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Improvisation is the other name of invention when it comes to meet any unforeseen challenge
in human lives. The protagonist demonstrates this beautifully in real life by using an
unconventional method of transporting the ailing father of his friend on a two wheeler to
hospital rather than waiting for an ambulance. This life-saving improvisation is seen to produce
multiple ripples in his friend's life and encourages the friend to challenge the conventional belief
system which arises from fear of failing and not from the dream of a possible success.
This movie also touches upon the vital role that can be played by parents
in helping their children to discover their inherent talents and pursue
their way through the obstacles of social and peer pressures. In doing
so, they actually help their children to get on to the path in pursuit of
happiness. It gives the children a big boost of self-confidence to walk
on, even if it means to go against the social and peer definition of
success in life.
The boy Rancho, as the protagonist of the movie, has brought into our
awareness the fact that fear might appear as a motivation towards getting good grades, but in
reality, fear does not beget knowledge or wisdom. In one of the flashback scenes, he makes an
attempt to demonstrate the above fact to his professors by replacing the fear of passing tests
with the zeal to know something new during the class instead. He also challenges his dean’s
definition of the success of the engineering college by making him ponder about the absence
of any new ideas or patents germinating in the minds of the students.
The single message which emerges from the chain of the events shown in the movie can be
captured as follows: Success always chases those who are in pursuit of excellence. On the other
hand, if success is being chased, the pursuer always falls behind and never gets to achieve it.
My learning from this movie, yet again, is that success is a process, a journey, and not the
destination.
Saurabh Ghosh - BLHP, 2011, ex-secretary of ISABS, East
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