Watched Dhobi Ghat today. Went to the movie with a blank mind as I did not know what to expect. It is about four characters who have their story to tell. Yasmin is in the process of bringing together all the routine realities of her life in a video cassette so that she can send the same to her brother. Coming from small town India, I believe she shoots this video cassette not because she wanted to send the same to her brother but because she did not have anything else to do. Of course this is open to the interpretation of audience.
Arun is a painter who likes staying alone, separated from his wife and kid. The only activity he pursues is painting.
Munna plays the role of Dhobi, he wants to make it big in Bollywood. The character I like though is that of "Shai". She has taken a sabbatical from her job in a Bank at New York. She decides to come to Mumbai to pursue her passion of photography on the pretext of doing something useful for the bank she is employed in. All of us crave for such opportunities right? What I liked about her is she represented so many of us who are into jobs without knowing why they are in them. She is also vulnerable to the usual desires of human mind. The way she gets separated from Arun and how she subsequently chases him although lacks courage to tell him so are well shot. Recommended for those of us who want to see our simple lives presented in a sophisticated fashion.
Other story on Television channels today is the fight between Congress and BJP in Karnataka over governor's sanction of prosecution against CM. While the topic of what's right and what's not is a matter which I would like to pick in a separate blog. What interests me is that we have individuals who are perhaps in the last phase of their life i.e. less than third of life left but still fighting for material outcomes. I wonder what their motivation is. On the other hand we have Shai in Dhobi Ghat who perhaps has lived less than a third of her life and is not motivated to further pursue material causes.
I also happen to read this article shared by my cousin on Facebook today.
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2010/02/07/stories/2010020750120400.htm
It talks about psychopathic personality and its characteristics. It also introduced the concept of socially enabled psychopath to me. Thanks to the goal oriented activities we all pursue today, some of us are ready to break all the rules we have set to reach them. Inability to empathize with fellow human beings and inability to feel emotions or perhaps feel them so fleetingly that he does not acquire any emotional learning from them. I believe this goal orientation and the characteristics of psychopathic personality described are responsible for how our politicians and indeed many of us behave the way we do. Shai is different, she is emotional, empathizes with others and would perhaps never break societal rules. So how do we bring these abilities into all of us? But for me the larger question is whether its desirable? Do we all need to be good and right the way we have conventionally defined.
As somebody has rightly said, "There is no such thing as Right or Wrong, There is only perception"
Arun is a painter who likes staying alone, separated from his wife and kid. The only activity he pursues is painting.
Munna plays the role of Dhobi, he wants to make it big in Bollywood. The character I like though is that of "Shai". She has taken a sabbatical from her job in a Bank at New York. She decides to come to Mumbai to pursue her passion of photography on the pretext of doing something useful for the bank she is employed in. All of us crave for such opportunities right? What I liked about her is she represented so many of us who are into jobs without knowing why they are in them. She is also vulnerable to the usual desires of human mind. The way she gets separated from Arun and how she subsequently chases him although lacks courage to tell him so are well shot. Recommended for those of us who want to see our simple lives presented in a sophisticated fashion.
Other story on Television channels today is the fight between Congress and BJP in Karnataka over governor's sanction of prosecution against CM. While the topic of what's right and what's not is a matter which I would like to pick in a separate blog. What interests me is that we have individuals who are perhaps in the last phase of their life i.e. less than third of life left but still fighting for material outcomes. I wonder what their motivation is. On the other hand we have Shai in Dhobi Ghat who perhaps has lived less than a third of her life and is not motivated to further pursue material causes.
I also happen to read this article shared by my cousin on Facebook today.
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2010/02/07/stories/2010020750120400.htm
It talks about psychopathic personality and its characteristics. It also introduced the concept of socially enabled psychopath to me. Thanks to the goal oriented activities we all pursue today, some of us are ready to break all the rules we have set to reach them. Inability to empathize with fellow human beings and inability to feel emotions or perhaps feel them so fleetingly that he does not acquire any emotional learning from them. I believe this goal orientation and the characteristics of psychopathic personality described are responsible for how our politicians and indeed many of us behave the way we do. Shai is different, she is emotional, empathizes with others and would perhaps never break societal rules. So how do we bring these abilities into all of us? But for me the larger question is whether its desirable? Do we all need to be good and right the way we have conventionally defined.
As somebody has rightly said, "There is no such thing as Right or Wrong, There is only perception"
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