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Hello friends,
The track on the show and the post on one of the forum's members being terminally ill have got me thinking. I do not know the member personally but just read that she has a young family to live for. I sincerely hope that God grants this family a miracle and Dr Malvika recovers soon and resumes life with full vigor.
On the track, I do not have any hope for it. Please forgive me for sounding so pessimistic but I just cannot help myself. This is a track that had so much potential for intensity, drama and emotions. We have hardly seen a glimpse of all this. Instead, they are going off on a complete tangent, something that is simply not in sync even with the character that it is revolving around. Like another member has discussed in her post, a man who has lost in love will be all the more sympathetic to the cause. Having shown Baba as a man who practically threw his daughter out of his home for falling in love and going against his wishes, suddenly they are projecting this image of a man who has been pining all his life for his lost love and who is unable to come to terms with it. I don't know about the others but it does not make an iota of sense to me. But this is nothing new since inconsistency has been the hallmark of every single characterization on this show. The writers have taken great delight in butchering every principal character on the show at different points in time.
Anyway, the point is this whole debate of life vs death. I am assuming that Baba must be at least around eighty years of age. He is a man who has lived his life to the fullest and who now wants to go in peace. I don't mean to sound cruel but everyone has to go sometime or the other. Since the man has lived a good life and will go with good memories, his passing is not a cause for great mourning. Instead, it is now time for thanksgiving and celebration. I think his approach of living his remaining days to the fullest is beautiful. This is not failure but rather acceptance of the inevitable.
Acceptance is not cowardice, It takes great strength to accept your end with a smile. And it takes tremendous courage to accept and allow your loved ones to go, when their journey has neared an end. To repeatedly subject them to the trauma of high risk procedures and treatment is in a way selfish, in my opinion. We are willing to put someone through so much of pain and risk, simply because we are selfish enough to want them with us forever. Is that even possible though?
In this context, I recall Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish. The movie had its faults but the theme cannot be faulted. It was the story of a courageous young man who fought against all odds before finally deciding that he had had enough. He finally fought for his right to go in peace.
Since, the writers are anyway borrowing left, right and centre from every other movie or show, they could have as well borrowed from this film. Or from Rajesh Khanna's evergreen Anand. Both these films had young men as their protagonists, people with incurable diseases who wanted to go with a smile.
Imagine what a beautiful track this could have been! Why is this show always bent on messing up every opportunity it gets?
The track on the show and the post on one of the forum's members being terminally ill have got me thinking. I do not know the member personally but just read that she has a young family to live for. I sincerely hope that God grants this family a miracle and Dr Malvika recovers soon and resumes life with full vigor.
On the track, I do not have any hope for it. Please forgive me for sounding so pessimistic but I just cannot help myself. This is a track that had so much potential for intensity, drama and emotions. We have hardly seen a glimpse of all this. Instead, they are going off on a complete tangent, something that is simply not in sync even with the character that it is revolving around. Like another member has discussed in her post, a man who has lost in love will be all the more sympathetic to the cause. Having shown Baba as a man who practically threw his daughter out of his home for falling in love and going against his wishes, suddenly they are projecting this image of a man who has been pining all his life for his lost love and who is unable to come to terms with it. I don't know about the others but it does not make an iota of sense to me. But this is nothing new since inconsistency has been the hallmark of every single characterization on this show. The writers have taken great delight in butchering every principal character on the show at different points in time.
Anyway, the point is this whole debate of life vs death. I am assuming that Baba must be at least around eighty years of age. He is a man who has lived his life to the fullest and who now wants to go in peace. I don't mean to sound cruel but everyone has to go sometime or the other. Since the man has lived a good life and will go with good memories, his passing is not a cause for great mourning. Instead, it is now time for thanksgiving and celebration. I think his approach of living his remaining days to the fullest is beautiful. This is not failure but rather acceptance of the inevitable.
Acceptance is not cowardice, It takes great strength to accept your end with a smile. And it takes tremendous courage to accept and allow your loved ones to go, when their journey has neared an end. To repeatedly subject them to the trauma of high risk procedures and treatment is in a way selfish, in my opinion. We are willing to put someone through so much of pain and risk, simply because we are selfish enough to want them with us forever. Is that even possible though?
In this context, I recall Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish. The movie had its faults but the theme cannot be faulted. It was the story of a courageous young man who fought against all odds before finally deciding that he had had enough. He finally fought for his right to go in peace.
Since, the writers are anyway borrowing left, right and centre from every other movie or show, they could have as well borrowed from this film. Or from Rajesh Khanna's evergreen Anand. Both these films had young men as their protagonists, people with incurable diseases who wanted to go with a smile.
Imagine what a beautiful track this could have been! Why is this show always bent on messing up every opportunity it gets?
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