Rang me Not

This post was first published on 20th September 2006 at 12:21 PM on my previous blog

So yesterday I was just doing a thing I'm doing nowadays and a friend happened to stop by my newly captured work desk in office ! I was writing this thing and I decided to show it to her... It was about being young etc etc and it had a line which went like 'We are the Indian Youth'. Alright... so my friend goes through the first para and all ok.. then in the second one she happens to read the above written line and then in a flash she says,"Thats so Rang de Basanti" !

WHAT ?!?!?! HELLO !! EXCUSE ME !!

Now it doesn't seem like a big deal but that one line made me feel real mad inside. What ever I was writing, I really believed in it. I've had the same opinion since a long time. Definately before Rang De Basanti ! I didn't say anything then, as i havn't on previous occasions when she has said the same thing in similar situations. I'm not a person who gets easily swayed by movies ! My idiology is distinct and has devoloped over a period of time. So if I'm being patriotic... please don't insult me and my intelligence by comparing my words to some hype created by a movie. Its like stereotyping me. DAMN I HATE THAT ! I agree RDB has made being patriotic really cool and stuff and its a SUPER movie that defines our generation. But in the end, there is more to me than a movie ! If i'm being patriotic, does it haveta be that I'm being so because of that movie ? Because then i'll be 'cool' too ? I think NOT ! Just because something has made a topic really cool in popular culture, I don't think its right to judge everything related to that topic that comes in later as being inspired or influenced by that first thing.

But i'm not mad at her. Shez a nice girl and very balanced in the head. Wish she'd just stop saying that. Now i should probably have said this all to her but... let it be... its not that big a deal and maybe i can protest the next time. Yea... maybe I will !