Aranyer Din Ratri

I someday wish to write a book and maybe some chapters would be from the blogs itself, so here's to another set of boring events in my life that somehow make my existence very eventful. I watched a few good stuff over the last few days. Starting from a Bengali movie - " Aranyer Din Ratri". I never felt more close to a movie about friends going on a trip than this one. A perfect set of totally different people who are just friends without reasons without lack of who embark on a journey with total confidence and self assurance that they will come back to their mundane lives with something that they will treasure. I personally feel we are all the same in this way, how remarkably we hope for things to happen to us, somethings over which we have no control. There's one line in the film which is spoken by two friends, I would translate it don't worry. " Joto bachbo Toto uthbo" which means " the longer you live the more you rise" to which the friend replied " joto uthbo Toto nambo"  which means " The more I rise, the more I fall". There's an eternal truth in it. We corrupt with time. Nobody is born the way they turn out. Life happens and we just play our roles, moulding ourselves to the characters we are supposed to play. There's another thing about friendship I noticed. We can't bond with people of the same type. We need difference. Difference gives rise to new perspectives, new ways of thinking, new ways of accepting, new ways of regarding each other's presence and to everlasting co-existence. Now comes the love story part the movie portrayed. While on one hand we see a modern woman leaving her boyfriend because he did not properly reply to her love letter to seeing another intelligent woman submit herself for the man she loves despite the fact that she had been the champion in that game for ever. Asim couldn't understand the depth of Aparna because he hadn't ever gone through the depth of emotions she had. Spending hours alone in the tree house far away with books and records which were her sole comfort was unfathomable to him. But yes he wanted to know her, he tried to, he made efforts and she reciprocated and it led to somewhere, probably they again met in Kolkata, probably they got married too. Coming to Sanjay falling in love with the widow, our entire existence is based on companionship, no wonder how much we are happy on our own, with our work, with our hobbies we need someone to witness that, a companion to go through every bits and moments of our life. It was indeed two hours of self exploration for me. A treat to the eyes. Satyajit Ray was way ahead of his time. He could see what we felt today or even what future generations will feel someday way before it was trending. I know I will never have this kind of trip with my friends because in reality a lot of wishes and dreams get immersed in peer pressure and mockery, but it was indeed a pleasure to watch this. 


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