Life V2

Better a loser than a runaway

I don’t like bad guys from the movies because of some obvious reasons. But there is one of them whom I can’t have enough. Vivek Oberoi as Maya – in Shootout at Lokhandwala! Is Vivek really a bad guy? I am not sure. But yes, negative characters with some flesh and blood appear very comfortable on him.

He is Maya, brought up on the streets, believing that he was smarter than the good guys in police uniforms. He is merciless and brutal, beyond imagination. He is violent and bloody as hell.

But he has a mother who is proud of him. He has friends who are nothing but good friends. He has a dream to make it big. He is smart and cunning. He is a street fighter and a survivor.

I love his end most – the way he died, ok, the way he was killed. Sanjay Dutt was the good guy from the police. Police surround the building where Maya (Vivek) and his friends had holed up for some time. They kill his friends in the bad guys’ manner – without arms, in fake encounters. But his was not a usual ending. He and Sanjay Dutt fight with their arms deserted. He always had a pride that he was smarter than the good guys. But in the end, he was proved not to be. If he was killed with a weapon, he would still have been able to justify that good guys had better weapons than his. But Sanjay Dutt pins him with his throat on a long nail on the wall, which was used to hang cloths. He slowly dies bleeding though his throat and mouth…

Some times, we choose to end things with a false pride. We believe we are very good students and when our preparation is not good, we choose not to appear in exams. Or rejected in love, we think we are the best and don’t accept facts. Proven inferior in front of someone on the job, we resign rather than to compete with him for one more year. All these are good for your ego, but not for our soul. Sometimes a bit of a pinching defeat can do miracles in your overall growth. You grow wiser; smarter and a more stable one.

Let us choose to die mercilessly but fighting, as Maya did. Let us choose to be a loser but not the one who commits suicide. Let us choose to be a mediocre but not the one who won a Gold medal on doping. Let us have the guts to loose. Let us choose to fight another day!

I love my bad guy! :)

PS: I am a fan of both Vivek Oberoi and Sanjay Dutt :)