There’s one daily soap that has me glued to the seat every night - “Jai Shri Krishna” on Colors channel. This is the story every Hindu child in India grows up listening to. So there isn’t much of a surprise as far as the storyline goes.
Barring a few leading characters, the rest of the cast either delivers dialogues with a wooden expression or overacts on a Richter scale :-) Krishna, Balram and Radha (I wonder what is she doing so early in Krishna’s life!) have dialogues that are too philosophical for their ages. Sage Narada with his constant praising of Lord Vishnu particularly gets on my nerves. And the character of Krishna’s maternal uncle Kansa is getting more comical day by day – maybe because the majority of the soap’s audience is kids.
But it’s the little cherubic Krishna who has me wrapped around his tiny finger. I just love the way he is harassing Kansa – a mischievous smile lighting up his baby face every time he scores a point. Normally, I balk at any lines with even a hint of philosophy in them. But I am all ears when he tells Balaram that what goes around comes around, that Sage Durwasaa needs to be taught a lesson because sometimes the wise also forget the path of righteousness and that he cannot hasten the death of a friend’s long-suffering mother because she has to live out her Karma.
And when the same friend turns to Krishna for some money to get medicines for his ailing mother and this re-incarnation of God, who controls the whole world, Himself spreads out his hands in front of his father to ask for money, I got a lump in my throat. I normally turn up my nose at any instant help from God depicted in so many daily soaps but Krishna’s tiny outstreched hands melted my heart like the butter He is so fond of :-)
Oh, well, I have always been partial to Him anyways!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Can someone please tell these so-called “celebrities” that they are not above law? First, it was Amitabh Bachhan who tried to board a flight with his revolver. Thank God he was grounded (pun intended!) by Jet Security!
It’s nobody’s business whether he sleeps with a loaded gun under his pillow, under the toilet seat or inside the medicine cabinet - at his home. But it’s everyone’s business if he tries to carry firearms on a commercial aircraft. Frankly, it smacked of arrogance and little regard for the law of the land! I wonder if he even stopped to think whether he would feel it safe to board a flight if another co-passenger came aboard with a loaded revolver. Then why should others feel safe when he carries one aboard? And frankly, I doubt if the terrorists are going to shout “lights, camera, action” so that the “angry young man” can start defending himself :-) Some unsolicited advice for Big B - next time you want to pull a stunt like this, think of a Charter plane!
And more recently, it is Zaheer Khan who tried to get a friend past the security. Guys please, the security is just doing its job and it’s for the benefit of us all. This is neither the time nor the place to show off how “big” you are.
It’s nobody’s business whether he sleeps with a loaded gun under his pillow, under the toilet seat or inside the medicine cabinet - at his home. But it’s everyone’s business if he tries to carry firearms on a commercial aircraft. Frankly, it smacked of arrogance and little regard for the law of the land! I wonder if he even stopped to think whether he would feel it safe to board a flight if another co-passenger came aboard with a loaded revolver. Then why should others feel safe when he carries one aboard? And frankly, I doubt if the terrorists are going to shout “lights, camera, action” so that the “angry young man” can start defending himself :-) Some unsolicited advice for Big B - next time you want to pull a stunt like this, think of a Charter plane!
And more recently, it is Zaheer Khan who tried to get a friend past the security. Guys please, the security is just doing its job and it’s for the benefit of us all. This is neither the time nor the place to show off how “big” you are.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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