Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.
I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.
That was childhood.
Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.
In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.
I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.
Two years later came 26/11.
I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.
So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.
Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.
So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.
@HelleLyngSvends Why can't you just mind your own business and your country. You don't know even single thing about Bharat. Please just stick to your job if you can because last time you didn't even know that in press briefing, asking question was not permitted and you knew yet you failed.
The Kejriwal's Punjab government beat and lathi-charged Punjab employees who were protesting in Khanna after not receiving their salaries for six to eight months.
Kejriwal has made it clear to all employees: “I am not Narendra Modi, who will allow you to sit and protest against me. If you protest against me, I will have you beaten and sent to the hospital.”
@TukTuk_Academy We won World Cup in foreign countries. It's just a phase; we have a new team with new players lacking experience. These same foreign players didn't perform well in India at all. But they perform on their home pitches because their home country makes their pitch according to them.
@ajaykraina By seeing all these talks about Khalistani atrocities in Punjab, I understand why the movie was released for two days and then banned. This tactic made people more curious and exposed on the internet what Khalistanis did to Punjab and what they are still doing.