just in case you dont remember which movie i am talking about, please refer poster…

a quality movie, giving you some necessary food for thought…

In the backdrop of 1970s,  communist movement was gaining firm roots in west Bengal, and the movie talks about how the youth, especially from Calcutta, was affected by it… the appreciated part is that they didn’t leave it at that, what happened to their lives 10-15 years down the line is also the part of the story, and should be a part of our thought process too…

there are three protagonists, out of the three, chitrangda and kaykay menon, both from affluent families are in love… the guy is obsessed with communist ideology, agitated with social vices like racism, corruption, exploitation of the poor etc etc.. and with a team of like minded people he sets out to change India , to begin with in a small village called bhojpur in bihar…

The girl left behind, doesn’t have much of a opinion as of then, and in spite of getting married to an IAS officer who loves her, she continues to chase her first love and lands up in the village doing social work…

The third protagonist, shiney ahuja, has a more practical approach towards life… he meets the first 2 in college, when they wear expensive clothes and drive in their own cars etc etc, he is from a not so well-off family… so wants to earn money and keeps himself smartly away from the social reformist’s revolution..

i think when kids are born rich and have successful parents and have not seen the uncomfortable side of life, they want to do things that ‘sound good’… like explore new career avenues, change the world (this movie’s context) and similar other stuff.. I have noted quite a few cases like that… they are not focused on earning money and being successful, as that is stereotypical… but they fail to realize that in any society,  there will always be a few things which fetch you better returns and for the same reason they shall be stereotypical professions too… but they are really important to get you all the other variety and lifestyle in life and maybe the strength to pursue social work too comes from the fact that you have something else more comfortable to fall back on…as expected, a decade down the line, these ‘naxalites’ in bihar were tortured by the cops, worn out by the life and conditions in that rustic community structure… and yeah, managed to do some reforms here and there… but nowhere close to changing the system…but the third guy grew into a successful businessman with high profile political connections, a large house and a comfortable family life…

what happens in the end is a li’ll complicated woven story, for the viewers to watch…

but here my point again… my very own school friend, who came out with flying colours in SSC examination, however got into an arts stream after that and is still discovering herself, while most of our peers are already professionals and earning money or traveling to better places etc etc

people should not forget that this urge to be creative and do something in life, is not self sustainable… unless you have something much more solid to support your life, however stereotypical it may be, you are going nowhere…

there are more intelligent ways to bring about social reforms, as my hubby put it in an afterthought, there can be no reforms without economical reforms… the society automatically modifies itself around them… in this case kay kay menon could go to bihar and start an factory maybe and as money starts flowing into a common man’s life, the unjust social structure starts easing out indirectly, gradually…