Wake up Maharashtra!
Wake up and Make a Difference: Vote for Change! I had gone to watch Wake Up Sid (WUS) on the first day of its release. The movie was well made, very much enjoyable and I loved it. It’s a story of a girl from Kolkata who comes to Mumbai with big dreams and no contacts. She falls in love with the spirit of Mumbai, and on her way changes the life of Sid - a spoiled kid from a rich business family. When she comes to Mumbai, she finds her first friend in Sid, whom she sends an email calling him “my first Bombay friend”. I wondered why she called it Bombay and not Mumbai; but it was understandable. She was a Kolkata girl and people from outside Mumbai very often call Mumbai as Bombay even now. (We Mumbaikars now use the word Bombay very scarcely). But as the movie progressed, even she used ‘Mumbai’ for the city, and the magazine where she and Sid were working, was called ‘Mumbai Beat’ and not ‘Bombay Beat’. The use of ‘Bombay’ or ‘Mumbai’ was hardly worth noticing, because one very strong st...