Righteous Kill!

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro stole my heart yet again with Righteous Kill. Of course I was stuffed into a premiere-theartre-full-of-people who gasped continually at how bad the movie was and i felt alien and alone in my appreciation of good film - not great - but good and recommendable for a single watch. Which brings me to my thoughts today that I find need expression on this page.


It has begun to awe, scare and astound me a bit as people's expectations and opinions and appreciation of things go topsy-turvy and have no basis clearly visible to me. As an artiste, I find it imperative to know audiences - when I perform live - I must know the mood, the mind-set, the expectation of the audience before me. It has begun to dawn in me now, that people, the world over, increasingly becoming their idea of righteous, have, in that tough approach to leading their lives "righteously", begun to crticise anything and everything not fitting into their limited scope of things.



Simplicity has lost its value, love has been commercialised to the point of becoming as lost as civilisations of the past, religion has overtaken faith and we are all getting it all wrong all over again. Will another messiah appear before us now - to right the wrongs of our foolish righteousness or will God forsake us completely for we continually throw stones, when there is not one amongst us who is completely free of sin? Will we kill our very earth that provides us by our ignorance and leave it barren and dead for our children? Is there no hope of uniting to eradicate boundaries, abolish judgement, exterminate religion, banish political plotting and remove all thought of us being separate in caste, creed and religion? Could we ever just come together as people first?


Are the true righteous being killed everyday or is our supposed righteousness killing everything that needs to stay alive? Is there such a thing as a righteous kill or do we kill what is right to simply run away from being truly righteous?