Sunday, June 19, 2011

Its been days ... real long .. and though he came across a lot of interesting things to scriblle upon , he didnt get the zeal to do that. So he planned to narrate what the day was like. It was just another day at Goa Institute of Management. Starting from breakfast in the morning , to the tea in the evening. He climbed back to his room and was googling (google is a verb in case u are not aware) when some viral advertisement got his attention. A simple 2 inch * 1.5 inch advertisement promoting the famous movie Rang De Basanti. He immediately called out for the same and a batchmate was eager to help him out. The movie changed his day.
"Sarfaroshi ki tamanna, ab hamare dil mein hain.. Dekhna hain zor kitna bazu-en qatil mein hain" ... a simple line that is not too easy to say if u are an Indian. It lights that vigour , the patriotism. India won her freedom from the british rule some 54 years back. And a script by Bismil Azimabadi still gives us goosebumps. Are we being deprived of anything even today ? Are we still in shackles ? Or is it just a stimulus similar to that of alcohol ?

Today we live in a world full of opportunities. Oppotunities makes us dream.... better, bigger , higher. But due to a lot of problems or rather some obstacles, our dreams live in wonderlands. We aspire to rise, we aspire to shine, sometimes we fight for it and most of the other times we are either forced or we prefer to give up. According to newton's second law of motion .. or should I call that an universal law ... "every action has an equal and opposite reaction". So in this particular discussion action being to let go our dreams, we get a reaction very commonly known as the piling o frustration.
Let us take up some examples,
1. The first example should always focus in the area of career. GIM is a place where we have a lot of students who missed out on IIMs, XLRIs NITIE, MDI .. and other top ranked colleges. But that never extinguishes the dream . Similarly everybody in their job field either fails to register to the place he dreamt of or the very same job dusnt meet his or her expectations. This obviously results in frustration.
2. Ill take up the second example from personal lives. Be it with family , or lovers (this being the most common), people make sacrifices. Each and every sacrifice kills a dream.

In such a state of mind when one is made to listen to an inspiring speech... it plays the hair-raiser.
It is not alcohol .. it is similar to a crowd beating up a pickpocket with no intentions of making him learn a lesson.
Its not a drug .. its a form of venting out the frustration in store.
Its unfair to deny that it is also an effect of the genes , the patriotism in our blood. But can we chalk out the slice patriotism has in the entire pie ?
Can it be denied that the song "luka chhupi" brings tear to our eyes when we are away from our mother ? Does a song not have a much greater effect when it is in sync with our emotions ? When we cant turn our face to any of these .. why deny the fact that we are in chains ?

At times we find it difficult to explain our actions .. but as Oogway in Kung Fu Panda has mentioned, " There are no accidents ", our each and evry action also have some cause.

Well, this article is entirely a work of the mind of a dreamer and has no practical validity. So i would like to end with the very script that this article is based upon... read on ...

Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai
Dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qaatil mein hai

aye watan Karta nahin kyun doosra kuch baat-cheet
Dekhta hun main jise woh chup teri mehfil mein hai
Aye shaheed-e-mulk-o-millat main tere oopar nisaar
Ab teri himmat ka charcha ghair ki mehfil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Waqt aanay dey bata denge tujhe aye aasman
Hum abhi se kya batayen kya hamare dil mein hai
Khainch kar layee hai sab ko qatl hone ki ummeed
Aashiqon ka aaj jumghat koocha-e-qaatil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Hai liye hathiyaar dushman taak mein baitha udhar
Aur hum taiyyaar hain seena liye apna idhar
Khoon se khelenge holi gar vatan muskhil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Haath jin mein ho junoon katt te nahi talvaar se
Sar jo uth jaate hain voh jhukte nahi lalkaar se
Aur bhadkega jo shola-sa humaare dil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Hum to ghar se nikle hi the baandhkar sar pe kafan
Jaan hatheli par liye lo barh chale hain ye qadam
Zindagi to apni mehmaan maut ki mehfil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

Yuun khadaa maqtal mein qaatil kah rahaa hai baar baar
Kya tamannaa-e-shahaadat bhi kisee ke dil mein hai
Dil mein tuufaanon ki toli aur nason mein inqilaab
Hosh dushman ke udaa denge humein roko na aaj
Duur reh paaye jo humse dam kahaan manzil mein hai

Wo jism bhi kya jism hai jismein na ho khoon-e-junoon
Toofaanon se kya lade jo kashti-e-saahil mein hai
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai.
Dekhna hai zor kitna baazuay qaatil mein hai.

~Bismil Azimabadi

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