For the love of the game - CHAK DE INDIA
I am a big time movie buff and I have always enjoyed movies on sports or games. When I watch ed wonderful movies like "Remember the Titans", "Coach Carter", "The Mighty Ducks", "Rocky", "Million Dollar Baby", "Seabiscuit"; I used to wonder that why can't we make such movies in Hindi?
Recently "Lagaan" and "Iqbal" wandered in this area but no one seemed to be interested in it more. Moreover, both the games were based on cricket, the only game where we have some respectable stand. And just then someone dares to come up with a movie on hockey! Women's hockey!! (Hockey is our national sport is a detail remembered only in GK quizzes.)
Chak De is a wonderful movie with some similarities to the story of Ex-Indian goal keeper Meer Ranjan Negi. After conceding 7 goals to Pakistan Negi faced a lot of public humiliation and was made to leave Professional Hockey. He returned as a defense coach to Indian women's hockey team which won 2002 commonwealth games.
I believe we have more than enough stories to tell even in Sports arena. There are wonderful games and legendary heroes who need to be remembered and immortalized in the memory of public.
For Example -
Legends
Dhyaanchand, Gavaskar, Kapil Dev(Lot of drama to go along in his life), Paes and Bhupati, Dinco Singh (Now who is he?), Darasingh, P T Usha, Richard James Allen (Hockey Goal Keeper - Conceded only 3 goals in 3 Hockey Olympics) etc.
Events
- India won three consecutive Olympic Golds for hockey - 1928, 1932, 1936
- Olympic Final 1948 - when Independent India faced their past rulers England for the first time in Olympic hockey games. Britain confident of winning the game. India wins the match 4-0.
- India won 8 Olympics gold in all. 6 of them consecutively between 1928 - 1956. These 6 olympics, India played 24 matches, won all of them, scored 178 goals (avg. = 7.43 goals/match) and conceded only 7 goals.
- India's rise in 1983 Cricket world-cup starting from oh-we-had-it game with Zimbabwe to the I-don't-believe-it final against almost invincible West Indies team of Clive Loyd.
These films might not make players out of sloths like me but they might give a boost to a lot of young players who are disillusioned about our record in games and sports in general.
We desperately need heroes (the ones are not interested only in endorsing soaps and toothpastes but also love the game they play) in sports and these might be the ones.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
FORESIGHT
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=295138&leftnm=3&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
Even without thinking at personal level this seems ridiculous. One set of experts already implemented their feeling that students are earning too much by increasing tution fees with apparently no change in facilities provided.
Now this!
Will government be able to put the money to a better use or will it be spent on knee surgery of another PM? These people deserve license raj.
Do they even consider contributions of people like Sam Pitroda and Vinod Khosla? Don't they understand that India gets a lot of attention because of overseas Indians?
What is the use of discouraging companies as well as students from foreign placements? What does government wants to achieve? It is not able to take care of citizens who remain in India. Why retain some more? To get killed like Manjunath and Satyendra Dubey?
Even without thinking at personal level this seems ridiculous. One set of experts already implemented their feeling that students are earning too much by increasing tution fees with apparently no change in facilities provided.
Now this!
Will government be able to put the money to a better use or will it be spent on knee surgery of another PM? These people deserve license raj.
Do they even consider contributions of people like Sam Pitroda and Vinod Khosla? Don't they understand that India gets a lot of attention because of overseas Indians?
What is the use of discouraging companies as well as students from foreign placements? What does government wants to achieve? It is not able to take care of citizens who remain in India. Why retain some more? To get killed like Manjunath and Satyendra Dubey?
I don't have an agenda against journalists but somehow I keep running in to fourth estate time and again. This time it is Ms Sagarika Ghosh from IBN.
http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/author/223/2220/sagarikaghose.html
This lady is surprised by the fact that most of the people convicted in Bombay Blast case are Muslims. I would request you to check records of cases registered in Gujarat Riots. Surprisingly, you will find only Hindu names there. Would you say that Gujarat is discriminating against Hindus??!!!
How ridiculous is your logic?
Police did not do a random survey and come up with those names in either cases and the fact that both record books have names from one community only doesn't mean there is ill will against either of them.
Same logic about delay of justice. For delay in cases in Gujarat, this same lot screams that the delay will benefit the culprits. Now all of a sudden in case of Muslims delay of justice will cause harm to the accused.
In either cases delay is not to cause harm or for benefit of culprits / accused, it is just the lacunae of our judicial system. So please don't see ill-will where there is none.
On the question about having terrorists in your houses and not knowing about that, go find children and tell them this fairy tale. Women, Muslim or otherwise, would know what is happening in their homes. Even the uneducated ones.
Muslims are as much citizens of this country as anyone else. No party or organization can alter that fact. If there is injustice being done to them, or for that matter to any community, it is prerogative of media to come forward and support them.
But finding faults where there are none and portraying sheer incompetence of the system in to evil planning against any community is despicable. A responsible media should stay away from such sensationalization of issues.
http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/author/223/2220/sagarikaghose.html
This lady is surprised by the fact that most of the people convicted in Bombay Blast case are Muslims. I would request you to check records of cases registered in Gujarat Riots. Surprisingly, you will find only Hindu names there. Would you say that Gujarat is discriminating against Hindus??!!!
How ridiculous is your logic?
Police did not do a random survey and come up with those names in either cases and the fact that both record books have names from one community only doesn't mean there is ill will against either of them.
Same logic about delay of justice. For delay in cases in Gujarat, this same lot screams that the delay will benefit the culprits. Now all of a sudden in case of Muslims delay of justice will cause harm to the accused.
In either cases delay is not to cause harm or for benefit of culprits / accused, it is just the lacunae of our judicial system. So please don't see ill-will where there is none.
On the question about having terrorists in your houses and not knowing about that, go find children and tell them this fairy tale. Women, Muslim or otherwise, would know what is happening in their homes. Even the uneducated ones.
Muslims are as much citizens of this country as anyone else. No party or organization can alter that fact. If there is injustice being done to them, or for that matter to any community, it is prerogative of media to come forward and support them.
But finding faults where there are none and portraying sheer incompetence of the system in to evil planning against any community is despicable. A responsible media should stay away from such sensationalization of issues.
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