A few days back i watched a film, namely, The Dirty Picture, which
traced the subsequent rise and fall of Silk Smitha, a Kollywood
actress or rather a item song dancer of the 80's. She came to the
limelight by shedding off her inhibitions & almost all her clothes which all the other actresses were unwilling to do at that era and earned some real cash in no time. However, at the end of the film she is seen regretting her
life-turning decisions: not listening to her mother about getting
married and settling down with her husband. She regrets her running
off from her village home the day before her marriage, showing off her
body on screen and finally loving all the men she had loved in her
life. When she becomes fed up with her unsuccessful career, her
bankruptcy, her no relationship with her mother; she realises her end
has come and uses the ultimate weapon of man, commits suicide.
Now the point is that was her life worthy? She may not have enjoyed her
life except for a very brief period of time yet a film has been made
after twenty years of her death and the whole country knows her today.
Had she been just a wife she might have lived a peaceful life & died of old age or of some disease and no one would have known her but she would have had peace of mind. So what is important: a life where there’s a lot of cash, fame & power or a life where peace of mind exists? Which one should we strive for? I simply don’t know.
traced the subsequent rise and fall of Silk Smitha, a Kollywood
actress or rather a item song dancer of the 80's. She came to the
limelight by shedding off her inhibitions & almost all her clothes which all the other actresses were unwilling to do at that era and earned some real cash in no time. However, at the end of the film she is seen regretting her
life-turning decisions: not listening to her mother about getting
married and settling down with her husband. She regrets her running
off from her village home the day before her marriage, showing off her
body on screen and finally loving all the men she had loved in her
life. When she becomes fed up with her unsuccessful career, her
bankruptcy, her no relationship with her mother; she realises her end
has come and uses the ultimate weapon of man, commits suicide.
Now the point is that was her life worthy? She may not have enjoyed her
life except for a very brief period of time yet a film has been made
after twenty years of her death and the whole country knows her today.
Had she been just a wife she might have lived a peaceful life & died of old age or of some disease and no one would have known her but she would have had peace of mind. So what is important: a life where there’s a lot of cash, fame & power or a life where peace of mind exists? Which one should we strive for? I simply don’t know.
