A
hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and
reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let
him know the world hadn’t ended.
-Batman,
The Dark Knight Rises
Newton
is a story that resonates with this quote. Its a story of a common
man who sets on a mission to conduct fair elections in Konar,
Chattisgarh amidst resistance from maoists and naxalites. Pairing up
with corrupt government officials and promising yet indifferent
co-workers, honesty and perseverance are Newton’s best allies.
With
Cynicism and scepticism ruling the day and a vote count as meagre as
seventy six. Newton quickly realises that he has to get things in
order. He tries to educate the oppressed villagers about election
who have already given up on the government, but is shoved aside by
the security head who says voting machine is a toy and election is a
lottery.
“Great
work takes time, even this forest took years to grow.” He is
reminded by Malko his colleague. But he doesn’t lets his guard down
and in a bid to save the day goes all out by wearing his honesty on
his sleeves.
Newton
is a great movie to watch portraying the conflict torn jungles of
Chattisgarh from Newton’s lens. Along the way it teaches us life is
not just about good or bad, zero or one. It is about having a
perspective. The oppressed villagers, the service men have their
share of woes and our protagonist with his idealism, all come from a
different walk of life, each having a perspective and no one seems to
be wrong in his own way.
It
also teaches us that even though idealists are poster boys of all the
banter we shouldn’t give up on the idea of fair and just world
because positivity and a can do attitude can transform
the
world.
And
in the end, what do Heroes teach us? They teach us to hang in there a
minute longer.
yeh.. i hv ds movie .. surely gonna watch it !
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