Civil Services Mains 2020 Results: In or Out ? Way ahead, gratitude and Pain
The Civils Mains result has been declared. This thread is for sharing your grief , joy , mixed feelings - absolutely anything and everything.
While I feel that Aspirants has show the realism of ORN to a healthy extent, it kind of deviated away too. Multiple times.
Some scenes are absolutely overboard. A serving DM living in a palatial mansion with 24x7 PSOs while visiting out-of-station Delhi? I don't recall UP Bhawan looking remotely like that!
At a personal level, the show did prick many a heart. Some friends and my own blood (seniors) shut it down within 10 minutes or at max the 1st episode. Perhaps the nostalgia was too overwhelming.
Here's to hoping that I and you, dear reader, never face such emotions. :)
Agar yeh version aata hai toh you will be installing it right? Not to play regularly but to check out ki kya kya naya aaya hai?
mehuifs,Since we are talking about watching things, I want to plug Shyam Benegal's 2009 film Well Done Abba. 😛
It's a sweet, smart, uplifting film that'll touch your sensitive aspirant heart for sure. Set in a fictional rural village in undivided AP, it has the wonderful Dakhani dialect and a range of hilarious characters. It's about one dad-daughter duo's fight against the system to quench their thirst for justice (literally) by digging a well through a government scheme on their piece of land. And wonderful, wonderful songs.
Available on Netflix!
Tabhi mai kahu ye dekha dekha plot kyu lag raha hai. Well Done Abba was adopted from this brilliant Marathi movie- Jau Tithe Khau (2006) which is exactly based on the same plot. Indeed, Well Done Abba was a critically acclaimed movie. Warna recent bollywood adaptaions from Marathi has only given pain (crying in sairaat's symphony).
I think their is a wave of neo realism cinema which is right now happening in the vernacular regional movies of India. My absolute favourite being Malyalam and Marathi. (If anyone interested in entering the world of vernacular cinema, and intends to get a quick primer, I would highly highly recommend to watch this short video from one of my fav writer on one of my fav youtube channel- ).
Wish similar quality of content was churned out from our Northen and Eastern belt. Can't remember any serious work happening in Bhojpuri/Awadhi/Maithili/Angika/Bengali/Punjabi. (Pls correct me if am over generalising it, but I don't think, take Bhojpuri for example, is in mood to get rid of it's obsession with objectification of women in their contemporary movies. Choliya lipistick se fursat milegi tabhi na ussey aagey badh paayenge. Or take Punjabi for example, which despite having a corpus of rich traditional folk stories is resorting to flashy cars and nagging girlfriends waley songs.)
A lovely movie indeed.Since we are talking about watching things, I want to plug Shyam Benegal's 2009 film Well Done Abba. 😛
It's a sweet, smart, uplifting film that'll touch your sensitive aspirant heart for sure. Set in a fictional rural village in undivided AP, it has the wonderful Dakhani dialect and a range of hilarious characters. It's about one dad-daughter duo's fight against the system to quench their thirst for justice (literally) by digging a well through a government scheme on their piece of land. And wonderful, wonderful songs.
Available on Netflix!
whatonly,
Come on, it can’t be just me who thinks Aspirants is criminally overrated! 😅
I found it to be a shameless, anxiety inducing, very far from reality, long-form advertising of why coachings are essential to qualify this examination, peppered with a wholly unrealistic image of what one can expect after qualifying this examination.
But that's just me.
Since we are talking about watching things, I want to plug Shyam Benegal's 2009 film Well Done Abba. 😛
It's a sweet, smart, uplifting film that'll touch your sensitive aspirant heart for sure. Set in a fictional rural village in undivided AP, it has the wonderful Dakhani dialect and a range of hilarious characters. It's about one dad-daughter duo's fight against the system to quench their thirst for justice (literally) by digging a well through a government scheme on their piece of land. And wonderful, wonderful songs.
Available on Netflix!
Tabhi mai kahu ye dekha dekha plot kyu lag raha hai. Well Done Abba was adopted from this brilliant Marathi movie- Jau Tithe Khau (2006) which is exactly based on the same plot. Indeed, Well Done Abba was a critically acclaimed movie. Warna recent bollywood adaptaions from Marathi has only given pain (crying in sairaat's symphony).
I think their is a wave of neo realism cinema which is right now happening in the vernacular regional movies of India. My absolute favourite being Malyalam and Marathi. (If anyone interested in entering the world of vernacular cinema, and intends to get a quick primer, I would highly highly recommend to watch this short video from one of my fav writer on one of my fav youtube channel- ).
Wish similar quality of content was churned out from our Northen and Eastern belt. Can't remember any serious work happening in Bhojpuri/Awadhi/Maithili/Angika/Bengali/Punjabi. (Pls correct me if am over generalising it, but I don't think, take Bhojpuri for example, is in mood to get rid of it's obsession with objectification of women in their contemporary movies. Choliya lipistick se fursat milegi tabhi na ussey aagey badh paayenge. Or take Punjabi for example, which despite having a corpus of rich traditional folk stories is resorting to flashy cars and nagging girlfriends waley songs.)
TIL my favourite movie was adapted from a movie in my own mother tongue! Thank you! Will hunt down this movie and watch it.
Malayalam and Marathi movies are indeed the perfect antidote to the senselessness of both real life and Bollywood, although I am yet to go beyond scratching the surface. Thanks for the intro video :)
Not at all! I'm no intellectual. I appreciate stuff that makes me feel as much as stuff that makes me think, if not more!
12432TrivendrumRajdhani,
I too would like to add a show called Yes, Minister. It's a satirical show that makes fun of the civil services of the UK. I found it to be hilarious.
Sry, can't resist :)
Quick Yes Minister trivia- Indira Gandhi was very fond of this series, and infact she was quoted somewhere (unable to refer it right now sorry) that she learns to manoeuvre the IAS officers by watching it on regular basis. It is not only the best English satire ever aired, but is used as an academic source to understand power in sociology and political department of universities (can certainly vouch for du). In fact, Yes Minister was officially adopted for Indian audiences in HIndi in the year 2001 on Star Plus, which had Farookh Sheikh as lead. But am unable to find this hindi adaption online anywhere.
My all time favourite episode from Yes Minister is this first episode from Season 3, named as "equal opportunity", and I request every member of forum to watch it (at least this episode) whenever their schedule allows for. It will make all of us bit more attune to the issues of unfortunate glass ceiling hurting every women who aspires to dream in such ranks of hierarchy.
For me, I have three gold standards of political satire. Raag Darbaari (Shri Lal Shukla), Yes Minister, and writings of Harishankar Parsai in that particular order.
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