India's Bollywood once had a mission to produce song and dance films to supply the domestic market. The number of them made it top the highest production of films in various countries around the world early. It also equates Indian movies with songs and dances with strong curry flavor. After entering the 21st century, pure song and dance films were gradually eliminated by the times, and masterpieces that criticize reality appeared frequently. Not only became popular in India, but also became popular all over the world.
Xiaoba will tell you a high-scoring inspirational film made by Neti Tiwari, "Wrestle, Dad". Once the movie was released, its reputation was quite explosive. The movie is called "The Original Dream".
There are spoilers in this article.
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High school student Ragheim was born in a wealthy middle-class Indian family. His parents are both social elites, living in high-end apartments, and there are special servants at home.
He just finished the most important exam in his life - the college entrance examination. He studied for 18 hours a day and turned off all social activities and entertainment. However, things went against his wishes, but he still failed to get into his ideal university. Lagheim jumped straight from the balcony heartbroken.
Fortunately, Ragheim did not die but was seriously injured and moved into the ICU. In order to encourage his depressed baby son to cheer up again, his father Anlinud brought a photo album from his college years and contacted a group of best friends from that year, wanting to use the wonderful stories of his college years to prove to his son: failure is not terrible, and the most important thing is to be able to grow.
More than 20 years ago, as a freshman in university, Anlinud came to Mumbai National Institute of Technology, known as the "best Polytechnic University in India". But entering a good university does not mean that everything goes smoothly from now on. By chance, he was assigned to the legendary "loser dormitory building" H4. This place not only has the most dilapidated dormitory and the most unpaid canteen, but the students are also the most mediocre, and most of them cannot find high-paying jobs after graduation.
In this 40:1 male-to-female ratio, finding a girlfriend is not an easy task. However, there is something more difficult than finding a girlfriend, which is to win the championship game, the most important event of the School of Science and Technology. I heard that as long as you win this game, you can be proud of the whole school and tear off the label of "loser".
In H4, the male protagonist Anlinud met a group of friends who were also labeled as "loser": there is Gumit (nicknamed "Sexual Fool") who likes to watch erotic magazines like "Playboy" and has only one color in his mind.
Mama's boy Sun De (nicknamed "Mommy") who only calls her mother in everything and feels uncomfortable if she doesn't call her mother every day.
He has a hot temper and starts scolding when he is unhappy.
Rebellious, unwilling to be bribed by H4's mortal enemy, H3, the best dormitory building in the school.
There is also a senior "drunk" who opens the bottle cap much more frequently than the frequency of opening the book. Although
is labeled as "loser", everyone worked together and used various open and secret tricks to overcome all the challenges, allowing the H4 dormitory building, which was always at the bottom of the score in the past, finally had the opportunity to compete with the powerful H3 dormitory building for the championship. A war without gunpowder kicked off...
The long journey of life is full of challenges, and success has never been a shortcut.To succeed, sacrifices must be made! More than 20 years ago, on the eve of the championship game, the loser team gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and cruelly gave up their beloved things: Derek decided to quit smoking, the alcoholic drank all the wine, "Mommy" resisted the urge to call her mother, "sour" began to practice speaking without being dirty, "sexually stupid" hid all the erotic magazines... And the male protagonist Anlinud forced himself to endure the longing and did not talk to his beloved girl Maya, and the poor girl was neglected again and again.
If you want to win the game, you must also have a strategy. So the loser team thought hard and formulated several wonderful plans. The first strategy - suppress your opponent from momentum! So the most awkward cheerleaders in India appeared:
The second strategy - interfering with the enemy's golden sleep. For this reason, they used the "beauty trick" and were also very hard-working:
The third strategy - the luxurious lineup, a full-time "coach" was hired, and he scared his opponent from the beginning:
Not to mention that these moves are really effective, H4 defeated the opponent after several projects. However, the champion cannot be obtained by relying on such small tricks. While having a strategy, you must also have strength. Although H4 is not a great man, it is also considered a crouching tiger and hidden dragon: for example, Drunk is the school’s chess champion, Derek’s strength is relay running, "Soul" is good at football, "Mommy" has great advantages in kroner chess (a bit similar to billiards chess game), and Anlinud is a national basketball player.
The road to struggle is even more inseparable from teammates: more than 20 years ago, the male protagonist Anlinud and his best friends were in a sympathetic manner and were unwilling to be bribed by H3. More than 20 years later, the best friends of the past also came from all over the world to encourage the male protagonist's son.
They gently told the male lead’s son Lagheim: We are all very happy whether we win the championship or not. Because from the day we decided to fight, we are no longer losers.
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People often imagine what they succeed, are rewarded and celebrate. Our mentality will naturally become highly anticipated for success. However, as the male protagonist Anlinud said: One million children take the exam every year, and only 10,000 can be admitted. So what should the remaining ninety-ninety-six thousand children do? No one provides them with arms to defeat frustration.
Just like when his son Lagheim was worried that he might not be good at the exam, his father just said that he would be as good as himself, which instead ruled out the option of failure in his heart, resulting in the end he was hurt more seriously than the exam. In fact, the father's bottle of red wine is just used to celebrate his son's final escape from the sea of hard work and preparing for the exam every day, and to relive the wonderful time of their past.
"The Original Dream" is about success or failure. The warm expression between family and friends is extremely tense, especially the description of family affection in the second half of the movie, which makes people feel touched and cry.
Everyone gathered in a small ward, telling their past glorious years like a relay race, conveying the warmth to Lagheim who is in a confusion period: success always requires continuous accumulation, and temporary failure is just an inevitable process on the road to growth. What is important is whether we can stand up again after failure and continue to move towards our goals.
In recent years, almost every Indian movie produced by Bollywood has a very high level, and these movies seem to have something in common. They seem to be happy and funny on the surface, but behind them are inspiring and touching stories, and they all deeply reflect the current social problems in India.
This time, the theme of "The Original Dream" is similar to " starting line ", which presents a rigid education system. Based on the education problem of India's large population and fierce competition, students must bear huge pressure to go to school, it tells us that in the situation where the current environment cannot be changed, we should maintain a correct attitude towards the results of failure.
In order to make the slightly clichéd stories new, the director used a two-line narrative technique that compared the past twenty years ago. It was compact and not messy. The 143-minute plot was filled with laughter, tears, and climaxes, which showed good family affection, friendship and love. It is not ambiguous to describe the youthful life of college boys: taking care of sick roommates, watching comedy performances of best friends, having concerts in the dormitory, etc. It is obvious that the screenwriter is a truly youthful person.
The time span in the movie is as long as twenty years, and only the same group of actors are used, and their makeup and acting skills are also commendable. The male lead who plays his father, Sushant Singh Rajput , has starred in the high-scoring movie " My God" ! 》, both appearance and acting skills are online.
The end of the movie is a nice and beautiful Indian song and dance. And while the whole movie is full of funny and joy, it teaches people to understand: failure is not terrible, as long as you really work hard. We are focused on winning, losing, winning, losing, but we have forgotten how to live a good life.
In fact, the most important thing in life is life itself.
