Media has triggered so much change, that if you pause between an overwhelming onsaught of information, you see so much has changed. There's a crossing of sensibilities that's put the cultures in transition, and what better mirror than cinema. It says way too much about the way we are. The lingo, the dressing, the evolution or the stagnation, the pelvic thrusts, the gender stereotypes, the male oriented scripts, the changing quotients of beauty, the commercialisation of art, cultural migration as in a shift from tollywood to bollywood to sandalwood. It begs a close look, for there's alesson even in a Presh Rawal movie that's insults the audience with absulute crassiness and crudity of it all, yet becomes a box office favourite, Aaj Tak with its super spiced small-time happenings turned to breaking news. There's got to be a reason why so many kids seem to be falling into pits these days, and how rescuing those children is protrayed as heroic. I'd met an autodriver once who had saved a kid from dying. She was supposed to be nominated for the president's award, but for the police constable who'd asked for a Rs 5,000 bribe. she says she thought that was the funniest thing, because in every indian village everyone saves someone every other day. So that's what mainstream media seems to have become, in search for people they can placate as heroes, celebrate trivility and not get down to the kind of reporting that takes you into the dirt, gets you dirty, makes you think and act. But media is a mirror and 'we' are responsible. If any of us cares at all, and I quote an incredible lady, "we got to demand a meaningful media or boycott it.' The question is if we are ready to break the habit, we, the weilders of remote controlled convenience.