I can only regret that I did not watch this movie any earlier. The movie is such a apt portrayal of the times we live in, the angst of the commoner hen pecked at the hands of vote bank politics of our leading parties; not one who can actually stand up and take charge and if pigs had wings, probably even stir the nation the imbroglio we live in. The powerful living in collusion with each other, back stabbing and then becoming friends the next day, through exchange of mutual benefit. No matter how hard the man on the streets tries to put a life together for himself, he finds himself either battling inflation or higher taxes while the politicians and bureaucracy only lap the taxes an honest citizen pays from his hard earned money. And in spite of all the toil he puts in to ensure that he gives his family a good standard of living, he finds himself scared of letting his daughter, mother, wife, sister out on the street for there is no age limit to when a girl can be raped.
Yes the aam aadmi comes out on the street to protest, to voice his angst but only meets with opposition from the people he hopes would protect him. The aam aurat on the street gets labelled as 'dented and painted' by the son of the head of state and of course is the head of the defense forces. The commoner watches the terrorist kill his fellow citizens, being given a 'fair' trial and allowed to live four years before he is hanged. He watches, the accused in the Delhi gang rape being arrested and yet a punishment not being meted out to inspite of the incriminating evidence and inspite of the rape victim breathing her last. We are still thinking of the 17 year old accused in the rape as a juvenile, while his crime would only make you think if it were humans who could the woman through this. We only animals would actually be better than us humans.
The movie only makes you draw comparisons, of the characters, the situations in the movie with these times. The plight of the commoner, the utter disregard for his pain, his protests, the lack of compunctions in the people who rule us and at the end of it all, the honest, suffering at the hands of concocted truth. Every controversy on the tv, or rather every scam or corruption scandal seem to be made for titillation of our conscience, all the eloquent talk and the blame game appears a big charade in the rigmarole being weaved by the media. Does the media really see to the end of a controversy or does it just react to it, to gather TRPs.
Like the Mahabharata scene at the end of the movie, sometimes it only appears only the righteous who are ready to fight the dirty game, can probably absolve as of the problem. We no longer live in the times of Gandhi, were peace or non violence could make the polity go through a change of heart.
I just pray and hope we don't reach a point were we say 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro'.
