Saturday 17 September 2016

Deepak Sehgal deserves a national award

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At the end of the movie, when everyone was walking away, these words fell on my ears & I stopped
my feet but my determination started walking.. again...

When Deepak Sehgal fills the ink in the words of Tanveer Ghazi, 
it made my dead heart, 
beat.

This poetry ends the movie PINK -

Tu khud ki khoj me nikal
Tu kis liye hatash hai
Tu chal tere vajood ki
Samay ko bhi talaash hai

Jo tujhse lipti bediya
samajh na unko vastra tu


Jo tujhse lipti bediya
samajh na unko vastra tu

ye bediya pighaal kar
bana le inko shastra tu


Tu khud ki khoj me nikal

*****


I host a show called Kaun Banega Crorpati and on the hot seat one day I had a young lady about 23 years old  who had reached the hot seat. I asked her where she came from. She said, "mai ek chote se gaav se ayi hu"(I come froma small village). I asked her, her life story. She said, 'after the 7th standard, her father stopped educating her. Because he said, ' tumhare upar mai aur paise, waste nahi karna chahta hu kyunki uske baad tumhari shaadi ho jayegi'. (I dont want to waste anymore money on you because after that you will get married)

'Apne paise zaya kyu karu tumpe?' (Why should I waste my money on you?). That is hurtful. This girl never listened to the parents, she revolted. She was thrown out of the house. She went to her grandmother's house, vaha bhi uske sath, aisa anyaay hua, tarah tarah ki uske sath badsalooki hui. (She suffered the same injustice there as well & was abused in various manners). But she continued to study on her own. And she landed up on the hot seat.

And I want to tell you, (insert audience clapping including me listening to his words), at the end of the game show, she won 25 lakh rupees. And when I asked her what she is going to do with this cheque? She said, 'I am going to take this cheque, to my father, and tell him, that even a daughter, is an asset to the family.
*****
I have words of my own to write but so much beauty, calls to be spread -

Bras offend
So do breasts

And what do you know? 

So does a flat chest

Skirts are a no-no
Because legs are bare 
Jeans bhi mat pehno 
Because legs are there
(What about a long skirt? 
Dilemma, yaar! 
Brb consulting my book of sanskaars)
What if I cover myself 
From head to toe?
*cough* secularism *cough* security *cough*
Sorry. But no.
Enough! I renounce clothing
From now I will be nude
No way! What do you think you are –
A dude?
PINK is BLUE - BLUE is PINK
human expectations are different



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