So was it an awakening of sorts for you?
I wouldn't call it that, but living faraway from rural India, I sometimes feel very disconnected from the real India. I am an army officer's daughter, and I know what it feels like when someone from your family sheds some blood on the border of India. You feel a deep sense of pride.
Today's generation, particularly the ones who were born in the last twenty years, are just so disconnected from this reality. An army man's life, his family's sacrifice is for a reason, we have formed this country India for a reason, and that ideology is India.
What did Gandhi fight for? I just think we should keep this ideology alive, we should not forget this national pride. That's what Heroes is all about.
Do you mean to say that this film would imbibe this consciousness in today's youth?
The film does inspire a lot of thought. It is about these two young guys who are rich, young, and have it all. They have so much time that they often waste it. In a way, that's how I view today's generation too, the youth who sits for long hours in front of their computer, doing nothing much, never really finding out what is happening around the world.
That is what makes them so insulated. So these two kids decide to go traveling across North India. In the course of their journey they meet these sons of the soil who work so hard for their living. They are so driven by their reasons for living that they actually get inspired. I am convinced that this kind of a film, in 2008, like Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par, will work for today's youth.
Photograph: A still from Heroes
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