From Katniss to Women to country..

We saw The Hunger Games. We saw The Hunger Games. We saw The Hunger Games. Yes. We are very excited because that was an awesome experience. Very rarely does a movie make us go “Whoa, that was awesome!”. And that has happened thrice already this year. The Artist, The Descendants and now this movie. Story about Katniss Everdeen and how she wins The Hunger Games. Sounds like a simple action movie? You are wrong. We saw and went  “Whoa, that was awesome!”. This was directed by the same Guy who directed Sea Biscuit, which we did not like very much. We initially did not have much hopes about this movie initially. Then we saw the trailer. That impressed us so very much, we had to see this movie.

The Hunger Games is about struggle. Struggle of 24 teens. To live. Only one will come out alive. The story starts with District 12. That’s where Katniss lives. You see the poverty and struggle of the mining district. Katniss is volunteers when her sister gets selected for the Hunger games. How she fights her battles and in the end survives the rest of the teen pack as well as the organizers is the movie. We won’t tell you more about the story because it is worth watching in the theaters. We will tell you this much. It will blow your mind. It will. Jennifer Lawrence is so good, she has to rake up her second Oscar nomination if not a win.  There were lot of hoopla about racist comments people made about Rue being a black girl. You know what, we thought she looked like an angel. We did. Our lady almost cried when she died. But since it is not a crime to be an ignorant bastard, people will make stupid remarks. Can’t help.

From a woman oriented novel to woman oriented real life story. We all know what Gurgaon is famous for? If you said software companies and SEZs, you are wrong. It's rape. Apparently the rich brats and brats in general have made it large (see what we did there?). OK. OK. We know it's not a laughable matter. But if you look at the way Delhi police have responded and not laugh, something is wrong with you. You get angry. Sure. but not without seeing the idiocy of the "protectors". They said women cannot go out after 8 PM. Sure. If you get raped after 8 PM, its your own fault. How is that for justice?  They even announced that a girl should wear dupatta to avoid being raped. Is that like a superman cape of some sorts which we are not aware of? How dumb can you get? Can’t they just disarm the weapons, if you know what we mean. Being a man, we squirm in saying those words. Sure. But  if it looks like the bastards can’t keep it in check, why not chop it off?

And, we don’t know what to call it.. “liberation of women” perhaps? There is this ad making circulation about fair and lovely type of product  for, you know, lady parts¹. We read about it and we were like, no way that such an ad would be allowed to air in India. We were wrong. According to the ad, if you are a woman and hesitant to talk to your husband on why he is avoiding you, that would be because of the dark, you know. And brightening things up down there would help in improving relationship. Heh. Who knew. Suck it Freud. This is the real psychology. If you can’t trust a TV ad, we don’t know what can you trust. We’re guessing the writer of this ad has been showered in like, crazy amount of accolades now. Where is this country heading to. Where the hell is this country heading to. 

Looks like this is going to be completely about women. Let’s talk about first lady. Madam president. Sure. We are not going to talk very bad things about her. We don’t want to be arrested. But looks like she spent 205 Crores on foreign trips. What exactly has she done to spend so much money? Clearly , she did not inspire the country like Mr APJ Abdul Kalam did. Hell, she did not even be in news for anything good she did. All we read in news and twitter were about how she is using power. There were talks of alleged financial dealings which were shady. There was so much moral opposition to her sitting on the same chair as beloved Mr Kalam did. But clearly, Madam Ji was blinded by her ambition that a lady should be Indian president. Doesn’t this country have a better person?

We can’t even ask the Government who is apprently leading us. Because madam is in US for treatment and the PM by himself is as good in giving advice as Ashish Nehra’s bowling in slog overs. Our defence minister cannot get himself out of string of controversies,  our home minister can talk but nobody understands his -as Ashish Shakya brilliantly put it- Bengali coughing up a hairball accent,  Our finance minister is allegedly involved in the biggest scam of all time (2G), Our Foreign minister cannot find his own speeches let alone answer questions, the most senior leader after all these guys also heads BCCI and he is allegedly the devil himself. Our media is busy reporting false stories of Army trying for a Coup or deciding who is hotter, Rahul baba or Bilawal Bhutto Zardari ² . That’s when they have time from discussing Aishwarya’s baby’s name and her weight issues and Whether he scored a century or he shoud retire.   We ask again. Where the hell is this country heading to.

  

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