CONFRONTING OUR FEELINGS
“Little by little, we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.” - Fred Rogers L ast week-end, when I had the choice to watch two well-publicized Hindi films – ‘Chhapaak’ and ‘Tanhaji’, I settled for the former. It was the fourth day of the release when I went to buy my ticket at the nearest multiplex. It was very clear to me, that ‘Tanhaji’ was doing well at the box office while ‘Chhapaak’ was not. But, then, the box-office success was not the reason why I had decided to watch Megna Gulzar’s ‘Chhapaak’… The subject of the film was. Ditto happened on this week-end. I wanted to watch an English film and I had this choice: ‘1917’, the story set during the World War 1, or ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’, the story based on the life of Fred Rogers… “Who?” My wife asked me when I expressed my desire to watch it, that even...