'Hichki ' and 'Muramba' - two movies.. completely unrelated in the story, execution and content, yet so similar on its thought process, on its articulation of the premise and so heart touching that even after weeks , I still think about them with some warmth in my heart.
A girl, who has always being thought too little of by her father, suffers from a syndrome that rarely anybody knows about, 'Tourette' it is. She learns to deal with it and doesn't think about it as a big deal. She's academically very strong. She wants nothing but a job, just like anybody else but nobody agrees to even give her a chance. When someone does give her a chance at her childhood school, she realizes that it was because no one else agreed to take the job. She turns things around and everything turns out to be good again!
A little boy, who has always been one of the best in school, aced his class in his MBA, landed an internship at Boston and yet had no steady job, nor an income, nor a plan for his life. He and his girlfriend, whom he has known his entire life are set to get engaged in a month. His girlfriend is a hard-working lady, who is focused, trying to keep up with everything that's normal. And then, there it comes - they break up. The sole reason was because the boy was not doing what he was capable of. When confronted, he asks her to not meddle into his life decisions and he will do what he deems fit. After a day-long break up, he has a revelation and for the first time in his life, he says things that he had never imagined. He bared his heart open and said things that I could never have imagined telling anybody. They patch up and live happily ever after.
What struck me most and has been lingering on in my mind is the dialogue between the couple when he talks about his thoughts and his fears. The fear of not being able to live up to the standards you have set for yourself, the fear of frowns and pity, the fear of having to scrounge if nothing ever works out, the fear of failure. The girl says, "You don't have to be strong always. Sometimes I will be strong for you, sometimes you have to be strong for me." And then, they accept each other's weakness, openly. I hope, life was as simple as this. Someone might argue as well that life is actually simple and that there's a right time for everything. And maybe, that is true. The thing is unless you get into the shoes of the other person, you don't really know what is going on in his/her mind. Our minds are wired in such a way that only the engineer called God can maybe understand a bit. And we, the mere mortal creatures are so wound up in our own thoughts that after a certain point you seek the help of the Almighty to differentiate between the right and the wrong.
A girl, who has always being thought too little of by her father, suffers from a syndrome that rarely anybody knows about, 'Tourette' it is. She learns to deal with it and doesn't think about it as a big deal. She's academically very strong. She wants nothing but a job, just like anybody else but nobody agrees to even give her a chance. When someone does give her a chance at her childhood school, she realizes that it was because no one else agreed to take the job. She turns things around and everything turns out to be good again!
A little boy, who has always been one of the best in school, aced his class in his MBA, landed an internship at Boston and yet had no steady job, nor an income, nor a plan for his life. He and his girlfriend, whom he has known his entire life are set to get engaged in a month. His girlfriend is a hard-working lady, who is focused, trying to keep up with everything that's normal. And then, there it comes - they break up. The sole reason was because the boy was not doing what he was capable of. When confronted, he asks her to not meddle into his life decisions and he will do what he deems fit. After a day-long break up, he has a revelation and for the first time in his life, he says things that he had never imagined. He bared his heart open and said things that I could never have imagined telling anybody. They patch up and live happily ever after.
What struck me most and has been lingering on in my mind is the dialogue between the couple when he talks about his thoughts and his fears. The fear of not being able to live up to the standards you have set for yourself, the fear of frowns and pity, the fear of having to scrounge if nothing ever works out, the fear of failure. The girl says, "You don't have to be strong always. Sometimes I will be strong for you, sometimes you have to be strong for me." And then, they accept each other's weakness, openly. I hope, life was as simple as this. Someone might argue as well that life is actually simple and that there's a right time for everything. And maybe, that is true. The thing is unless you get into the shoes of the other person, you don't really know what is going on in his/her mind. Our minds are wired in such a way that only the engineer called God can maybe understand a bit. And we, the mere mortal creatures are so wound up in our own thoughts that after a certain point you seek the help of the Almighty to differentiate between the right and the wrong.
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