Movie Lakshya-Looking away from common perspective

Some times its feels logical to go back in time and analyze the concepts behind the movies that were released a decade ago. Actually these movies are a kind of inspiration, even though they didn’t do good business on box office. So, here I am watching Lakshya and putting light on some thoughts that engulfed my mind watching this movie.

For most viewers this movie might be a motivation to do something big in their lives or to even join the Indian Army. But, while looking at the motivational aspect of this movie, we missed to pay notice to some other realities. I know Lakshya is more about realizing the efforts that army personnel put for safeguarding its country. But, let put some time into analyzing some things that we didn’t realized almost 10 years ago while watching this movie.

Make-up can make you look a lot younger than your actual age 

Everybody knows that…. But, Hritik Roshan or, for that matter, Mr Big B in this movie are the live examples. Recall the look of Hritik at the time when he was dumped by his girlfriend for dumping the only best decision he took in the movie-turning into a nation lover Lieutenant. My God!!! The man looked as if he was 21. Or, think how dashing Mr Bachchan looked in the role of a serving Army general when his actual age at that time was somewhere between 65 and 70. Make changes your looks…..hence proved.

Much as it is easy to witness the life in army on TV, it is difficult to live

You all would agree with it. Only the parents with a strong heart and with a desire to do something for their nation can let their child take admission in the Army. Even the hard hearted father, the role played by Boman Irani in this movie, could not agree to his son serving in the India army-call it ego or insecurity!! You have to accept your partners dying in the battle fields, staying away from your family during Diwali and put your country on the top of everything…. Not everybody can do that.

I know you readers might not have paid any heed to these points… Now you can….

Perceptions can be misleading……

This is one fundamental everybody’s life work on… perceptions and yes, they can be misleading.

You, by ‘you’ I mean all of us, always try understand what the person sitting opposite you is thinking and… it is then you form a perception, be it negative or positive, be it right or wrong.

Our lives revolve around understanding what is going on around us and amid this understanding procedure we tend go wrong at many places. Like, we have always looked Ramayana from the perspective of our very own God- the Great Shri Ram. For our ancestors Lord Rama will always be the hero of the story-the protagonist basically-A character around which the entire story moves. Have we ever tried to understand why Ravana stood against Ram? Perhaps no. Or, even if we tried to assimilate what once happened in the past, Ravana always will stay a villain. This is what we have been fed with by our mother, father and also, our forefathers.  

There are very less people who know that actual reason for what Ravan did and that is-Ravana conducted all the bad acts, acts that were condemnable, just to attain moksha. He was actually given two options by the God. The first was that that he could bear the ramifications of his sins for seven births. Or, he can choose to be, what we call, Danva and attain freedom from his sins within three births. This is where his perception worked and he chose to be a bad guy in the story and get killed by Lord Ram.

What he did was right according to him. But, we won’t understand that because we have been asked to accept that what Ravana did was wrong.

I still see people celebrating the day Dessehra as the victory of good over evil and it is because they grant Dessehra to be such. On the other hand, there are people who respect Ravana for his knowledge and education. Whom to follow and what truth swallow…. This is your perception…