Despite accessible , books fail to find place among youngsters

Despite being easily accessible both in market as well as on internet, books have failed to hold the interest of youngsters who mostly prefer to remain hooked television or any other social network like facebook or twiter etc. as per records nearly 15 percent  of sales of book’s decline every year in the valley.

Unlike the western society where books are considered as the main source of information and knowledge, the youngsters in our society are losing their reading habit by every passing day. the expert cite the advent of a new technology main reason behind it. “it is the craze of  youngsters for the cricket, television, chatting , mobile games that youngsters are unable to develop their reading habits. They get expose to these technologies in early age of their lives influencing their minds deeply “  said  Feroz  Ahmad , A Sociologist.

  Vex by the lessen interest in reading among youngsters , from the very beginning the government  has open libraries at several places which remain flooded with all types of books every time but this move does not bring much change. “Books are available to us in a good quantity but readership here is very less. There is an immediate need to generate interest among the youngsters by telling them the advantages of reading so that readership may increase in future” said  a Librarian ,Tariq Bhat.

Some believe that it depends largely on parents to inaccurate among children the sense of reading. “I think It depend more on the atmosphere at their homes.  children usually trend to follow their parents. If parents have a habit of reading news paper, magazines, books than children get to read on their own” Abdul Aziz , 70, a retire police officer said.

He added, reading is really essential for a personal development as well as for the socio-economic development of state. We need to take step to develop the reading habits among the children so as they may prove better citizens. 

Experts too predict that children need to develop this habit gradually.  “Teenagers and children are not patient readers they find it really difficult to adjust themselves to books in their early age. They need to develop it gradually by sticking to news papers initially and later turn to comic stories and then to the short stories in a different phases” said Basher Ahmad, an Academician 

            FILM REVIEW OF PATSHALA

Talking about the Director Milind Ukey who gave us the very lovable animated film ‘Hanuman’ has this time come up with a good topical subject but falters in the script written by producer Ahmed Khan himself. Here the director puts a whole lot of things in one bag without doing any justice to even single. In the film we have - children, Teenage romance, crush on teacher, rising of school fee structure, professionalism, commercialization, talent hunts, reality TV shows. Also the film has a bunch of child actors– the Fanaa Boy, the Cheeni Kum girl, the Balika Vadhu girl, who don’t have proper roles.

Now talking about the lead actor Shahid Kapoor–– after giving big hits like Jab We Met, Vivah, Kaminey the actor is giving duds like Dil Bole Hadippa, Chance Pe Dancee and an equally bad follow up with ‘Paatshaala’.

While the film signifies the problems perfectly, a proper solution is not offered in the end. Also what happens to the school finally is also not made clear.

The storytelling is suffused with sensitive pockets. To cite some examples- in one sequence the veteran sports teacher (played by Sushant Singh) gets together student to climb on one another to make a human pyramid for the sake of media coverage. The callousness of the freelance journalist as he talks into the cellphone while the students sweat it out in the sun, smothers your cynicism about such manipulative drama in the narrative.

In another scene, a little boy is made to stand in the sun for not paying the school fees. And then that decisive moment where a crass ad-maker reduces another little kid to tears, just chokes you.

The music reality show agent, who auditions the school kids as though they are fish to be fried straight from the market, is almost caricatural in the his grotesque commercialism.

The overview of the educational system in ‘Paatshaala’ is macro-cosmic in its own right. In an attempt to showcase how education goes for a toss in private schools as the management aims to earn the extra buck the makers also don’t lose out a chance to make a satire out of the media, shifting focus from his original aim.

Bad dialogues are made only worse by loud acting by most of the cast. Certain emotional scenes leave you either bored or end up making you laugh.

Hanief Shaikh's music also is not much promising. While Basha Lals cinematography is free of poetic flourishes, the ‘Ae khuda’ track just sweeps you off your feet. This is the only number which can is mesmerizing although the song should have been gifted with Aatif Aslam’s beautiful voice.

At the end I want to say that there’s no flow in the script and no sense to the whole hullabaloo on screen.