The above is the title for a movie that is recently released in the state of Kerala, which is referred to as 'god's own country' for tourist promotion!
I know little about the movie world. But this title prompted me to enquire about the origin of the title. I was told that the emphasis is to make the title of any film as mysterious as possible to promote the film!
It is yet another illustration of the several compulsions in a commercialised world to make the material realm as the bed of all human happiness. All human experiences are portrayed as virtuous resources for human fulfilment. It amplifies the 'good things' as ecstatic and entices humans to seek after them.
This is one sided presentation of human story. Humans are formed by all that contribute to our development, in which case, to reposition the temporal happiness or self gratification as the ultimate experience is to reduce humans as prisoners of happiness.
The mission of life is not to go after personal pleasures but to become 'fully human'! Late Dr. C.K.Job, a pioneer in the discovery of the pathology of Leprosy, a former professor Pathology and Principal of Christian Medical College, Vellore once told me, in personal conversation, that 'as doctors we are called to seek the goodness and happiness of others who come to us with their needs and not to seek after our own prospects or pleasures. The outcome of this is gladness of heart through service'!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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