Om Shanti Om

A friend told me that King Khan had sworn to make an out and out Bollywood style masala movie the next time he put money in any venture. And what a movie! Fortunately I was forewarned and left my brain at home, which was why I enjoyed the ludicrous yarn.

I have been observing of late that even the most outlandish of plots has a smattering of sanity somewhere. OSO leaned heavily on a couple of saws. "If you want something with your whole being, the entire universe conspires to give it to you". I have to agree- I can distinctly remember the times that I have desperately wanted something to happen and wanted it with my entire being. I have prayed for it and worked for it and I never lost sight of the target. In retrospect I realised that I made it happen each time. But each time I also acknowledge that I've had help- family, teachers, friends and luck.

"The circle of life ensures that if everything isn't OK, its not over". Until you make your peace with people and incidents, they don't stop bothering you however great a calm you may portray. Everything is cyclical and so is life. The concept of Karma talks about good deeds being repaid and the bad being punished. 'Many Lives Many Masters' by Brian L Weiss describes the multiple neuroses of an unbelievable patient who went into past lives instead of early childhood when taken through regression therapy. The message was clear- You must revisit your past, however uncomfortable and moldy, to understand what went wrong, learn from it and let go. No wonder contemporary psychotherapy relies so heavily on this concept.

OSO was satisfying viewing because of its singular objective of being ridiculous and patently succeeding at it!