I guess, this was a couple of years or more, ago! There was this program aired on Zee TV which was supposedly a talent hunt to rope in new faces for the Bollywood. Nothing great about the idea, nor the execution, but still every Friday night, I used to watch it religiously. In one of the episodes the participants were paired to form couples and were given a scene to enact. One of them, though was a mediocre performance, stuck with me to date. The scene was: For whatever reason, the lady has nightmares and denies to sleep in the newly occupied house. The guy trying to pacify her, says something to this effect: "If sleep is that scary to you, don't sleep. We'll not let that come to you.. it may only be a night, but it still can pass off as a day in our company. If I can't lull you to sleep, I can at least accompany you all through the night sleepless." I needn't repeat how much I love these lines.
Watched "A Beautiful Mind" today and that is what set off the swarm of thoughts. ABM is supposedly the story of a nobel prize winner with a grievous brain disorder, John Nash's story. And in all certain, it his story. But for me, it is somebody else's life too. I wonder why lives are so intertwined with one another, that a point it is so hard to guess who is it? The journey which starts as "you and me" surpasses enough hurdles and transforms into "US" and it is now next to impossible to pick "the you" and "the me" again. Is it called losing identity or getting a new one? I wonder!! Nash's story is nothing but a life time experience of the line.. "If I can't lull you to sleep, I can at least accompany you all through the night sleepless"!!
Well.. only yesterday, one of my friend went on this statement, "No matter how close people are to me, they can never "feel" my silence as I do. They may empathize and sympathize, but they never gonna "feel" the way I do". "Aptly put!" was my initial response on it. Watching this movie, all I could understand is having nightmares is one, and empathizing nightmares is another hell. Your mind is clear, serene! You think only what you are really sure of. And yet, you go ahead, step into a mind that is utter mess, understand his plight, be his strength and march ahead in life. Boy.. isn't a nightmare lot better than this experience! It isn't your feeling, yet you live it! These are the particular moments, when I feel that all these romantic expressions, "I'm you" and "I love you" turn terribly to their true meaning.
A Beautiful Mind is not about a genius, not about a brain disorder, not about prestigious nobel prize. It is about love, Love and LOVE! Nothing works like it!
