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Mistakes and Rejection
I was suddenly reminded of ‘Rejection’ as a topic of discussion when i was seeing a reality contest on TV in which every week they eliminate a contestant. During one of these episodes , a contestant couldn’t handle the fact that he did not take full advantage of the opportunity given to him and succumbed to pressures of the situation. He obviously goofed up. Instead of accepting his fault , he started throwing fits , acting as if he was getting dizzy and telling it was lack of sleep and exhaustion which was making him nervous.
What was more appalling , was judges giving him a second chance. We’ll discuss more on reality TV judges in another post but you see these kind of cover ups , blame games , passing the buck kind of instances everywhere. Is there anyone ready to take blame for the wrong that they do, the mistakes they make?
We believe in the saying “Nobody’s perfect” and “Learn from your mistakes”…. Then why do we dread accepting our mistakes , our faults?
Its rare nowadays that you meet people, who accept mistakes and do not shirk responsibility attached to their actions. But that breed is getting extinct at a disturbing rate.
What could be the reasons behind this attitude?
I’m no researcher to identify them but some which i could think of are :
Firstly , there is so much of responsibility and risk attached to each decision of yours , that accepting blame for a wrong one may lead to immense opportunity lost.
Secondly , there is not enough transparency in systems to reveal the truth , so people hide it as far as they could.
Btw society doesn’t essentially reward people who accept responsibility for their wrong deeds/actions. So why accept ? huh…
Any more ideas??
Of Soap Operas , Camera Zoom ins , zips , zaps and Kkkkk….
This post is intended to apprise the camera team in daily Indian soaps , of the ill effects that their poorly conceived and executed ’special effects’ , can have on the audience. In addition to that , i just wanted to give a vent to my frustration at the so called Queen of Indian Soaps.
Tune into any of the prime channels of India (I can only claim about Hindi channel soaps) be it Sony , Zee , Star or their siblings , …the state is the same. All hell breaks loose when the director , inorder to increase the time of the soap , hands over complete control of the soap to the so called ‘ Special effects ‘ team every now and then.
If any one dies , or there is even a hint of conspiracy in the soap , the camera zooms in and out so frequently in a matter of seconds . It happens not once , not twice but as many times as there are characters / actors in that particular scene. Reasons??? The mystifying turn of events shocked everyone present in the scene…so the anguish , anxiety , anger , sadness and every possible hint of emotion is tried to be captured in that scene from every actors face.
Effects – Dizzines , Loss of memory , hallucination , sudden fear of God or even Love for God , etc etc…
and then i am fortunate enough to see some American soaps as well or to give due respect to them ill call them American series – of the likes of “24″ , “Heroes” which not only keep you glued to your seats but also make you want more.
Where will we Indians find creativity ? The so called Queen of Indian Soaps – Ms. Ekta Kapoor ( Forgive me if i got one ‘o’ or ‘r’ more / less in your name …Its a numerology fad in this part of the world you see..) , give us something else to be proud of you. Yes i agree Indians are happy seeing this dose of crap as well but they deserve better. If CID is any barometer of success , then i can proudly say , we Indians do give credit for professionalism and quality entertaining programs. So, please Ms. Kapoor spare us and deliver something better for us to be proud of you ( If that matters to you…else its been easy for you earlier and will be now as well…anybody listening..kkkk 
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