Typically 'Ko'llywood!

When people, who rejected Vaanam claiming it to be boring and uninteresting, praised Ko for being innovative and packed with interesting moments, I should have known what to expect from the movie. Well not that I do not know what the yuppie Tamil movie goers and the elitist class of Chennai wants in a Kollywood entertainer. My friend and I just took a chance, like many of the stupid and highly risky chances that we have taken before when it comes to Tamil movies.

Well, it was not difficult to predict what kind of a movie that is going to be played on the screen, after the few initial scenes. Silly, contrived and predictable, the movie claims itself to be a political thriller. The movie is an unpalatable concoction of politics, friendship and love. Take a thread of extremely silly Utopian dream with narrow and limited understanding about corruption. Weave the thread with a triangular love story, in which one woman even while she yawns does it with extreme poise and grace, and naturally ends up being the best available choice for the courageous hero. The other woman lacking feminine grace and docility expected out of Tamil women, naturally becomes the sidekick for the hero and the heroine and obviously dies a brutal death because she is not someone cut out for any man (specifically Tamil man with high moral values!) to fall in love with, leave alone the hero. Well, what ending can you expect for a woman of such low morals and unwomanly behaviour in Tamil cinema? Then intersperse it with a pack of highly melodious romantic songs here and there, including the one which the hero and heroine sing unashamedly on the night immediately after the brutal death of her unwomanly best friend, even before she is cremated. Then, pepper it with one or two homophobic dialogues with judicious mix of anti women and politically incorrect jokes such as the ones about commercial sex workers. There, you have a heady mix of an innovative family entertainer that the Tamil audience would just lap up.

The movie could not have done any more injustice to the character of Pia, who has donned the role of ungracious woman. The character of Karthika is cliché’d, confused and fails to impress. Then you have Ajmal and Jiva, with another uninteresting subplot of friends turning foes. Phew! If you have not walked out by then, you would probably want to kill yourself for making you go through such a torture on a Saturday evening.

And if people say that Ko is a box office hit, it would not be surprising. After all, aren’t we talking about the same audience which lapped up Vinnaithandi Varuvaya with such joy and energy!

I Am Who I Am

It is one of those few movies that you would watch crouching in the seat, with your legs folded against your chest, not realizing that you have been crying through out its running length. It is also one of those very few movies that you wish you had watched it alone rather than with a bunch of three other friends in a half empty hall, even if they are the most sensitive and the best people you have ever had in your life, so that you could just cry unashamedly as the characters emerge on the screen to hold you against the things that you have been trying to escape all along! It is definitely one of those few films that tell you stories of people in its raw and unadulterated forms.

Real and on-the-face, I Am Afia Megha Abhimanyu Omar is a string of four short stories that give you glimpses into lives of people who were betrayed, marginalised, abused and oppressed in one way or the other. As the stories slowly unravel life’s brutality and cruelty through its central characters, you know you are seeing the world that you have chosen not to acknowledge so far. But, you know that one day or the other you ought to see the truth and come to terms with it.

I Am Afia, is a story of a woman, played by Nandita Das, who is in search of a sperm donor to have a child without the support of a man in her life. She has decided not to trust a man ever again in her life, after going through the worst betrayal from the man she had been in love with. And she has to put a face to the man who is donating the sperm. Does she get to meet the man? Is she ready for making such a big step in her life? Even though the story in a way tries to enforce the gender stereotype of yearning for motherhood, there is a strong subtext that cannot be missed. The woman’s loss of trust in a man. This is something many Indian women will be able to empathize with.

I Am Megha is a story of a Kashmiri Pundit, Juhi Chawla who had fled away from Kashmir during the religious riots. Religion has not only butchered the lives of the loved ones, but has also brutally severed the beautiful friendship between Megha and her Muslim friend, Rubina, the role of latter played by Manisha Koirala. In this story, you are left with questions. Not just any questions! Questions regarding your fundamental sense of justice and faith! Who is the real victim? The one who ran away or the one who stayed back only due to lack of choice? When does ‘us’ become ‘you’ and ‘me’? You don’t get the answers. You know, the answers do not lie there on the screen but somewhere deep within you. Are you ready to see the realities of life beyond your hatred and bias? Now, go and figure out for yourself!

I Am Abhimanyu, is the story seldom told on the screen with such rawness and realism. The success lies in the subtlety of the story that hits hard on your face. The story may be shocking to many. A victim of sexual abuse by his stepfather in his childhood, Abhimanyu (Sanjay Suri) chooses to get comforted by the incestuous relationship as love. Later, he cleverly chooses it as a tool to exploit the stepfather for his own benefit. His undecipherable dreams in which he is a girl are sequenced beautifully, that you shudder seeing the harshness of the reality. The constant mewing of the nameless cats through out the story, tell you not just his story but the stories of many other Abhimanyus scattered across the world. And when his mother refuses to believe him after the death of his father, he questions her if she never saw anything or she never wanted to see anything all these days? No answer again! You know that this is the same painful silence that many men and women out there in the world would have endured in their lives. And when his girlfriend, Natasha, tells him that they will take good care of his nameless cat, which is the fourth one after the first cat that was killed by his stepfather in a fit of rage and the two other that met with brutal death, you wish someone had hugged you tight together to hold your shattering self from breaking into pieces!

I Am Omar is a story more about Jai (Rahul Bose) than about Omar (Arjun Mathur). This is a story about the cruelty and oppression that people face, just for being different in a world that is obnoxiously homophobic. Being gay in India is not easy. And IPC 377 that was recently read down, had only been making sexually marginalised people’s lives intolerable and miserable. On the night Jai meets Omar (you later realise that Omar is a male commercial sex worker), they flirt with a beauty that only Onir can manage to capture on the screen when dealing with a love affair that is not straight. And they head to a secluded place, only to get caught by a cop who threatens them to arrest if Jai is not willing to part with a huge sum of money. What then unfolds may seem completely unbelievable and shocking to many as what Jai loses that night is more than a sum of fifty thousand rupees. You come to know that these are just everyday realities for scores of people living hidden in the society. It also showcases the hypocrisy of the system and the moral guards of the society. And then you realise that the sense of morality is what is abnormal and not the people. And also you come to know that it is something that has only been invented by the power mongers of the society to nourish their own lives.

Finally, when the screen goes blank after showing you the stories of people that you would have otherwise not known, you are scared that you may find your reflections in the images that you just saw. You also understand that those images may come along with you out of the cinema hall and continue to haunt you for a while. You may be the untrusting Afia, or you may be the cynical Megha, or you may be the abused Abhimanyu, or you may be the marginalised Omar! Or worse you may be one among the others who made these people’s lives a struggle. You may be the husband who betrays Afia. Or you may be the stepfather who had slowly killed the conscience of Abhimanyu. Or you may be the repulsive cop! Or you may be the silent and helpless spectator like the mother of Abhimanyu. Or you may be the caring and loveable Natasha, the girlfriend of Abhimanyu. Or you may be Rubina, equally tormented by the people’s hatred towards other faiths. Or you may be Siddharth who offers a glimmer of hope to Afia in an important decision of her life. Or you may be Abhimanyu as well as Jai. Or you may be Afia as well as Abhimanyu. You could be anyone among those people! Or you may be a random collage of all of these people. You may be someone running away from the past. You may be someone failing to see and acknowledge the people around you.

But this is a movie that will not let you go off the hook easily. This is a movie that will haunt you and compel you to face the truth, realities and harshness of life that you have been trying to evade all these days!

Avatar, an Alien World with a Message

Avatar is not just a technically brilliant animation movie that could give an out-of-the-world experience to the audience. The brilliance lies beyond its great special effects and its grand budget. It lies in its ability to capture the essence of the universal truth that is beyond the comprehension of many humans. In fact, the specialty of the movie is hardly about its overwhelming graphics. The USP of the movie is its underlying emotional quotient that would connect well with the environmentalists, nature lovers and people who stand against oppression of any form.

The movie is about the larger issue of the human selfishness that is destroying the entire world to its crumbles. It is about the overpowering majority and their oppression against the minority, whose souls are soaked in the elixir of nature. It’s simple. The Na’vi tribe lives in harmony with nature in an alien planet called Pandora. And there we enter, humans, to capture their precious resource. And how do we that? Wage a war against them. Destroy the nature, their lives and the planet and run back with the resource to save your dying planet.

This plot involving aliens is definitely not alien to us. Because, it’s a universal problem that every country in this world would have seen during their years of development. Closer home, we have been witness to many of the tribes and aadivasis being literally driven out of their own homes for a larger purpose, that is, for the benefit of the majority of the population. How many dams, multi storeyed IT buildings and shopping complexes have been built around our country over their destroyed lives and homes?

There is something deeper the movie talks about. The connection with nature. How humans chose to ignore the harmony between their species and nature! How it is important not to play with that ethereal connection of harmony, for it wreaks only havoc. When the heroine, a Na’vi herself, refuses to accept the thanks form the hero, as saving him has cost the lives of so many wild dogs, there is something that should snap in each of us. It should take us to the truths of our selfishness, far into the dark spaces of Jim Corbett park and Sunderabans Islands. Did you get it? If many of us not have wriggled in our seats with a sense of guilt, probably it is an indication that the world has come to an end because this is a proof that humans have gone far beyond in their utter selfishness. The heroine drills a message into the male protagonist’s human head that if he had chosen to understand nature and not have provoked it, he would have escaped the ire of the wild dogs. And since, he hasn’t done it, he became the victims of their feral attack which had cost their lives. Because we all know that lives of human beings are “far superior” to any other living creature, don’t we? So, now what has driven all those tigers in our country to extinction? What has made many of them man eaters and tread into the human spaces only to lose their lives? Well, we all know the answer!

However, there is a slight discomfort in which the movie has handled disability and the way the story unfolds. It is quiet conventional in the way in which the human-hero has to emerge and belong to the Na’vi community in order to save the tribe from the dangers of his own race. Are there a scent of racism and a message of superlative powers of human beings in the movie? Despite these, the movie delivers quiet a strong message!

But, yeah, the message of destroying the lives of tribes may not be driven back to the many of our homes. Because James Cameron has chosen to set it in a futuristic and a fictional world and, quiet specifically, in an alien world. After all, it is the story of a bunch of aliens who do not even exist! May be we choose not to link it up with our opulent lives. But the message is open out there. Whether the earth lives or not, relies heavily on how we act upon the truth!

One among a Thousand Indeed!

Unpredictable and surprising, the much-hyped Aayirathil Oruvan transcends the movie-watching experience to a new level and genre for the Tamil audience. This multi-starrer, which is a revelation of sort for the acting prowess of the movie’s leading protagonists, Reema Sen, Andrea and Parthiban, (Ofcourse, Karthi is the same as he was in Paruthi Veeran) lives up to its hype and sets a new level of standards for the genre of fantasy and adventure in Tamil Cinema.

The director, Selvaraghavan, by weaving in the interesting elements of fictitious history into the story line has managed to keep the interest of the audience sustained through out the movie. The characterization of the protagonists is another unique element which makes the movie interesting and intriguing, as all the characters are etched out in shades of grey with his or her own preferences and instincts for survival. For the first time in commercial Tamil cinema, the male protagonist does not resort to heroic efforts to save the women from the dangers, though the story line has ample scope for such gimmickry. On the contrary, the director has given him space to chicken out many a times in the movie, allowing the women to take the lead. This is his success indeed, the director’s courage and boldness to treat the character of Karthi differently with shades of realistic feelings of a normal human being!

Ofcourse, as is his wont, Selvaraghavan brings in the dimensions of sexual perversions to Karthi’s character, just to cater to the needs of his male audience. Though, this is the dimension that the many of the movie-goers would have found lovable! Moving a step ahead of his usual male characters in the earlier movies like Thullavatho Ilamai, Kathal Konden and 7G Rainbow Colony, the director has even managed to make Karthi seem like a dormant rapist who would vent out his sexual energies on Reema anytime in the best available opportunity. You couldn’t let go of your male fantasies of raping a woman in order to teach her a lesson, could you Mr. Selvaragavan? How could you let go of it when that is what keeps the entire section of the male audience going up in cheers in the auditorium? And do you know that such characters in the movie will only entrench the cruel minds of the men in our society with sexual violence and oppression that are already infested with male chauvinism?

However, this time, the interesting aspect of Selvaraghavan’s piece of work is the refreshing touch to his women characters which gives a breath of relief. Probably, this is the first Tamil movie in which the leading women drink and dance around with a bottle of alcohol. Something which even the acclaimed directors like Maniratnam and Gautam Vasudeva Menon would have flinched to show in their so called urban movies in fear of the negative reaction of the conservative Tamil audience. Very surprising and refreshing that Selvaraghavan has managed to achieve it with élan and grace! Also, the way both the women slap Karthi left and right is yet another unconventionality that has been handled well with poise by the director. In addition, the roles of Reema and Andrea have been portrayed unconventionally, though towards the end in the second half, one of the characters meander into the much beaten track and the other loses its momentum and screen space to the other important characters. The leading women have done their best to do justice to their roles. Where has Reema been all along in Tamil cinema? Reema makes a mark throughout the movie with her apt expressions and bold acts. Sad that the new version of the movie has many of her scenes deleted! The sword fight with Parthiban and the classical song about Tanjore and its lost Chola dynasty that are testimonies to Reema’s hard work have been removed from the movie. Were those deletions really intended, so as to give a booster to the role of Karthi by trimming down Reema’s role which otherwise would have had more prominence in the movie? Quite possible in the male dominated tinsel town! Andrea is quite a revelation in the movie. She has a significant role who leads the gang to the destination, warning them ahead of the possible dangers that exist en route. Her understated liking for Karthi and her revulsion towards him when he assaults Reema sexually have been portrayed with care and subtlety. This adds finesse to her character that is well etched too!

The technical brilliance shines through out in the movie barring few scenes. Be it the camera angles or the cinematography, these aspects have managed to deliver the mood and essence of the movie well. Although, in some of the scenes, the graphics employed has played spoilsport by giving an immature look to the movie, overall the movie has transcended beyond the boundaries set by Tamil movies. Another let down is the sets of Chola town that fails to look like the ruins of the lost civilization. Instead, it has the scattered gold shining, making the town seem like an amateur stage set. It does not even wear the looks of ruins to look like a place that is a decade old, leave alone several centuries old!

And after the story enters into the dark spaces of the hidden civilization that is at least eight hundred years old, the movie gains a different dimension and veers towards the game of hatred, vengeance and redemption. The stark realities of human civilization have been captured well in the movie. The hatred that would survive through several years and generations, only to be vented out at the opportunistic moment is portrayed well. Though, seems unbelievable at certain moments, it only proves the time tested cruelty of human minds. Another interesting angle of the movie is that it gives an opportunity to compare and contrast the ancient and modern civilizations in the same platform. The story line goes a step ahead to showcase the harsh reality that the ancient civilization has evolved into a modern and sophisticated only in its lifestyle, but the cruelty, oppression, hatred and the hunger for power have stayed intact in its raw form in the human society through its many centuries of evolutuion. If the other society that is stuck in times that trace several hundred years back releases its anger and hatred through brutal and cruel games, the modern society which plays with the lives of marginalized does not differ much from its ancient counterpart in its power games. The suffering of Karthi and his group of workers in the hands of the military men is a standing testimony to the unbalanced power equation in the society. Later, in the sequences where the captured Cholas are tortured and killed by the army people, the power equation gains a new dimension in the movie to portray the shocking reality that power is only a volatile thing.

The other interesting element of the movie is the language that is used to depict the Chola lifestyle. For years, Tamil movie goers have been cheated by the movie makers who have employed modern literary Tamil for the depiction of ancient tongue spoken by the kings in their movies. Especially in the ones that eulogizes the lives of kings and queens of Tamil Nadu such as Raja Raja Cholan and Veera Pandiya Kattabomman. Thanks to the in-depth research carried out by Selvaraghavan, we get to hear the real ancient Tamil not in its literary form but in a unique functional form. May be flawed to an extent, the attempt and the attention that the director has paid to the detail deserves an applause. Also, it may be the first of its kind movie in the history of Tamil Cinema which has had the courage to depict the darker sides of the Kings. Added to that, the way Selvaraghavan handles the story without taking sides to any of the kingdoms or any of the characters, enable the movie to rise above the conventions and norms that the Tamil cinema is used to. Rather the protagonists shape up themselves based on the situations and survival instinct forms the main element that aids in the development of their characters in the movie as the story unfolds. However, you wish Reema’s cahracer had been handled with little more care and elegance, as at times it gives a feeling that the director has done injustice to the character only because it is played by a woman.

May be, Aayirathil Oruvan is flawed and follows a safer path at many instances. And in some of the scenes it leaves you with a sense of déjà vu. It is clear that these scenes have derived its inspiration from some of the popular Hollywood movies. Despite these shortcomings, the movie is a must watch at least for its sheer experience. And if you are an ardent movie buff, then it is definitely one of those movies that should not be given a miss for its interesting story that is part fantasy and part adventure, and its unconventional characterization that is hard to be seen often in Tamil movies.

Kill the Animals, Who Cares!

When I recently got into a stifled argument about using animals for testing the ‘harmfulness” of cosmetics and a whole range of medicines to “human beings”, my mind just opened up to a wild spectrum of thoughts about selfishness of humans and their welled up anger towards anything that is nature.

Thanks to those animal rights activists (and to the dismay, arrogance and hatred of the self-proclaimed humanists who do nothing to improve the conditions of the human beings they stand for but sit in the corner of a well furnished and an air-conditioned MNC corporate facing a beaming Personal Computer all day long, probably working hard to fill up their bank accounts to own a car, hook up to a man or woman and buy a well-furnished house. Necessarily in that order!), the much debated issue of animal testing is now seeing a positive change in favor of much maligned animals of our planet. In Europe and US, there are many alternative testing methods and laws that have been established to protect the interests of the poor animals, which otherwise is taken for granted.

Few questions to that bunch of cynics and hypocrites who would just turn cold shoulders to the sufferings of animals (I just can see many flaring their noses and calling me names! It took twenty six years for me to understand that the words “animal rights” can evoke such hatred and from people!), do you even know what you are arguing about? Do you know what it means to give up your life to protect the lives of another alien species which has assumed a fake superiority over this world, all because this group of selfish and cannibalistic creatures can talk, walk on two legs, subjugate the females of its own group, create divisions based on class, creed and race and yeah can also moralize and stigmatize sexuality?

Can you understand how it feels to rub some toxic chemical on your peeled skin and be baked at a temperature that is definitely some 20 or 30 degrees higher than the normal temperature? Can you feel the pain? Oh anyway, why do you have to bother about that? Just go ahead with rubbing your newly purchased cosmetics on your face, legs, arms and anywhere appropriate! But, hasn’t it ever struck you that these tiny plastic bottles of colorful cream have done nothing to change the way you look. You still look the way you are, horrible or tolerable, whatever it is!

Do you know how it feels to have your eyes gouged out? If only those hundreds and hundreds of cats, dogs, rabbits and mice could talk! How would you know all these! All you would want is assume that false superiority over the entire planet and its magnificent nature. All you would want is to live under the false impression that you own the planet and you can do pretty much anything as you wish to destroy its soul.

And to those who would raise the questions like “Don’t you take tablets to kill the germs? How is it justified then?” just to counter argue and get a false kick by assuming that this stupid question could probably corner the opponent, may be you don’t know anything about the defensive mechanism that is necessary for any living creature. The very reason that you put both animal testing and bacteria-killing under one umbrella shows your lack of understanding about nature and the rights that every living creature is entitled to. This question closes all the doors of possibilities of any further discussion because either this inanity is intended as an effective tool to stop the argument or is a sign of your lack of ability to understand nature and therefore further argument is going to be useless.

Well, anyways, who needs your support! There is progress that is already happening. You can’t get away that easily after doing loads and loads of damage. And you are already facing the brunt of it. Melting polar ice caps, expanding ozone holes, pouring rains and submerging islands! And I can almost hear you all laughing out there. Laughing at my stupidity of talking about global warming and animal testing as though they are the same. May be they are not same. But both are the outcomes of the same attitude. Arrogance, selfishness, irresponsibility and power-hunger! Aren’t these the same qualities that made humans think that they own animals? And isn’t that this feeling of ownership which has driven us literally to the end of the world?

Anyways, those who have decided to turn deaf ears to people crying hoarse about the dying planet will continue to close their ears. They may just go that extra mile to kill the planet, just for the sake of it! Who are we to ponder on these things anyway? Let’s just carry on with our lives! So what if the polar ice caps are melting? So what if our tigers are disappearing? We don’t eat tigers anyway! So what if the frogs are killed just for the reason that they are ugly croaking creatures? I am not ugly, even if so, I know I won’t be killed (of course as long as I am rich, definitely straight , may be not a woman and do not belong to any of the uncouth tribal class) for this reason because that amounts to murder and we call it bigotry!

So what if there are nearly 186 languages in India that have gone extinct, taking a vast knowledge about nature? Let’s just go ahead and standardize English as the medium of communication because that gives us a hep image and probably gives our country an international recognition that we are so in need of! So what if there are hundreds and hundreds of tribes, like Banjaras in Hyderabad, who are being evacuated in the name of development? Let’s just work in those multi-storey IT buildings and earn as much as we can. So what if animals are tested in the science laboratories? Let’s just go about consuming those branded medicines (definitely not generic!) and cosmetics to make us look beautiful and also probably kinder by helping us to hide our ugly, sinful and demonic faces under that sticky mask that would have killed at least a dozen of animals!

Enough of Your Heterosexism!

When I came across a recent blogpost on why Abhishek and John Abraham should have kissed in Dostana, I just cannot stop wondering how the issue of fighting for the alternative sexuality has always been from a heterosexist point of view! The media, especially those sick television shows and the new genre of Bollywood movies have gone an extra mile to make sure the debate on this is kept rolling, mostly for their commercial purposes. Not that I mean commercial purpose should never be on their cards. But when money making becomes your soul aim, most of the times, the real issue in hand takes a distorted shape. Why take a critical issue as this to make money.? In the end, apart from making money, you end up misrepresenting the community. Worse, you steer away many of the serious political movements from their real directions to the one which is futile and devoid of any seriousness that is vital for these movements.

It is very clear that in the name of progressive attitude, Bollywood has begun to only unleash its yet another bigotry towards certain targeted community of the society. Even in its stride towards a more inclusive society, the whole industry is just attempting to standardize the lives of LGBT community in the heterosexist way! No wonder, of late, these “progressive movies” depicting alternative sexuality are being splashed on the screens of the opulent multiplexes of our country. And definitely Dostana and Straight have seem to caught the attention of debaters. Well what are we debating about? The real issue? Is the debate on whether Bachhan and Abraham should have kissed, any issue at all?

What did Dostana do to LGBT community? It only ended up reiterating the stereotypical image about gay men. Why should two heterosexual men kiss each other to prove their love for the woman! Come on, what do you mean by that? Do you mean to say that a man kissing another man is as ugly as I-don’t-know-what! Can you get more homophobic than this! And what are you doing this for? To cater to those heterosexuals by making this emotional statement on heterosexual love? Sick! Well, you could have very well told this heterosexual bull shit love story without even involving alternative sexuality!

And what is this about Straight? Could you even call this movie as an attempt that is “in favor” of gay men? This movie is too straight, or completely straight to talk about homosexuality as an issue at all. It is one of the movies that should be rated as highly homophobic to be even tolerated. Well, the protagonist jumps in joy after making love to a woman, because he has found out that he is not gay. Bull shit! This is a clear evidence of the screwed-up understanding that our movie makers have about sexuality. And this tirade about how love is not about sex! How even homosexuals look only for love and not sex! Can't you just stop this heterosexist bull shit-love thing. It is so sickening. We have had enough of crap about glories of love for ages now. Do not attempt to bring this sickening aspect of “yearning for love” into homosexuality and tire us more.

And the hero is never gay in our movies. It is only the supporting actors who are always gays! Would John or Abhishek play the role that Sanjay Suri or Purab Kohli played in My Brother Nikhil?

Give us a break! We are better off watching an ordinary complete commercial masala Tamil movie. Even if it has Vijay or Silambarasan playing the central role!

Purpose of Life

During a fierce moment of rage, I discovered the truth about purpose of life and existence. There exists nothing called purpose of life. It is created. It is created by people to add meaning to their everyday existence.



The relationships that I destroyed. Will I be ever able to forgive myself? Will I get a purpose in life to live for? How did I become the person I am now? When did things turn topsy turvy? I fail to understand. The complexity of human emotions is overwhelming. Overpowering. Has self-control become a non-existent concept of my life?



The emotional tide that has swept my closer ones into its strong undercurrent has left them scarred. Will those scars disappear? Or will it remain as adamant as a dark red blood stain to remind me of the things I lost and the things I will lose in my life?



What do I want? Redemption? Do I really need one? Where will I find it? How will I find it?



I am just lost. I just don't see a way out. Darkness. Hurt. Anger. Questions. Confusions. Tears. A melange of everything. A concoction of bad energies. Absolute lack of energy. Hopelessnes.



But, there is a way out. Narrow. Constricted. Claustrophobic. A long tunnel of darkness. Ligth far away from the sight. A difficult passage for an escape. Travel through the passage is not worth the living. You think so. But, no choice. Take it. Go through it. Squeeze yourself into the tunnel of darkness. There will be light. Somewhere down the long and torturous path lies the bright world. Live it. Move on. Get inside. It may take aeons to come out. But you will see fresh air at the end of the tunnel. Breathe in the fresh air. The smell of flowers. Colourful world. Live it. Create that purpose of life.