Bow down!

“Another one bites the dust” , that’s how to describe the whole episode of Vishwaroopam a Tamil film which was supposed to be a magnus opus for one of India’s finest actor . Alas , The country has become intolerant to tolerance and tolerant to intolerance, the freedom of art/speech has been severly compromised and its very amusing that all the politicians also took part in the drama rather ensuring that the art is fee flowing , the politicos have ensured that art has got stifled and now every artist will run pillar to post to pacify or to make each and every community happy before delivering it to public.

The Central board for film certification (CBFC) has been made a mockery and even a Honourable Judge has been snubbed by the State .The state must have acted magnanimous and should have ensured that a fine artist should have been protected and regardless of the people involved it must clearly sent out a signal we are free and a tolerant society and society has a whole will not bend to the whimsical of people who say they represent a certain section of society. When the Foreign Invaders stifled our freedom we made hue and cry and we ensured we got freedom but unfortunately now a certain section of societies ensures the rest are held at a ransom just because they have got offended. Taking offense happens only when we feel that we are part of a group or section which has done some dastardly acts! Appalled by the way the film fraternity stood by the artist , they should have done more , stood by him and should have egged him to release the film without any compromises and should have ensured that protesting section should have been made to understand we are all one and this just an form of expression and this wont impact the existing relationships in anyway.


Are we really living in a free Country if you really think so, just read this following dialogue from the movie “The American President”

“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You Gotta want it bad, ‘cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words makes your blood boil, you want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can’t just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, and celebrate that in your classroom. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free”

The moment the above lines come true, when the country or the society is not held at ransom for some trivail issues by a group which claims to represents larger interest, when the freedom of art is not stifled in the namesake for community..then we may claim to live in free society