Wednesday, September 15, 2010

On Why this Country Needs Superheroes

Bruce Wayne  the Batman Begins , who saves Gotham from the jaws of destruction




The other day , I was watching Batman Begins , one of Nolan's finest works . And after watching it i was awestruck! How can one man save an entire city from the jaws of destruction , even when he was up against his own demons . 
                         Why can't we have such a superhero that could bail us out of this sinking ship of ours?

Gone are the days when Shaktimaan saved the day with his powerful punches and kicks . His bright red suit coupled with matching red colored gloves , who would give villains sleepless nights 
I have always imagined our Indian superhero to be a guy who wears a cape ,  a simple shirt and a pair of trousers !(After seeing Shaktimaan's fashion sence , have been scared of Shaktimaan,Sorry Shaktimaan) :P , NOT EXCITING AT ALL .....
This is because an Indian Superhero doesnt believe in showing himself.We are just to scared to show it off , just as Bruce Wayne in the Batman Series .

Why can't our superhero save us from the jaws of destruction?
Maybe he is busy dealing with the floods of Delhi .....
Maybe he is busy solving the Commonwealth Games fiasco....
Maybe he is busy solving the issue of the Naxals....
Maybe he is too busy in solving the issue of Kashmir .....
                                OR
Maybe he is just too tired .....


Bruce Wayne just had to save one city ! i wonder what he would have done to save our country .We would need more than one batman , maybe even the Justice League! . There is just so much going around in the country that even one superhero would not be enough ...


If we did have a superhero .. we would say a lot of things even if the above issues prevailed.
After all we are paying the superhero to protect the lives of the people in the country.We can simply declare him as an outcast ....Surely! and a new superhero would emerge (In this case a new PM/President/Leader of the majority.........) , will take an oath to to save the country, and we would definitely trust him blindly.....


Our superheroes are different from the ones that appear in the comic books (As Sheldon says ....) .They need huge houses,expensive cars , cartload of money , just to save our country .
Everyone wants to become IRONMAN ! 
You might well argue that Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark too have huge cartloads of money , but its their own money .....Which is not true in the case of our superheroes ... Its OUR money ....!

We vote for the superhero because we have hope , that our superhero would never let anything happen to us , would always save the country from any calamity , and kill of the Villain with one of the special moves , but that never happens . We are always left disappointed because the Villain always wins ( here 'Villains' means Price rise,Terrorism,Corruption....) and we are always left with the prospect of a sequel .

           The country needs superheroes only because they need someone to look upto,idolize,preach his philosophy and feel secured when he goes to bed .
He must not necessarily be a caped crusador or a building jumping freak . People need someone that could set things right when things are not going their way ( Remember Istanbul 05 , Gerrard's no less than a superhero :) !).
       We can always fight , but the fight is endless , because the superhero would almost succumb to the number of problems in the country , one day or the other he would quit ....
New superheroes emerge every day , but its almost certain that each and everyone of them would fail due to the opposition he would receive and the number of problems in the country.

Lastly i d just like to say 
Superheroes are never bred, the emergy from conditions from which they are hurt by !


Why dont we feel anything ?
Where is our superhero ?
ONLY TIME WILL TELL

A Red till death Ajay Bhat a.k.a Aj B .

Saturday, October 03, 2009

"The Gym Class Heroes"




 
 THE GYM CLASS HEROES 
Definations -:

"The GYM class heroes" - people who think too much of themselves in the gym and resort to policies by which they will become uber-cool.In short the wanna classy people in the gym ("Heroes")


"The Kaaadi wallahs" - People who just come around shaking hands and asking people about their life and commenting on them here and there 


"The Hawaai class" - People who just can't seem to find the right kind of pants for themselves end up wearing short chaddis(or can we say underpants)


"The Sidhu class" - People in the gym who just can't stop laughing whether it be watching a fat person on a treadmill or a person showing off his body,for them the laughter club is the gym itself.


"The embracing class" - People who come to the gym after many days and go on embracing people whom they hardly know,just to show how close they are and to show others how many friends they have 


"The forgettable class"- People who keep on talking on one day and the next day they are like "Who are you dude?".


"The Extremists class"- There are a few trainers in the gym who feel that the human body should be pushed to such a limit that the gym feels like a barrack 


"The 'Ab-Nahin' Class - People who always have a problem doing a particular exercise .Either some part of the body is paining or they have to go somewhere be it the toilet,or some meeting . The more exercises you give the more time you hear the phrase "Ab nahin sirji-kal karte hain na ".


"The Pumpers" class -People who take huge dumbbells and after a few reps of it keep on telling "Sirji pump nahin ho raha aur koi bada weight uthau kya". now what do I say to them , the only thing that they can do now is become the modern Hanumanji and pick up a mountain and pump up your muscles 


'The Maria Sharapova' Class-People while picking up weights in the gym squeal,and shout the same way as the sexy Maria Sharapova does.They should nt be trying so hard to be Maria Sharapova because there can be only one *Drools after thinking about her*.


And my favourite class of people 


"The HELLO Kaun class" - I hate them from the bottom of my heart .Be it on the treadmill or doing some exercise they are constantly on the phone . "Ha hello,ha bol na ,kaisa hain, are nahin re busy nahin huh gym main hu tu bol ". I mean what the hell .These people come here talking on the phone just to show off .If they want t to talk to the people that badly why do they even come to the gym ? Everybody has a phone nowadays.These are the worst people in the gym and even if they are out of breath while running on the treadmill they will still continue to chat on and on and on.



 









A Red till death
Ajay Bhat a.k.a Aj B .