Desicritics Comments on Narmada Dam Project: (Fanaa)tic Political Agendas

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Comment by Sakshi

Mon, 29 May 2006 01:10:04 EDT

Ajaye - Seems like the editors fixed the spelling mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.

Comment by Ajaye

Sun, 28 May 2006 14:51:53 EDT

sakshi, in the title of this post, it was supposed to be (Fanaa)tic right? a spelling mistake. hey im not trying to criticize u at all. but check this out, just wanted to let u know. a strange phenomenon of which even u are a part now lol http://www.sayoutloud.com/topic/34

Comment by Ajaye

Sun, 28 May 2006 14:33:19 EDT

thank u for the point regarding Times of India. such facts should be continously documented by bloggers. we should not let them get away with this. all their crap shud b documented.

Comment by Santosh

Sun, 28 May 2006 14:26:47 EDT

"Though Aamir Khan has expressed a desire to donate Rs 5 lakh to each of the chief ministers funds in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh – his wish may be unfulfilled at least as far as Gujarat is concerned. Gujarat BPJ chief Vaju Vala told Sunday MiD DAY that there was no need for Aamir Khan's generosity. "If Aamir really wants to help someone then he can use the money in his own way," he says. Like Vala, ex-BJP minister and Narmada Bachao Abhiyan chief Jaynarayan Vyas says, "Aamir should get two things straight in his head. Gujarat Government has finished all the work on relocation. So if the money is specifically for rehabilitation then the money cannot be accepted anyway. In spite of this, if Aamir Khan really wants to help a family with rehabilitation then he needs to learn the cost to rehabilitate one family. To set up a livelihood for a family the government needs an average of Rs 10 lakh. The amount that Aamir wants to give will help half a family at most." He adds, "Aamir Khan needs to stop his herogiri. This herogiri works in films, not in real life." BJP spokesperson in Gujarat, Purushotam Rupala, opposes this viewpoint. He says, "If Aamir wants to give money to the fund then the money should be accepted a 100 per cent. But Aamir Khan needs to understand one thing, that you cannot give money specifically for one cause. If he understands this and still wants to give the money, then it should definitely be accepted." Reacting to an Aamir Khan statement given in an earlier interview about the BJP being anti-democracy, Vala and Rupala have only one thing to say, "BJP doesn't need a certificate from someone like Aamir Khan." Vyas adds, "Aamir has publicly said that everytime he has voted he has voted for Sunil Dutt. From this statement it becomes clear where his political leanings lie. It doesn't make a difference to us what an individual like that says. Nor does it make any difference to BJP followers or to the people of Gujarat."" http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2006/may/138216.htm ----------------------- This clearly shows the real pathetic intentions of Aamir where his fame has gone to his head and he has no idea of what the reality is. BJP government refusing his money has runied Aamir's intentions. Instead of blaming BJP govt for their approach, look at aamir's gesture of offering a meagre 5lacs so that his movie can get realeased. Ha. Clearly who needs the fame and publicity so that his movie can get realeased is out in the open. So much so for his beliefs and stand. Infront of his self seeking fame and stunts , all his statements regarding the dam is all a gimmick. What is sad that real people like Medha Patkar who have actually helped goes unnoticed for a while, when people like Aamir come in to make cameo appearences just beofre the realease of his movie. What a coincidence!!!!!!!

Comment by kamla

Sun, 28 May 2006 11:38:00 EDT

Aamir has a point like you clearly point out in your post. He has a right to voice his opinion, and what he did should not have had any impact on the release of his movie. But, if you step back and look at the broader trend, it is a bit worrying. This is not the first time a film has been banned...there was that movie by Sunny Deol that was banned, and a couple of others whose titles I cannot recollect. The broader trend and this specific incident with Fanaa are a bit worrying...It is great to see that Aamir is doing the media rounds and sending a clear signal and message. It also helps that Yashraj Productions is the producer, and they have deep pockets. Kamla

Comment by bharati

Sun, 28 May 2006 06:32:41 EDT

There is hurt in the Gujarati Psyche and they do feel victimised . Lot is made of Bext bakary victims not getting justice but no justice has been given to the Godhara victims and we have forgotten it . There is a selctive logic being applied in gujarat On Narmada Gujarat has done its workl on rehabilitations .It is Madhya Pradesh whichis lacking behind .Aamir should have taken that giovernmetn to task instead of Narendra Modi All Narendra Modi showed that hunger strike can be done by both sides Regardig banning of Pictures there is no ban escept that pressure is applied on the cinema theater not show the movies which is valid. Those who gloated over Narendra Modi's denial of USA visa have no reason to complain when the gujarat political parties decide they do not want to have Fanaa in gujarat. They are mobilisers and pressure lobbies. Media's selctive memory and selective logic through choice words and spin makes gujarat feel far more hurt and more amenabble to modi's rhetoric then if media had been balanced

Comment by Raj

Sun, 28 May 2006 00:03:31 EDT

I think this article sums up what I feel about this issue >> Why give Aamir Modi's pedestal? Swapan Dasgupta | Since the 1990s, celebrities and activists associated with the Narmada Bachao Andolan have converted self-righteous abusiveness into a fine art. Last week, to take a random but not atypical example, the voice of writer-NBA activist Arundhati Roy was heard across the airwaves telling indulgent Americans that "There is no real democracy in India". The grim reality of mass murders of the poor and the inspiring insurrection of the Maoists who are gaining control of district after district are not widely known because the "Indian mainstream (is) so servile" and beguiled by neo-liberal fantasies. To be fair, Aamir Khan should not be equated with the indignant Booker Prize winner. Roy has an admirable way with words and has a definite political agenda. Aamir, on the other hand, is neither a Javed Akhtar nor is he as conceptually endowed as Roy. He is an attractive Bollywood star who has decided that it pays to combine a disarming smile with a loose public agenda. Yet, it is important to remember that Aamir cannot be equated with either a Shabana Azmi or Shatrughan Sinha-articulate representatives of the Left and Right. A man who endorses Coca Cola and simultaneously sups with Medha Patkar, a Luddite if there was one, is either remarkably versatile or just plain confused. Maybe it is unfair to be so dismissive. What seems to drive Aamir is a profound hatred of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. As someone influenced by his environment, he is merely mirroring a fashionable demonology -so fashionable that it led to the much-despised Bush Administration denying Modi a visa to visit the US. For the fashionably bigoted - and they are particularly preponderant in the "slavish" Indian media - the programmes of the Gujarat Government, like bringing water to the parched citizens of Kutch and widening the roads of congested Vadodara, reek of fascism. I have even heard a demented secularist likening the urban renewal programme of Vadodara to Hitler's construction of the Autobahn! When it comes to Modi, anything goes. Modi may be the Gujarati icon and the man the Indian Right awaits, but you can't be a Modi admirer and be thin-skinned at the same time. That he defied treacherous wisdom and won Gujarat in 2002 was bad enough. The fashionable hatred for Modi has grown exponentially with his success in exposing the hollowness of the NBA campaign. There was a time when an I-love-Modi pronouncement was an invitation for a fatwa of social ostracism. Today, the circle of Modi baiters is shrinking rapidly, and soon it will be confined to professional ambulance chasers, English TV anchors and friends of jihadis. It was revealing that when good sense compelled the Prime Minister to disregard the partisan advice of Saifuddin Soz on the rehabilitation issue, Medha Patkar's counter-offensive was to question Modi's secular credentials. Devoid of a worthwhile political plank, Modi's detractors have fallen back on the resurrection of Muslim angst. Maybe Aamir's posturing on the "victims" of Sardar Sarovar dam and the displaced of Vadodara aren't so evolved. In any case, they have absolutely nothing to do with Fanaa, a run-of-the-mill Bollywood film with the usual spiel about a terrorist with a golden heart. Amit Thakkar, the alleged mastermind of the unofficial ban on Fanaa in Gujarat, has every right to be outraged by Aamir's views but to call for an apology is preposterous. Aamir's right to be ignorant and offensive is sacrosanct, as is Thakkar's right to not buy a ticket for Fanaa. But a "ban", which helped Aamir gloss over a trade dispute with multiplex owners, puts the BJP in Gujarat on par with the narrow-minded regimes in Nagaland, Punjab and Goa that have banned The Da Vinci Code. It certainly does no good to the image of the Gujarat Chief Minister. Predictably, he is being blamed for the puerile misadventures of the BJP's youth wing. By putting Aamir on par with the Chief Minister, you are actually knocking Modi off his pedestal.

Comment by Righta

Sat, 27 May 2006 13:37:35 EDT

There are alternatives for Large Dams, with respect to both Water and Power. But these localised projects don't get any mention or research because, they don't have the same benefit in terms of kickbacks for the Politicians and policy makers. Large Dams are harmful for the eco-system in the long term, they have a history of making forests into deserts. Search the net for "Alternative Dam" and you will see a lot fo resources if you wanna research. Lets see articles on localisation, which gives empowerment to the beneficiers themselves.

Comment by Sanjay

Sat, 27 May 2006 08:08:30 EDT

All govts have the right to expropriate land, and for a reason. If any squatter could stop the building of a highway by refusing to part with their parcel of land, then all kinds of development could be ground to a halt. Sorry, but wider society has a reasonable need and a right to get hydroelectric power to meet basic needs. If the tribal squatters are so hell-bent on on their own selfish agenda while depriving wider society, then they should not be allowed to avail themselves of the benefits of interacting with wider society.