Dear Friends,
Welcome to the Blog. Sorry for the long gap in the updates. I was a bit involved in giving exams and finding accommodation.
In these troubled times (!) I saw a movie called “A Wednesday’. My family members liked it. I liked it. My relatives liked it. All my friends liked .
For those who could not afford to see it, the story is something like this.
It’s a Wednesday when Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher), the Commissioner of Police, Mumbai receives a phone call asking him to release four militants.
A terrorist organisation
, represented by one person (Nasreeudin Shah) in the film, places a bomb in the Police Headquarters of the Mumbai police and challenges them to find it. The police do find it , only to realise that it had been placed there for them to find it. The police are informed that more such bombs are placed in different locations of the city and if they do not meet the demands then of course the bombs will do what they have been manufactured to do. BLOW UP.The demands are very simple. Four terrorists who have been arrested should be brought to a secluded place and released. The government is forced to accede to this request, since no trace of the remaining bombs could be found.
When the terrorists are released, one of the Police Officers disobeys orders and takes one of the terrorist with him. At the point of release a mobile rings. When it is picked up, it triggers a bomb and the remaining three are no more. With due negotiation the fourth is also killed.
It transpires that the “Terrorist Organisation” is but one common man. He has got fed up of the system where the actual terrorists can blow any part of any city and cause death and destruction of people like him. This is his way of replying to the terror attacks.
A must see movie.
The question that came to my mind is how all the common people who saw the movie, including me, empathised with the idea. Mostly non-violent people were placing themselves mentally in the role of the hero/villain. How do you place the person who blows up people. Surely the villain of the movie.
Then how do you place the people who wanted such acts to take place in real life ?
These acts of mindless violence, more so highlighted and placed in our drawing room by the “MEDIA”, are eating into our well being.
Think my friends. Life as we knew it is no more. Those times when writing a letter once a week was considered the most responsible act by children away from home. And Now ?
Any way see the movie and report.
