Conundrum of a blog on Shivaji

This is about how a blog, Shivaji – The Boss of crap in IBN Live caused turbulence.

Our ardent hero worship or due to the nobleness of the individual behind the character, the melodrama seems to be quiet fascinating, or should I say rather disappointing. The sub-continent that marks an idol for the whole world by governing 28 states with 28 different languages and still keeping up with the pace of economic development, has given up its rational thinking or critical reasoning to a blog which portrays a persons opinion of a movie he/she watched amidst circumstances.

The interesting point which gained my attention is how people involve personal ego into a non-relevant situation. Rather than looking at the contents and expressing a comment on how a blog has been written, we are here, questioning a person’s perception on a movie. I would think this is probably a media gimmick to popularize and attract attention on a subject matter.

Shivaji – The Boss could be a very good movie or a very bad movie, both these instances does not matter here, and Rajnikanth as a person played a character in that movie, and his existence in that movie is only in the form of that character Shivaji and the movie being good or bad, does not make him good or bad.

What we come across from this drama is that we Indians still live on the belief and worship, though we try to copy the western style and way of living. This character is ingrained and unchangeable. The manifestation of basic Indian culture and tradition is what plays as the ground rule in taking us to this level of worshiping each other. Moreover in a country like India were there are so many rituals, religious practices, gurus, saints, fakirs and philosophers, this should be expected and understood.

Transformation of Indian thought process from traditional worshiping to the new age radical thinking is utopian at this point. Or should I say it would spoil the inert feel or belief we have for a respectable character.