No the title aint meant to be elusive.. It is this completely silly, badly edited latest hindi flick that has got me thinking.. there is something that has disturbed me after watching it and I have been trying to figure out what it exactly is (barring the serious edit errors, the sad direction at times.. )
So, what is it that disturbed a regular - not so interested movie goer like me? I think it was in a crude way how the movie captured a certain level of courage... It takes a whole lot of courage to live life on one's own terms, to accept that one makes mistakes - nay even blunders and then fight for what is right.
A lot of times in life we realize too late in life that we made a mistake, or have taken a wrong turn.. but we come to terms with it.. we compromise...Its sad, but all of us do it 'in the very interest of so called larger good'- but I am not so sure that is good enough-- not sure that therein lies true goodness..
Its hard to live life in a balance... I dont think it can be 'lived' like that.. Balances are unfortunately very misleading and manipulative... And balances get manifested as sever imbalances many a times.
Strange but the battle continues, do you listen to what makes you happy or do you listen to what you are 'suppossed/expected' to do? Well there is always an inherent choice - the bottom line always is and will remain "At the age of 60, when you look back at life, do you want to say that lived a well balanced life as expected by one and all OR did you take that risk/that one go at what could have changed your life forever?'
Well -may not be the best quote of all, but reminds me of Roosvelt " Far greater it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumps, even to be checkered by failure than to be ranked with those poor spirits who who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat"
