Mr. Natwarlal

Had it been a normal day, I would have never got time to watch TV and that too for 3 hours!!! Its' like a record-time in 10 years... cant' ever pen down where my day goes and hence how the last year-n-a-half went by but honestly, I have had no time- nurturing my spiritual instincts, being a "witness" to my mom's life, getting close to the family and showering love to the assignment assigned... all this does not sound too much but actually took all the time I thought I had to myself...

So today, I happened to give The Amitabh-starrer “Mr. Natwarlal” my super-precious 3 hours and I could distinctly see change in the era. The way things were perceived at that time and the way people were loved has sure become a history. Though the movie is just 35 years old, it seems a century has passed by. Happiness back then did not depend upon the money people earned, the cars people kept, the size of the houses people lived in or the small lies spoken to lead a comfortable life according to ones’ self. It was a calmer, quieter, lovable abode people found solace in. Never were big things important in life, what mattered the most were the “nano”-things… As watering the seed everyday leads to the huge philanthropist-tree, people took care of the smallest things and the bigger picture just fell in place, easily and smoothly. This simple science was known to the “not-so-educated” lot of people back then but the “intelligent” being of today has lost the basics completely. Both the fame and the ambitions have taken over or the-way-i-lead-my-life-is-perfect syndrome has creped in. Interdependence was the key to survival and fostering of relationship was the source of happiness, but today, self-sufficiency is the motto. Self-sufficiency can’t provide one with the feeling of completeness that interdependency and sharing and caring does… But denial, ignorance is the best way for the man of today and with such ease and panache, he turns a blind eye to all this and lives a shallow life, the repercussions of which create havoc in relationships…

The movie highlights singing and dancing even at the slightest sign of hope, neither did they have big brands to shop nor the luxury of the internet to get “everything”, still their faces lit up at the smallest thing and kept them alive and kicking for days to come. The kya-farak-padhta-hai-attitude has made permanent dents, not recognisable and repeated failure of not acknowledging will leave us in live- burials. Hiding, lying, dishonesty, cheating, insincerity were words unknown to them… Love could turn a stone to a human and todays’ man, turns love into a stone. Sad, what a terrible life we are leading, with a void big enough, which can not be filled by anything but love, however, that is brutally trampled even if given in abundance. Here, ones’ dreams have anyways lost value; the dreams of the other person are also crushed and walked on…

They knew the art of “uncomplicating” and loving, somehow along the path; we have gone astray and hence lost the art of loving as well…

Lets’ see how far can we go,

With such menace and shallow approach,

We shall try till we die,

Our love will get its’ pie,

The new gen-x will revert to the old,

Making love its’ only abode,

Leave the acts behind,

For gen-x should not get a glimpse of anything of your kind…