Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi....

One of the best movies i have seen till date..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411469/

not many movies can force me to write about them.. but i think this one is different in a lot of ways.. the main motivation for me again came from weird sources. I was in a group meeting when a group mate was watching this movie. This kind of small spark is the kind of spark i need to be attracted towards a movie. Another main motivation behind this movie for me was the fact that it was set in 1970s, an era in post-independence India that I really like to read and know a lot about.. I dont know why but that era just kind of attracts me with the emergency, the blind pursuit of power by people whose parents were the ones who fought for independence, and to my mind is a seed for thought as to how different are we from pre-independence era..

The movie is about a girl called Geeta who comes from London and loves a guy called Siddhartha. Sid comes from a well to do family but is more inclined towards working for oppressed people in Bihar and goes for revolutionary methods.. Geeta also has another admirer in Vikram, whose father is a staunch Gandhian and doesnt approve of the then Congress Govt Methods.. Vikram on the other hand wants to become big in life and isnt much interested in what is going on in India..

The movie is a stark reminder of what are we going forward. We all in IITs and IIMs are behind the big bucks and dont care about what is happening in India. I have thought over this though many a times but havent come out in favour of one side of another.. Having being in both of these so called "esteemed institutions" one very striking similarity in these places is the presence of very high no. of middle class junta in this place.. People like me never had the privilege of being exhorbirant.. i came from a good middle class family where the fact that i have to make my career and no one would be able to do anything for me.. perhaps the absence of any option on which i can fall upon if I failed was the biggest driving factor for me to choose the tried and tested path of engg/management etc and not going for anything other path or any kind of social service.. and i think 95% of the junta in these 2 places would agree with this.. even if we want, it just is a night long thought since with the morning comes the hectic life where the cost of us failing or going to a different path is too high for comfort..

i dont know if this all makes sense but atleast for the remaining night, all i want to do is to bring in a change in this country, though the morning tomm, this world would have changed me again into the scared person for whom the gigantic task of working towards a change in society would be too much for his weak shoulders...