How much overlap is there between your professional and personal life? Do you allow your personal life to take over your studies or vice versa? In the case of Ram Saket, otherwise known as Balu in the film, the personal life is almost not existent due to his studies in college. In fact, he puts his own personal life aside just to focus on his work, at least until a girl enters his life.
Ram Saket is always ranked first in studies in India. To achieve this goal, he cuts off most of his family and friends and has a lifestyle in which he disrespects whoever he wants. His family lets Ram Saket be this way because of his academic achievement. Because of his strict study regime, Ram Saket becomes a monotone man with barely any personality – even his chemistry lab barely gets a reaction out of him! However, suddenly out of nowhere, a close family childhood friend, named Samantha, comes to visit Ram Saket and his family, and stay with them for sometime as her college is near her house.
The girl turns out to be a disaster for Ram Saket. Because the girl doesn’t know or understand Ram Saket’s lifestyle, she turns out to be messing with Ram Saket’s study routine. However, Ram Saket doesn’t know that Samantha has a crush on him. Because of this, Ram Saket dislikes Samantha and tries to disrupt her life.
After many arguments, they go their separate ways, as both Ram Saket and Samantha become successful in their companies. After three years, Ram Saket’s company falls into problems, as Ram Saket commits ego risks for the company. With no other option, he looks to Samantha for help. After much drama, Samantha and Ram Saket work together to create more success for both companies, and eventually fall in love.
The point in the story I am trying to show is not the actual love story, but the conditions that caused Ram Saket and others to have problems. Of course, it is great to be a top-tier student. However, how much are you allowed to sacrifice or put burdens on to achieve goals? This idea plays into the common saying that money can’t buy happiness. At the same time, how would you support your family and try to achieve the best life if you can’t sacrifice some things? For example, in life, someone might sacrifice some weekends with families to make extra money to support everyone. Regardless, what would your opinion be on balancing personal and professional life?
You made a great pun with the chemistry lab and “reactions”! I love how you touched on the ongoing debate about good life-work (or school in this case) balance. It’s a struggle for many people, and the issue isn’t going away, especially after virtual and hybrid work during the pandemic. I personally feel that people need to have a good work-life balance in order to stay sane. Too much work can lead to unhappiness and disassociation with reality, while too much personal time may mean that you are not making enough money to support yourself and others.
I really enjoyed reading about this movie. I think movies like this can be targeted toward college students who have a hard time balancing their time. Sometimes cutting off from socialization doesn’t work in our favor. I enjoyed how you were able to interpret multiple messages from this movie. Have you ever related to Ram Saket and if yes what did you do to overcome this issue?