Saw the movie heroes today. One of the better hindi movies i have seen in a long time. not because of its star cast or acting, lets face it both of them could have been better. Nor was there any need for the typical item numbers which are there in todays's hindi movies or the sunny deol and mithun over-acting.
What i liked about the movie was the theme it was trying to portray. What makes a solider different from a civilian? Why do they go to war where we would hide under our beds? By any rational reasoning these things look trivial. No sane person would join the armed services. But then by the same rationality no sane person would believe in god either. Yet people do both. I am not patriotic, nor do i ever bother with god (i am an agnostic/atheist), but at a certain level i do understand the belief in both. I think that it would be very difficult for you to find a solider who does not believe is god. The movie starts off with two guys trying to find an answer, "why shouldn't you join the armed services?" and they get enough reasons for it. But what the movie ends up explaining is why do people join it. It takes a certain caliber of selflessness to do so. One that no common man can achieve. A belief that others are worth more than themselves. Maybe this is why they are different from us!!!
