Truth will Find its Way!!!

Dumped in the sleaze,
Twisted by many mindless noughts
Shrouded under thick layers
Made complicated by multiple thoughts
Ignored by the ubiquitous "Who cares?"

Lost in a corner
Of the humongous space-time curve
Put in the literal back-burner
By the agitated nerve.

Though cowards just chicken out and fear to say
But Truth will for sure find its way!!

Welcome to Sajjanpur-My experience!!

There are very few things in this world which throw you into a sea of nostalgia. Take for instance the smell of jasmine on a moonlit night. It surely reminds one of the good old days of careless wanderings in the pre-pubescent age where most of the things are mysteries to the small undeveloped brain.

For me it was the dialogues of "Welcome to Sajjanpur", besides the visual rendering of some of the scenes in the movie by the director par-excellence, Shyam Benegal, that made me almost drown in that sea.

"Welcome to Sajjanpur hai yaar...just 130 bucks!!! Chalna hai", I shouted from my room to my roommate who was busy with one of his bang-bang games.

"Le lo!!! It is damn cheap yaar". 130 bucks per ticket is cheap cos we have spent many a night watching some real dabba movies and even paying 250 per head for some real ludicrous ones. These multiplexes have changed the way one used to watch a movie.
Night show it was!!

Cursing our luck and the Bangalore traffic we reached our destination just in time but directly headed towards McDonald's to cater to our famished tummies. Our plate was full of aloo and its variants as is the norm there and as we gorged our teeth into the McD's veg tikki, we heard this, "Abhishek Bachhan looks like an overgrown aloo tikki man and his look is taken from...".
I am not an avid gamer so I dont remember the last syllable that was uttered but it is sure that he had used the name of some very popular game. Besides that thing about aloo tikki almost killed our apetite.

Semblance or no semblance to Abhishek Bachhan, we removed that thread of thought and finished our stuff to rush towards our screen. I was shocked to see many people hurrying for the Sajjanpur show. The screen next to ours was playing "Drona" the Abhishek-Priyanka mythological superhero movie, a unique concept or so they had thought. So this is what they were comparing to an overgrown tikki - may be McD can pool in AB for their promos - simple reason being people can, and may I say do, find resemblance to the stuff that McD sells.

As the movie started I was taken to a different world altogether. The story was based in a small village and each character was so well written that they looked real to me. I was almost like "This is Tiwari Chachi, munna bhaiya, pappu, jhaji...I know them all". For me bred in a small town, identifying with the characters was never a problem but then even the events and dilaogues. It was almost surreal.

How many people, save the Biharis and eastern UPradeshis, would understand "gai bihayee hai"? It was one of the few dialogues which made "Welcome to Sajjanpur" pretty unique. There were some dialogues which were "apparently" obscene but for the chaste hindi used to nullify the effect. And the best part was only a few understood it.

For me the movie was not a fictional story of some village in some remote part of the country, it was almost like the story of my own village. Not to mention I loved the experience better than Aloo tikki and its twin brother.