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Dahi Handi
In Hindi-Urdu cinema
Dahi Handi: Bollywood films interesting plots around the festival, The Times of India, August 27, 2015 Dahi Handi: Bollywood films interesting plots around the festival
Indian festivals are given importance in our Bollywood movies. However, there are a few such festivals which hold a different place in Bollywood. Festivals like Ganesh Utsav, Dahi Handi, Raksha Bandhan, Diwali, Dusshera are a few that helps to enhance the impact of a scene. Like Dusshera conveys a message of victory over evil, Diwali is festival of lights, Ganesh Utvas harps on the positivity of God, Dahi Handi too holds importance in movies. Let's take a look at a few movies which had highlighted Dahi Handi in their seqeunces.
Agneepath: Lead's grand entry
The Amitabh Bachchan starrer movie Agneepath was remade by Karan Johar in which Hrithik Roshan played the lead role of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan. In the movie Hrithik Roshan's character Vijay made a grand entry displaying his chiseled physique and sharp looks during a Dahi Handi sequence. His face was revealed only after he broke the Dahi Handi. The sequence showed a gist of the character, Vijay, who is loved by all, is popular and owns power as he breaks the 'matki'. Hrithik did justice to the entry with his power house performance.
Vaastav: Celebration time
The story of Mahesh Manjrekar's cult movie Vaastav moves hearts of millions even today with its gripping and heart wrenching storyline. Dahi Handi festival was used in the movie in order to show how festivals are celebrated in chawls. It is showed how a youngster, Raghu (character played by Sanjay Dutt) along with his gang of friends collects fund to celebrate the festival. The sequence actually reminded majority of Mumbaikars about their own Dahi Handi celebrations. The sequence was shot in the way it was in order to make sure that the audience could identify themselves as one from the crowd reveling during the festival.
Shaitaan: The chase
In the movie Shaitaan, a Dahi Handi song and a sequnce is used very cleverly. In the video of the song, we can see a Inspector Arvind Mathur (Rajeev Khandelwal) chasing Inspector Malvankar (Rajkumar Rao), a suspect, in the middle of the Dahi Handi celebration and the dahi handi song is played in the backdrop. Interestingly, the song's lyrics 'Pintya gela lamb...' relates the screenplay of the song as Inspector Malvankar's pet name in the movie is Pintya. The song is exactly what the scene is and accordingly, inspector Malvankar meets with an accident and the chase ends as the song culminates. The song is sung by a Marathi folk singer Chandan Shive.
Oh My God: The reality check
Paresh Rawal starrer Oh My God has a very interesting concept. The movie where a shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake is well received by the audience. In this movie, the Dahi Handi festival stands of high importance, it is the time when Kanjibhai (Character played by Paresh Rawal) challenges god and shows distrust in him and claims that Dahi Handi festival and the expenses incurred behind it are of waste and one should stop celebrating such festivals. He also explains how youngsters endanger their life in order to break the handi and get the prize money. Sonakshi Sinha and Prabhudheva did a special song , Go go go Govinda for this seqeunce.
Aankhen: The master plan
In Amitabh Bachchan starrer movie Aankhen, the idea of robbing a bank by blind people comes in his mind only after watching a few blind students of a school breaking dahi handi during this festival. After watching them he understands that blind people can be trained to do things like sighted people and that is when he employs three blind men – Vishwas (Kumar), a blind person who has the power of the sixth sense, Ilyaas (Rawal) and Arjun (Rampal) to loot a bank.
Gambling
Gujarat's gilded gambling
Golden playing cards become a Janmashtami fad in Gujarat
Manish Singh Rathore, TNN | Aug 27, 2013
AHMEDABAD: For many Gujaratis, Janmashtami not only offers a holiday and a time of worship but also provides an unofficial licence to gamble! Entire Gujarati families play card games like rummy and teen patti in the run up to the festival.
This year, however, the affluent have started flashing gold and silver-plated cards. Some of them are even playing the game with cards made of pure silver!
Gold or silver playing cards are a common sight in places like Las Vegas but the trend is catching up in Gujarat, say jewellers who are doing a brisk business.
"In the last few days, over 2,000 packs of gold and silver playing cards have been sold in Ahmedabad. The price ranges from Rs 1,000 to Rs 15,000 per pack. The demand for such playing cards is high ahead of Janmashtami," said Nayan Bhagat, who deals in wholesale of gold and silver playing cards. While most of these cards are imported from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, there are firms that manufacture it locally.
"I have supplied golden and silver card packs to a number of local jewellers. Apart from this, we are witnessing a high demand online as well," added Bhagat. Usually, such cards are used when the bets are higher than Rs 100,000.
Shanti Patel, president of Ahmedabad Jewellers Association, says that apart from Janmashtami, many people buy silver and gold cards for adding to their collection and gifting also.
