Review~Naayak

I chanced upon the movie ‘Naayak’ on S-max recently. Though released in 2001, it makes one think even today.

Ethics, morals and values are learnt over one’s developing years, through interaction with the environment. However, these get sustained by way of rewards and punishments brought by the environment. In Indian context, contribution towards this learning is in no particular direction. Instead of focusing on a layman’s way of thinking, politicians’ casual statements get scrutinized. Sheila Dikshit’s off-the-cuff remark on Biharis gets more limelight than the very essential roti-kapda-makaan.

I wish our leaders undertake some bold and innovative steps, the way Anil Kapoor does in the movie. Once an average Indian begins to sense an undercurrent of honesty all around, corruption, even at lowest levels, will begin to fade away. Overtime, such a scenario will keep getting strengthened, thereby leading to ethics, morals and values coming from within, instead of without.

It’s understandable that such things are easier depicted in a work of fiction, but constrained in real life. However, true intentions take shape, no matter how.

Jai Hind.

Reema Bansal
Jagadhri

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