Gubbare

Gubbare (Balloons). Early morning a short film FB by Mangesh Pitale with Nana Patekar in the lead. Have seen it twice, shared it; do not know much about art films or ways of a film make; Mangesh Pitale sent it; saw it. A bus ride with red balloons on the Mumbai-Pune Express Highway to learn, write and say a SORRY. A short film for a SORRY with a toned down, febrile Nana saheb clasping red balloons, not guns and women. Come to think of it SORRY is the best word in an English dictionary; Hindi term is maaf kijiye or maaf kijiyega ....googling suggests the Urdu term maaf kijiyega as politer. SORRY belongs to West Germanic stock; old English is sarig (pained, distressed) from the base of the noun sore; English it is SORRY. Maybe, me country needs a SORRY. Kashmir is upset, North East hurt, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh sore; the other humans, gays, have to be ever in shadows; India could think of saying SORRY. Me country there have been more hatred than peace in recent times; have been a 1946-born witness; but none says SORRY, it is thought to be a weak and bent state of mind. Mangalesh Dabral writes in One of Gujarat's Dead Speaks:

....When they burnt me to death
I hadnt even known fire could be used this way
I used to dye cloth and fibre
repaired broken wares
carved wooden swings and colourful sticks for the garba
dance
fashioned little bicycles from aluminium wire
In return I was given a pair of sandals a cloth for my waist
covered my poverty with it by day and curled up in it by
night
sharing half with my woman ...

.....Though I was killed as if
a great number were being killed alongside me
there was no larger purpose to my living
But I was killed
as if there were great purpose to the killing.


Maybe, today me country finds 'great purpose to the killing', rejoices and that sure is living unfairly. SORRY is a sadaphule. Nana Patekar fights, many, with his wife says SORRY to his wife; seriously how many of us say SORRY to our wives; me has not. Today me learnt to tell Rama SORRY. Me learnt to say SORRY.