Yesterday watched A Wednesday - Hindi movie directed by Neeraj Pandey with NAseeruddin Shah and Anupham Kher in the lead roles... Performance of the duo is stellar.
Terrorism has taken the centre stage after the recent bombings ( its so frequent that cant remember the exact sequence of bombings and the cities ). It talks about how a common man anguished by the frequent bombings takes on the system in his own way...
Nasiruddin Shah plays the role of a common man and Anupam Kher, as the Police commissioner. The conversation between the duo is exceptional and raises a lot of questions about the way we deal with this dreaded evil called Terrorism and also the incompetence of our Police, Intelligence and our polticians in dealing with this..
The film makes me wonder whether being too democratic in dealing with terorism is costing us many lives.. Take the Jamia Milla encounter.. An exceptional police officer was shot dead but politicians fearing their vote banks are demanding an enquiry into the shoot out... Amar Singh gives a lakh to dead police officer and then questions the encounter.. Its a big farce... Terrorists kill innocent people in hundreds, and when police gun down two terrorists human right activists and so called intellectuals question it as if their son or daughter is shot dead.. Police are doing their best and am not saying they are right always but they need a free hand to deal with this evil...
Its time to be tough rather than too democratic in dealing with TERRORISM
