While for many football is a game, an indulgence, for some people far away from us, it is a means of survival. But this dialogue let us take a peek into a reality so grave and unbearably dire that the irony was heartbreaking. Sudani from Nigeria was a tearjerker in so many ways. Sudani (Samuel Robinson), Sudani from Nigeria (2018) While playing, we forgot that we were hungry.” “We kids played football for as long as we wanted. Since then, it has always been this version of the quote, in that voice, that whispers strength and inspiration during a droopy day. We remember it in the cheery, breezy voice of Sara. There was no momentous silence before the dialogue was said, there was no background music to denote the grandeur of the quote, just casually uttered before the character ended a radio programme. We’ve probably heard different versions of this quote but to hear it from Sara, even as a casual statement for her listeners on the radio, hit hard.
Sara (Parvathy Thiruvothu), Bangalore Days (2014) “The only thing that stands between who you are and who you want to be is you.” The differences of each religion also diffuse so easily into the other that sometimes the lines are blurry, the boundaries are familiar and in the end, god from any religion is not someone we do not know.
The religions that are different from ours, are indeed not that different from ours. And like most naive answers, we are baffled and we find ourselves floundering, failing to come up with counter arguments. This simple innocent statement puts all the big talk around religion into an honest, child’s perspective. “Jesus isn’t someone we do not know, sister.”īaby Mol (Anna Ben), Kumbalangi Nights (2019) There are some things in life which can be fed but if we need to adopt it, we have to embrace it by ourselves. It is then that his father tells him about how photography cannot be taught. Mahesh wants to be able to capture that same magic he once witnessed his father perform. The studio where he works, was handed down to him by his father, who is a magician when it comes to photography. Mahesh, a studio photographer, for whom photography is as mechanical as “chin up, shoulder down, chin down, chin podik up,” is amazed after he sees his father in action. Mahesh’s father (Antony Kochi), Maheshinte Prathikaram (2016) Photography cannot be taught, but it can be learned.” “Food can be fed to another but cannot be chewed for them.
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