Yes there is a reason fr naming my blogpost so. Well i was inspired by my fellow musician n frend Ashwin S Kumar to name it and emphasize satire on LA TOMATINA.
A bunch of rambunctious and unarmed spanish youth in 1944, for the sake of protesting threw the tomatoes which were there in nearby vegetable shop..Excited by the same, they repeated the same in successive year but getting tomatoes on their own..Henceforth a tomato bashing festival called "La Tomatina "started!!!
I feel extremely sorrowful seeing people excited to attend this event in India..If u are probably wondering , why is this being celebrated in India for the first time this year is , then the answer is hindi movie ZNMD..A movie which extravagantly flaunted the Spain n Spanish culture..Ofcourse they had to recreate this festival to show the most important festival of their nation..Thats a whole different issue that even an ordinary story will be shot overseas by Bollywood chaps.
In a Country like India, where still people are craving for food , fighting for food, how right on our part to celebrate this gibberish "Food Fight Festival"..Ppl in India are still in hunger.Spain dont even have the population of karnataka. Spain is a country whose economy is majorly relying on Tourism. The Middle class families are entering the poverty class in spain..What i really want to convey here is "India was a developing nation, is a developing nation and if we start importing events of country wer ppl are kissing poverty eventually, India will be a developing nation forever" ..
If ppl in India are enticed to participate in this event , i really suggest them to recall the way they are brought up in India.This is a Sacred country where every festival has a reason and custom behind it. Even inadvertently if an eatable touches our feet, we just request God to forgive us!!! Food is also a form of God AnnaPoorneshwari.. Being in Such a country and just for having fun squashing tomatoes, throwing on fellow ppl, rolling over those squashed ones !!! Isnt this a way of disrespecting our culture??
I really want to share what my friend Abhishek Sood had tweeted about this, "Will Spain ever celebrate Marammana jathre, Bengaluru Karaga ,Mysore Dasara?? Then y Latomatina??"
I am really dubious about the statement given by the organizers that non edible tomatoes will be used for the event.. In Spain, they do crop tomatoes for this event, But Wen on earth in India
farmers started growing "non edible tomatoes".. Hailing from a farming background , i ve not seen "non edible" tomato being cultivated in our fields ever!! K then will they get some rotten tomatoes thrown in the backyards of Yeshwantpura APMC yard?? Dare to go even half a kilometer close to that.It stinks like hell.. After all rotten things has to be pungent..Dont know for the sake of fun , ppl are ready to get into that!!(Sarcasm).
Coming to the fun part, As we know fun wont be available fr gratis..The ticket prices fr taking part in this event is freaking expensive!!! 900, 1100, 1900... Its a pure marketing strategy by the organizers to cash in the success of ZNMD. The transparency of organizing this is also completely zero..
I really want some awareness to be created in ppl about culture and tradition of India. Plz say NO to Wildest,Sloppiest and Perverted La Tomatina.
Yours,
Achutha MP
A bunch of rambunctious and unarmed spanish youth in 1944, for the sake of protesting threw the tomatoes which were there in nearby vegetable shop..Excited by the same, they repeated the same in successive year but getting tomatoes on their own..Henceforth a tomato bashing festival called "La Tomatina "started!!!
I feel extremely sorrowful seeing people excited to attend this event in India..If u are probably wondering , why is this being celebrated in India for the first time this year is , then the answer is hindi movie ZNMD..A movie which extravagantly flaunted the Spain n Spanish culture..Ofcourse they had to recreate this festival to show the most important festival of their nation..Thats a whole different issue that even an ordinary story will be shot overseas by Bollywood chaps.
In a Country like India, where still people are craving for food , fighting for food, how right on our part to celebrate this gibberish "Food Fight Festival"..Ppl in India are still in hunger.Spain dont even have the population of karnataka. Spain is a country whose economy is majorly relying on Tourism. The Middle class families are entering the poverty class in spain..What i really want to convey here is "India was a developing nation, is a developing nation and if we start importing events of country wer ppl are kissing poverty eventually, India will be a developing nation forever" ..If ppl in India are enticed to participate in this event , i really suggest them to recall the way they are brought up in India.This is a Sacred country where every festival has a reason and custom behind it. Even inadvertently if an eatable touches our feet, we just request God to forgive us!!! Food is also a form of God AnnaPoorneshwari.. Being in Such a country and just for having fun squashing tomatoes, throwing on fellow ppl, rolling over those squashed ones !!! Isnt this a way of disrespecting our culture??
I really want to share what my friend Abhishek Sood had tweeted about this, "Will Spain ever celebrate Marammana jathre, Bengaluru Karaga ,Mysore Dasara?? Then y Latomatina??"
I am really dubious about the statement given by the organizers that non edible tomatoes will be used for the event.. In Spain, they do crop tomatoes for this event, But Wen on earth in India
Coming to the fun part, As we know fun wont be available fr gratis..The ticket prices fr taking part in this event is freaking expensive!!! 900, 1100, 1900... Its a pure marketing strategy by the organizers to cash in the success of ZNMD. The transparency of organizing this is also completely zero..
I really want some awareness to be created in ppl about culture and tradition of India. Plz say NO to Wildest,Sloppiest and Perverted La Tomatina.
Yours,
Achutha MP
