Methods of war and exploitation of resourceful lands have changed a
lot in this modern world. It depends on the perpetrators to select and apply
the suitable weapon to complete their mission. Killing enemy in open war and
looting at mid-night is very easy than slowly poisoning and let enemy die without
any notice of who killed in what was the method applied.
Since the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956,
Telangana people are literally engaged in a war with Seemandhra leadership which
was invisible and hidden from all corners in the garb of Telugu speaking
brethren. Except applying the traditional method of fighting one-to-one in war
zone, the government lead by Seemandhra leadership exercised every other form
to exploit resources of Telangana. Since 3 years they have speed up their
attack on Telangana more aggressively and openly, unlike invisible.
One of the first and continuous wars was on the language
and life style of Telangana people to gain upper hand forever in an imperialistic
manner. Most of the Telangana people have already become victims of this in the
form of hard-core and blind fans of Tollywood films and its personalities and writers
by singing their dirty songs and praising their in-human acts that always go
around woman as pleasure commodity than creator of the world.
Couple of days ago I was traveling in a Deluxe bus
to Jangaon from Hanamkonda, to my surprise I have noticed a newly installed television
set to entertain the passengers. It was quite interesting that many of them have
accepted this free luxury of watching Tollywood movies while traveling. The high
volume did not allow me to sleep but forced me to watch what was being played at
11:30 pm. By the titles of movie I came to know it was Vedam, a film that was
said to spin around life of a prostitute. I remember about the news this movie
was recognized by the government of Andhra Pradesh and also bagged some prize. Really
I fail to understand what is in the movie that made government to award a prize
for it.
What I observed in the movie is the script,
accent, body language, facial expressions of female actors and moaning tone were
nothing short of an adult movie, in-fact far beyond than the imagination of
Hollywood adult movies. I bet this kind of movie can’t be watched along with
any of female family members.
Some of the points I would like to raise are: is speaking
about a price of prostitute is the most eligible to get nominated for best
movie? Is teasing some of your friends and kicking his buts or slapping on face
is a joke and not a humiliation? Is it not provoking by addressing every male
stranger by ‘baava’ with clear exposure of female anatomy or considered as a great
acting skill rather than desperate acts of road-side prostitutes.
While I was getting down from the bus, I had a
little argument with bus conductor, whom I asked politely, “Don’t you think showing
such kind of movie at midnight is not disturbing the sleep, injecting some
nonsense and embarrassing for the female passengers”? The answer from conductor
was simple and straight forward, “It was award winning movie with great acting
skills,” for which I was silent and stunned at the kind of approach they had.
What I understood with these kind of scenes and
rotten jokes the people behind the TV installation and RTC heads were trying to
disturb the cultural fabric of Telangana people. We have been shouting loud and
clear since many years, but as usual the Seemandhra government is deaf and dumb
in protecting the interests of Telangana especially when the attack is in the
form of cultural and arts.
I strongly believe that this is nothing short of
injecting poison slowly in the minds of Telangana bus passengers in the name of
free entertainment. Moreover, traveling with female passengers will be worst
in every form and may embarrass female co-passengers a lot.
But my concern is a total silence from the
viewers who were watching at around midnight without any complaint and
accepting this kind of war without any resistance.
Though, I know clearly that my observations are
not new, but the spirit of questioning for freedom as similar to unique
character of the Telangana land that will never die.
In addition, in the garb of free entertainment,
government is snatching the freedom of every person who boards on the bus.
In-fact, government is carefully breaking one-to-one interaction with strangers
which is quite normal in journey.
I heard and seen some of the movie lovers especially
from Andhra region who were comfortable with this kind of ugly presentation of
woman and movies which depict them as commodity, but my understanding of this
differ with others.
Generally, decision makers will test their
decision on a project basis, before undertaking in big way. This kind of things
will help them to know the pulse of the receiving end along with positive and
negative impacts.
Here I believe outcome and damage that will cause
to Telangana people was part of perpetrators objective and implementing in the
bus route of Hyderabad and Warangal is part of testing phase. If we ignore it
without any resistance, the cunning Seemandhra people will spread its wings and
snatch common man’s freedom whenever they want.
Successive governments have completely changed
our mind and made us to believe that getting everything freely is right of the
citizen and demanding free benefits should be top in the wish-list of voters.
Let me clear my stand here that neither I am against
any movies/ songs nor literature that comes from any soil. I firmly believe
that every form of the art and culture has its own significance and importance
as per their views and life-style, but my argument and issue is the imperialistic
approach and killing instinct on others should not be entertained. Mutual
respect of arts and culture is always appreciated and welcomed, especially on Telangan
soil that was known for digesting healthy elements whoever has reciprocated with
this land’s culture as others barring Seemandhra.
Undoubtedly, entertainment is part of the life
and I am not against it. Moreover, I have great respect for some of the movie
makers of the world who allowed and explained to people in having huge canvass
of thinking and entertaining.
In this on-going crucial phase of Telangana separation movement, the people
have become more aware in identifying enemy and their hidden agenda, thanks for
the untiring efforts of every son of the soil who exposed enemy that was
visible in the form of Seemandhra leadership.
I wish we must register our strong protest to this government in all possible
manners and stop exploiting the culture of this land. As Kaloji says we can
regain everything after certain period of time but not culture. So following in great poets footsteps let us
raise our voice and try our best to regain our freedom of traveling.