Hud Hud Award Award

Breaking News: “National Award 2011 to Dabang” Oh sorry! It’s double G i.e. Dabangg. My bad! Yes it’s true and the movie got the highest profile award (Indian) in the Wholesome Entertainment Category. After so many nominations and award winning at many National and International level award ceremonies, it’s time for more action at one of the most prestigious award.
It may not be in the league of movies like Pather Panchali, Raincoat or the last year recipient Paa which stressed on the burning issues, but it has got everything, our junta wants to watch. From hilarious dialogues to pleasant melodies, from powerful action packed scenes to dramatic emotions, from Sallu ki shirt faadu performance to Munni ki badnaami!! What more could an audience ask for? And adding to the glare is the debutant’s heart throbbing dialogue (she uttered only once!!) “thappad se darr nahi lagta saahab, pyaar se lagta hai”.
If we talk about the learning’s, yes there are so many. People have learnt a new way of putting shades at their back. I remember when I came out watching it; the effect of the style was so fast that some of the college students had kept their glares at the back of their t-shirts. Crazy fans! News came of some of the policemen (read UP and Bihar) have started keeping the kind of moustaches Sallu had kept in the movie. Go to any marriage, party or birthday bash these days, you would definitely find the crowd shaking their body on the high beats of Munni Badnaam. Moreover, the primary class students are getting learnt the difference between the active and passive speech by humming some words of “tere mast mast do nain”. At least now we must agree to the decision of the jury.
But eyebrows have been raised by some of the people. They are of the view that the level of respect for the award has decreased by honouring that to the film like Dabangg. According to them, it is a full time entertainer without any quality and social message to the viewers. I would ask these people to ask those viewers who have watched the movie a number of times on theatre, helped in increasing the weight of revenues generation for the producers (and also increased the size of hole in their own pockets!).
Anyhow, whether it was fair or unfair on anybody’s part, the award has already been given to one of the biggest blockbuster of 2010. And our Robinhood Pandey ji with his big brother is dancing all around on the beats of Hud Hud Award Award!!

Mourn on a death of 25 paise coin

Soon, the days will be gone, when you will be transacting something with 25 paise coin. Yes, according to the public notice put Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the 25 paise coins are going to be ceased i.e. demonetised by 30th June ’11. RBI has also asked to get 25paise coins exchanged at the banks by the tantamount. The reason being given is the inflation.
I don’t know how much it will affect the people at large, as only few people still transact in this denomination. But I would definitely mourn the death of it. Even none of my contemporaries could forget this special coin. Have so many lovable memories of it that it could still fill our eyes with tears. Remember, when we were kids and the moment some redywala came shouting for ice-cream, how we used to run behind him with our 25 paise coin! Could you forget the time when mummy filled our pockets with treasure (25 paise) while leaving for the school, and we were like kings/queens of the world at lunch time. I still remember one incident of mine, when I was a 5 year old kid and just started attending pre-nursery school. One of the mate, I prefer using the term mate as by that age I didn’t know whether he was my classmate, was asking for small package pepsi cone from a stall. He flicked the coin to the stall owner and got the cone. I was just admiring him that how happy and joyful he felt post that. From that day onwards, I used to get a coin daily in my pocket. Sometimes kids are so smart!!
We were the kids who used to die for each 25 paise coin. I still remember how my elder sister and I collected the coins in our piggy banks (we had separate) just to save enough money to get something precious. How pleasurable it was to see the piggy bank growing heavier and heavier and also to hear the sound of so many 25 paise coins together. And remember the numerous quarrels we had just because of some 1-2 25paise coins missing. Even today siblings do fight but now it is for some big denominator notes!!
Leaving behind all those fond memories, I still think RBI has thought right away making it demonetised as it has become worthless in today’s world. Gone are the days when you go buying something and you got it in handful of coins. Now try, go, buying anything; from ice-cream to cookies, chocolates to candies, medicines to fruits, nothing has got a mentioning anything in this denomination. Even if we ask somebody for any smaller coins, the very likely answer would be “Chawanni Athanni toh aajkal bhikhari bhi nahi rakhte”.

So wait for 30th June to come,and no kid will be filling his piggy bank with 25 paise coins anymore!!