Uff…How tough can nights be...? Specially, if they are filled with guilt, anger, frustration, misery, agony and many such emotions…just because boundaries set around ourselves don’t allow us to trespass them…specially when everyone, right from top to bottom turn themselves as wild animals juggling for those hidden interests or few extra bucks, thereby leaving only one option for us – be a silent unaffected spectator. And then suddenly, consciousness makes us awake to raise our voice against un-professionalism and set things right in place, so that triumph prevails and survival instinct of ethics, win. The point is that – the entire situation gives us sleepless nights, as we remain aware that tomorrow morning we have to face the mirror. And for that, one has to gather courage to set right things, right. And that’s what the movie – Shaurya is all about. If you haven’t attended those Moral Science and Community Living lectures in your schools and colleges, go ahead and watch the movie. It has the power to fill that gap in your life.
When I saw that movie today, I found a bit of myself, in the character of Kay Kay Menon who plays a tough, aggressive, hard hitter Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh who is operationally efficient and extremely devoted towards his duties, yet possesses his own ideologies against certain set of wrong people. Getting a feel of me…isn’t it? He he he…
Watch him carrying himself with powerful elegance when he utters “Mere kisi sipaahi ki jaan ek golf ball pe nahi tiki hai”, showing his extreme concern & care towards the people reporting him.
“Military humari necessity hai” is the power packed dialogue, through which he shows that lack of discipline and tranquility can only be controlled by facing hardships and designing & following strong rules & regulations. But many people who are casual in their life take military as a negative word.
“You know Malhotra, kuch log wakai me sher ka shikar karte hai fir mashoor hote hai, aur kuch hote hai jo mare hue sher ki dum kaatke, photo khichwaa lete hai akhbaar me chhap dete hai aur mashoor ho jaate hai…shortcuts, you know”…again a hard hitting dialogue which reminds us that we witness many people, who get their certificates, accolades and credits without knowing the exact technical know how of the subject matter and are the known figures in and around our society.
“Meri hameshaa trigger pe ungli hai, isiliye tumhe sahuliyat milti hai buddhijeeviyo ki tarah baate karne ki, chhuttiyaa manaane ki, party karne ki, disco jaane ki, ishq ladaane ki, jeene ki”, is the dialogue which only thrusts you with elan & vigour to depict that because of his hardcore professionalism, others are living a casual & a carefree life, hunting for additional opportunities, thereby taking him for granted and using his regularity for their own benefits.
“Sach to ye hai ki is desh me, subah uthne per sabhi ko sadake aur naale saaf chaahiye, lekin is gandagi ko saaf karne me, haath kiske gande hote hai? Hamaare!” what a punch of reality it is? Haven’t we seen people who just surpass their responsibility of cleaning the mess of society to others so that their name should not come in the so called blame list prepared by the gentry executing those mistakes?
“Bloody democracy…bloody…democracy”…now that’s something to understand by going deep into it…important decisions are not to be taken by immature group of people, who further ruin it, but to be taken actually by the Senior ones who have got experience and maturity to view the big picture.
When frustrated by his own organization’s final verdict, watch his irritated persona raising immediate questions – “Ye kyaa mazaak banaa rakha hai?...Indian Army hai yaa Jumbo Circus?”…
No matter what the plot of the movie is, you will only fall in love with the powerful arrogance of Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh.
And when the movie progresses further, I also find traces of my personality in the character of Rahul Bose, as Major Siddhant Chaudhary, who dares to fight for an ethical cause and set’s right things right, even though he looses on few of his good relationships. Do I really need to give examples? He he he…
Now that’s still a movie, where in our film directors show good and bad characteristics separately present in two different people. When it comes to reality, I think that both the characteristics are present in a normal human being. It’s just a prudential use of those characteristics that defines our personality. May be that’s why, people identify me as Rishi Gajbhiye.
