There are stories everywhere. Each story speaks to us in a personal tone. The narration and sequence of events are some of the important aspects of story-telling. Stories are built around beads of small events that are tied together. Those events may be communicated well but the thread that ties them up may not be strong. Sometimes events may look frivolous but the thread puts them in a different perspective. So possibilities are many. I am planning, plans are always planned to have a shorter life, to write short pieces on such events that have occurred in movies, novels, and short stories; events that can be taken out of the thread and can be seen as a separate bead that shows colors of emotional shades. It does not matter if events are from art or commercial movies (what an inaccurate classification), good or bad novels, cooked up or real (this is something different), etc.!!! Here we go.
A husband creates a foundation to initiate many socially relevant projects. The foundation runs schools, colleges, and hospitals, to name a few. People are too happy to receive help from the foundation. The foundation becomes really a foundation to social changes.
Police and others make her believe that if she could give them some proof of the foundation's source of income, then her husband could escape with mild punishment. Else?
What else? He has to pay a heavy price - his life; he is also in the hit list of many local criminals and politicians.
His wife thinks. She thinks again. She thinks again and again and again. And she decides to pass the laptop, which has all information about the source of money donated to the foundation, to investigation agencies.
Police and other government agencies come to his home to arrest him. He comes to know that his laptop has been given to them by his wife!
He could not believe it. Shocked; Shell shocked.
His parents start scolding his wife. What does he do? His future would possibly be doomed by this act of his wife. His name and fame would receive hits from all sides. What about his image? That would be smeared with black; black tar. Saving his face is the last thing he could expect.
What does he do?
Is he going to have vengeance against his wife? Is he going to scold her to start with? Is he going to mistrust? Does he feel betrayed?
He stops his parents from shouting at her and says, "If she had done this, she must have perceived that it would do some good to me. She will not do anything that would destroy me. She cannot do. Do not scold her."
Trust. This is it.
Apart from the trust he exhibits, it is his composure, that gathers energy and courage to say that 'I trust you' to his wife in such a situation, makes a good case to ponder trust, composure, courage in relationships.
(The situation is from the movie Sivaji - the Boss)
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2 comments:
Dear Shencottah,
It is not for nothing that he is called "Shivaji--the boss" :-) And, even my Taiwanese friend understood what Rajnikanth was saying even though he did not understand the language--and, thus transcends Rajni the language barrier!
Guru
Dear Guru,
Certain phenomena just transcend all barriers. And Rajini is one of them. As you have pointed he is not one of the bosses. He is The Boss. :-)
The movie was released in Baroda - unheard thing a decade ago. Shrewd marketing indeed.
Shencottah
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