Sorry Herr Immanuel Kant if I have a categorical imperative to rationalize on you. That is exactly the point.
In my Ethics course a fellow was found cheating in the test. The question was an exercise on how to distinguish between Good and Right. He failed because what he did was good but not right. But that is exactly what the course taught us to choose.
My professor of Finance was lecturing extolling the virtues of risk taking. He explained how risk taking is so important to success as most of us are averse of doing that. I raised my hand and asked him if risk taking is just a euphemism for gambling. He flushed on his face. He said I deserved to get a D in his course if I asked such a question. I mustered enough courage to weakly respond saying I was sorry to have taken the risk of asking that question. I rested my case.
Distinction between Right and Good is not the same as the conundrum of Ends and Means. It is the goal itself that can be good or right.
The two terms of President Obama were so perfectly good. He epitomized all that America wants to be or thinks it is.
On the other hand, President Trump couldn’t care less. To some people he may even appear weird. He is so imperfect. That is why he is so right. He epitomizes what America truly is.
What is rationally perfect is not right. Failings are perfectly human.
It was at the Senate’s Iran Contra hearing. I think it was Senator Walter Rudman who made a remark that hit my solar plexus like a ton of bricks. He told, Oliver North might have been right, and the Congress might have been wrong, but the Congress has a constitutional right to be wrong which he cannot take away.
Just imagine if Earth were to go around the Sun in a perfect circle and revolved on a perfectly perpendicular axis how would it be. It is those little imperfections that make life possible. Those are the causes for seasons, Shakespeares, Miltons, sonnets. romance and music.
One president got fellatio from a barely legal intern under his charge. Another president paid and got unprotected sex from a porn star.
Let the conservative right-wing Evangelicals figure who was right and who was good.
Next time please rationally and consciously mix measured amount of imperfection to whatever you do to make it perfectly imperfect. Else Gods might feel challenged and angels may weep.
The epithet Nīlakantha ( nīla = “blue”, kantha = “throat”) refers to a story in which Shiva drank the poison churned up from the ocean world. As per Hindu mythology, the most vicious and venomous poison was created from the sea when Devas (Gods) and Asuras (Demons) churned it in order to obtain Amrit (the nectar of immortality). This poison started to kill both sides.Both parties prayed Lord Shiva to help. Shiva being the supreme one chose to consume the poison. His consort Parvati who was alarmed, stopped it in his throat with her hands thus earning him the name Visakantha, (the one who held poison in his throat). The poison made his throat turn blue. Hence he is also known as Nīlakanta. (the one with a blue throat).Gosaikunda lake is believed to have formed from the digging of the land by the Trishul (holy three-pointed spear, similar to the western trident) of lord Shiva after he drank the poison from Samudramanthan(act of churning) and desperately wanted cold water to quench the overwhelming heat of the poison.
Adam’s Apple is a familiar anatomic feature in the front of the neck that is due to the forward protrusion of the thyroid cartilage, the largest and most prominent cartilage of the larynx..The thyroid cartilage tends to enlarge at adolescence, particularly in males. Enlargement of the Adam’s apple is considered to be one of the secondary gender characteristics. It is usually said that Adam’s apple takes its name from the biblical story about Adam, Eve. the serpent and the apple. A piece of the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam’s throat and created the anatomic Adam’s apple. So the story goes. However, it may be wrong. Adam’s apple in Latin is “pomum Adami.” This may have been a mistranslation of the Hebrew “tappuach ha adam” which also means male bump. Between Latin and English there’s many a slip. The medical term (which is rarely used) for the Adam’s apple is “prominentia laryngea” (prominence of the larynx).
As kids undergo growing pains, their bodies and minds go through tons of changes. One change that every kid can count on is lots of body parts growing and changing shape. Almost every part gets in on the growing action, including the larynx (say: lar-inks). Another name for the larynx is the voice box, and it’s in the throat. The larynx is what gives you your voice, whether you’re talking, laughing, whispering, singing, or screaming! You can find your larynx by touching the front of your throat and humming. When you feel vibrations under your fingers, you’ve found it! When the larynx grows larger during maturity, it sticks out at the front of the throat. This is what’s called an Adam’s apple. Everyone’s larynx enlarges as we grow up, but a girl’s larynx doesn’t grow as much as a boy’s does. That’s why boys have Adam’s apples. Most girls don’t have Adam’s apples, but some do. It’s no big deal either way. The larger larynx also gives boys deeper voices. Actually, girls’ voices get a little bit deeper as their larynxes get larger, too. But because boys’ larynxes grow so much more, it makes their voices deeper than girls’ voices. The larynx doesn’t grow to its new size overnight, though. If you’ve ever heard a teenage boy’s voice sound squeaky, you’ve heard a larynx trying to get adjusted to its new size!
G. C. Dore Business Game At Siemens Kalva- Mumbai :
Mr. Giri Dore oldest CT ( 83+) conducted a business game (TABU= Taste of Business ) for the latest batch of CT’s on the 6th and 7th of June 2018 at Kalwa, It had all the adventures and upheavals of today’s business world, like demonetization, inflation, Brexit, GST etc. The game covers 8 business years. The trainees made losses in the first 4 years but bounced back into sunshine of profits in the next 4 years. The Programme concluded with music played by Mr. Dore on the Hamonica.
Hard to believe its been six years since he’s passed on and yet The Phenomenon still lives on in your system. Reading this book is just the excuse you need to go time travelling to the 70s.
.... It was Geeta Bali who prodded him to make that quantum leap from theatre to celluloid She put her money on Dharmendra though ....
The book itself though is a damp squib just as many of his movies.What part of his story is really untold? His childhood and teen years perhaps and whatever little is known here too is disputable according to the author himself.
Gossip columnists turned part-time psycho-analysts traced Kakaji's complexities not to the roller coaster ride curves of his career graph but to the fact that he was brought by two mothers as a kid
One would think that the author would at least provide some rational pointers over his phenomenal rise if not his phenomenal downfall. All we got was a collage of archived glossy mag articles that seem to have been extracted from a simple google search.
.... When Salim Khan praised Sanjeev Kumar to the skies Kakaji could not stomach it and "unfriended" him of course he did cross-verify with him first ....
The legend and fame of Rajesh Khanna was got to be seen by present and previous generations on live TV in July 2012 in its magnanimous glory when “Kakaji” was playing out his death scene in reality. It all began with a rumor that was spread that he was dead and then he emerged Phoenix like out of his Aashirwad bungalow waving a victory sign at enthralled onlookers. But sadly his health deteriorated thereafter and after his death was announced in a rather terse statement by son-in-law Akshay Kumar the crowds went berserk. It seemed like this is just what Rajesh Khanna desired. To top it all even the heavens started pouring torrential rains as though the entire nebulus was fighting copious outbursting tears in a dramatic elan. He wanted to see the frenzy over him one last time before breathing his last. It was just like those frenzied times when nubile girls wrote him letters pen-dipped in blood. I was shocked to see a local news channel here giving fair deal of coverage over the mass hysteria over this death.
.... As per Zeenat Aman, Rajesh behaved like an Ajanabee to her right from their first movie together to their last ....
Those of us who grew up in the 70s will vouch that Rajesh Khanna did not really abdicate superstardom. Some of my cousins were known to be his diehard fans even after his supposed fall of status. While I’m not sure if they wrote him letters dripping in blood, one of them did confess throwing a tumbler full of Bournvita onto the floor in anger when she heard that his days were numbered.
Much was written about those days of the Rajesh-Tina onscreen chemistry Lekin naam bade darshan chote Here's a sampling and this is as good as it gets, nowhere near the Rajesh-Mumtaz jugalbandi
My earliest memories of Rajesh Khanna was in Maryada where he is on the train with Mala Sinha & they’re talking forever without either’s mug being shown on screen for some reason. Always the knight in shining armor he saves her from a snake-bite I think. Ditto in Kati Patang where he catches Asha Parekh’s purse snatcher. Asha Parekh incidentally was the first to cite those gorkha eyes. Supposedly some male fans they met in Nanital did not really take a shine for Rajesh Khanna and made that remark in passing much to Kakaji’s embarassment. There is more to what meets the eye over Asha Parekh’s remarks. Rajesh Khanna once said a senior actress had designs on him and expressed her wishes to settle down with him as her career is just about over. According to Khanna, she did not take it kindly when he turned down her offer. It does not take an Einstein to put 2 and 2 together. Asha Parekh was one of the few actresses who spoke to TV channels after his death. Conspicuous by their absence were Mumtaz & Sharmila Tagore. Speaking of Sharmila, of course I saw Aradhana as a 5 yeard-old though for some reason it was shown in our neck of the woods in B&W.
Looks like he is mocking Thiru MGR illay? Khair, got away with it anyways
This was the phase when the phenom had just begun to work its venom. His Joru Ka Ghulam & Mere Jeevan Saathi were not too doing well then yet he was popular no doubt. Then there was Bawarchi which was more or less the return of Anand. While the movie was talked about – no doubt – I don’t believe it fared as well as Anand. Everyone was talking about how in Bawarchi he sprayed some soporific while the family was fast asleep and then just vanished into the blue. Not sure what Hrishida was thinking but who would empathise with a thief? His movies ran to packed houses regardless as we could get tickets for Rajesh Khanna starrers mostly for the night shows. So I would fall asleep just after the movie would begin. The only movie I remember watching in full then was I think Johny Mera Naam. Anyways enuf about me, so my cousins – male & female were all drooling over him. See, a movie called Honeymoon was just released and they were all talking about it. What they were talking sounded like Klingonese to me then. So I asked them what the buzz was about. One of them patiently explained that in the movie Rajesh Khanna goes moon exploration for some honey!
.... Prem Chopra's entry into Bobby was not by mere coincidence Dimple could no more hide her baby bump during the climax shoot. Randhir Kapoor to Khanna - "Ever heard of Nirodh?" ...
It must be after Prem Nagar that his supposed decline was on fast forward mode. Still we were able to get a load of most of his blockbusters on Doordarshan, be it Anand, Amar Prem, Kati Patang or Dushman. Heck, we got to watch his flop movies too like Maalik & Shehzaada. Sowee it would seem he did have friends in high places just as Bachchan. Many of his flops did have good stories – you know – like the kind Rajshri movies reveled in & hit gold most of the time. And Rajshri did not even bother studding their movies with stars. He was still in demand in the late 70s and was churning out at least one hit per year be it Chaila Babu, Thodisi Bewafai & Amardeep, Dhanwan or Fifty-Fifty. While it was sad to see how Khanna bravely announced just about every release of his as his comeback vehicle, he was actually chipping away merrily at the Bachchan juggernaut till at one point he was giving the big B a run for his money. I have already covered this earlier.
.... After Dimple saw the Rajesh-Tina dalliance with her own eyes (during this movie's shoot), she wrote a note on the dresser mirror saying "Its over Hon" and promptly left the shores of Mauritius ....
Dimple talks about Rajesh in his presence, words pregnant with meaning
Coming back to the book, it did promise to be a laugh riot of sorts with none other than Salim Khan writing the foreword. Yes folks, the same Salim Khan of Salim-Javed fame who were working overtime in dethroning the Khanna from his peacock throne perch and actively writing author-backed roles for Bachchan very much in keeping with the vendetta theme in most of their scripts. Salim Khan now out-rightly denies such claims, yes we believe you Salim, no worries.
.... Rajesh deliberately directed his wedding baraat procession route to passthrough right outside his ex Anju Mahindroo's home ....
An interesting common thread running among most accounts is that Rajesh Khanna was an introvert. I find that hard to believe as it is also said he would be surrounded by hangers-on and self-seekers on any given occasion. The author argues that it is this introverted nature that made him foster those breed of chamchas who would drive a wedge between his friends and his foes.
Building up the suspense in his maiden hit Ittefaq
There are tall claims in this book on how it promises to re-create that era where Rajesh Khanna was the most powerful being in the sub-continent next only to PM Indira Gandhi. Sorry to throw a spanner on that work but there are youtube clippings of a BBC documentary that shows their crew shadowing Rajesh Khanna while he was still Numero Uno. Whether it is his friendship to Devyani Chaubal, marriage to Dimple, his fan following, his tardiness – you can see it all there as though you were actually there.
.... that infamous BBC docu-drama showing Khanna's superstardom in its full-flow and glory dekho dekho biscope, ghar baite saara sansar dekho....
Not unpredictably the book waxes eloquence about those gorgeous Khanna women, leaving out the best parts of course. Rajesh Khanna had once confessed it was Tina that he was in love with the most among his beaus. Not sure why this part was omitted. Another part that was not verbose enough was his split with Anju. After she walked out of Aashirwaad she sent word thru his driver with the words “tell that cad not to darken my doors again”. It is believed that Khanna did not take this insult kindly and left no stone unturned in sabotaging Anju’s career. But she moved on and did make a mark in TV serials when they started getting popular. This was in the mid 80s. With time she forgave Khanna too. That plus she was engaged once to Sir Gary Sobers as she was going steady with the Khanna! Both were Kings in their own fiefdoms. So my vote goes for Anju Mahindroo.
When Khanna asked Salim-Javed to re-write Bhola Bhala for him, they refused.
Note that SJ gladly re-wrote Haathi Mere Saathi and created that Andaz role when the going was good ....
Being a Bhola Bhala avtaar I am, I am not going to trash the book all over the place. There are some facts in the book that’re mentioned about his childhood that were hitherto unknown to me. Did you know about his first crush? There are mentions of his life in the theatre but I would like to quickly point out most of it are mere mundane stuff that you or I went thru. That being said there was no light thrown on what actually drove him to a career in the movies – who were his favorite actors, directors, why acting & why not writing or painting and things of that nature.
Rajesh Khanna enacted a scene similar to this one for clinching the United Producers talent contest. He supposedly asked the judges (who were famous film makers) for changes to the original situation as it made no sense to him
In summation, a thumbs down for sure as there were no real opinions expressed from his immediate family, or co-stars – other than Salim Khan. One more thing, please – no more Bollywood bios that are mere cut-pastes from google. Google will ugal that you want it to ugal. You read on google that the Moon landings were faked, will you believe? Also don’t trash the statements of the protagonist himself I say. Are you really selling the book or are you playing God?
.... When Mehmood could not take Khanna's tantrums no more he socked him real hard saying "You're getting paid well to do my film and will bloody well do as I say" ....
Nandu will also hazard an opinion over his phenomenal rise. You see in the mid and late 60s the Brits got their Beatles, the Yanks got their Elvis so can the Desis be far behind? So they made up Khanna mannivanna, yay! Q.E.D. Now why they chose to make a vanna out of him and take him to the cleaners after, that I do not know. What I do know is he was well in demand – a busy star right till the mid 80s. Mind you all his movies were not jubiless even in his golden goose phase. Remember Bandhan, Dil-Daulat-duniya or Choti Bahu? Did he deserve credit for Maryada, Safar or Khamoshi and was it fair for Raaj Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Feroz Khan or Dharmendra to become the fall guys? Conversely, he did not really fade away despite his phenomenal downfall did he?
Such was his power at one point that Raj Kapoor had to seek his permission to "release" Dimple for shooting the remaining portions of Bobby
All in all, a good innings after of course a 400 for-no-loss like thundering start. What we can take away from the Rajesh Khanna story is to never give up hope. I mean just look at the number of of his movies he announced as his comeback vehicle: Red Rose, Dhanwan, Dard.. it wasn’t funny anymore and yet who had the last laugh in 1983?
Last but ain't the least: RD Burman talks about his dosti with Rajesh
International Features Jury: Shalini Dore ( Variety ), Alonso Duralde ( TheWrap ) and Vincent Spano (Actor). Shorts Jury: Ana Souza (Sundance Film Festival) and Scenery Samundra (Tru Thoughts, NTS Radio).
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