Serious and honest soul searching is required

We lost again with a considerable margin in Boxing Day test against Australia. Getting defeated is not bad but habit of getting defeated is dangerous and I am sad to see that Team India is going in that mode. I still believe the biggest problem with the Indian team is larger than sport image of few Indian players. We (the fan) and Indian media unnecessarily make them hero with a modest performance. For example, in first inning Sachin scored 62 and that was enough for all the media (print and electronics) and fans to praise him heavily and start day dreaming about his performance in 2nd inning of the test to win the match. At the same time, poor chap Phil Jaques scored 2 fifties in two innings and has marvelous career records (till now) but no one knows him. Dada scores a 40+ and everywhere we start talking what a comeback dada? At the same time look at this guy ... Hussey. He almost averages 80 (Sachin and Dravid struggling to reach average of 60 and Dada is below 50 in test average) in test cricket but he doesn’t think he is bigger than game and go to field to just perform to the best. Talks less but perform well. That’s the story of all Australian players. But almost all STAR Indian players have attitude problem. Last Indian coach Greg Chappell has indeed raised this issue but no one gave a serious thought towards this. People started lambasting him and he was shown the door by BCCI. But its fact that the attitude of (STAR) cricketer has been always a problem and because of that team could never performs as a team. Even in today newspaper Indian cricket manager (Lalchand Rajput) accepted that Yuvraj Singh is having an attitude problem. Fortunately Anil Kumble is still not in the same league. Indian captain deserve lot more praise and media attention that some of the other Indian player (if compared) and he doesn’t have attitude problem. Whenever he is in filed, he tries to perform to his best. One more problem with the team is to avoid doing serious soul searching and always be in day dreaming mode. On the eve of 3rd day of Boxing Day test, Harbhajan singh told the media that getting 500 runs (in 4th inning of the test) might not be impossible and difficult for such a great batting lineup of India with so many big names. Poor sardar is also a pampered Indian cricketer who doesn’t know how deep we are in water.

unstable Pakistan

Last week Pakistan again faced a bomb blast and assassination attempt in which Benazir Bhutto died. Bomb blasts and assassination attempts have been now almost daily story in Pakistan and it clearly shows that how the law and order situation has deteriorated in Pakistan. With every terror attacks, hundreds of innocent civilians are dying and looks like Pakistan leadership is not even bothered or not enough strong to curb the terror attacks and networks. Looks like Pakistan is on same path as Afghanistan and Beirut had been earlier. It may lead for civil war. Pakistan's leadership and people have directly or indirectly encouraged the terror elements in last few decades and the side effects are now clearly visible. A highly unstable Pakistan is dangerous for neighboring nations specially India. India doesn’t enforce a VISA policy with Nepal and that’s the route most terror element can enter India without any problem. Anyway last week Rawalpindi attack has given good masala to our news channels and they are trying to repeatedly do unnecessary analysis of every angle related with this attack under different "BREAKING NEWS" headings. Yesterday I saw few channels had called some astrologer and numerologists and were trying to establish an astrology/numerology angle with Benazir Bhutto's assassination and also with future of Pakistan.

well done Aamir

Yesterday I watched "Tare Jameen Par". After watching this movie, I started feeling more and more bad that why did I go to watch a movie like "Om Shanti Om" in same multiplex about a month ago. Anyway coming back to movie, I read lots of movie reviews but I would just like to make a comment that this was a simplest story told in great way so that it kept me interested throughout the movie. This was (I guess) directorial debut for Aamir Khan and he truly has shown that why he always has difference of opinions with his movie directors. Movie direction is not just creating few scenes (in different flavors like music, romance, emotion) and present that to audience but its more than that where the director should first feel that he is not making this movie to fool the audience and then he should tell a story to the audience in his/her own way. "Tare Jameen Par" is a meaningful film which should be watched by every one of us to encourage such kind of movies. The child artiste (Darsheel) has been too good and I felt in some places he is better than Aamir in acting. I heard this movie got good opening and may become a super hit in near future. This will be good for Indian cinema. Aamir's star value also helped this movie to pull the crowd otherwise there has been some honest approach in meaningful cinema by less known names and the movie succumbed and some useless movies (with big star value) became huge hit.