How green was my valley ?

Well I am back to blogging after a long time. It is not that I had nothing to write but couldn't devote enough time to blog. Well watched Swadesh again and was touched again. A great movie and spectacular performance from an actor whom I hate the most. May be it is my hatred for him (for reasons best kept out of this blog) or his amazing performance that I felt onscreen was a real life person named Mohan Bhargav. I don't see any resemblances between him and me in terms of elementary similarities like his attitude, academics, job etc. but still I found he was conveying some of my feelings throughout the movie. Like Mohan, I try being one of the system yet different from it (what you would rather call standing out of the crowd). Mohan's decision in the end to quit his job in NASA sounds a bit odd and immature but if we look back in our lives, there are many such points when we give up big things to gain small things because those small things attain greater importance in our life than those big things. What Swadesh does is make us realise that and remind us what we are and where we belong. Two dialogues will stand out in my memory for long. The first being - Apne hi paani mein pighal jaana baraf ka muqadar hota hai( it is the fate of ice to melt into its own waters ). The other one being when Dayashankar Pandey compares the actions of the migrating indians as apne chaukhat ka diya giving light to the neighbour's house( the light of one's compound giving light to neighbour's house). Not just dialogues but messages for us to understand our roots and ourselves and help us carve our future. Moreover Mohan's efforts in bringing electricity to his village and then staying over in his village to do more for his village, may seem to idealistic to people but it indeed envisages the very Indianness that makes us so different from others. It highlights the optimism and vision that keeps us going. It reminds us that if there is going to be any revival of our motherland then it will be we who can do it. Yes we... we , the people.