जय हिन्दी

कुछ दिन पहले कोई हम से पूछा की हम किस भाषा में सोचते हैं. जवाब देने में हम को दो सेकेंड भी नही लगा.
हिन्दी. पटना में तो फिर भी हिन्दी दिख जाता है. प्रेमचंद की कहानियो का संग्रह,
टागॉर की लेखनी या शिवानी के उपन्यास. परिवार में अनेक लोग थे जो यह पुस्तक पढ़ते थे. यहाँ
पता नही क्यूँ हम प्रसिद्ध हिन्दी कहानिया भी अँग्रेज़ी में ही पढ़ते हैं. और अगर हिन्दी में कुछ
लिख भी दें तो बहुत गर्व महसूस करतें हैं. जैसे कोई बिल्कुल अजूबा कर दिया हो. देवनागरी जैसे लिप्त हो रही है. न्यूज़ चॅनेल भी रोमन स्क्रिप्ट में न्यूज़ लिखते हैं, अधिकतर. लेकिन अगर आप अँग्रेज़ी अख़बार भी देखे तो कई बार आप पाएगें की अग्रेज़ी का वाक्य सीधा अनुवाद है
हिन्दी वाक्य का, यानी, किसी ने हिन्दी में सोचें वाक्य को वैसे ही अँग्रेज़ी में लिख दिया.
और सिर्फ़ अख़बार ही क्यूँ, कई बार वार्तालाप करतें वक़्त भी हम हिन्दी में सोच कर अँग्रेज़ी में बोल देते हैं.
वाक्य बिल्कुल ही अटपटा लगता है.
यह लेखनी क्यूँ लिखी? शायद बहुत दिन हो गया था अपनी मर्ज़ी का कुछ हिन्दी में लिखे हुए. और पढ़े हुए.

BMW vs blueline

9 years back a Nanda ran his BMW over few people. it hogged the limelight then and has been on the front page since. recently when he was sentenced 5 years of imprisonment, the media declared that justice has been done.
every week the count of people killed by the blueline keeps rising. the news finds a column in the 3rd or 4th page of the newspaper. the media doesnt raise a hue and cry. why this differential treatment? well, i have figured out why.
the nanda has committed two crimes. one he is a rich man, which is a crime in our poor country. and then his car ran over poor people. had he crushed a rich lad on an expensive bike, i guess it would have been ok.
on the other hand, the blueline is driven by a poor guy. forget the seth who owns the blueline. it's the driver who is present at the site of the crime. so a poor man committing a crime against a poor man doesnt make for a good story.

yateem

that's the name of the movie i watched this morning. i have seen it once before too. last time it was at my masi's place. well, she wasn't really my masi, but my cousin's. we lived in a big joint family. so my cousin's masi was mine too, as were his/her nana and nani. anyways, this masi lived in a haveli. by virtue of her marriage. and this haveli was on the outskirts of patna and on the banks of ganga. walk out of the haveli and you could stroll in the fruit orchard, (are orchards only for fruits?), which was spread over acres of land. it was a beautiful setting for her house. anyways, she divorced him and is now settled with her second husband in dehradun. i have heard that she has an equally beautiful house there.
as a kid i had enjoyed this movie immensely. though i didnt remember the story, just bits of it. so when i chanced on it on Set Max this morning, i had to catch it. and i am happy that i did. unlike other bollywood movies, here you'll see Sunny Deol bathing under the waterfall in his unbranded boxers. him swimming in the river showing off his well built body. and Farha is standing on banks looking at him with lustful eyes. it was refreshing to see this role reversal in Bollywood. till recently, when feminism was high on my agenda, i would wish to cast men in minimal clothes. it was my revenge for what men have done to women in the show business. and for that matter i liked Om Shanti Om, the way Farha Khan made a spectacle of Shahrukh Khan's body.
i think yateem too must have been directed by a woman.