. The teaching methods are antiqued and education gets low priority in rural areas.

I happy that some initiatives by recent governments and involvment of corporates has been responsible to change this scenario to a very large extent but still 'Dilli abhi door hai'. What I have noticed with our system is that we lack in a clear idea of 'Education' and the whole 'purpose of education'. The way any company determines its vision and goal I feel even the education department should determine the vision and goal of the education system in the country. Since there is no clear idea what education is meant for there is no firm and illustartive policy about how to achieve the goal and carry forward the vision. At the most our education ministry sets the goal of educating some 2-3 million kids but I dont feel that is the goal.

British introduced a systematic and centralized education system to India. The goal was to provide a pool of human resource for running various government agencies by training the locals for that work. There were much wider political motives as well. Education will open some new (but limited) horizons for the Indians resulting into increasing their faith in British goverment. That was the plan and it was well studied and executed. When we got independence I feel the government should have revised the whole purpose of education in India. The government lacked the forsight to do so and no one bothered also.

The same syllabus and same methods were continued which created only bunch of clerks every year. People who had extra ordinary talents in mathematics wasted it in calculating balance sheets. Dear friends you may not agree with me but the education system has not changed much over years. We are only creating clerks every year.

Every minister has his own opinions about education and no sane person has the authority to question them. The clerk mentality is so much wide spread that almost every body agrees to the minister and executes his decision.

The recent decision in our state was to make English a compulsary subject right from 1st standard. For which a set of textbooks are published which are of very hight standards it seems. This word 'high' is relative to the quality of american or european textbooks. When I read the third standard english textbook I did feel that it could have been a US textbook. The flowers mentioned in books were never heard of nor they are found in Goa.

I think its good that government has learnt importance of english and has willingness to improve english of an average Indian student. However it should not happen by killing our own regional languages which are very advanced and also have the power of expression like any other language. Instead of taking an decisive stance of this issue it would have been better if the government had done a deep study about how the english of students can be improved without hampering the growth of regional languages. There should have been a long term policy not only about the textbooks but also about empowering village and school libraries with quality english literature. With my personal experience I can say that english can be improved only through conversation and articultaion. The current syllabus do not feature both these things sufficiently. In short I feel government lacks vision and plan to enrich the knowledge of english in Indian students. Also a possibility to play regional and religious politics can not be ignore fully.

If we take example of china (chinese is the worlds largest spoken language) their government has striked good balance between english and chinese. Chinese people are everywhere and they take their language everywhere in the world. The world respects them because of this and they have created their own identity. However that is rarely the case with Indians especially when language is concerned.

Thanks to Nandakumar Kamat prof. in Goa University who enlightned me through his article in local news paper that a kid between 3 to 7 is capable of learning as many languages as it is exposed to even 10 is not a large number. However after that the ability to learn a new language is reduced. Parents may note this.

Back to BLOGS

I am back to BLOGs.

Just the way those hardcore bikers love to take a free ride on straight road I like to set my thought s free and run them over the pages of a blog. My blogs are exclusively written for myself and I do you a favour by disclosing them to you. My blogs are for my satisfaction not for your entertainment.

Blogging is an art, its an science and above all its an revolution. Blogging has strengthned the principles of democracy and its and perfect example of how technology can bring sense of equality among the people beyond limits of gender,religion,age and even nationality.

Its time for me to allow my thoughts run free...................................