In India of 'Clean India Campaign'! :)
Just saw in some movie a jet of clean,
transparent water from gutter tossing Hrithik Roshan out in the air. The water
was almost transparent. Now where is that gutter in India?
Though I couldn't fathom the daredevilry of
the shot, my thoughts advised me to stick to the moving frames for a while,
hoping there could be some more 'such gutters' in display.
After all, where it would be in the world,
and that, too, in India, that such clean and hygienic gutters would be found. Now,
gutter gases even in posh Delhi and other such localities can kill anyone
easily. Even the gutters positioned around the 7RCR, the prime minister's
residence, cannot claim such grandeur. Okay, the flow through them would not be
as choked as it is.
Thinking of anything other than black
sludge mixed water (though saying water would be a misnomer) in Indian gutters
would be a blasphemy. Probably, the scene was shot on a location Mr. Modi had
chosen for pilot project of his Clean India Campaign.
Saying so is satirical and coming across
such thoughts on something like the seriousness of the intent and
meticulousness of the efforts on a 'public cleanliness campaign' is bound to
have inherent satirical intonations.
Sure, some good will come out of it given
the commitment shown by Narendra Modi but Mr. Modi cannot change the mindset
alone and that too, in just five years, the timeframe to deliver his promise, a
clean India by Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary on October 2, 2019.
That is as difficult a task as efforts to
change the mindset of the filmmakers and actors who dominate the Indian film
industry, claimed to be the world's largest in annual volume. Thanks to the
breed, it is also the film industry producing the largest chunk of 'Razzies'
cinema.
Indians we are - India Gate, the spot where
the Clean India Campaign was launched on October 2 was littered with the filth
left by the people who had gathered there to 'push' us on the highway of 'cleaning
the nation'.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com
