4th Dimension

Every human on this globe, being a part of culture and civilization faces some events in his/her life where ‘things don’t work out’.   I came across many situation where things don’t happen as I wished and once I looked at society I felt that I am not alone… there are also other people !!! Almost all people I know have complained about this. Situation of life don’t go as per our desire. So the question comes why it happens so? Why our lives act as per our wish? I came across people who has complains about life and when I meet this people I feel my life is better than theirs, this happens because their complaints about unaligned life is more intense than mine. Everyone has their own answer to these questions, some complain, some cry, some become wise, some become nice and what not. During same time, I came across Peter Brook’s Mahabharata (1989) and M.K.Gandhi’s interpretation of Bhagwad Geeta. One is the movie and other one is book, though meant for religion and spiritual...

Week before, I had shrewd interactions with politicians, celebrities, artists, activists and hackers; this gave me new dimensions to understand society. In fact, my urge to understand social relationships got more intensified after these interactions. Amongst all, dimensions highlighted by people from film industry gives me astounding understanding social relations presented on screen through medium which we call cinema. Indian cinema has become great tool to understand Indian society. Bollywood has its own identity in world. As per my knowledge, it is world’s most, innovative, creative, experimenting and inclusive industry. By inclusion I mean social inclusion providing employment and projection to every element of society. Rather, it has turned itself into culture. Cinema in India was started by colonial rulers with films like the Poona race and Train Arriving at Mumbai around 1889. But real Indian cinema was started in 1913 by a Marathi painter called Dadasaheb Phalke wh...