For the first time in my life, I have literally felt like writing for a movie. Technically it can be called a review but let me take it a level further; let me talk about the movie.
SATYAGRAHA, morning 10:30 show and I was out around 1:30; these three hours left me shaken, with a volley of questions in my mind, the only thing I could do was talk and tell things which you may call discussing but I know it wasn't.
How intricately the man, the director of the movie had delved into the conscience of the general people, the masses; and the actors, they had so beautifully put it infront of us. The macabre dance of death, the fear of betrayal that looms within, the apathy of the Government and the lost faith; the way it was voiced, well there is just one word, immaculate.
Now coming to what I felt , the one thing that struck me there was the reason why the Anna Hazare movement failed. All was well and people were relating to it but the problem came with time. We all got bored. The trend that had caught up us all, had started to fizz away and we were on the look out for a new muse for ourselves.
The Lokpal Bill no longer provided us with the thrill we needed. We needed something better to make news of and for.
There were hurdles, a plenty of them but then Rome was not built in a day too. People fought for hundreds of years to get the coveted independence we all enjoy today. No single person led to that victory over British, it were all the efforts put together that resulted in the day called 15 Aug 1947.
Same is the scene today, but what lacks is the patience and perseverance of the people of yore. And this is exactly where every good thing fails.
But we need to realise the similarities and act.
We do not have others but our own elected Government doing the same to us today. We have been held captive, our thoughts and growth shackled in our own home by our own people. We are fighting over issues, religions, castes and anything and everything under the sun. Divide and rule was the mantra then, it is the same today. Just that we, despite our alleged sense of the world are falling prey to it.
We need to bring the change and we will have to. How will we have a future if the country we belong to doesn't have one for itself.
There is no escape, we need to fight for our rights, maybe not for our brethren but for ourselves.
Let us not shy away from our duties, we need to perform them to get our rights. Maybe this is just the time when we should wake up and take the call.
(Confused Genius has been speaking her mind all the while and the movie really inspired her. She thinks that most of the youth must be feeling the same sense of inspiration but the question is for how long? Or will this sense of ownership, this urge to do something fizz away just like the India Against Corruption Movement?? Think !)
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