Sone ki chiriya

I would like to think about India as 'sone ki chiriya' as they had mentioned in our school textbooks. Thinking is a beautiful thing. You can think anything and reality may be totally away from the things going in your mind.

I have stopped reading newspapers, I would not recommend you to read them unless you're too delusional and still believe in 'Mera bharat mahan'.

'Mera bharat mahan tha'. Stone age mein, Iron age mein, Bronze age mein. We have been ruled by so many people throughout the history that it's a shame on us. That actually hints that we're born to be ruled, anybody can subject and overpower us? We have been like sheep, the Indian people, guided by shepherds throughout the history.

Today, our rulers are chosen from among us, home-made-shepherds and how do we choose them? Around 30% of our population is illiterate. If we see how at least half of them are born? We will see their roots in college politics, and that's a good thing, but how many of them choose politics for the good of the country, I don't know.

People lack basic amenities and our representatives chosen by us from among us enjoy VIP status forgetting what it's like to be a common man and indulging in political plays to save their position and power. These are the old things about politics, and these things are happening since ages, all over the world. But, the motive of a leader should be welfare of people, for the sole reason, that they have chosen their life, though for this we need ideals which seems to be lacking in today's Indian society.

Dhoom 3 - Money grows on trees

I watched dhoom 3 few days ago and did not like it. My taste in movies i guess, has changed and even if hadn't i would have found dhoom 3 a total waste of time and money.

Some people are calling dhoom 3 an escapist romp, well I don't know. I feel Krrish is an escapist romp, most of the Mahesh Bhatt movies are escapist romps. Dhoom 3 on the other hand is just a way to show how you can effectively burn 150 crore rupees without achieving anything and still mint money out of that nothing.

Personally i really liked the earlier movies in the series. Dhoom, because i was a teen then and i had seen superbikes and that kind of hollywoodesque action first time in bollywood and Dhoom 2 becuase of Hrithik Roshan and it's potential to surprise me at that time. Dhoom 3 on the other hand is a failure, both in terms of surprise, and action. Nothing new or exciting in terms of action could be seen.

I have stopped expecting any thing even close to good acting from Abhishek Bachchan but Amir Khan was a disappointment, that after watching his strong performance in Talaash. The director Vijay Krishna Acharya i think is fit for the tag of the next Anubhav Sinha of Bollywood, only thing is that Anubhav Sinha is decently original in his showoff business.

Anyhow this movie is a success, and this fact, i think must have made Satyajit Ray twist in his grave uncomfortably.

लफ़्ज़ों के मोती..

कुछ बातें मैं कहना चाहता हूँ
पर जैसे मेरे होठ सिले हों
उस धागे से
जो है रिश्तों की डोर
मैं कहता हूँ कुछ
और कहना चाहता कुछ और
लफ़्ज़ों को चाहता हूँ पिरोंना
उस रिश्तों की डोर में
लफ्ज़ जैसे मोती काले या सफ़ेद
मोती जो निकलें हैं दिल की सीपी से
जिनकी कीमत वैसे तो कुछ नहीं
पर तुम चाहो तो हैं वो अनमोल

रोग

कभी कभी सोचता हूँ
है क्या कोई इलाज
इस रोग का
जिसका नाम है ज़िंदगी
दर्द की अब तो है ऐसी आदत
हो गया है अब उसका भी नशा
घुटन भी अब ऐसी है
जैसे हो खुला आसमाँ
कभी कभी लगता है ऐसा
जैसे सांस लेना भूल गया
जिंदा हूँ अब भी मैं पर
खुद ही खुद से दूर गया
मौत ही लगती है इलाज
इस नामुराद रोग का
जिसका नाम है ज़िन्दगी
पर मैं रहना चाहता हूँ जिंदा
बीमारों के बीच एक बीमार
जब तक ज़िन्दगी खुद न कर दे रिहा

ठंडी घाटी

ठंडी सी उस घाटी में
रुका हुआ सा कारवाँ
मर्दों का एक झुण्ड
बर्फीली ज़मीन पर
ठण्ड की ठिठुरन
और हवाओ की चुभन
भेदता कानों को
वो गहरा सन्नाटा
हैं कुछ जांबाज़
जो लड़ते हैं कुदरत से
और कभी कभी खुद से
उस ठंडी सी घाटी में

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बसा एक यादों का घर
उलझी उलझी सी यादें
सुलझे सुलझे से सवाल
एक खोज उन जवाबों की
यादों के इस भवंर में
डूबती उतराते जवाब
चिढाते सताते और फिर मिल जाते
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शायरी

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