The rebel voice of bollywood, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has written a blog at ibnlive.com. The headline says “Why can’t i question Modi or Manmohan?” Well, Mr Kashyap, you surely can. And we surely are fans of those who dare to question. Here is the full text of the blog. To sum it up, he says…
The normal excuse for people like us is, “What can I do. My vote alone is not going to change everything,” but it does. If you think your vote alone can’t change everything then get your neighbourhood together. Motivate mohallah groups and committees to become a part of the process. And then together sit down and decide who to vote for.
Use civic reasons, reasons that will make your life better. Reasons that will provide you the things that you want. For that reason bring together the people, bring together the whole street, the gali, the mohallah. And together go out and vote. And then if the politicians do not fulfill their promise, they will know that they have to deal with a whole lot of people who are going to ask them questions and who have the power to reject them. Make sure you do that and however clichéd it may sound, but your one vote alone does count.
The filmmaker generally blogs at passionforcinema.com