Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

finally and i am absolutely in love with it. Sudhir Mishra's unflinching and unapologetic political drama explores three distinct characters and morals each bound by each other and affected by socio-political environments. There are very few movies that successfully capture the true moments of a specific era, the people, their lives and struggle with their ideologies in such beautiful and authentic way. As the song often plays in the background in the film " Baawra mann dekhne chala ek sapna( Foolish heart set out to have its own dreams/wishes)" its a perfect representation of these three youth characters growing and transforming under socio-political environment. Siddharth who is political activist had a dream of igniting a revolution and doing something for oppressed, geeta who loved Siddharth had a dream of having happy life alongside him, and Vikram who never supported any political ideology and always put capitalism infront and also loved geeta wholeheartedly, in the end each of their dreams and wishes do not come true. These characters are so different-each representing something radically different, yet towards the end they have all intersected in this messy manner. But one character i really liked in the film, is Geeta. Geeta is not a Naxalite, and not a fixer. Geeta is a person who doesn't expect the world to change because she wishes it to. That's why she is the only one left sane and standing in the end. She is not ideologically savage. Even when Siddharth walks away in the end, she is still there, in the villages. And what a stellar and elegant actress Chitrangada Singh is, very under-utilised in bollywood. In a way film tells that having extreme ideological beliefs can destroy you and the society. And in a way it's true according to me. This is a film that every young person should watch, its about navigating your life in youth with an ideology, dilemmas and complexion. and rebellion. Rebellion is what young people do in every generation. It is about fathers and sons. There is a disagreement about the idea of India they all have; about India exploding in a thousand directions. In a sense it is also about encapsulating all of life in an ideology. And this film does not endorse certain ideology, it just shows three people living their life and having dreams and struggling in their own ideologies. That's why this film will be relevant all the time.