Recently I was watching this movie named 'Do Aankhein Barah Haath' based on a humanitarian jailer who transforms 6 murderers into non-violent peasants, by his new experiment of 'Open Prison'. The movie eloquently speaks of the power of love, the triumph of humanity.
I was surprised watching the movie, even more surprised by the fact that it was based on a true story! And i know most of the people of my generation will be surprised too.
But Love does have the power to bring about miracles, transform people, curb maladies, maladies of hatred, contempt, heal wounds. Is not it?
We have been told that, we have read that.
Then why this surprise? Why the whole concept of transforming hearts through love seems so inconceivable?
It was certainly not inconceivable when the movie was produced...our movies reflect our times. Don't they?
Then why has it become an alien concept now? What is it that has changed so fundamentally? And it has certainly not changed for good. So, where have we gone wrong?
Is it not that we have been brought up in an era of hatred, violence? We have grown in the shadows of terrorism, bloodshed, corruption and a shameful apathy on the part of our 'civilized' society.
Is it not that the principles of humanity, the concept of love, brotherhood, have merely been confined to the pages of literature? The generation has been slowly, gradually transformed into 'computerized intelligentsia', past caring, past listening.
