There Will Be Blood!

Hi there, this article is not about the film, 'There will be blood', which receieved an oscar this year. Well, this article is just to portray the importance, a drop of blood still possesses in the society. If you can take some trouble to go down the memory lane, 5-6 years back, in school, you would have slogged to learn the subject of Biology. As is true, the blood is an integral part of the human body. So it had to feature in all the pages, no matter which organ of the body you were studying. But apart from the biological axiom, blood has featured in so many areas external to the human body. let's take a peek.

Blood has presented itself in so many Bollywood movies. Leaving aside the bloodshed in films(which have increased over the years), many catchy phrases have been designed using blood. Frankly speaking, in the realm of Bollywood, whenever I think of Blood, the first frame which shoots to my mind is Shahrukh Khan in the film, Darr, in which he uses his blood, as an accessory to convey his love to KKK.....Kiran. The power of blood has become so significant, that it is used as a form of guarantee for any deed. If you thought that, that agni pariksha was the 'in-thing' earlier, it's now khoon pariksha. Or how about, Blood being used as a drink, as in the words of Dharmendra, " Kutte, Main tumhara khoon pee jaoongaa" (Dracula would definately borrow some from Dharmendra jee). Or to express strong payback or to torture someone by saying, " Main tumhe Khoon kii aasu rulaoongaa". Blood, over the years, has been used to portray the character of the person in picture. The catchy phrase of " Gandaa Khoon" is used to indicate bad blood, or person with bad character.

Films aside, involvement of a person with blood has increased. The importance of a drop of a blood is underscored in Paul Bryant's statement, "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success". Blood is invaluable is justified by the increase in numbers of people donating blood at blood donation centres nowadays. Blood in itself is very attractive as it possesses that dark red colour which is very difficult to neglect, even out of sheer ignorance.

The title of the film, "There will be blood", has conveyed a hidden message. No matter how many peace organizations come up, there will be a war somewhere in the near future. With arsenals in countries increasing at an exponential rate, it's no surprise if a big brother bullies the rest. The Iraq war is the ideal example to justify. Or how about the increase in terrorist activities which have shook nations across the globe. It would take some time to prevent the blood from spilling.

So that ends this bloody session. So how much blood have you spent in reading this? Interested in donating any knowledge?