3 Idiots was a treat indeed. Excellent script, mind blowing dialogues, cool sense of humour is what I can say about 3 Idiots.
Around the release of this movie, I noticed a few news about student suicides due to frustration. 3-4 days back, our local Pune newspaper had published news of 3 students from different colleges and schools in Maharashtra commiting suicide. Today I read about 6 students from different colleges commiting suidice. The reason was the same; Educational Cut-throat competition, Exam stress, Fear of Failure, and Huge Expectations from Parents, just like that depicted in that movie.
Parallely, there were news about a spree of allegations, counter-allegations and apologies/patch-ups by the original story-writer, movie producers, etc. and all these with front-page coverages in leading newspapers.
During election times, there was a swarm of news on farmers of India->Maharashtre->Vidarbha commiting suicide and the government offering huge packages to stop those.
My husband always says that nowadays, it's getting more and more difficult to distinguish between real news and publicity stunts/advertisements. Difficult to understand why news of farmer suicides suddenly got replaced by student suicides, especially given that exam fever is just starting to build; results are way far off.
But I am pretty convinced that:
- These are mere coincidences
- Journalism has not yet gone to the dogs
- Nobody would attempt manipulating news for cheap publicity
- O bhaiya AAL IJ WELL!!
I hope everyone agrees.
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ReplyDeletei am not agree that it is difficult to distinguish from true news and bad news because this is happened it is not only a news it is a fact that these students are dead they are no more and we people of india read news with sip of tea and says oh its "really bad" but anyone never realise that this is happening because of people ,community and social condition.
people should see that for single television program parents brought there children to audition for singing for sa re ga ma pa children were standing for 6-7 hours because of their parents desire to be known as parents of exceptional child this desire is killing youth, children of india
some say we are not like that or we never force our child to do what we want but its true that there is a man with desire in every parent which he is suppressing .
Hi Preeti,
ReplyDeleteIn fact, my first blog "Exams Nearing (http://radhasamant.blogspot.com/2009/10/exams-nearing.html) precisely voiced the thought you have commented on. So, I too believe that students are stressed. This post was actually around today's journalism, regarding timing of the news. Why were these news common only around the time of the release of 3 idiots? These were neither frequent, nor front page news earlier; and in fact, they are not frontpage news since the past week or so either, (just a few weeks after the release of the movie). What was special about the in-between 4 weeks?
Amir Khan and his movies...
ReplyDeletei am in the process of writing a blog on this, since a long time...cuz it simply can't be co_incidences, the way events seem to happen around this guy's movies!! :O
but yes, these events ARE true...there is no media manipulation....there are WAY TOO MANY regulating authorities for print and other media, for manipulations to be feasible... :)