Any future for Biharis ?

The bus hijack episode which took place on 27th Oct 2008 in Mumbai shook every youth from Bihar to the core. Here are my thoughts on the issue.
The step taken by Rahul was wrong. Violence is not an answer to violence. Any civilized and cultured society does not approve of violence in any form. Having said that, I must add that if we look at the things in totality, we can see the pain, the frustration, the agony running through the mind of Rahul, which forced him to take such a drastic step. He was no criminal, no terrorist. But still police was forced to kill him. That's because the method adopted by him was an extreme step any one could take. And such a step can be taken only by an extremely frustrated unemployed youth. I ask everyone reading this, how many Biharis, who have a job, who are well settled, would go on to take such a step ? I know many people living and working in Mumbai. True, they are angry by the recent happenings in Mumbai against Biharis but they are no way as angry and frustrated as Rahul would have been when he thought of taking on Raj Thackeray.

My point is, the real killer of Rahul Raj is not the Mumbai Police, it is our own leaders of Bihar, who, even after six decades of independence, cannot make the state self dependent. Who could not make the people empowered enough to stay back at home and earn their living in their home state, if they wish to do so. Today the situation is that people go to other places to look for a job, either they are beaten up and thrown out or they have to take some unlawful and drastic steps to make themselves heard.

Why can't our own leaders hear their voices ? When will they hear the real demand of the youth of Bihar ?

The pathetic situation of the state can be imagined by the fact that firstly the state government has not been able to create jobs for the people of the state and secondly, even if there have been a few state government jobs available to some, people having those jobs are no way better than unemployed people. While I am writing this on the eve of Diwali night, my mind goes back again and again to the conversation I just had with someone, whose husband has not been paid for last five months by the state government and their Diwali is being celebrated by convincing the kids that crackers and sweets are not good for health etc etc.

Can the people of Bihar see light of the day anytime in future ?

Movie Review Hello!

Out of the three books written by Chetan Bhagat, One night @ the call center was the first one read by me. I found it quite a good book for any one who is not fond of reading heavy english literature. The story was pretty good, it had a good pace and above all the language used in the book was for a common man. It was so simple and lucid that you can read almost half of the book in a single sitting without stressing your mind even a bit. In that sense also it was a good book. And then there was lot of masala to keep you gripped to the story. Overall it was a good book and I recommended everyone who asked for a review of the book to give it a try atleast once.
It was some two years back. Almost two years after the book hit the markets and became quite popular among the readers, this friday came the movie 'Hello' based on the novel. As I had liked the book, I thought of giving the movie a try. I was mainly curious to see how does one feel watching a movie when you know the story beforehand. In fact I had gone with lots of expectations. Though my tempo was definitely a bit down by the low ratings given to the movie by almost all the critics. But as I don't believe much on the words of those so called movie critics, I went with an open mind and quite a good amount of expectations.
As the movie was an adaptation of the same novel, no part of the story threw any surprises to me as far as the story was concerned. There were a couple of funny parts in the movie which I found were new in the movie and might have been added by the director. Rest was the same as present in the book. At the end, I felt that the movie was a sincere effort by the director Atul Agnihotry. The novel mainly deals with the turbulent life of its characters. Though the director has tried to show the turbulence in the lives of the characters to some extent, he is not able to depict it as deftly as is there in the book. But I believe the turbulence in the lives of so many characters cannot be made into a movie better than this. I also felt that some of the actors could have acted better to put in some more peppiness and vigor into their characters. Sharman Joshi was especially good. Overall I would rate this movie 3 out of 5.
And my final comment would be that a novel of this type cannot and should not be made into a movie, as movies are made to show as much dramatics as possible and are enjoyable only when they are quick and fast. On the contrary, novels are good only when they are slow and as much detailed as possible. These two mutually opposite characteristics of movies and novels do not make them a good adaptation of each other.