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DAY 1610

Jalsa, Mumbai Sept 13, 2012 Thu 11:25 PM

Some of the extended family had longed to read ‘Jalsa, Mumbai’ as the header and I do hope they feel better about it today. I certainly do. Saves me the added guile required to manufacture hidden identities !!

So after almost having left my briefcase behind at the airport at time of boarding, pleasantries by the crew who associated me with having worked in ‘SlumDog Millionaire’, a read, a movie, attempts at shaken up sleep, a bitterly freezing cabin, welcoming personnel, and now my connect, I am reasonably stable and ready to confront the next recording for KBC tomorrow.

My abrupt ending of my previous blog which was being hastily written in the lounge, has now lost its meaning and temper, so I wish to leave it at that and not pursue the matter. But at that moment it did occur to me that such occurrences do happen, or could happen, and that, if they did what its eventual consequences would be.

It is worrying to witness via the communication medium what transpires in the rest of the world and indeed in your own country. There is restlessness and anger, there is game playing and positioning and there are many unhappy people around all of us. People with legitimate claims, and their efforts to express them in the most vociferous manners. Mediums of information now give us the added view of a visual, which, perhaps some decades ago was heard but not perhaps seen as widely and as immediately as it is now.

Whereas, some of the proceedings often need the urgency of transmission, there is also the other feeling of an excess, which eventually leads one to its ineffectiveness. Cinema in many ways perhaps falters with similar malaise. Predictability has been the cause of the relegation of the success factor. Novel ideas presentations and subjects, that are testing our sensibilities, are now in the forefront of the change being noticed and practiced. This not to say that the formulaic content of the past isn’t knocking the box office over. It is. But its enactment by the latest on the block, and its presentation, albeit short in its duration, is still catching our fancies.

Media and film continuously battle to overcome this deformity. And surprisingly, what emerges is that rapidity of information and its dissemination, is what most are looking out for. I can understand this phenomena occurring in the field of entertainment, but is the polity expecting that from other vocations too. ” Ok ! Lets have a changed scenario and see what they can serve up ! “. Dear me ! In matters of governance this would be horrific. Faith and stability would suffer inconsolable shocks. I would imagine !!

Leave you now with some thoughts, and retire .. with promise of more later ..pictures and comment and who knows even a voice recoding .. !!

My love

Amitabh Bachchan