The Indian Superhero - MIND IT!

There is Superman, there is Spiderman, there is Batman, there is Hulk and then there is RAJNI too!

He is definitely a wonder man in India. A country where emotions are as prevalent as snow in the Alps, he leads an army of his own, his followers.
In some places in India, he enjoys GOD status. Temples being built and the man being worshiped, well, that takes something too.

It did all start some 60 years ago when Shivaji Rao Gaikwad was born to Marathi parents in Bangalore(now Bengaluru) in the south Indian state of Karnataka. He was the youngest of four siblings and had two elder brothers and a sister. Having lost his mother at the early age of five years, he led an impoverished life and often did petty things for survival. In his early life, he often worked as a coolie and then finally started working as a bus conductor in the Bangalore Transport Service. It was where it all started when his colleague Raj Bahadur motivated him to join the Madras Film Institute and the rest is HISTORY.

He has acted in almost all major film industries n India including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali film industries. In addition he has appeared in a Hollywood movie too titled 'Bloodstone'.In total 150 movies and almost 35 years in the industry, he has written his own success story, from rags to riches. He is a motivational force for the young Indian lot who aspire for success in the film industry.
His last few movies have written their own success stories with critical acclaim and even in countries like Japan and Germany, where his movies dubbed in local languages have been released and gained critical acclaim.
He is being considered as a God by his die hard fans who have constructed temples in his honour in the state of Tamil Nadu.

So the next time you prepare yourself to forward a Rajni sms... MIND IT!!

FIFA world cup.. where are we..??

Someone has truly said that if cricket world cup is of the size of an elephant.. then its football counterpart is like a big blue whale!
Its not a biased comparison, if we look at the number of teams participating in the two events, or more importantly the nations playing it as a regular sport, we can easily come to the same conclusion.
If there are 10 major cricketing nations, along with a handful more who have a few amateur cricketers playing for them occasionally, there are more than 132 in football, atleast the ones who are ranked above India by FIFA!
If we dig into the history of the Indian football team, we find surprising results.
The official Indian football team was formed in 1948 and since then, it is affiliated to FIFA. India got a chance for a direct entry into the 1950 world cup finals, but as we say in India that even our lives are decided by the politicians, the then sports ministry decided to go against the opportunity quoting that there wasn't enough practice time along with selection process, inspite of the fact that FIFA had agreed to bear a major part of the Indian team's travelling expenses.
Just to cover up their inefficiency, the government came up with a unique blame game, blaming the then captain Shailan Manna and his team that they didn't participate in the world cup because they wanted to play barefoot, which was not accepted by FIFA!!
Shame on these politicians...!!
That was India's only chance till date to participate in the largest world event. Since then, India has never even been close to qualify for the finals of the football world cup.

A major reason for the game's plight in our country is unavailability of infrastructure for the game.In a country of a thousand million people, is it so difficult to find 11 men who can be coached to match the skills of the best football players in the world?
This question remains to be answered by the politicians and all the men behind football in India.
It is also a long standing belief in our country that football has not been able to prosper in our country due to the menacing growth of cricket. Well, to some extent is is true. To a youngster choosing sports as his career, cricket is always more elusive given the huge gains in the sports. A cricketer playing for India is paid handsomely, in range of a few lakhs per match he plays, along with a yearly contract, leave aside the wealthy endorsements they get adding to their celebrity status.
On the contrary, a football player gets a petty match fee of a few thousand rupees and a slim contract money. These players hardly get any endorsements and talking about celebrity status, most Indians won't be able to name all the players of the Indian football team!!
If we compare India's most successful football player, Bhaichung Bhutia (who has 102 caps and 42 goals to his credit) to the most successful football players in the world like Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney or Kaka, we would come to know of the status of football in India.
However some consolations for India are the recent wins in Nehru Cup and other Asian tournaments, however a Football world cup BERTH, still alludes the nation!

Aaj Ka Gunda'RAJ'

The word 'Hooligan' was out of my mind for a very long time, until very recently, when i figured out what Mr.Raj Shrikant Thackeray and his so called 'party workers' are.

Truly, he has inherited something from his great uncle very very well.

Perhaps he is trying to get his name into the Guinnes Book Of World Records for getting the maximum number of cases registered against his name.

Shiv Sena is a party long known for their long 'Hindu' favourng views. Recently, after breaking off from his uncle and creating his own party, Mr.Raj Thackeray thought of taking up another issue...

'ANTI NORTH INDIANS'. His party workers started harrasing Bihar and Uttar Pradesh people residing in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra.Most of the poor north indians who were harrased belonged to the lower classes of the society and were mainly cab drivers or petty businessmen and daily wage earners. People started getting harrased and beaten up for no reason at all and the 'Gundagardi' continued.

The most surprising part of all the drama has been that, the Maharshtra Govt., has behaved as a puppet in the hands of the MNS and Shiv Sena, though it is run by Congress, with NO support from the above mentioned parties!

To sum it up finally, the Maharashtra Govt. recently announced that all new cab drivers have to be Marathi to get their licences(they have to have a domicile and should know to speak marathi).

In the most funny way, the CM was seen changing his statement TWICE DAILY, sometimes with pressure from the centre and sometimes from the GUNDA'RAJ'.

They have proved it that Maharashtra, specially Mumbai is under a GUNDARAJ!