Awesome!" shrieked the young lady in front of me as she munched her popcorn. It was the final scene of the film, A Wednesday, and aam admi turned potential bomber, Naseeruddin Shah was at his histrionic best. If the state simply stands by when we are struck by terror attacks, what do you expect the common man to do? What choice do you leave us but to take up arms and eliminate the terrorist?
How easy it is to sit in an airconditioned multiplex, sip a Pepsi and dream of bombing terrorists. In this real world of RDX bombers and hi-tech terrorists who operate in terrifying anonymity, don't you think that we are siiting at outs like duds and warming ourselves. And yet, can the public be faulted for endorsing the philosophy of an "eye for an eye" ? The Indian state looks increasingly like an ageing clown when dealing with agile mass murderers who are massacring the aam aadmi regularly.
Take the aftermath of the Delhi serial blasts. A week on, the narrative of the blast investigation has become a caricature, a comedy, if it were not so tragic. Minutes before the blasts, news channels receive identical emails, mails in which every second sentence is embellished with the words, "Inshallah!", so that no one is left in any doubt that an Islamic organization is responsible for the attack. Soon after the blast, an unflappable, well-groomed home minister steps out and warns that the attacks are the handiwork of "evil", "anti-national" forces, just in case anyone suggests that decent human beings could take innocent lives. Yes people, this is what is happening in this very country where we reside and this movie, a Wednesday shows teh reality. so, do watch it.
Written by: Rashi Singh
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