A new festival

This definitely will be an interesting festival... all our major festivals have links to the past... its hard to find a festival that includes every section of society and yet not older then say 50-100 years... (I won't count the celebration of different days (mother's/father's/pet's etc) as a festival because of their limited base...) So the idea is to start a new trend/festival that can be enjoyed by all regardless of religion/location/age... A professor discussed this during today's photography lecture and I instantly fell in love with the concept... Goal of the festival is to enjoy the night sky as our ancestors used to... watching a sky full with stars, planets and moon is very fascinating and a small section of our future generation will be aware of it because of lack of dark areas during night time... Festival is like this - switch off all the lights of a city for a couple of hours on a per decided day (which may be 2 or 3 during a year) and watch the beautiful sky with stars... I am sure a lot of us, who belong to urban areas, can't even imagine the beauty of night sky... very few of us are fortunate enough to see the milky-way and streak of falling stars... This very thought of watching milky-way from a city like bombay is making me excited......

Of course practical problems will be there to convince junta to not to switch on lights, but if this idea is put into the action it will be a great fun and learning, as well as a link to the past...

If u like the concept and see even 1% chance of implementation spread it and who knows one day you will be watching stars from your rooftop and singing "Twinkle twinkle little star..." with next generation....

Improving Bollywood....

It seems Bollywood is improving... New ideas are coming up and people are ready to put money for these different type of films... specially this year we saw diverse scripts and a lot of them were very well made... Amu, Page3, black, iqbal, sarkar, and now "maine gandhi ko nahi maara" are kind of movies which believe in narrating a story without or with very few distracting elements, for example songs... commercial success of such kind of movies will encourage producers and directors to keep experimenting with scripts.... on the other hand main stream movies (or if this term remind you the division of 70s and 80s let me simply call it 'typical hindi movie') like Parinita, Waqt, D, Bunty aur Babli, Yahan are also worth watching.... on the historical front two movies mangal pandey and Bose were pretty good... and one more historical movie which is historical in two sense. First that the script is based on an event of history and second is that the movie itself belongs to 60s. Yes, I am talking about the 60s epic "Mugal-e-Azam"... I think this is a good beginning and if it clicks we will review the old epics with new colourful touch...

Its hard to find in recent history where we can talk about so many good films in a single year... get going bollywood... I hope this is just a beginning