We eat food everyday, and a lot of that food comes from farming. Therefore, the food that gets produced from farming has to be healthy, with minimal use of artificial fertilizers. In the movie Bheeshma, one farming distribution company named Bheeshma (which supports organic farming practices without harmful chemicals) competes with another company named Field Science (which uses harmful chemicals for faster growth of crops). The founder/CEO of Bheeshma gets old and wants to give his position to someone who can carry on the values of an organic lifestyle. Because a lot of people depend on the crops from farms, this position needs to be passed on to someone who is capable of fighting an entirely different organization. Now imagine if this position was passed on to a college dropout who makes memes for a living.

Bheeshma, who coincidentally has the same name as the company, is that college dropout who has nothing better to do in life but make memes and find a girlfriend. When a series of events lead Bheeshma to stumble upon a girl who works at the company Bheeshma, the protagonist does everything he can to impress the girl. Bheeshma learns everything he can about organic farming and even speaks at a conference, where different farming companies meet up to discuss new technologies. Not only does this catch the attention of the girl but also the attention of the CEO of Bheeshma company gets caught. After the CEO does more background research on Bheeshma, he appoints our protagonist as the acting manager for 30 days, much to everyone’s surprise. The founder announced that if anyone has a problem with Bheeshma at the end of the 30 days, then the character Bheeshma won’t continue as the CEO.

This makes the CEO of Field Science very happy as he knows a man with no real experience in anything cannot manage a company. He even bribed some of the Board members of Bheeshma company to make sure everyone votes out Bheeshma at the end of the 30 days. However, Bheeshma’s unusual way of managing the company proves to work out for everyone. By continuously using bad meme puns and children’s games on the various directors of the company, Bheeshma somehow unites everyone to work together and work for the company’s good. When a small village has a problem distributing their crops, Bheeshma personally goes to the village and works things out rather than just letting the one village go. By accidentally meeting one of the health ministers through a girl who rejected him in college, he convinces the minister to expose and ban the Field Science company for use of harmful chemicals. Because of instances like these, the company accepts Bheeshma as their new CEO, with the lead female falling for Bheeshma too (a common theme in Indian movies). Whenever Bheeshma has a final talk with the Field Science CEO, he states that Field Science was good because they were important, but Bheeshma’s company was important because they were good, in their values and customs. Bheeshma’s company therefore had success as they were trying to do the right thing. From this, there is a message to the audience that by doing good, anything is possible.

What happens to you whenever you fail at something you really care about? Do you cry for a day and move on, or do you hold onto your failure for weeks? To what extent do you think a person should express their grief without harming the others around them? In the case of Sivanaga, popularly known as Arjun Reddy, a simple heartbreak made him do many unthinkable things. A common theme in many Indian movies is love, and director Sandeep Reddy Vanga capitalized on the idea of the extent a person can go when their heartbreak is as big as a skyscraper.

Sivanaga was a third year in residency when he met the girl who would become the love of his life, literally. Sivanaga had major anger issues as a person, where he would fight left and right even for the slightest problems. His rage gave him a reputation of being feared in all of the college. Similar to Ram Saket in 100% love, none of the family members or staff would heavily punish Sivanaga due to him being one of the top rankers in the college.

After meeting Preethi, Sivanaga realized that there is no one else he would want to be with for the rest of his life. Sivanaga immediately used the college’s fear of him to make sure no one would even dare to look at Preethi. In the end, even Preethi falls for Sivanaga’s dangerous love. They have a good relationship up until Sivanaga graduates and becomes a general surgeon. However, the real problems start whenever Preethi’s parents don’t accept their love and set up an arranged marriage for Preethi with someone else.

After Preethi left, Sivanaga was like a flame where instead of water, oil was used to put out the flame. Alcohol became water to Sivanaga. Weed became food for Sivanaga. Working and operating surgeries under the influence became uncommon for him. The college, hospital staff, friends, and even family became afraid of him. Coming back to the phrase “love of his life,” it was as if his life and morality ended as soon as Preethi left.

Finally, medical higher ups find out and suspend Sivanaga, and when Sivanaga’s grandma passed away, Sivanaga slowly started to quit his bad habits. After moving back to his parents house to reconnect with them, Sivanaga finds Preethi again. He finds out that she left her husband almost immediately after problems arose, and that she was always waiting for Sivanaga to come back. They reconcile and start their relationship again in the right way.

Was Sivanaga right in acting the way he did? Most likely, people would say no as he put his own and others’ lives in danger. However, dealing with failures might not be as simple as taking up new hobbies and meditation. For example, for some reason you had to quit your dream job and have no chance to work like that again. How would you deal with it? Though there are certainly wrong ways to cope with situations, what are the right ones?

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?

What is good and bad? Is it alright to do wrong for good? We know that it is wrong to act good to a person in return for betraying them, but what if that person was betraying a criminal? What if that person who was betraying a criminal did so to become a bigger criminal in the end? This question of right or wrong is not necessarily answered in this movie; however, this movie shows a man who shows every combination of good and bad and the consequences to come.

KGF Chapter 1 and 2 are two movies which show the story of man, Rocky, who is trying to conquer the world. Be it politics, money, crime, getting the best girl possible, Rocky wants to be the king of everything. In his words, “He wants to be the CEO of the world”.

Such a tough goal with motivation doesn’t come easily. Rocky’s mom was very poor and had him at just 15 years old. As a 15 year old with no support, Rocky’s mom did the best she could with raising him. However, living in the poor conditions in the industrial era did not do well for his mother. Before passing away to disease, Rocky’s mom made Rocky promise to never be in the same state as her, and to get all the gold possible for her, as acquiring gold was a sign of wealth and power. Because these movie series are possibly one of the greatest series I have ever seen, I really encourage you, the viewers, to watch these movies, as I will try my best to not spoil or even give main story points. Rather, I will try to give a scenario in which Rocky made a decision, and it’s up to you to decide whether that decision was right or wrong.

For example, as this storyline is fictional, the city of El Dorado exists as Kolar Gold Fields, or KGF, set in Karnataka, India. For Rocky’s goal to become the richest man in India, Rocky travels to the fields undercover to take down the current leader of these gold fields. At KGF, the conditions are not very good. Because there is plenty of gold to be harnessed and taken, the leader/founder of KGF takes in poor people and makes them work there as slaves. Everyone is starved and not treated well, where if anyone rebels they are taken to an underground tunnel where the leading officers play a game: to flicker the lights while trying to hunt the rebelling slave. Rape, child kidnapping and manipulation, and murder are all common tasks for the leading officers. When Rocky successfully enters, he brutally murders every leading officer there, sometimes in front of children. Even those who seem to not get in Rocky’s way get killed. Despite being violent, Rocky never lays a hand on any of the slaves, making him a hero and giving him the opportunity to take over the land. Whether the method was right or wrong is up for you guys to decide.

When you hear this dialogue, what comes to your mind?

For me, I genuinely pondered about this question for a couple days after seeing this trailer. Which interest: curiosity or perhaps some sort of romantic entity? The mentioned interest turns out as the one you pay with loans: bank interest.

Sarkaru Vaari Paata, an Indian-Telugu cinema featuring Mahesh Babu, Keerthy Suresh, Samuthirakani, and more, shows a story about an Indian banker, named Mahesh, who always makes sure to keep his bank’s money. As a young boy, Mahesh’s family lived a middle-class life in a village. Not uncommon, Mahesh’s family took loans. However, if they possessed the money to pay the banks back within time, they would. With the bank’s continuous demands of the money and the family’s futile begging to extend the deadline, the parents felt no other option but to take away their own lives, leaving Mahesh to survive on his own.

These events not only brought great sadness to Mahesh, but also showed him the importance of material worth, also known as Sarkaru Vaari Paata. Mahesh then works hard to move to America, where he starts his own bank. The main plot begins when a girl, named Kalaavathi, needs money because she loses her funds in a casino. She seduces Mahesh, by dressing up in traditional Indian sari rather than Western clothes (1), and gets Mahesh to loan her money on the account of student loans. The song Kalaavathi, sung by Sid Sriram, acknowledges her beauty (2).

(1)In India, many people think that Americans dress boldly, as they believe that the land of freedom allows everyone and anyone to act as they please. That’s why the movie shows the depiction of someone wearing traditional clothing in America as very unique and desirable.

(2)Songs in India display through the movies. They hold dances within the song and meanings in the context of the movie or everyday life. This song in particular became very famous, holding over 250 million views, lyrical and music video combined, on Youtube.

When Mahesh finds out the truth, he becomes infuriated and confronts Kalaavathi. After many arguments, Kalaavathi threatens to use her father, a huge business magnate in India, and his influence to end Mahesh and his career. Mahesh boldly stands his ground and finally gets most of his money, all but one rupee. Keeping his discipline and morals, Mahesh stubbornly goes all the way back to India to confront the father for his one rupee. However, when the father initially refuses to pay back a single rupee, Mahesh suprisingly demands 10,000 crores (roughly 1.3 billion USD) from him. After many fights, this time literal physical fights, the media finds out about this and confronts the business magnate. After many more fights and songs, including parts where Kalaavathi finds out that she caught feelings for Mahesh, Mahesh then reveals the reason for demanding that much money from such a huge business man. 

It turns out that the huge business magnate committed many money laundering schemes, where he takes huge sums of money from banks, uses some of that money to pay government officials, and helps take down the same banks that lent him money on the “act of corrupt bank employees.” When the banks get seized, the business magnate hides any evidence of him borrowing money, and the banks own insufficient funds to counteract him. One of the bankers who got caught up in this got noticed by Mahesh, in which Mahesh undertook this responsibility to fix this injustice. In the end, Mahesh accomplishes this, making the business magnate pay for what he’s done.

Aside from the movie including incredible dialogues and fight scenes, the overall message of the movie gives a lot of meaning. In India, taking unsecured loans remains a huge problem, as many people’s lives get ruined from taking loans because of the inability to pay them back. While money laundering takes place all over the world from various people, a lot of banking institutions in India possess incomplete security in dealing with people who need loans, resulting in the giving of loans to people with no way of paying back. The movie sends out a message to both banks and the people to be careful when dealing with money because as much as we appreciate it or not, our material worth matters a lot in living a stable life.

Happiness can be in the form of anything. Some see happiness in food, and some see happiness in their experiences with family and friends. For me, I find passion in watching movies, especially Indian movies. The drama, the fight scenes, and the colorful dancing are combined into these 2 hour joyrides. One example of this trip is a person is fighting a national banking system all because they were robbed of one penny. I try to model my life through these storylines because if those common men can fight billionaires, then I can get through my chemistry class. This is why I plan to review these Indian cinemas in my passion blogs.
A lot of people are into various types of sports. For me, that sport is soccer. The sport is fascinating to me not only because of the main objective of kicking a ball into a goal, but also because there is so much to the sport. Each country has its own playing style of the sport and its own regional teams, who also have their own playing styles. Each player has their own unique playing style, which is why I also hope to review some of these teams and players in my passion blogs.