Singer Palash Sen’s recent Bollywood outing ‘Aisa Yeh Jahaan’ may have released a few weeks back. But the film, which referred to itself as ‘India’s first carbon neutral film’, not only captured our imagination, but also educated us about some really important issues. From ecology, to its conservation, cultural discrimination that a girl faces just because she belongs to the North-East, and the undue pressure parents put on their kids to perform better – the social and environmental issues that the film put forth were many. And the journey that this film took the viewers on immersed them in the lives of its characters and helped them identify with with people they had never met.
While speaking exclusively to IBNLive Movies, Palash spoke about how the film can motivate the viewers and inspire them to live in a different transformed way. “in 'Aisa Yeh Jahaan', I have played a man who has a problem with everything. He has a problem with the environment going for a toss. He feels strongly about the fact that he is staying in a money-minded city, about the fact that his child is being made to work, and about the fact that his maid is called chinki/Nepali.”
If those are the problems that he faced in the film, issues that he grapples with in real life are even more serious. “I have got too many issues. I have a problem with social media because it has become a personal broadcasting centre. Anybody can get on to say anything they want to. There is no censorship. You can’t stop people from saying, commenting, or creating a mess out of anything. Right now, social media is the problem! It could have been used in a positive, good way. Most of the times social media is creating more mayhem than positivity. I have a problem with governance and racism too.”
While many feel being negative in life is equivalent to being destructive, there are those too who like being cynical and promoting pessimistic attitude. “We are living in times when negativity is the new ‘cool’. If somebody says something bad about you or ignores you or abuses you – that’s supposed to be ‘cool’. I find that really strange! We have to rediscover the positivity for which India has been known for a long time. As I said, we are hospitable, warm people. We are happy people. We have to rediscover all of this very soon otherwise we will turn into negative, sarcastic and sardonic people.”
Upset with the fact that most of the problems that India has been facing remains unresolved even after decades of gaining freedom, Palash says, “Sorry guys, it is our Independence day, but I don’t think we are a free country. We still haven’t achieved our independence. We have our own shackles in terms of governance, economics, education, and caste system. Earlier we were being ruled by Britishers, and now by people who really don’t know what their mindsets are. What’s the country future? I don’t know!”
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