Lohithadas ... Down the memory lane

( Mallu specific post.. others excuse  please :)  )

          There are some four / five  malayalam movies that I recommend to many non-mallus.. And 'Thaniyavarthanam'  is one among them... And that script is perhaps the best work of Lohithadas , who passed away couple of days ago.. The societal pressures forcing a normal man to lunacy is a masterclass...   The combination of Sibi Malayil & Lohithadas has given some of the best movies to us.. Another notable one among that being 'Kireedom', the national award winning movie.

          I would perhaps place him at the same pedestal as the late Padmarajan..  However, both styles were essentially contrasting though..  

  

As many news articles say, "Lohithadas ini oru orma"  

Mixed Emotions

 

     There haven't been such a day in the recent past when on instance, I felt so good...and on another instance, I felt so disturbed... To be true, if I've to describe today - 5th June '09  - in terms of emotions I felt , it would be aptly mapped by a sinusoidal curve with 3 crests & 2 troughs..  However on all situations, I knew it was coming ... though I didnt knew whether the crest or trough was coming...but that knowledge helped me to deliver a balanced response.

             

     There are some situations in life when you have to speak up...And I'm happy that I did that today...  I do believe that a core value  education has instilled in me is to make sure that I don't take things meekly... that I dont silently submit myself to the so called system .... that I do try and fight.. that I do make a conscious attempt to make things better... And I'm proud that I attempted for that today....In the process, it did hurt someone...But I feel it'll do a lot good for him & the system in the long run.        

 

Conventions & Logic

  He:   Hey..Why are we doing it this way ?

  She:   Its supposed to be done like that 

  He:   Why? It doesnt seem to serve any purpose .

  She:  This is how it was done till now & we need to maintain that way.

  He: But there are better ways of doing this..Why spend such an awful time for doing this in an archiac way ?

  She:  That deviates from the convention.. 

  He:Its like a dogma..U spend so much of your time to preserve a convention which doesnt seem to serve any purpose. 

  She: It was done like this till now & it'll be done in the same way going forward no matter what effort it takes..We got to do it.

  He: Sigh!!.. Is there any single word for 'useless convention' :)  

         -  There's this wonderful movie - 300 - in which they picturize how statements from Oracles are made..And the futility of obeying to a convention/norm/dogma is shown in a touching way... We get exposed to different systems in our life...None of them are perfect..Rather, those systems are the need of a particular time frame..When times , technology & people change , systems got to change.. We may very well comeback to the old system at a later point in time..But that doesnt mean that we should be averse to experiments / change...People who think differently from conventions tend to come up with something better..Change should be in everything we do..it should be in technology, processeses, people...everything..

            Always respect two kinds of people the most - People who make a system & people who break a system...