Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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There are some two lakh children on Mumbai's streets who go hungry every day. There are some twenty thousand children world-wide who die every day due to hunger and malnutrition. There are lakhs of children who serve on roadside food joints, but are not able to afford a square meal. These facts ignite the spark of compassion amongst sensitive hearts. At times, the feeling of compassion goes off-track and people tend to criticize religious practices. offerings in temples and to deities etc.. Not so long ago a movie titled OH MY GOD' (OMG) was released with a bizarre theme. The gullible viewers, having no background of the centuries old conspiracy to wipe out our religious sentiments from the face of this earth, got swayed by such movies. Under the garb of a seeming comedy, it intended to deal a serious blow to the belief system of the people. The film was adapted from "Kanji Virrudh Kanji”, a Gujarati play, which was organically inspired from 2001 Australian film - "The man who sued the God”. As the movie deals with a concept, let's go for a critical study of the concept and not the criticism of the artists who played their assigned roles in the movie. Let's attempt to critically evaluate the ideas mooted in the movie. In a bus taking people for a pilgrimage, one Kanjilal pours a drink (liquor) from a kamandal he is carrying. He passes on the same to others in the bus. Most of the men enjoy it. Only the man hosting the pilgrimage gets upset. Kanji says- "Sharab ko prasad ki tarah bant (distribute) rahe hai". When a women takes it and asks: "What is it?" Kanjilal replies - "GANGAJAL hai" This can be considered as a stupid mockery of the faith and respect for sentiments connected with Ganga river. Fortunately, this is a country whose Prime Minister performed Ganga Aarti and is aggressively moving towards 'cleaning ganga' saying 'the sacred should
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