To put the story in short, in this movie a Chandigarh girl wins some beauty contest there and becomes a 'wanna be' model. She goes to Mumbai, struggles, and finally makes it big because a big time 'fashion GOD' falls for her (although he is married) and uses her as a mistress. Our lady, in the meantime moves from being an honest seedhi-saadi girl to an arrogant %&*(# who ruins all her relationships and when the 'fashion GOD' also dumps her after she becomes pregnant, life goes topsy-turvy and she ends up with booze and joints of all kinds. She eventually also loses her career.
She goes back to her angry dad's home (who had always been against modelling). After an year of therapy, her dad realises that she needs to win back her confidence and for that she needs to be a model again..and so he sends her back. After another struggle, she again makes it to the top, albeit at the cost of a lot of personal loss.
Well, I kind of dumped the fashion theme altogether, for its pretty complicated and my views are pretty orthodox and prejudiced. What mattered to me was the 'struggle for a dream' and 'it's cost'.
Now, fashion or no fashion, most of us, or at least many of us have a passion and achieving it requires a cost. It could be any dream...
And most of us fail to achieve it fully, and if one believes in rebirths, we take god knows how many births and keep running after one dream or another in every life.
Point is.....it all appears pointless! Giving your life for a dream..losing it at death and then starting all over again. Life after life after life......ad infinitum.
Why not find what's permanent and be done for eternity?
Now I know that the thought is neither novel nor profound but after watching the movie it hit me pretty hard. Especially because I find myself at the crossroads to various destinations and since I seem to be just stuck here without being able to move anywhere, quite like Priyanka Chopra in Fashion (when she's lost) I feel at times I am just running away from the crossroads since I do not have the answer. OK, I dun do joints or booze etc., but running away can be done in various ways...
And the only way is to go back to the SELF, which too seems very difficult right now and I am thinking of ways in order to facilitate that. Perhaps we all are.
But not all of us are ready to pay the price. We'd much rather run life after life rather than go through just one 'Passion of Christ'!
5 comments:
What was the difference between her successes at the first and the 2nd time.
2nd time around she's a PROFESSIONAL. Hope you understand !
Could u please tell me the definition(not the meaning) of this word "PROFESSIONAL", So that i can understand ur answer properly.
and one more question, can't one maintain this professionalism before ruining himself once or this(what that girl did first) is the way to professionalism.
dreams never cease to come....their shade changes....from light to dark to divine.....
if everybody thinks (rather asks!) for this permanent solution....how wud this world RUN :)
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