Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Anand Sreedhar Y ou don’t get to witness this scene in today’s big banks. But, in our old nationalized banks and, particularly, in our local co-operative banks, it is a familiar scene. I saw a lady, his morning, going around in this co-operative bank asking for a small help. She had a withdrawal sip in her hand and she wanted to withdraw some money. (Rs.500). But, being deprived of literacy, she was asking people around if they could help her fill the slip. All of us out there, including me, were busy people… In fact, I was, doubly busy, today. So, though there is a desire and intention to help someone in such situation, our own preoccupation, often, comes on our way. To say “Sorry, I am unable to help you,” seems like a heavy stone around our hearts! So, before that lady could approach me, a middle-aged man volunteered to help her. But, to her bad luck, he had forgotten to carry his specs; and, hence, he looked at me helplessly. “Can you please help...

Pic.: Pradeep Nanda T he latest Bollywood movie, ‘Baby’, is a brilliantly-made action-thriller. It keeps the viewer gripped till the end. The torture and violence depicted look very realistic… The movie is fast and furious, the dialogues are crisp and the editing is razor-sharp.   But, what intrigued me about ‘Baby’ was the muting of those ‘spicy’ words from the dialogues. Still, it all was happening so fast, that one did not even feel it. Yes, even if they had kept those crude words, I would have still respected and rated the movie very high! Films such as ‘Baby’ do need a grossly-blunt-and-crude language… It only makes the movie-experience very, very rich. So, I am not against the realism or the crude words perse' … I hope, if used in right context, the audience will, surely, respect them and find it tasteful... L ater, when I was talking about muting of crude words in the film, a friend of mine reacted swiftly, “Such muting makes no sense when ‘thi...