Sivaji, The Boss

As a child, I have heard others saying that they would go to US or some foreign country, earn a lot and get all the money back to India and help the poor here. Frankly, I was also fascinated by the idea. Going abroad, having a chance to tour the world and then getting back to our own motherland to serve the unprivileged, sounds very satisfying in both materialistic way as well philanthropic way. Doesn’t it sound like an ideal way to lead a life? But, as time went on, a lot of things changed, circumstances changed and lot of other things to bother about, and these innocent thoughts were lost in the run for good education, job, life and what not.
But these thoughts were once again revisited with a lil more wisdom while I was watching Sivaji movie the other day with a couple of frnds. With the huge following Rajni has got, I just started wondering the impact it would have on his fans, children and other viewers. Would it create more socially responsible people? Would it ignite the fire to do something to the society we live in? or Will it just remain as just another fascinating movie which created a lot of buzz at the box office?
Its really amazing to note that a lot of movies these days are screened on social issues and even more pleasing to note that the movies now do not stop at showing the injustice happening in the society but also figure out a way to deal with it. The ways shown may be very unrealistic, but they at least lead the people in the direction of solution. We have heard of children reacting to lage raho munna bhai where the hero fights injustice by non-violent ways and reiterates through various examples that patience can win the worst of the people. To mention in the same league, is the chiranjeevi movie Stalin, where the hero tries an innovative method of helping 3 people in need and as a sign of gratitude asking them to help 3 other people in return. These type of movies, especially when done by one of our favorite actors, do make us think that life is not about running all day for ourselves. They do make us feel responsible for the society and at the same time a little considerate about the problems others are facing.
Now considering the recent movie Sivaji on the same angle, three major problems in the society are highlighted in this: Endless Government rules and regulations, Corruption and Black Money. Well, one should admit that the way these were put across were amazing not to mention the style and performance of Rajni. This would defntly make a huge success. But was just afraid of one thing. I hope it doesn’t drive home a point its extremely difficult to setup charitable operations in India.
Agreed there are numerous rules and regulations followed by the government to keep a tab on wats going on with the trusts here. This may look a little disheartening for a person who is setting it up. But the reason behind such rules could be that the govt want to make sure that these are not used for wrong reasons. It has to make sure that a medical college should send out doctors of acceptable quality, it has to make sure that the old age homes built should treat the old people fairly, it’s the govts responsibility to make sure that a hospital setup isn’t misleading the people or not taking advantage of them. So, before someone concludes on the government policies, think a lil while on why they were in place at first place.
With corruption, therez frankly very little solution that has been offered so far, a lot of movies have attempted to show a solution to this problem, but almost all use violence or huge public support to deal with it. Both of which aren’t very reachable to normal public ( at least in my opinion). But one needs to appreciate the way suggested to deal with black money, which one should watch the movie to get the feel of it. Hope this gives the government and the public, a slight push in using the technology to minimize the problems of the society.

Thanks for the movie, for making people think about these issues. And, thanks for Rajnis fans for making me watch it, so that I can add yet another post here :P

Life is defntly a race, but winning alone isn't its goal!!

Two years of decission making..
atleast an year wondering..
and a couple of months discussing..
whether finance is a right line for me to choose!!
Lots of confusion all through.. even if its fin, wat in fin, variety of profiles being offered, wat to choose among them? I could eliminate a couple of them with great difficulty, not that they r boring, but that i may not be good at it :P

Finally, i freeze my decission and promise not to look back.Decide to take up the job i wld love to try out(which just came in my way:D), without giving importance to location, package and not even parents apprehensions. All these, just to start the journey all alone, to find myself lost in a vast flow of people from all sides. Run all around to spot a decent place to live in, keep shuttling to office and home, hoping that some day, i wld work on somethng remotely related to the dream job i have imagined. well, doesn't it sound usual?

While i was preoccupied by all these thoughts and finished complaining abt it to every possible frnd of mine, was sitting completely idle to think wat i was expecting. As usual, when we hav nothing much to do, we tend to think philosophically and probably thats wat i am upto now :P
If at all I am good, i must be able to make a difference no matter wat work is given to me( fine, its another matter that thrz no work at all as of now :P) .
Why do we keep praying or expecting things which would make us busier than wat we are now, why do we always want to do "the most difficult job" (in our perspective atleast), why struggle hard to get a job which would just make the struggle harder? And after achieveing all this, keep wondering y we dont have time for ourselves and if this is wat we live for and is that all life has for us?

If these thoughts do stop us at some point of time, suddenly the competitive spirit in us wakes up and forces us to push all these thoughts aside, bcoz, to win in life,we need to achieve wat we want to and hence the struggle for these is must for us to be happy. Atleast as now, we dont know wats gonna come true. But defntly we cant sit back and keep thinking, for, this is not going to take us anywhr.

So, whether we think about all this or not, we eventually do get trapped in this daily run for success and finally may succeed with out knowing whether, thats wat we wanted at the first place!!