Vivah is a hindi movie which is centred on marriage and not on child abuse. There is a scene where the girl and guy meet for the first time, and they are given time to talk to each other before they decide to marry. So the guy’s sister-in-law says to them, “good luck!” And the sister-in-law’s 5 year old son says “good luck? Do they have an exam?” and everybody laughs. So cute. Not.
Word association with 5 year old kids should make them think of stuff like “mummy” and “play” and “dinner” and “God”, not exams… 5 year olds aren’t meant to have exams!! But they do in India. And this exam-mentality in the country leads who knows how many students to commit suicide every year. Is a piece of paper worth more than a life? A piece of paper which presumes to explain the mental ability of a person, or a person’s aptitude for a particular area of study. Which is created and judged by another human being, or worse, a computer system.
Stop stressing about exams. At the end of your life your pieces of paper die with you. If you have a dream that involves lots of studying, go for it sure but if you don’t make it, there is something better planned for you already, don’t give that up for stubbornness or other people’s expectations. Your life is worth a LOT to God. He made your life and he is the only one who has a right to give you it or take it away.
There is a movie called Rehguzar which I kinda want to watch. In the trailer, one line struck me. A guy yells at his junior, “do you know the difference between you and me!” and the junior answers “yeah when we die you will be buried in a 20 rupees coffin, and I will be buried in one worth 10 rupees.” That was an interesting way to say it. That line makes me curious about this movie and this character. I like filmi dialogues. Anyone seen Bluffmaster? What lines, yaar!
Also want to watch Kabul Express, the trailer is hilarious. At the end of the trailer, this van which has 2 Indians, an Afghan, an American and a Pakistani in it- just stops. And they all have a shocked look, and the American says “what…” and one of the Indians points ahead and says… “…Osama bin Laden…”
LOL. I wanna watch that movie.
Ok its evening and I watched Rehguzar with dad and bhaiyya, it was so weird. It started out nice and the “main” concept (if there was one…) wasn’t terrible but it was really confused and they tried to stuff too many ideas into one movie. Some lines were way too dramatic but some were okay like the coffin line. Coffin line was best out of context actually, in the trailer. A bit dramatic in the movie. Oh well.
Will write about Day 3 soon, Lord willing. Have to study today!
