Traffic Signal

Very painful movie. Madhur Bandarkar knows exactly how to scratch an existing wound and make it bleed and infectious all over again!

Life of Street beggars, of cheap prostitutes, of educated but unemployed Indian men, of men who are interested in continuing their clan….!

During my childhood and even adolescence, I used to hear that the birth of a human being in the form of a female is basically a curse from the higher worlds ! and I used to argue a lot on this point (argumentative Libran after all) saying things like ‘women create' and blah blah – things like we bring forth children and maximum effort in child birth is ours and we have so many jewelry to wear and variety of clothes etc. But on watching this movie I realized that I was wrong after all – for majority of women – it's a curse being born as a woman !!

How humiliating was Konkana's life! She had to satisfy ugly and fat clients everyday even during her chums !! Gosh ! what a pathetic life – and there was an educated young fellow who secretly loved Konkona but could not marry her because of unemployment and later died of drugs !

Then there were flower sellers – who fought for a measly Rs.10/- !….they all will eventually become prostitutes and keep continuing the clan of street beggars !! Sometimes I wonder how our IAS officers and other Indian male and female Administrators are so irresponsible !! No one till date could come up with a viable solution to eradicate such dire poverty !!All that they seem to know is who is the MLA of a certain zone and how India will fair in Sports….which movie got selected for Cannes….which is the longest platform…..which Politician is in possession of illegal land…what is the under world Don's bank balance ….I don't think they know anything more than this !

After watching such movies girls should think twice before jumping in this ‘shit pit' called prostitution. The clients are all the same – fat, ugly and frustrated – even if good looking, slim and tall – they will eventually use and throw you!! The Bollywood makes it very clear – exactly what one has to do in order to become an actress – Page 3 movie showed it all – in which Tara had to sleep with the old haggard Bengali Director all her life – she started sleeping with a good looking young hero – but he was married and clever as well – did not want to tarnish his goody goody image ! – in spite of knowing and seeing so much – I am amazed to see how girls are dying to become models and walk on the ramp in a ‘chaadi and a baniyaan' (bikini) !!I really pity such girls whose parents push them into this ‘shit pit' for money !!

I would like to take this opportunity to reintroduce the concept of reincarnation and Karmic debts here – you see the people in power and with money are doing nothing for the poor and the down trodden and enjoying life - boozing and drinking in the beer bars - watching semi nude Dance Balas ……so in the next life the ones boozing and ‘sleeping around' with style ,money and power will be born in the slums and the slum dwellers will be born in the palace – and will they do anything to redeem the poor and the down trodden? NO! they will take revenge of course – did they – in their previous life help them out of the shit-pit? No na – so why should they help them out !? so this is revenge – the vindictive Human nature !!