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Hello Readers

How are you today?

I want to share a short story today, this one is not too ancient or too modern it is just what happens in present day, even though I have seen people go through this I would like to trace it out as a story.I Feel it is very important for this message to go out to as many people as possible.

The region of Madikeri also famously is a very famous and beautiful place in Karnataka, there lived a family in the midst of a coffee estate.

It is the family of Mr. Varma who is a successful businessman in the food processing industry.

Maya is  22 years old,  who is Mr. Varma’s daughter who wishes to crack the UPSC exam and wants to serve the Indian administration services.MR Varma’s wife is a homemaker trying to support the family in the best way possible.

So things are working out for this family with new hopes of Mr. Varma to make more profits, his daughter who hopes to clear her exam and so on. But as you know life is like cycle definitely there would be ups and downs!

Similarly, this family started facing issues which started off Mr. Varma’s business taking a U-turn due to certain corrections in the market of this product and some of his key employees quitting his business.

As some of us would be aware there is lot competition in the food processing industry and these were testing times for Mr. Varma.

The repel effect is always not good, in this family it played a key role in setting or rather changing the environment of the house, the house usually gaily and cheerful but now it turned out rather a mellow and dull place due to the pressures of Mr. Varma's  business.

Things became worse when Mr.Varma developed a bad taste for alcohol and started coming home drunk and started behaving in an inappropriate manner destroying the inner peace of Maya and her mother, who were very concerned about him.

Maya whose preparation for the exam was going well could not concentrate now and felt depressed and weak, even though her mother kept her motivated, she failed that exam.

There ends the story! Sorry if you think if it was abrupt, but the message I wanted to convey was told so I just wanted to end it there, so what is the message? Here goes.

A family is like an institution where there is something which goes on a daily basis and in the present scenario a joint family is not to be found very easily and even the nuclear families are like with maximum of four people in a typical case, if there a distortions in the normal flow of thoughts and understanding patterns in a house it will become a huge mental setback for people of the family who more simple or kind  at mind.

The Department of Domestic Violence and family disputes Prevention, USA says half of the families face problems due to parents! Please don’t take me wrong that I am trying to corner parents here, the kids are equally responsible so that other half of the graph is shared by them.

But in the above story which I shared, it is the case where an ambitious aspirant for one of the most difficult exams in the world was doing good and focused, unfortunately, she could succeed due to the lack of mental support at home.

So I would like to push this message to all those parents out there who love their kids, maintain decorum in the front of your kids, please don’t lose your temper in front of them make them feel uncomfortable instead build confidence in their minds, if you have your personal issues or with your wife or husband try to solve it by yourself, until your children are ready to take the heat and help you swim out of it. Stop setting wrong examples in your kid's mind.

In India, family counseling is still considered as the last step as we hesitate to share our personal pains to a stranger, but I tell you it is most required and helps keep a health check of your family bonding.

Let me know your opinion on this blog.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Thanks a lot for your time, have a great week ahead.

Regards

Helios.

Cine Review

Hello readers

Before I start, please note this may be a spoiler if you have not seen the movie “Arjun Reddy” and you would wish to see it if you think so please watch it then read it, but the choice is yours.

How are you today? first of all happy Diwali to everyone, from my childhood I have always appreciated this festival, yes for few years for the fun we had in lighting  pinwheels, but later when we realized that all about the environmental implications it had and then stop bursting firecrackers and slowly understood the meaning of this festival, it feels great that there were great minds who brought in this concept and given to us  to carry it on to the generations to come because life is all about light and it is not about darkness, the light of hope, light of freedom, the light of achievement, basically light is all about optimism.

This is a new kind of blog which I am actually trying out and my first blog expressing my opinion on a movie which I watched today, the name of the movie is "Arjun Reddy" it is in the Telugu language a popular dialect spoken in the southern part of India.

For all those people who have already watched this movie, I am happy you watched it.

Ok let us now try to understand what kind of a movie it is , also the ones who watched it and have understood it I am sure you will say it’s a kind of rough movie and very raw, sometimes vulgar and beast like but at the end you would say it’s the most realistic movie I have seen in Indian Cinema lately.

Now to the storyline, let me first tell you what it isn’t actually it’s not some great thriller storyline kind of cinema where you have mind-boggling plots which keep you guessing the murderer until the end, or some fairy tale not real love story which doesn't have any practicality and cannot happen in real life especially the dishumm dishumm (popular expression used for fight in Indian Cinema) which we  end up watching always.

This movie is  about the life of a medical student, the director Mr. Sandeep Reddy Vanga has brilliantly portrayed  the character of an angry man ( Arjun Reddy) who is a topper in his college but still has bad habits which many medical students  end up in like: drugs and alcohol during their course, again I greatly respect doctors and I am seriously not generalizing that the majority of the students end up in all of those but unfortunately it is a fact and I don’t blame the students for this, because the profession is such that you need lot of tenacity and that’s  Gods honest truth.

So this young man a college topper and perusing his house surgeoncies’ falls in love with a Mangalorean girl, and they are inseparable until their bond is deeply broken when both the families do not agree to their marriage due to the “caste” and “creed” issue which is typically expected from our society. the story takes an ugly turn when the hero ends up totally depressed and almost loses his mind for this girl and ends up on road addicted to extreme alcoholism and drugs which proves bad for him with blackouts and also ends up his medical license to be canceled.

At that particular scene of an in-house bench court where his brother and his family try to get him out of this case Arjun realizes his mistakes partially and accepts his misdeed and his medical license is canceled.

There I think I developed respect towards the hero’s character for his truthfulness, which I appreciate.

After this, the story has been brought back by the death of Arjun’s dear granny who passes away and Arjun now on the roads rejoins his family because he cared for his grandmother very much, who was with him for when he told about his love story.

The last 30 minutes of the movie which I expected to be ended up abruptly as it happens with many movies here the endings are split, I liked the way in this one even the ending was realistic. At first, we see Preeti the Girlfriend who is married according to her family’s choice is a pregnant and Arjun is broken after he sees that as he feels she is not at all happy.

Next Arjun goes aboard just to take a time out from everything, where he meets his old time friend Kamal, now Arjun is even more convinced that he needs to claim his life back and his soul mate back, so he comes back and tries to talk and convince Preeti to marry him!

After a while she is shown in a park sitting on a bench and Arjun talks to her with no response, after persuading to talk to her, she breaks down and says she is pregnant with his baby and she was not living in her house just after three days of marriage because her family noticed that she is pregnant.

So finally ending on a happy note they marry with the approval of both their families.

Well there ends the story I have kept it way too brief I agree which I have done it on purpose as this a blog and I have got feedback saying that my blogs are too long sometimes.

But I think after I while I watched something realistic, because I am sorry to say we are living in a hypocritical society where we always keep saying tradition, custom, caste creed and religion and end up not being truthful to any of these, that I feel is even more disastrous than being agnostic or atheistic or a rationalist, this movie helps us understand actually what true love is and it is nothing but devotion according to me to anything you love not necessarily a women  it can be anything your profession, your hobby or your talent, but sometimes we end up hiding our feelings hiding our desires for the sake of society by doing which I think we are cheating ourselves.

I feel we should go all out and do what we like unless it is not harming society, now for the ones who say well it is a movie and you can show and script it the best way to woo the audience, I will not agree at least in case of this movie, because if you watch it you will see reality It doesn’t look like scripted one! also saw some ruckus in the media where people protested against this movie, I stand by my statement that it is a realistic movie may be exaggerated at some parts and a little bit of foul language which may have been avoided and blur some scenes of doing booze, women, and drugs but the truth is always ugly.

I would not like to end this blog with a marketing tone saying “I urge you to watch this movie and so on” and please this is not any paid media kind stuff where I have great connections with cast or crew that asked me to write a review I am just a rookie who likes sparking discussions with my dear readers this is out of my free will.

Let me know your thoughts in the comment box.

Have a blissful Diwali and a weekend.

Regards

Helios meaning the sun in Greek (my blog name from this blog onwards)

Herald

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

Every tiny molecule of ash is in motion with my heat, I am such a lunatic that I am free even in jail.

-Sri Bhagat Singh

We all look up to our leaders and are also motivated by their stature and the way they take care of their followers.

Going back in time there were great leaders who have lead people in the right directions which have helped to make this world a better place to live.

 Historically there are many people who were great leaders and their legacy is being taken as an example till date talks about Karana oh! What a great worrier he was. He fought till the end and gave away everything that he was asked including his divine shield which was a divine gift. That is one of the qualities of a leader non-materialism or sacrifice.

Recently I  read a random article about the correlation between mythology and logic, the funny part is that recently when my cousin visited he actually suggested writing a blog based on almost this same topic but, highlighting leaders.

So what is the correlation between the almighty sun and a leader, well I have read in the history books which often contain some poetic lines like: “here comes the leader who shines as bright as the sun” now why do they say that why is a leader compared to the sun? Well, I was thinking about it for some time and these thoughts uttered to my mind.

The sun is selfless, for him, the first priority is always shining to give light and this shining takes  lot of his strength   because he burns himself up to shine for us, similarly, a leader is a person who believes in helping his people first and lead them in the right direction he will think about himself  lastly after he has helped his people in whatever it is required to be done.

The sun is a mighty star placed millions of lightyears away from our mother earth, but still, each and every being on this earth is dependent on the sun, to be clear we can say without hesitation that without the sun there is no life, imagine a day of darkness! all that breaths depend on energy on the sun and he is the only one capable of supporting life.

After talking about the sun, little peek inside mankind, there were many kings who were seriously great leaders Pritiviraj Chauhan, Sri KrishnaDevaraya the Wodeyars of Mysore, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Chandraguptha Maurya and so all of these above-mentioned leaders share some common qualities like ambition, challenging self, the zeal to win a battle and above all giving their lives to their people and helping them enjoy a better life.

I feel most of the present leaders have forgotten these basic lessons of being a front-runner and end up in just getting criticised from their people for their lack of duty and misdeeds.

If the leaders are firm and stand on their toes with the intention of selfless, that my friend is a move towards progressive society.

A leaders mind should be as clear as mountain water and should contain minerals of selfless and compassion towards his men.

-Anonymous

Please let me know your thoughts in the comment box.

Thanks for your time.