DAY 1872
Jalsa, Mumbai May 31/June 1, 2013 Fri/Sat 1 :41 AM
Its Barun’s birthday tomorrow .. or is it tomorrow now ? June 1, 2013 .. good wishes and happy birthday from all ..
The back struggles to keep straight, walk about and stretch .. but there is a fear of it snapping again, and so the activities are limited .. a shoot programmed for 1st of June has to be undertaken, and so shall attempt it with limitations .. but rest is taken and the other perks that come with it .. heat fermentation, electric muscle pad stimulator, and the company of cinema ..
Watched ‘Bombay Talkies’ last night and found it fascinating. Four prominent directors given a small budget to make four short films that represent or indicate what 100 years of cinema means to them. Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerji, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap .. unusual stories and wonderfully enacted and created …
And today a documentary called 'Hitler’s Children’, on the interviews and lives of the children and grandchildren of Hitler’s Nazi Commandants, who were responsible for the holocaust - Goebles, Himmler, Hoess, Frank …
Touching and sensitive to hear from them the attitude of society and the world towards them. Their own conscience, and the guilt and emotion that they carry for the deeds of their elders.
Culturally we are taught to respect our elders, but these children, what do they do … ? A challenge for them to live in the disgrace and the atrocities of their parents. And one grand child, now a grown man, wishes to visit Auschwitz and for him to be taken to the residential places of his parents, within the Camp, a few yards away from the gas chambers where millions were put to death, each day, his grand father being the Commandant in charge of the dreaded facility, and how he breaks down, and how he confronts an entire school brigade of Jewish children on a tour of the camp, answering their questions and at one instance meeting a holocaust survivor from Auschwitz … ahhh … heartbreaking to see reactions and questionings from the School children, many among them whose parents had been killed at that very spot ..
And all my own memories of my visit to Auschwitz, when I was in Poland and had written about it, and the horrific experience of being narrated the details from the guides there …
Just too much to write and express any further ..
Good night and love to all ….
Amitabh Bachchan
PS : last night the US Consulate organised an evening, along with a global magazine G2 to be in conversation for an invited audience, and talk about Gatsby .. but of that later ..
