A Black and White World?

Imagine a world in which you have only two colors-Black and white. Black symbolizing darkness, impurity and ignorance and white for purity, truth and innocence.

After a few thoughtful moments one starts pondering whether everything in our vicinity can be categorized into these two extremes or not?? There are so many discussions in our day to day lives which have no solid conclusions and numerous concerns which have no unique solutions. So the question of putting half of the world in white and the rest in black is baseless.

Subhash Ghai's new movie 'Black and White' is an attempt to elucidate this perspective.
Directors like Ashutosh Gowarikar, Rakesh Mehra,Aamir Khan and this time Subhash Ghai deserve appreciation for enlightening the masses about sensitive contemporary issues through their films.

Movie begins with portraying the staunch mindset of a terrorist, a psyche that refuses to see the shades beyond black and white, whose only aim is to destroy all non Muslims in the world .And then goes on to show how this hard core terrorist gets transformed into a new individual who cherishes human relationships and sees the world from a new point of view through the eyes of a good Samaritan Prof Rajen Mathur played by Anil Kapoor. The movie cites many incidents which rectifies the mind of the terrorist regarding the general ill feelings he had for Non Muslims all over the world. Finally he gets transformed after understanding the minutes of Indian society which teaches him to love and care for one other irrespective of one’s caste and creed.

The terrorist’s role is played by a budding actor 'Anurag Sinha' who gives full justice to his character by playing a wooden terrorist for most of the part of the movie. Anil kapoor and Shefali Chaaya deliver their parts with spontaneity.

The end of the movie is very usual as anybody would guess that he eventually restrains himself from spreading evil in the world and looks up to Anil Kapoor as his messiah responsible for bringing this positive change.....But somehow the end is not emphatic enough to linger in the minds of people for a long time. The decision of the terrorist to NOT blow up the Red Fort should have been elaborated a bit more .The scene portraying this sudden change in intentions seems a little quick and unrealistic to digest...Otherwise a good movie with a lofty message for all humanity- in search of harmony amidst diversity.. It also forces the masses to look at terrorists from a different angle. They are people who have been trained only to destroy and are ignorant of many facts which are actually the root cause of problems in the world.

The end note is that neither is a particular person (terrorist) bad and neither is the principle of any religion or society baseless. It’s on how you interpret them and make the world a heaven or a hell of a place to live in.