FEATURE FILMS

Feature films are those, which last on screen or other medium of visual and audio display, from 30 minutes to three hours or more depending on the length of the content. The general characteristics of a feature film are story, dialogues, characters, shooting, artistes, technicians, producer, director, music director and so on from the perspective of a layman like me. Most of us see feature films on walls, screens, televisions and other media but very few of us know about how a film is made and released. I write about some notions and ideas I have about feature films, which I developed during the last 20 years as a passionate film viewer. My interest in feature films is so strong that I like watching a feature film almost every day if my life can afford such pleasure and comfort level. Feature films have become an inseparable part of our lives during the last 70 years or so.

The positive aspects of a film, according to my basic understanding about them:

1. I think feature film is the best offer we can get for what we are paying. They are showing more than what we deserve for what we are paying, in a limited period of time. We are buying cigarettes, liquor and so many other dangerous items to consume and spoil our health knowingly. A feature film is always better than all these items we see in our regular life. They are making us very happy from one hour to three hours showing extraordinary things on screen. They are not spoiling our health but inspiring us to live ideally and bravely. So, I think intelligent, creative and ideal people should not hesitate to watch and talk about feature films. It is the best creation of man on earth compared to any art form.

2. All viewers may not be intelligent, ideal and sensitive people but those involved in film making mostly take viewers as great ones and so struggle and suffer a lot to give the best to their regular clients. I think these are the only people in this world, who always struggle to entertain and educate others differently. This passion and mission is for novelty, creativity, innovation and inspiration. Their march is towards excellence always. They live in dreams. They desire to showcase their beautiful dreams to others like innocent children do in a park. They are dreamers of this world. They are the creative and imaginative challengers of this world. Their target audience is all healthy human beings living in their age.

3. They are so dedicated to their profession that they do not have time even to shave or sleep in much part of their career as film related creatures. They know that very few call or write to them to appreciate them. They know many talk badly about them. They know that nobody dies in this world even if they don’t make films. They are living in such sensitive and dangerous arena of human thought and culture but making wonders even in those adverse conditions around them. It means they always think about what they are giving to others, not minding what they are getting back from their efforts. There is no surety that every feature film would be a success at cinemas. Many filmmakers know about this bitter truth but they are still continuing in this path of hardships, fears and challenges. Their business is entertaining others. Many times, viewers disappoint them not seeing films just out of their stupidity, innocence or eccentricity. Producers suffer silently but never shoot any set of viewers for their sin. It means they are more patient and ideal than all of us. They invest a lot believing in the goodness and tastes of thousands of idiots, rogues and lunatics and end up as paupers in many cases. What a pity in this world as far as feature films are concerned. They are interested to entertain me differently. I am neglecting them for no particular reason. They are able to live depending on such nasty rogues also!

4. Actors and actresses struggle and suffer a lot in the making of a film. Though director is the captain of the ship of a film, coordinating different aspects of filmmaking, even different role players should have all those natural or trained talents to act as per the instructions of the creative and challenging directors. Acting is not as easy as we think. It is smiling when we are suffering inside. It is crying when we are laughing inside actually. It is hiding intuitions and passions and exhibiting exactly what the director wants and viewers expect from them. It is like toiling for a year or so in the sun and rain for the claps and appreciation of a few folks from millions of careless and insensitive viewers at large. Many boys may not get beautiful girls to marry. Many girls do not get handsome guys to spend time with. There are many demerits and drawbacks in our personal and professional lives. Actors and actresses are satisfying those basic instincts in us indirectly. Our neighbor does not allow us to see his beautiful wife or daughter because she is his exclusive property. All of us strongly desire to see beauties and talk with them but we don’t get those chances in our lives. Actors and actresses are showing their beauty and good looks for all of us. To that extent, are we not satisfying our hidden desires to a great degree? For example: Some of the actresses I like for their impressive beauty are: Manisha Koirala, Hema Malini, Meenakshi Seshadri, Meera Jasmin, Anushka Shetty and so on. I don’t like many watching crazily at my wife in public places but I am watching the beauty of all these actresses on screens like a passionate admirer of beauty. Are they not ideal than me or my wife. Most of us think that some beauties exclusively belong to us only and we cannot bear if others look at them. Actors and actresses desire to entertain and educate their viewers exhibiting their bodies and acting talents also to the most possible extent. They are more idealists than all of us from this perspective. They are living and acting to entertain all of us but we are living for our limited circle of dependents, relatives and friends only. They are my masters always to learn something or the other from them. I salute all those dreamers, visionaries and thinkers.

5. Most of us develop some wrong notions about a few directors, actors and actresses. Example A: R Narayana Murthy always directs such films in Telugu, which portray the lifestyles and issues of common people. Some of my friends and relatives do not like watching his films when there is another film in the cinema nearby. It means R Narayana Murthy is not a wrong person struggling to discuss the issues of the poor and the downtrodden but those, who are not interested to see and understand their problems on screen also. They are the criminals and sinners of this world to that extent. They don’t want to know about the filth and pain around them, which is being created and sustained because of them only in this world. Example B:  Some consider some actresses and actors as bad ones because they portray bad roles in many films. Female and male villains, prostitute role players, body show dancers are just a few roles of this order. They are playing those roles because we are interested to watch them so but not because they have such qualities in their real lives. It implies that we, the viewers, are real criminals and sinners because we like a heroine being raped passionately by a villain than a male teacher and male student talking about ideals in a classroom scene. It means they are making films minding our interests and fancies but not focusing their attention on UFOs. They write stories and dialogues gaining insights from the lives and professions of contemporary people but not machines and forests. It means they are studying societies and cultures more than all of us. As such, they are great scholars and critics.

6. Most of us criticize almost every feature film, pointing out some error in it. I heard many saying that first half is good or second half is bad. How many of our lives and professions are perfectly interesting and inspiring from date of birth to date of death? Highly touching and inspiring moments can be a few only even in the lives of extraordinary artists, thinkers, scientists, celebrities, social reformers, dreamers and challengers. It means none of us is a wonder. Even God is unable to make each minute in our life splendid and remarkable. Then, how can a man, a small creature created by God, for some purposes, always make classic films or 100% absorbing scenes in every film? Ninety-five percent of the viewers, who criticize films, filmmakers, artistes and technicians, for some or other reason, regularly, publicly or privately, are, in fact, indecent, insensitive, eccentric and mentally sick idiots of our times. I cannot write a dialogue, a lyric, compose music, direct a song, shoot part of a scene, act a small role also in a film…these are all my weaknesses and demerits as a human being. Those, who are entertaining me acting in a feature film, are always greater and superior to me from this perspective. It means I should admire and appreciate them for what they are in comparison to me. This is what I do and feel when watching any film on a television or in a cinema. I imagine myself as an innocent school kid going to a park of stars and wonders, which I cannot do in my real life, and so I passionately watch almost every feature film, unless it is too boring to watch continuously. I am thinking and behaving like a sensible filmgoer because I have the qualities of self-awareness, self-assessment and self-criticism. Anybody can enjoy watching a feature film if he or she has these qualities. You should not criticize others unless you are greater than them in many respects. How many of you are assessing your standards and values from this perspective before talking badly about a film, actor, actress, director, musician or producer? This is why this world is so; idiots and rogues talking nonsense about challengers publicly or privately. I think we do much of it aiming at film folks but not others. Can I ever dance like Prabhu Deva? Can I ever direct a feature film like Satyajit Ray, K Bala Chander or K Viswanath? Can I ever sing like S P Bala Subrahmanyam, Shreya Goshal, Chitra or Lata Mangeshkar?  Can I ever create music like Ilaya Raja or A R Rehman? It means I am nothing in comparison to them in this set of different talents possessed and exhibited by them over the years. They are all doing it to entertain me or you. They are serving us substantially every single day or night, directly or indirectly. Are they not real social servants? Everybody can see those extraordinary films. Everybody can listen to those classic songs anywhere? Are we spending thousands of rupees and years to buy or enjoy them? We are spending a little money only. In fact, we are not paying anything to them in most of the cases. How many melodious songs are we listening to from All India Radio channels and public and private television channels without paying anything to them? Are not these artists and dreamers the admirable assets and challengers of our age? They have no discrimination. A prostitute, a criminal, a scientist, a prisoner, a dirty politician…anybody can enjoy the bliss of listening to those songs and watching those films. Feature films are like moonlight, which is available to us on 365 days and nights, almost freely. Whether to benefit from that vast and inspiring moonlight or not is left to your discretion. I am deriving the best possible benefits from feature films! I am able to remain as the best consumer only in terms of watching and enjoying feature films.

7. The culture of a nation can be assessed based on how most of its citizens are getting some useful or pleasant thing from others? Are they grabbing it secretly or using it properly as per the established system of laws and morals? Piracy means stealing the property of others illegally and immorally. This is what millions of Indians are doing now across places. It is like raping every beautiful girl visible to us, be it in our family circles, neighborhood or anywhere. It is never wrong if you spend 1000 rupees and have that joy with a professional prostitute. It must be her chosen profession, but not imposed one on her due to her poverty or other adverse conditions around her. You can do the same with any creature provided he or she does have similar feelings and notions like you for that short period of time. What about considering every beauty as your desired object and so grabbing it! Do you remain silent and neutral if your sister, cousin or mother is in that situation due to the thoughts and activities of a rogue in your part of living? If you don’t like it, you should not like to watch a pirated film also. At personal level, I never like to watch a piracy film, though I could not strictly follow this self-imposed guideline regarding film songs. They are available everywhere. They copy immensely at audio stores. I forgot what is legal or illegal in this world regarding getting and using music for my pleasure. No government is implementing stringent rules in this domain. I am able to see many films and listen to songs without paying anything for them at all. I have such environment in India. Do I buy moonlight when moon is giving it freely to me? The same is the case for music and feature films in India now in most of the cases. Very few are going to cinemas, audio and video stores to buy original music CDs and DVDs due to this clumsy environment in India. I scold if any idiot brings a pirated copy of film and tries to play it on my computer screen. I consider it as a crime and sin. I can buy DVDs. They cost very little. If I cannot buy them, I can watch them on television and listen to them on radio. If I cannot buy a television or radio, I must go to the house of a fellow familiar to me and do it there. If I cannot do it also, I should go to a forest and meditate God for making my life that much ideal and solitary but I should not see pirated copies anywhere. I made it a rule in my life to give a certificate of character to myself, which is superior to any other certificates issued by shallow idiots in this world. How many of you are living honestly and ideally to satisfy the commands of your conscience? God assesses your value based on those certificates but not your material achievements. If you want such certificate, you should not use any item illegally and immorally. We can grab anything when we are at the verge of death or disaster to save ourselves or others. We can commit a mistake or blunder if it saves our life or many of others in a context. In all other times of our life, we have no moral authority to grab anything from others and enjoy it.

8. Feature films are like divine dreams for me. I consider my dreams and feature films almost as one kind of items familiar to me. I derive bliss from both almost alike. Dream is a creation of God or my mind and a feature film is a creation of many challengers and idealists in this world. I owe to every artiste, technician, producer and cinema owner in my familiar world because he or she is showing me a piece of worth of 10-100 crore rupees for 50-300 rupees. Are they not stars of this world selling their highly valuable products that cheaply to everybody in every imaginable place? If I buy a DVD of a feature film, how many folks can watch it on my computer for any number of days and nights? It means I am deriving uncountable amount of benefits and happiness spending 30 or 50 rupees once. I am getting such joy and benefits from nature and God only, after feature films. This is the value I accord to feature films and those artistes and technicians in my life. Even my parents, siblings, well-wishers have no such concern for me. They are living for themselves most of their lifetimes but these artistes are always struggling and suffering to entertain and educate me. They are admirable challengers of extraordinary thoughts and their presentation. This is why I consider ‘feature film’ the greatest invention of the modern times. It is making millions of lives happy and dreamy. When you are in difficulties, watch a feature film, which shows life as a dream of beauty and excellence. When you are very happy, you must watch a set of tragedies. Feature films educate you immensely if you are ready to change yourself. They can never change you if you think that they are creations of ordinary people and there is nothing to learn from them. You call God also dog if you are essentially a wrong person. You can see God in a dog also if you are fundamentally a sage in thoughts and actions. So, what you get from feature films depends on what you are basically and what you want to become in course of time. Personally, I like watching every kind of film because they made it for me, an innocent and helpless human being, who continuously struggles to benefit from what is created by others after a lot of hard work and suffering. In short, they are making films to satisfy highly selfish and unreliable blokes like me. I watch a film for my pleasure but not to make a producer rich. I may make him rich spending a little money at my end and so a producer is always a loser in this game. I am cheating him or her every time I watch a feature film anywhere because I am buying a product of 1000 rupees for one rupee always. I am an intelligent but narrow-minded businessman in this arena always and nobody is giving me such chance in any other field. I am buying very useless and harmful products from many idiots regularly at high prices, clearly knowing that he or she is publicly cheating me. Are not filmmakers, artistes and technicians idealists from this perspective, who never cheat anybody? I love all of them though I cannot write about them because of various mind and time related constraints. So, the greatest favor I can do for the creators of these feature films is simply to watch as many of them as possible. My mother may prepare a curry extraordinarily or very ordinarily for me based on her skills but the fact is she made it out of pure love for me. I should eat it unless it is very bad, which cannot be put on my tongue at all. Her love for me is greater than the taste of the curry. Her love is immeasurable and invaluable. The taste of curry is very ordinary and negligible idea. Similarly, every feature film may not be extraordinary. Still, I must be watching every film because the creators of feature films are like my mother. My mother prepares 10 kinds of curries and 10 kinds of soups only always for me. But, these mothers are making hundreds of varieties of curries and soups for me regularly. Their love and contribution to my life is just like that of my mother for me in my lifetime or even more than that when considered critically. So, a feature film is like food served to my senses. If I don’t consume it, it’s like insulting the love and care of my mother. Feature films are sources of bliss and inspiration for me. I can never think and make such classic films. So, I had better watch them regularly.

There are some disadvantages and negative comments about feature films. I discuss some of them.

I heard a lot about the immorality prevalent in film industry. Generally, most of us, based on the portrayal of characters powerfully and ideally in films, consider actors and actresses as extraordinary human beings. They play roles of deities, challengers and social reformers. Many viewers admire film personalities. There are many fan clubs across India. However, the widely available negative talk about film industry is:

A. Females get exploited physically and mentally in course of their struggle to establish themselves as actresses and in retaining those positions thereafter because of many immoral producers, directors, music directors, character artistes, financiers, distributors and so many other participants related to film industry. I heard many saying that a film actress has to become a prostitute in her journey as an actress, at some or all levels. Some artistes, exploiting another artiste, this way, is sinful and inhuman.

B. Mostly we observe that the son, daughter or a relative of the present actor or actress only becomes another actor or actress. It means there is no much recognition and appreciation for fresh talent in film industry. They promote their or their chosen creatures artificially. If we see somebody many times on screen, we manage to love him or her in course of time. This is how many are becoming stars now. It’s really pity because filmmakers, who talk a lot about standards and values in films, through dialogues and character presentation, are really failing to practice those morals in their lives.

C.  Ghost writers are there in film industry. I write story, lyrics and compose music also but my name does not appear on screen. They pay me some money and write their names as producers of their creative pieces. This is why many doubt whether one really wrote a song or not. Originally talented ones don’t get due credit because of this ugly trend in film industry. It’s a mess made by them.

D. I often hear about creative folks roaming about film production areas with bundles of stories and creative talent, looking for somebody to recognize and appreciate their talent. Why are they remaining on roads always? Because in film industry, it is not talent and hard work that are recognized often, but your dirty politics of meeting somebody for something and doing nasty things to get into a filmmaking process somehow. Born artists have to depend on trained artistes to promote themselves. It means, once a fellow becomes famous in film industry, he starts looking down upon other folks with similar talents. Some are paid in lakhs for a story and some are not paid at all. There are many stories about the filth in film industry about such immorality and illegality. They think nobody knows about it! 

E. Many idiots are also making feature films now thinking about the salability of their product somehow but not about the real worth of their films and what they are genuinely giving to the viewers. If shallow rogues make films, it directly or indirectly brings a bad image to the entire film industry.

F. Recently I noted that high budget films are being released in a number of cinemas but low budget ones are remaining in labs or dustbins forever. Some financially and politically strong producers, directors and distributors have made the release of films into a big issue, controlling the ownership or long lease status of many cinemas in this nation. It’s a kind of cruel monopoly wherein small budget and innocent film producers fail to bring their films into limelight. Talent suppressed is injustice to the core.

G. Most of the film actors and actresses are not accessible to viewers at their homes, shooting spots or other public places. They try to remain as inaccessible gods and goddesses to ordinary folks. Once I went to the house of Akkineni Nagarjuna in Hyderabad to see him but his security guard considered me like a stray dog and drove me away. He created a wrong impression in me about the entire range of film artistes with this gesture of insensitive rejection. I understood that film actors and actresses cannot be as accessible as me because they are not leading honest and brave lives like me. Some may believe that they are stars, extremely busy and so do not have time to meet folks like me. It is a wrong statement. I am also very busy in my life but I am creating time to see a film. It means I have passion for art. At the house of Nagarjuna, that day, I played the role of an art lover. Every artist must create time to meet and please art lovers. If they don’t do so, they are not really artists. They are professionals only. I consider such shallow professionals less worthy than dogs and donkeys. Dogs and donkeys look at me when I make a little sound aiming at them, angrily or happily. If professionals have no even such responsive nature, I had better admire dogs and donkeys instead of these shallow and nasty professionals.

H: Many noted actors and actresses are worse than dogs and bitches in their real lives. We somehow come to know about them. Once we develop aversion for them, we treat all actors and actresses alike. We propagate these ideas among all. Thereafter really talented ones fear to tread this path. This is why there are talent hunt events in film industry now. If you respect one that comes to your office or studio looking for a chance, you need not shout on roads for fresh talent. You should respect the available talent at your doorstep instead of knocking at other doors later, who do not like your presence at all.

Most of us know a lot about some actors, actresses, directors and producers only but not about hundreds of other artistes and technicians who toil a lot in making a film. It means, in film industry, everybody does not get due credit for what he or she does. Only some are getting the credit. It is the biggest drawback of the film industry. We all see the hero and heroine dancing but what about others dancing around them? We all see extraordinary dancers only but not those excellent choreographers. 

We feel spellbound and highly inspired listening to many dialogues and songs in some films but how many of us know much about those dialogue writers, musicians and lyric writers. Now they are getting focused due to shows on televisions and other platforms but many are still remaining behind the screen. Is it not absolute immorality, one or two getting great name, for the hard work and creative talent invested by those, who remain behind the stage? When do we see their faces and appreciate them? 

We love art pieces and artists but not their personal lives. If an actor became very famous in a period of 50 years, it means he neglected much of his personal life during all those years. They did not sleep with their wives adequate number of nights, they did not play with their sons and daughters, they did not personally supervise their growth as children…so many failures as fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. So, a great star is one, who tortured his real folks a lot in his lifetime without being accessible and reliable to them when they needed him or her badly. They earned 100 % fame, committing 50% crimes and sins! Perhaps this must be the background of every person that worked for others always!

I hear a lot about wrong people in film industry getting awards from the governments and many cultural organizations. I heard that many struggle a lot to get awards and recognition immorally and illegally. The fact is I love anybody based on what he or she delivered in his or her films rather than what award he or she got from an agency. I developed this opinion over time because I knew that awards are not being given to really talented artistes always. For example: Late Telugu film song writer Veturi Sundara Rama Murthy got a national award for a Telugu song starting with ‘Raali Poye Puvvaa Neeku Raagaalendhuke” in feature film Maathru Devobhava. In fact, he wrote hundreds of extraordinary songs for many other Telugu films as well in his long classic career in film industry. This Telugu song is almost nothing when compared to those masterpieces, which this master of songs created for years in Telugu film industry. So, this award for this song has very little value in my consideration. Similarly, Sirivennela Sita Rama Sastry wrote masterpieces for the Telugu films like Sirivennela and Swarna Kamalam. I presume he wrote all other songs to give bonus to Telugu film viewers after paying this main salary for their lifetimes. So, Sirivennela is competitor to himself because he could write classic songs for some films only but not for all. So, I can know the value of this challenging lyric writer listening to his songs, if I have a bit of taste and passion for Telugu film songs. In this context, I don’t place any importance on any award given to this extraordinary lyricist because I gave him a great certificate before other idiots recognized him. So, ultimately, an artist’s life can be considered successful, remarkable and blissful only when his target audience recognize and appreciate him in their hearts and public places voluntarily. Anantha Sriram, who looks like an innocent and ignorant college student, is writing highly touching and inspiring songs. I already gave him many certificates in my heart after listening to his songs. Why should he be bothered about dirty and nasty governments giving awards to him in this context? There are many such great lyric writers, singers, musicians, directors and producers in the film industry now. I love and admire all of them though I can’t put all their names on paper. It means I am unable to document everything hidden in my heart. What I write is a little of what I think and know but there are hundreds of other records in my brain. I keep in love with them always. This is what every viewer and listener feels about different artistes and technicians in film industry. So, for me, awards are like waste papers and donations given to artistes because it is a formality. I know about talent. I know how to recognize masters of art.   

At many cinemas, tickets are being sold in black at unbelievably high prices. I witnessed this heinous crime about 10 times in many cinemas when I went to see some interesting films. I avoided seeing some films just not to buy a ticket in black. Those, who are talking a lot about measures to arrest piracy and other malpractices by viewers, in general, must discuss black ticket issue also. If every viewer can see a feature film in any cinema paying the fixed price only, they generally develop good impression about films and cinemas and avoid becoming rogues at their level. Then, in almost every cinema, the owners of cinemas sell eatables and drinks at high prices to loot viewers. This is a crime about which no film producer is talking. Before talking about the dirtiness of the bottoms of viewers, producers and directors should wash their bottoms also thoroughly. Never think that your dirt does not smell widely!

I am upset and embarrassed observing the measures being taken by many film folks to promote their films. If an hotelier starts giving costly chocolates for some days to attract different folks to his hotel for having their meals, in course of time, they hate that hotel if he does not give those chocolates as bonus before the meal. If you give chicken only to your dog for some days out of your excess love for it initially, it looks for it thereafter also even after you become a pauper because you habituated it to that extent. The mistake is not dog’s, but yours. Similarly, every sensible idiot comes to see a film in a cinema even if you do not go to their house and sleep with them for a night before the release of your film. They are going to hotels because they need food. They go to cinemas if they really have passion for films. You need not push them to do so. You had better focus on making good films instead of on the matter of bringing brainless rogues to cinemas through your monkey acts in public places and otherwise. Then there won’t be difference between an actor and a monkey player. Both are on roads no to promote their worth and attract audience. I think excessive spending on the promotion of a film is like extraordinary spray of scent on your clothes instead of taking a simple bath. Concentrate on the basics of a film but not on the gimmicks of promoting it. If there is dust only in your film, and if many viewers came to cinema expecting a lot from it based on what you showed and did in your promotion process, slowly they realize that your films are also nonsense and so you are doing much fuss on roads. An intelligent and dedicated viewer may be fooled once or twice by your promotion tactics and once he stamps you and your films as dirt, you can never change his mind. Let him remain as a sensible man!

It is unfortunate that film stars are admired when acting in films and forgotten soon if they stop appearing on screen. Many artistes are dying pathetically after living happily and richly for a limited period of time. Viewers have concern for only those, who are appearing on screen now, attractively. It means their tastes and preferences for artists and art pieces are transitory and unreliable. Shortly, they are senseless rogues. Actors and actresses should not get into unbearable risks to satisfy them in the form of risky dances and fights and other fatal scenes. Viewers are like crazy monkeys. Their interests do not remain the same always. Don’t try to please them going extra mile. You suffer from three months to two years to make a film but many nasty viewers spread bad talk about your classic film within hours after release of it just like that. It means those, who are coming to see your film on the first or second day of its release itself, are the real villains to your film. They talk nonsense based on their volatile impressions about your film. They are not intellectuals, critics or highly admirable viewers of your circle but rogues to the core. Really talented artists do not consider your film worthless because they know the worth of art. If somebody is reacting over-enthusiastically soon after seeing your film somewhere, he or she is a nut. Do you want to treat yourself great or bad based on their comments, I mean those of your brainless fans? Every financially successful film may not be a classic piece but every classic piece gets a place in the history of film industry. Your concern must be to make a great film with elements to attract large base of audience but not a few rogues and nuts on those three or four days. You may act in 100 feature films but audience remember only some of them because they are only classic pieces. Decide what kind of actor or actress you want to be and thus your real contribution to film industry. Makeup lasts for days. Your original beauty lives for years. Depend on your real worth.

How do ordinary people talk about film actors and actresses in their private lives? How do they react when a film actress comes across them a day or night all alone? They talk a lot of nonsense about them thinking that they are immoral creatures to the core. This is a paradox. They admire them when they are inaccessible to them and consider them as low standard creatures when they appear to them without their effort. So, actors and actresses should realize that most of their admirers have very low standards and values as individuals. They need not worry much based on their applause or criticism because essentially they are rogues. If an ordinary film is becoming a massive hit and an extraordinary film is turning out to be an utter failure, this is all because of these low standards of most of the viewers. Doing your best is your role as far as a film is concerned. The reaction of viewers at cinemas may not be a reliable source for you to appreciate or criticize yourself for your earlier decision to act in that film. Nature does not produce intellectuals and dreamers profusely but decisively. It creates 10 challengers to decide and lead the lives of 10,000 people. Nowadays, only four or five of those few challengers only are coming out to lead people and the remaining are staying back being disgusted and disappointed with the contemporary culture and trends. In these bleak times of evolution of human beings from narrow to narrower, really talented and cultured film artistes may not be recognized and admired by all, instantly or even later. You know about your talent. A few worthy folks of your circle also know about you. They readily help and appreciate you. Be satisfied with it. Do not crave applause from millions of rogues. Be content with a few words of praise from one or two challengers of your industry. Even they may not appreciate you for lack of time. You are the best judge of your talent. Give a certificate to yourself.

There is still a lot to write about films and those related with film industry because I have such experiences and knowledge about this arena based on my passion for it. I would answer if there are any questions and doubts based on what I wrote above. Every layman has something to say. This is it.

My love for feature films continues as long as there are artists and art in this world.

I did not mention the names of many film artistes whom I love deeply for what they did in this field so far. It is a long list and so avoided it. The fact is we can represent only a fraction of our heart and mind in a visible form and the rest remains in us as a storehouse of memories.  

UNDERWEAR

Underwear is any stitched or ordinary piece of cloth worn below the main items of suits and dresses by boys, girls, men and women for internal comfort and hygiene. I would discuss the idea of underwear worn below the waist by males and females only as I think it is worth my thoughts and insights on this subject matter.

I don’t know when man or woman started wearing underwear. Perhaps they might have started it when they realized that their genitals were very important organs of their bodies and also that they look highly bewitching to the creatures of opposite gender if covered by any item and exposed as and when required only. Basic human instinct is that we crave that which remains inaccessible and invisible to us for long or forever. So, anything hidden is worthwhile for us and those things left easily accessible and affordable for all are negligible entities.

God installed genitals in all creatures for two purposes exclusively; for discharge of fluid waste material frequently from body and reproduction. In course of time, as man started wearing protective covers on his body for various reasons, he started hiding his genitals as well. Humans, in modern times, may expose any part of their body under pressing conditions but mostly not their genitals. As such, these organs of human body assumed great recognition during the last 100 years. The only exception is naturists. They live nakedly in their chosen places in some parts of this world. Remember, they don’t allow those with clothes to see them in those centers also. It implies that they allow their genitals to be seen by those only, who share their notions and behave like them in their locations.

Genitals have assumed so much importance in the modern world also that many draw the figures of these organs in public toilets, expressing their innermost obsession and passion for those organs of the opposite gender. As far as I can imagine, no girl or lady ever draws these pictures in any place. It’s perhaps they have self-control to that extent or may be Indian culture is suppressing their attitudes to that extent indirectly even today. I saw the drawings of genitals of humans in many public toilets in cinemas, trains and mediocre hotels.

Since sex is the basic instinct of humankind, like animals and birds, and because genitals are the main organs of this process of recreation and reproduction, over the decades, man started considering them as highly attractive and arresting organs of the human body. Millions of people are daily watching pornographic content on the Internet just because they want to see the genitals and sex related activities of others secretly.

Underwear is a decorative and protective cloth item of such genitals, the most attractive elements for materialists in this world. Many sages do not wear underwear at all in India. You can witness some of them in pilgrimage points like Varanasi now and then. They have no passion for this material world and shadowy happenings in it.

Most of us wear underwear of different sizes, qualities and colours depending on our exclusive choice or arbitrarily. How many of us wear white underwear? Or, are there many items of white underwear at all in any cloth store? White is considered as a royal and dignified colour even by our nasty politicians in India. They wear white clothes but their minds are filled with dark thoughts and their behavior is completely black. Even they don’t wear white underwear under those white clothes. Why? Perhaps their real colour of character is not white!

Most of us are hypocrites. We always try to attract others somehow by looking attractive externally. We often neglect the beauty of those worn below our main clothes. White items of cloth receive and retain stains of every kind and get defaced soon. If that is the reason for our not wearing white underwear, it shows our real sense of hygiene and style. In fact, the challenger is one, who wears white underwear only always. He wants to be perfectly tidy and hygienic every day. He wants to certify himself to that extent. We should appreciate such stars among us.

We use underwear of different colours. Blue, black, pink and some other colours enhance the colour of our body around the waist and so we can feel elated to that extent. Some take bath with underwear in a completely closed bathroom and some do it removing it from their bodies. However, it is good to bath keeping all of our body completely visible to us in a completely closed place of private bath. We must thoroughly wash every part of our body and having underwear on our body may not facilitate it. In India, many boys and men bath publicly keeping a loincloth, underwear or towel on their bodies. We can see these scenes every day while travelling in a bus, train or other vehicle in a village, town or city. If one is bathing publicly like this, it means he is ordinary Indian. An ordinary Indian is one, who does not consider himself or herself as an extraordinary creature in his or her family, community, society, religion, region or country. They try to be simple and humble as far as possible. Can we imagine a girl or woman bathing publicly like a boy or man does? It means our culture made us think that the genitals of females are more valuable and admirable than those of males. Also, because they are perceived as a vulnerable race, when compared to males, they are not allowed to behave as freely as men in many contexts. Bathing is just one context. Imagine the situation in India when all girls and women also start bathing publicly like those boys and men. Boys and men indulge in more assaults on girls and women because for them the most important assets of this world are the genitals of females, whoever and wherever she may be.

How many males don’t like watching a naked beauty, in a painting or really? Almost everybody craves it. Many ordinary Indians go to a cinema to see an English film or a regional film with adult content exclusively to take a glance of naked bodies of females. Somehow, man developed inevitable passion and obsession for the naked body of opposite gender. There are no barriers of language, religion, region and colour about it. However, white bodies are more desired by majority men than the black ones. Fair and very fair colours impress us within seconds!

How many Indians accord more importance to their underwear than their outer clothes? Almost very few. Most of us buy many pairs of clothes but not 10 or 20 underwear. It means we are all absolute hypocrites. We are wearing beautiful and neat clothes to impress others but not because we are feeling its need strongly forever. If we give more importance to our internal look also, which is visible to us only, after removing our outer clothes, we would have selected and worn our underwear also with the same kind of curiosity and care. We hide physical and psychological filth within us and struggle to appear attractively externally. We are acting some beautiful roles for the sake of organized, cultured and regulatory societies around us but not because we are feeling it strongly. We are all actually beasts in the form of human beings. Since we are acting as sensitive and sensible human beings to impress others always, others are unable to see the beast hidden in us. Beasts don’t wear underwear!

There are models posing for the promotion of underwear also in our highly civilized and commercialized nations. If they don’t hint you to wear underwear, you may not remember it! I think underwear models are the most pitiable creatures in this world. They want money. They act for anything to get it. How can we blame them?

I often wonder observing the divide established and being continued between the clothes of men and women. The clothes of men are mostly hard and those of females are soft. There are more varieties of clothes for females than males in this world. Even girls and women are passionate about their appearance in different clothes. It means we are always trying to showcase girls and women as pieces of beauty, sensitivity and weakness. Their handkerchiefs are small and soft and ours are opposite to it. The same is the case with underwear also. There is a reasonable logic in the softness of underwear of females in comparison to those of males. Man’s reproductive organ changes its shape depending on the instructions sent from the brain but there is no such chance for that of females. A hard cloth cover is required to face the stiffness of the male organ frequently. Man is a hard beast in this sense also!

Underwear is like an identity card in some contexts and social environments. We can identify whether a hostel is of boys or girls or men or women based on the underwear hung somewhere there around. Boys and men are never freely allowed into the hostels of females. Which boy or man in this world ever refused any girl or woman from freely entering any boys or men’s hostel? How generous and open-minded are men from this perspective in this case. Somehow boys and men are always being projected as ruthless hunters and cruel beasts in every society. There are millions of good boys and gentlemen in this world also but which girl or woman ever thought or worried about their existence or suffering! They don’t know how to attract girls and women skillfully.

Many boys and men feel somewhat affected when they see female underwear. They think of the excellence and luck of those items because they are protecting those human parts, which are highly desired by millions of boys and men in this world. If possible, every healthy and sensible man desires to have sex with one lakh different girls and women in this world in his lifetime. Sex is such highly powerful basic instinct in all human beings. It is not the case with food, water, money, buildings, cars, clothes and other material attractions in this world. They limit their desires at some stage in their march towards them but they don’t do it in the case of desire for pleasure with the creatures of opposite gender. The biggest weakness in every man or woman is unlimited desire for sex. Underwear of females are protecting such invaluable assets of this world. So, boys and men like them a lot.

We discuss many things freely in our circle of folks except underwear. Do we take anybody with us to select underwear for us? Somehow we take them as untouchable matters of discussion in public places though they are protecting the most attractive organs on human body! Many do not focus on their colours also much. They consider size only. They are not visible publicly and so nothing to bother about their actual colour and beauty. How mean and narrow-minded is man basically. He is living most of his life for impressing others only but not for himself! If there is one with 20 or more underwear, all of them being white, we must appreciate such boy, girl, man or woman more than anything else in this world because he or she is the real person of individuality and taste. If we are keeping ourselves tidy and attractive for our satisfaction and certification always, we are the real jewels of this nation. Unfortunately most of us do not belong to this special class of people. Most of us buy clothes being provoked or impressed by a contemporary trend or casual advice of a fellow familiar or close to us.

Boys and men should wear underwear under their main clothes as far as possible. If you don’t wear an underwear below your jeans or other pant with a zip, you are likely to harm yourself while pulling the zip downwards or upwards after the natural call or otherwise. The zip partly affects your organ. Unfortunately it is such matter of concern, which you cannot share with your friends or a doctor as freely as you can do in case of fever or cough! So, to give a considerable shape and protection to your organ and bottom, habituate yourself to regularly wear underwear. Generally men develop fat in their abdomen whereas women do it in their thighs. So, if your waist size is increasing, the size of your underwear should also increase. It is a warning to you. Therefore, you can use your underwear as a personal fitness trainer or family doctor in this sense! Beware of underwear, not just dogs!

Unfortunately the soft skin around the waist gets affected because of wearing underwear regularly. It is the case of boys and men. I don’t know about the race of girls and women. It is inevitable burden on us. We apply various creams, lotions and powders on our face because it is the actor of our body intended to fool others daily but can we apply anything of this sort on our waist or below there to keep it as attractive and impressive as our face? As long as underwear is there as our personal security guard, we may not be able to do much of this work. Is our waist and the parts below there are as fair and beautiful as our face. If not, you are not really appreciable person of meticulous care and hygiene. There is only one occasion when we can keep all of our body completely naked for personal reasons for a long time; that is our bedroom, when we are sleeping. Keeping our body completely open from six to eight hours every night is really good for it. It relaxes a lot. We are arresting it with different kinds of tight wear almost every day. It wants freedom from our tyranny of tight garments. Give that freedom to it if you have got an exclusive bedroom for yourself in your abode or elsewhere. Ensure that every door, window and hole in your room is absolutely closed when you are living like a free bird in your domain, day or night. Otherwise, a number of secret admirers must be developing around your magnetic but vulnerable body. Your body may look negligible to you but it is like a treasure of gold and platinum for others. Millions of people are spending billions of rupees on sex every day and night in many parts of this world. Much of it does not have any reliable records. Everybody has the same organ with the same qualities. Then why this much of burning curiosity to see and feel its worth! It is the critical question we may come across but the answer is simple. Creatures of opposite gender crave company of the other. The most attractive part in the other is ‘reproductive organ’. Otherwise, why these many brothels, prostitutes, gigolos, condoms, protective measures, abortions, marriages, rapes, murders, fantasies, clothes, perfumes, dreams, assaults, self-satisfaction tools, desire raising pills and lotions. It is all happening because we are all hiding our organs behind underwear. As such, underwear is the cause for all these wars and unrest! Just throw it away and walk on a road. Police arrest you considering it as an act of indecent exposure.

What a pity in this civilized world? You should not allow others to freely enjoy the beauty of your organ even if you remained unmarried just to help some folks in this direction. They call you a prostitute. Even your life partner does not derive 100% pleasure from that asset of you always because he gets bored of it after a while and so searches for others. Novelty is what they want in this case exclusively. You cannot show it publicly also to satisfy some creatures at least because really many are craving it. You have to hide it and be a cause of much chaos around you just because of you and millions like you hiding it behind that cover regularly. See how dirty boys and men talk about that organ when they are private. The ugliest words of abuse are perhaps directly or indirectly associated with that organ only in this world.  Some are there writing exclusive books and articles on the Internet to rouse interest of this order through their provoking words. This much uproar and activity around two organs!

Imagine that a sage or an intellectual cut that part of him completely and thrown it away one day for two reasons. One is to avoid his physical contact with any creature of opposite gender out of powerful intuition or accident. Secondly taking it as the most detestable organ of human body because millions of creatures are committing billions of crimes using that part of their body only. How do others treat him? As an impotent, indecent, innocent or worthless idiot? You have no natural right to get rid of what you don’t like in your body also. The society wants you to be complete possessing all those organs. You will be treated as a criminal or sinner if you fail to regulate and utilize that organ in a positive and ideal way always. You may be virtuous for 70 years and you may commit a little crime in some corner of this world out of uncontrollable desire in you one day or night. Thereafter your family members, police, courts of law, society, media and others identify you as a criminal or wrongdoer. It means that your reputation of years can be damaged out of your act of a few seconds. Be careful and alert always about it. It is the weapon that kills you if you misuse it. It is the asset that beautifies this world with your children if you happen to be a gentleman always. You have no moral rights to think and behave like a ruthless beast in civilized world. There may be creatures of your instincts and conduct in some deep forests. Go to those tribes and live there forever. It’s a world of absolute freedom where anybody can do anything just out of intuition and passion.

Underwear is a symbol of your identity and dignity. Girls don’t wear your item because their identity is different from yours. Others do not steal it also because they don’t take it as a valuable and usable piece of value even if you wash it five times every day after removal from there. Thus others are allowing you to wear your underwear only always. They neither lend theirs to you nor borrow it from you. Love its beauty, respect its uniqueness in your life and keep it tidy and attractive always even if nobody ever sees it. You are seeing and wearing it daily. To that extent you must feel responsible and proud of it. Wear white ones if you think that you are man of such hygiene.

Underwear is one which we wear there, where discharge of two kinds of liquids occurs frequently. They are bearable to us because they get released from our body but others don’t/cannot take it so. Therefore, as far as possible, after you cross 10 years or so, habituate yourself to wash and dry it on your own. Why should your mother, sister, wife, cousin or other take that avoidable burden on to them? Have courtesy and respect for them. Also don’t throw it to be washed by your domestic assistant with hands. Nobody was born in this world to live and work like your servant. We made them so out of our richness, cruelty and inherent bias. Avoid it.

We can assess the character of a girl, boy, man or woman based on how he or she is treating his or her underwear in his or her private life and environs. One, who cannot keep one’s underwear also tidy and beautiful always, cannot understand and guide others properly. It serves us all silently and invisibly, not craving attention and reputation. It’s exclusively focused on its duty, nothing else. How many of us are able to live so every day?

My solemn tribute to such underwear, which is hiding and protecting the most valuable and yet dangerous organs in this world every day. Let our eyes praise its beauty. Let our lives not be spoilt going behind it.   

FUTILITY OF AGITATION

Agitation is a collective protest against an incident, action, activity or existing state of affairs in a given region. Generally we observe a large scale of participants in agitations, demanding something or many things, from their target person, firm, people, an institution or a government. Agitation is a means of organized expression of our anguish against something we don’t like. They like to make it widely visible and audible and thus public in most of the cases. They partly crave for false publicity in these activities and exhibitions of anger and revolution. We cannot distinctly identify why each of them is participating in an agitation. Many may participate in it casually just for the public fun and celebration of it. So, we cannot consider every agitation as worthy and influential one.

Let us try to distinguish between right and wrong agitations exploring the nature and intensity of agitations, which we generally observe in India.

Freedom movement in India was a great agitation. Indians, as a collective force, struggled hard to send the selfish and oppressive British rulers out under the leadership of regional and national leaders. Mahatma Gandhi got the highest degree of reputation out of freedom movement. Some other leaders and patriots are also widely known to us through books and otherwise. What about millions of Indians that participated in this movement from across this holy land? Hundreds of Indians were imprisoned and tortured severely by the British rulers. History did not capture the details of all those patriots and idealists. It implies that in movements and agitations, only a few get recognition and reputation and the remaining ones disappear from records. It is the major drawback of freedom movement in India also. However, their collective goal and efforts were towards achieving independence. They felt and got united for a great cause, not for selfish and narrow-minded motives and views. Since all of them were ideal and visionary from this perspective, we can consider it as a right agitation.

Some other right kind of agitations are: those against gender inequality (feminist ideologies and movements across the world), of lesbians and gays for their rights; of the Africans against the oppression by the white in many countries; of girls and women protesting against the atrocities taking place in workplaces and in some particular incidents being influenced by the contemporary events; of labourers demanding considerable wages for them in the unorganized sector and millions of people against a bad local or corrupt national government. Every healthy individual strongly feels the need of freedom, equality and fraternity around him or her. We cannot bear somebody oppressing and exploiting us regularly. When we get deeply hurt and disappointed because of the evil practices around us, which are affecting our lives badly, we revolt against such incidents and state of affairs. We cannot imagine the evolution of man from a barbaric one to the present refined one without these movements and agitations in human history across the world. It is not just an agitation but revolution. If we can achieve a great change in our lives through a collective protest in any place or context, fighting for a few days, months or years, it can certainly be considered as a revolution. Revolution is part of evolution in any race or place.

Generally, the characteristics of this right kind of agitation may be some or all of the following:

1. Their struggle is for a major cause, which brings positive change and happiness in the lives of many.

2. They don’t wait for an invitation or motivation to participate in it but they strongly feel it and so get into it.

3. They plan and execute it in a systematic order because they want their agitation to be peaceful and sensible.

4. They may get into violence and indiscipline depending on the intensity of issues they are facing.

5. They don’t crave for false publicity but do not refuse if others want to showcase it somehow, somewhere.

6. They generally follow the instructions and roadmap provided by their single or many leaders across places.

7. They may withdraw from their movement at any time because of various justifiable or unjustifiable reasons.

8. They have high standards and values as individuals or as a collective force of thought and action.

Then, let us examine the concept of wrong agitations. For me, a wrong agitation is one, which is held by one person or many to achieve something ‘selfish’ and ‘narrow-minded’. Some examples for it are: frequent demonstrations by some employees of local, state and central governments for higher pay and perks; all demands and activities of trade and employee unions across India; different industrial clusters indulging in corrupt policies and practices and lobbying for their larger benefits at various levels of bureaucracy and governments; movements for unique identity to a particular region or state; movements for separation of a region or state from the larger whole; agitations to achieve special benefits or status for a particular community, religion, language group, race, ideology, gender or nation.

The characteristics of a wrong agitation may be some or all of the following:

1. They are always interested in the welfare and happiness of their set of creatures, not others.

2. For them; their money, their status, their comforts and their profits are only their issues of concern.

3. Others can easily identify their selfish and narrow-minded nature as members of a society or citizens of a nation.

4. They never think or work based on ideals like patriotism, nationality, humanity, universal fraternity.

5. Their demands are mostly illogical, irrational and immoral if we check them as idealists and thinkers.

6. We generally identify them as interest groups because their agitations are to satisfy their interests and egos.

7. None of them is ready to sacrifice anything for their movement; they do it when they are comfortable only.

8. They are least bothered about their nation, plight of fellow human beings or other conditions around them.

I like to elucidate this kind of wrong agitation with a perfect example, which I have been experiencing for long. It is ‘Separate Telangana Movement in Andhra Pradesh’.

First let us examine if those, who are fighting for a separate Telangana state, are really visionary and appreciable ones. I state ‘no’. If you get the right answers to the following questions, you can clearly understand this fact.

1. How many leaders and activists of Telangana Movement are really good at their personal, familial and societal level? What did they do for their family or society personally during the last few years investing their hard work, vision and patriotism? There must be honesty, idealism and suffering in whatever they did for others!

2. How many of them are ready to die for this cause publicly or leave their families, places and property forever?

3. How much time and energy are they spending publicly in the hot sun, heavy rain and biting winter winds? Aren’t they sitting in AC halls and their personal comfort zones most of the time in the name of discussions and discourses? Can we consider one leader if he or she spends most of his or her time in comfort zones only?

4. How many of them are not looking for any position in politics or otherwise if they achieve separate statehood? Do they remain as dreamers and visionaries of India, who always give powerful positions to the deserving ones, who do not belong to them at all? Are they fighting for ordinary Telangana people or for their political positions?

5. How many of these leaders are poor and honest ones as individuals? How many assets do they have in Telangana region and how did they earn and retain them over the years? Can one, who grew up financially and politically, exploiting and suppressing one’s fellow human beings for long, serve the same vulnerable and pitiable human beings just after becoming a leader to them after separate statehood?

6. How many of them really love the distinguished Telangana culture and tradition? Are they really following them in their personal and professional lives regularly? Did they read books on Telangana life and culture? Did they ever promote cultural activities related to Telangana region? How much money and efforts did they invest this way?

7. Are they struggling to retain the valuable assets of and benefit from the innocent and helpless people of Telangana region or planning practically on how to develop Telangana region? Imagine that there are no coal mines, water resources, various corporate firms and such other attractions in their region, which occurred naturally or through collective contributions of all people, can they love such poor and pitiable Telangana region also and have they intelligence, hard-working nature and patience to develop such region also working on it for about 20 years or so?

8. How many poor and helpless Telangana people participated in this movement considering their leaders as some idealists and visionaries like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabbhai Patel? How much illegal and immoral money did they spend over the last 10 years to artificially organize these movements? Does any sensible and ideal Telangana person commit suicide for this cause, leaving his family in pain and suffering? Do they want to highlight Telangana movement based on the deaths and suicides of such innocent people? Why did not any leader die in this movement for this cause? Are they really leaders? Are they really leading their people minding their welfare and happiness in the visualized new state? If yes, let them tell the same to the God and Goddess they like in their hearts. If no, believe that nobody is considering any one of them as a true leader. All Telangana people know their true nature!

Then, let me evaluate the characters, attitudes, lifestyles and culture of the leaders and activists of Coastal Andhra Pradesh, who have been strongly opposing the idea of separate statehood to Telangana for the last few weeks. I did not personally check the places, people and culture of Rayala Seema much till now. So, I don’t like to comment about them at all in this context. I am a native of Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts in particular. So, I can comment about the folks of my region better than about others.

I will introduce you four leaders of this movement to briefly let you know the real worth of these rogues:

Botsa Satya Narayana – Ask anybody in Vizianagaram district about his growth as a politician and the assets and influence he got after becoming a politician. It means he is just a politician and opportunist, not a leader at all!

Lagadapati Raja Gopal – I often think that a fifth standard student is better than him in many respects. He can at least read out a poem perfectly so that others can try to understand his capacity. He does not have the qualities of a politician also, the ability to tell bitter lies beautifully like his colleagues, in public places. A few months ago, he sat on some hunger strike in Vijayawada. After some set period of time, he ran away from there and appeared at NIMS hospital in Hyderabad. He could not sit calmly also for considerable period of time. He proved himself as a buffoon in that event running away from the cameras of media persons in that context. Since he has accumulated many assets as an industrialist, the people of Vijayawada must be bearing his presence. Think of him deleting all those assets from his life, how many people of Andhra Pradesh consider him as a leader! One with many assets and political power cannot be a leader but one who can educate and guide people without any weapons also!

Subba Rami Reddy – Though I don’t like his history (his growth as a financial entity through immoral ways), I like him for some reasons. He does not have a cruel and manipulative mind like many politicians in Andhra Pradesh. He speaks out what he is feeling really. He is like an innocent child from this perspective. He often showcases his deepest sense of love for Lord Shiva. Perhaps Lord Shiva is a poor God and so this rich man from Visakhapatnam regularly impresses Him with his posh and showy process of collective worship. Such a child, who does not know how to impress a kind God also, using his pure mind and humble submission of everything related to the ego of his ‘self’, cannot be a leader to the millions of people in any region of Andhra Pradesh because these human beings are more intelligent and visionary than Lord Shiva now!

K Chiranjeevi – God gave him two kind and generous brothers, such wealth and fame which he never imagined and everything an ordinary man dreams of in a nation like India. Many folks admired him until he entered politics, including me. He was a star when he wore colorful suits as a film actor because many directors struggled hard to present him as an extraordinary person. Unfortunately, entering politics, he allowed the people of Andhra Pradesh to actually understand his real character. Desire is right but greed is wrong. Chiranjeevi did not have only desire for money and fame but greed for more. He did not realize that we cannot be in limelight always on our own. Now I consider him as a cheat, shallow bloke and worthless living entity only because of what he did after entering politics. He publicly showed people that he always craves for ‘more money and fame as a politician’ but not the status of a ‘humble, simple and ideal film actor, who silently thinks and works for others in some way’. He may believe that he is still a star but no intelligent and sensible fellow considers him so. If 1000 people are clapping before us, we should not think that all of them are sensible ones and so appreciating us that warmly. Unfortunately all of them might be idiots and loafers also, who clap for anybody just like that. Chiranjeevi may have such admirers and fans even now. In a fool’s paradise, even a hell seems like a heaven. So, can we consider such selfish and shallow film actor to be the real leader of people? Chiranjeevi is not a leader, just an actor. He acts everywhere!

I took just these four names to let you understand the real worth of leaders of coastal Andhra Pradesh. I admire KCR of Telangana movement always because he may appear in public places periodically but he speaks very rough Telangana language when criticizing his rivals in any context. I see a real Telangana person in him during those moments. I like his speeches also. There is fire and anguish in his words. I can’t witness such truth in any idiot speaking in favor of United Andhra Pradesh, representing coastal Andhra region. They act everywhere. There is no the element of frankness and honesty in their public speeches also.

Let me explain the qualities and nuances of the folks of coastal Andhra Pradesh now, who imagine themselves as active crusaders and leaders of this movement. It fact, I should name it ‘public shows of brainless sheep’.

1. Most of these leaders have huge base of assets in Telangana region. They bought them in capital region and surrounding areas because they are hardcore businessmen. They invest their money there, where there can be huge profits immediately or in course of time. They are scared that KCR may slowly grab all these assets from them once a separate Telangana state comes into existence. Or, their monetary value may decrease tremendously in the new state. So, they don’t want Telangana to become a separate state. Therefore, they made it into a movement, making all of us believe that it is a movement of the people, by the people and for the people. The fact is nobody is participating in this movement voluntarily. Either your school or college tells you to come on to the roads, your employee union forces you to participate in it or something artificial and unnatural of that order. Whatever is going on in coastal Andhra Pradesh, for the last two months, is like a big circus show. Animals and birds show a lot of tricks either because of their sheer stupidity or cruel orders of their master. Can we consider the silly tricks of some creatures of this order as an agitation or movement?

2. Ashok Babu rose as a leader because there are hundreds of sheep behind him. A sheep generally likes to graze in its familiar region always, not new places. Ashok Babu and his union comrades are accustomed to Hyderabad region and so they can live there only. They cannot live anywhere because they are helpless and shameless parasites. What if KCR sends them out after a new state forms there! Ashok Babu cannot sleep in his comfortable chair like before in Andhra region because it is not going to be a bed of roses as in Hyderabad. If an employee or their union leader is making an agitation in India, simply understand that he is fighting for ‘his or their needs and future’ but not for the welfare of India or you and me. He or she is a 100% selfish and narrow-minded rogue. This is the status of all union based agitations going on in Andhra Pradesh now. No employee is a patriot or idealist here but purely self-centered criminals, sinners and businessmen, who does anything to achieve what he or she wants. Their public dances, fights and songs are merely circus shows! You can watch them on televisions.

3. Through blocking roads, closing colleges and schools, shutting down shops and public facilities, slogans, banners, strikes, can anybody achieve anything in a country like India? Check history. How many are shouting publicly in many parts of India almost every day protesting against something or the other or demanding something? In the Indian format of democracy, we can witness two kinds of sheep always in any part of India – they are the political parties with the status of opposition and ordinary people making agitations. Few care for them. Governments have no time and interest to take their issues or voice seriously because they are not working for people but for their benefits and interests. In this critical set of conditions, prevalent in India, what to Sonia Gandhi or Chidambaram if I close all my doors and windows of my house and beat myself thoroughly out of aversion for them. Sonia eats and sleeps well. Chidambaram has nothing to bother about it. If I beat myself, I suffer. If I die in the process, my people suffer, not Kiran Kumar Reddy or Chandra Babu Naidu or Jagan! What my coastal Andhra leaders and activists have been doing for all these days in our region, after the proclamation of separate statehood to Telangana region by the central government is, exactly this insane and cruel set of things – torturing their people and helpless employees in as many ways as possible. It’s like beating your wife and children out of your anger for a girl living in an abode opposite yours. Ashok Babu, who shouted in Hyderabad recently, with thousands of brainless Andhra sheep, did exactly this mad act. He is one of the stupid and crazy rogues of Andhra Pradesh. He is a public criminal, torturing people like this. Who authorized him to arrest free flow of public life for days together?

4. The best statement of KCR of Telangana movement, which I often hear from his speeches, is ‘When we don’t want to live with you Andhra people as a partner, why are you hanging with us shamelessly’. I give 100 marks for 100 for this statement of KCR. This is the gist of Telangana movement. When your wife is not interested to sleep with you, she shows 100 reasons to prove why you are an unfit husband to her, in any court of law. Even if you forcibly try to squeeze sensuous pleasure from her beautiful body only, she kills you and runs away one day. There are many girls and women in India. You can marry one of them after exhibiting your real worth to them somehow or you can move to brothels to satisfy your extreme basic instincts. The ultimate point is ‘focus on getting any woman, but not your wife because she is not at all interested in your company’. If you are struggling to sleep with her only, even after realizing this bitter truth, it means that you are a ‘shameless and helpless parasite’. What KCR does with Telangana after it comes into existence as a separate state is none of my business or any of the idiots and rogues, who are agitating for united Andhra Pradesh now. He ruins or develops it. Did he ask us for help or guidance? So, if we have self-respect as people of coastal Andhra Pradesh, we should allow the new state to come into existence. We can live anywhere happily if we have good manners and hard-working nature. Don’t you have these basic good qualities? Then, why are you hanging with Telangana region? Why are you unable to live on your own in any part of India? If you like Telangana people, live there with them happily. If you hate them, come back to your native place in coastal Andhra Pradesh. But, living in Telangana region, don’t talk or do anything against them because if you lived for 60 years happily in Telangana region, they are also good people like yours in coastal Andhra Pradesh. They continue to live so even after separation if they are really good people. If they turn bad, learn how to treat bad people and live with them only. You must change to live but not expect others to change to your demands. Ashok Babu forgot this fact. So, he is talking shamelessly in grounds thinking that he is a leader. A leader does not bring hundreds of sheep from coastal Andhra region in hired buses to talk some nonsense over there and make a fuss out of it but dies publicly like Potti Sri Ramulu. How many leaders and activists of agitation in coastal Andhra Pradesh die for this great cause? None! So, they are playing useless dramas on roads and public places to present their needs and demands as those of all of Andhra region. Is this not selfishness and narrow-mindedness? Then, how can these idiots and buffoons be considered as leaders? What can they achieve like spineless sheep? I would appreciate Sonia Gandhi if she can form a separate Telangana state because this fight is between the shallow, stupid, foolish, and shameless leaders of coastal Andhra region and her. If Sonia is Arjuna, I am the Lord Krishna in this battle between evil and virtue. I support my devotee, not thousands of sinners in coastal Andhra Pradesh. The formation of Telangana state is highly important now, let anything else happen, let thousands of Andhra people die on roads. I am least bothered and Sonia must not sympathize with stupid and brainless sheep, which are irrationally dying in valleys. Can we stop suicides of patients and sinners in India?

5. When one gets separated from one’s rich wife, for some or many reasons, one generally suffers and may lose many things in the process. If you want to get something from her, get it begging her like a poor and helpless buffoon but don’t demand it like a king or queen. She gives you nothing but kicks you out earlier than supposed. The same is the case with Telangana issue also. Many idiots and rogues might have gone to Hyderabad to work there and live there happily. Almost every capital region has these qualities of attraction and power in India. Did Telangana people ask you to come there and develop it? You went there out of your interests. It means you are a selfish and narrow-minded idiot. You did not go there to improve the lots of Telangana people. Now they are asking you to fuck off. If you think that you developed Telangana region for the last 50 years investing your intelligence and hard work, do the same coming back to your respective region instead of hanging with them. If you got talent and vision, you can use them anywhere in the world, not just in Telangana region. Just because you developed Telangana region, you cannot say that it belongs to you. Just because you educated your wife and empowered her to live on her own, when you were happy with her, as her husband, you cannot ask her to give back her educational certificates and present job, when you are getting separated from her out of divorce. Your past does not support you always. You have to build up your future when you have to separate from your glorious past. If separation is inevitable, accept it generously and withdraw yourself from that game silently. Making violence, you are showing that you cannot live without her. She is not interested in you. If you have self-respect, accept that divorce honestly, ideally and royally. Ask her for some alms for your livelihood. If you think that Telangana region has more water resources, coal mines and so many other attractions, which you don’t have in your region, be friendly with them even after separation and get them from them amicably and ideally. Give them your rice and port to use and take their coal and water like an ideal and visionary friend. They are not criminals and sinners. If you think so, why did you live with such criminals and sinners for all these years? They are ready to give you what you deserve but not what you demand. You have no moral authority to fight to live with your partner when she is not at all interested in that unhealthy affair any more. How many leaders and activists of the artificial and dirty agitations in coastal Andhra region have this common sense? Then, why are they disturbing public life for all these days? How can they be considered leaders when they don’t know how to treat their own people in their region?

6. I have been seeing hundreds of sheep on roads in coastal Andhra region during the last two months. Are these idiots and rogues really idealists and visionaries, who visualize pain and suffering to the people of Andhra region in the event of separation of Telangana region from the present Andhra Pradesh, with Hyderabad? Are there no local problems in their regions? How much time, energy, money and interest did they invest to develop their street or village or Mandal? How many beggars are sleeping at temples and on pavements in their regions daily suffering from hunger and diseases? Is there no pain and suffering around them? What did they do to solve those problems? Did they ever question the immoral and illegal activities of their MLAs and MPs and ministers? What did they do for their society so far? Why did they come on to the roads now only protesting against separate Telangana idea but not protesting against corruption, unrest, poverty, lack of infrastructure, education and so many other basic issues in their localities? It shows that, for them, agitation means, a silly and useless public show. They know that they can achieve nothing through their crazy and stupid demonstrations. So, they want to spend their time like this without going to colleges and taking their lives seriously for some period of time at least. Even our leaders want such sheep only. If principal says, all the students move on to roads but do not question him why they should go out? They came to a college for insightful education but not for a meaningless agitation. Then why are they appearing on roads? Because they don’t have individuality of their own. They do anything if their parents or principal says. They have no thoughts and vision of their own. They are brainless sheep. Millions of such sheep can do nothing against Sonia Gandhi if she has got a strong will to accord separate statehood to Telangana. If we make a promise  we must keep it at any cost. Great change takes place through application of strong power and idealism only. If Andhra idiots and rogues block their roads and close their shops and schools, their people only suffer. What to Pranab Mukherjee or Rahul Gandhi? Even a strand of hair does not move on their bodies because they know where and how to live comfortably. It is you that suffer shouting loudly on roads like lunatics! When do the sheep of Andhra movement understand this fundamental truth? What are they learning at schools, colleges and universities now? Perhaps, how to prove themselves as brainless sheep and sick dogs on roads through their circus. I hate them!

7. Millions of Indians are living in narrow domestic walls now thinking that they are political activists and leaders. If you want to see some of those dirty and shallow rogues in India now, you can come to Andhra region or watch television covering these agitations in this region. Dirty media giant is hungry for any news now. So, they project it as a great movement but unfortunately it is a clumsy public noise of thousands of brainless sheep. Such sheep cannot initiate a movement nor achieve anything through their narrow outlook and worthless efforts. Movement needs great individuals with appreciable characters, vision and planning. Sheep should graze in a calm field peacefully instead of coming on to the roads for achieving lofty goals and reaching ideal destinations. They can never do it.

8. Agitations of this order are plenty in India now. Thus we are allowing foreigners to realize how foolish, stupid and shallow we are. Telangana movement is just one example. Many agitations must be taking place in your region now or later. Before participating in such agitations and movements, answer yourself honestly and ideally to these questions, “Can I achieve anything participating in this agitation? Did anybody achieve anything till now in this format of public protest? Am I disturbing the rights of others as a participant in this agitation? If I disturb the lives of others through an agitation, am I a good citizen of India? Can I achieve anything damaging public property? Public means my brothers and sisters no, then why should I bother them in this order? For whom am I agitating, for me or other or others? If so, is this cause really worthy of that much public show? Does this agitation bring a positive or negative change in my region, state or India as a whole? I am a responsible citizen of India and so I should not behave like a buffoon on roads doing these monkey acts along with other donkeys? Can I solve it better through other means or ways uniting others intelligently and creatively? Am I applying my intelligence in this context?”

There are two supreme bodies in India to listen to your problems. One is the Supreme Court of India and the other is I. Anybody can approach any of these two if there are questions or complaints about what I wrote above. There are many judges in Supreme Court. It is a lengthy process. It is a single-judge court at my end. I always look for a challenger to complain against me anywhere in the world. How many get such a golden opportunity? I mean a platform to exhibit our voice and power widely. I am waiting for invitations to fight intellectually and creatively. I am a challenger in this agitation of thoughts. I am looking for active participants in this march towards bliss.