Showing posts with label Aamir Khan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aamir Khan. Show all posts

A few lifelong lessons to learn from the movie Dil Chahata Hai

                       Among-st the one of most  benevolent places of Goa, there lies Chapora fort. At this place sea becomes flamboyantly silent and a ship tries to find its way through far end. Minutes of silence fills the place with aroma of beautiful thoughts. No one is in hurry to talk, they are happy with the calm atmosphere and the way it is giving shape to their thoughts. Finally the first person breaks the silence.

Steve Jobs and Aamir Khan: 4 Inspirational similarities between these two creativity giants

                      One man was the boss and creative Jesus of Silicon valley. The other is the soul of immortal creative National spirit. One used to work for creating technology to make this world a better place. While other concentrated entertaining and creating value based society. Steve Jobs of Apple computers and Aamir khan of Indian Bollywood and socialist icon have a great deal of similarities. They have the basic instincts of belief, futurist approach and most importantly the natural love for their work.

Why Aamir Khan should be awarded with Bharat Ratna for his documentary on Satyamev Jayate

The man with a mission.
                
                   Last year India did witness one of the greatest silent revolutions of all time. That too without wasting a single drop of  blood. Aamir Khan and his Satyamev Jayate became a hot topic of discussion in every sectors of India. The only reason was his great researched documentary on building a prosperous nation. He covered almost all the topics with same intensity and perfection. For an actor it becomes difficult to handle both movies and documentaries. But the great national hero did this with a ease and showed the world that patriotism still exists. This year he has also come up with five day documentary on India. The shows will definitely going to wake up India.
                    His first documentary of the season two showed the condition of women in India. He presented as how rape victims have to suffer from the  hardships of system? In each subsection of a program he put a light on worst conditions of Police stations, Medical Examiners and Judiciary. He argued and demanded the need of separate place for women related complaints so that within a month or two the case can be solved. His research explained that the number of goons present in our society is very small. However, our inability to tackle makes them powerful. So we have to unite so that we can tackle them.
                    Last year  he was invited by standing committee of ministry of commerce. He was the only actor who was invited by any parliamentary committee. That time the issue was whether to allow FDI in retail or not? Aamir in his one of the documentaries ardently opposed the FDI in medical. The reasons which he gave surprised many people.
                    In the year 1993 the World Trade Organization reached on consensus for the trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS). The licensing of drug became a compulsion for medical companies. Due to this they got the monopoly in producing the generic medicines. It became impossible for common man to buy the medicines because of their high price. The cost of simple medicine increased by 100 to 500 times just because of monopoly over licenses.
                    It was not for the first time that the issue of generic medicines became a topic of discussion in India. But the awareness and realization was impossible to achieve. Aamir raised this issue in his show and the results were amazing. The Supreme court refused to renew the licenses of pharmaceutical companies including American heavyweight such as Ranbaxy. Executive body of Indian parliament ordered to hold on the FDI in medical sector. The ill practices of doctor were banned. Many pseudo doctors were forced to close their offices. The relationship between doctors and middlemen was brought into light. There was a sense of renovation in the medical sector.
                     His other documentaries did have a same impact. Such as his show on protecting child rights made a meaningful impact on looking at the problems of children. This issue was also presented in the movie 'Tare Jamin Par.' In the movie he showed the problem of dyslexia in the small children. He gave solutions to these problems in the form of compassion and love. He forced us to hold on reservation policy for a quite long time by showing that untouchable people still exists. It made us think that the problems of castes are still present in its old form.
                     Since many years the physically disabled community was asking for renewal of disabilities act of 1995. It was because of his show that government of India brought renewed protection of disabilities bill (2013) in the Parliament. An unnoticed concept such as staircases with Iron holders was introduced because of his efforts.This act was also made com-pliable to United Nations Convection on disability.
                      The problem of honor was presented in his show. This gave the answer as how Khap Panchayats (local illegal governing bodies) hold power over the basic right of an individual. He also argued as why parents need to allow their child to choose their marriage partner? Aamir made India realized that it has a long list of things to achieve. Though we are assuming our self to prosper towards developed country, still lots need to be done.
                      In his last show he presented the problem of human trafficking which has became a great problem not only for India but for the whole world. He argued that in modern it is a responsibility of society  to free women from illegal gangs. We have already reached a threshold as far as the issues of women safety is concerned.
                     Aamirs Khan's efforts can be compared with Raja Ram-mohan Roy, India's first social reformer. Exactly 300 years ago it was impossible for Ram-mohan Roy to introduce changes in a conservative society. However he believed in himself and carried forward his effort irrespective of social pressure. His efforts gave India a semi liberal status. This time the problems are new but they still have a essence of a conservative society. Aamir Khan is a person who can change India from is semi liberal attitude to fully pragmatic society. This all can only be achieved if government recognizes his work on national as well as international level. This can only be done by awarding him with a highest Indian civilian award of Bharat Ratna.