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Monday, January 13, 2014

who is the hero here?

I recently watched a Bengali movie – Proloy and I wondered what it is that motivates people like Barun Biswas to be the vigilante that he came to be. For one person from among us to touch so many lives on so many levels. At the same time it is immensely saddening that it was those very people those very lives that he touched who forgot them with great ease.

My interpretation of the entire situation was that, today we have come put our faith in the person and ignore the very ideologies that they talk about, the incidents, the turn of events that bring about the intense act of rebellion, the revolution is somewhere lost in our tradition of worshiping the hero, not the cause. So, when we lose the man, we lose our faith and in turn our hope. I just can’t remember the last time I saw anyone talk with great passion about any ideology, it is always a hero that we look for not the values, not the ethics and definitely not the cause. It happened in the case of Maoists, the Naxalites, the Communists and now I see the beginning of a similar situation in the case of the much famed and infamous Aam Admi Party.

It is always the man we have talked about, the man we have built up to be a messiah and in that passion towards that one man, the cause is somehow lost and then left behind.

Also, I saw the second half of the movie, it was interesting to watch as a fiction, it was greatly satisfying to see one man avenge the death of a revolutionary, but what did it do for the cause? The story drifted from the cause that the man stood for to a completely different angle, avenging his death. And sadly as this one man’s murder was avenged, the cause was murdered and quietly buried as the same situations continue to prevail, even today…

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