The eye and the horizon. Review on Vaada Raha Songs

The setting

It was going to be a long flight to UK and a still longer journey up to Cambridge - one of the longest I had ever undertaken.

Probably that was the reason I immediately started fiddling with the "New" movies (According to Air India) available. This one caught my eye. I remember Suj had told me about it, recommending it as a must watch. Suj has impeccable taste. I put on the English subtitles and settle down for the flight.

The story

Its a simple story. Duke (Bobby Deol), a highly successful cancer Doctor - has everything going for him. On the verge of a cure for leukemia, he has just invested into his dream home where he will marry and bring home his dream partner, Pooja (Kangana Ranaut).

One day Duke meets with an accident that leaves him paralyzed. His girlfriend walks out on him - saying he would just be a shell of the man who she had hoped to marry. His research, his dream home, his life are shattered and he is left a bitter bed-ridden man. In the hospital, he meets Roshan (Dwij Yadav) and this is where the movie starts.

Roshan re-evokes Duke’s interest into the world by looking out his window and tells him stories of the people and things he can see from there.

Slowly but surely, Duke starts recovering. Roshan goes for a holiday.

What happens next?

The minute Duke is able to recover, he looks out of window to discover that it looks out.... on a wall.

To my mind, this movie was a story about the wall.

To everyone who looked out the window, the wall was just that - a wall. An insurmountable obstacle that stopped you from seeing what you wished to see. To everyone except Roshan.

• who had lost his past, his family, his friends and is confined to a life in the hospital.

  
  




• who had no hope of a normal present with his friends.

  
  




• who had no dream of a future, a cure

  
  

Roshan had leukemia. To Roshan, the wall had a window. The window linked his past, present and future. He looked into that window with his mind’s eye - and he understood his mind could conquer the wall.

We all meet and see these walls - staring at us as immovable, unconquerable problems and obstacles. Can you, however, reach past it with your mind and open a window into the future? If you can, can you not you find beauty and hope not just for yourself but for others? A bridge to tomorrow?

The title is inspired by the quotation: