Friday, February 27, 2009

Hope Dog

"Aaj mast din hai bhai.. Aaj hamara time badal gaya hai bhai", said a young Jamaal in Slumdog Millionaire in his childish voice full of hope. Unaware of the tragedy that was to struck him, unaware that on the pretext of making him sing, they wanted to take away his vision by pouring acid in his eyes. I didn't have the heart to see that scene through.. i flinched at the right time just to know that the tragedy had been averted. Anyhow, this isn't about how the tragedy was averted, how his eyes saved, it is about the false hope in his heart, the hope that his and his brother's lives were about to change for the better. But it was not to be. 

How many times in our lives we just hope and hope. Our fingers crossed, our mind not ready to even 'imagine' what's unimaginably gruesome, we keep going on. Just when things are about to settle down, a storm comes and sweeps it all away. Like a bird that never tires of making his nest again and again even after seeing it fall off a tree so many times, we also cling on to our beliefs only to see them getting broken. By us and by others at times. What should be the right thing to do? To stop believing or to stop living in reality all together? Stopping to believe would mean giving up happiness and ceasing to live in reality would make us a nobody.

Pessimism is the study of a sad heart, its students are losers, its teachers villains. They should have told us it's out-of-syllabus.  

6 comments:

  1. Haha..such a nice way to put it.. u know neha...infact i am relating to it..(if u know wat m talking about).. :)
    I really like reading ur work yaar.. bada hi acha acha hota hai.. 9 out o 10 times..m left like...YA..!!!! haha
    kp it up

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  2. :D as kids; if you have noticed, you ll see that we were not afraid to dream; a dream full of almost impossible possibilities .. strangely we believed that exceptional things can happen to us. We were convinced, "we are special" and didn't want to be another brick in the wall.

    Listen carefully and you can prolly hear the whisper .. the legacy - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. --
    John Keating in Dead Poet Society

    and above all .. life is about today .. rock n roll .. atleast with your beliefs ;)

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  3. yes navin, but i think we as adults also think we are special, that we are one cut above! the irony is that almost everyone believes in that abt him/her self! and why not?

    they all say live for today..for the moment..i think i do it..we all do it dont we? so whats the underlying meaning of it? why am i asking? where am i?

    who are you?

    me nuts!!

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  4. a personal favourite moment in the movie as well!

    What makes it all the more pathetic and touching is that the viewer knows all along what is to befall this innocent child who thinks he is on the verge of a rags to riches culmination!

    You knw, Potrayal of children/childhood on screen (or elsewhere for that matter) has an unique impression on us...thats precisely why the Ad world is cashing in on this sentimentality in their consumers- what with the swarm of children selling range of products from washing powder to mobile connections on TV...
    We are likely to be effected by an innocent kid with a tottering voice bcoz they are pure and uncorrupted of heart n simply so cute to be avoided...bcoz they are unaware of the pessimism that most adults find hard to unlearn...(Reminds meof that poem we read in school..where a father is asking his child to teach him how to smile...wat was it called...? was a wonderful one!)

    Very nice post, neya!:)

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  5. yep.. u so right! it all started with pessimism.. or even hopelessness u can say.. bt we gotta keep moving.. keep rebuilding the lost nest..

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