This is very disheartening to hear. Sad that there are no support groups for such instances in ones life. The pain the mother is going through no one of us can understand and somewhere deep inside of me although morally wrong, I feel her plea should be granted if no one takes ownership of supporting her through her troubled times. Giving money and sending her money wil not solve her agony but help her support herself and her son for a few months and years. What if tomorrow she is no more where does her son go? The boy can no longer support himself and has no one to take care of him, will he be just abandoned? If some institution or support group can pitch in and make a commitment to his mother that her son will be taken care of even if she is not around that would make a world of a difference to her decision on asking youth in asia for her son.
List members may have diffrent views on the subject but if you read the story again and again and till it spins in your mind till you feel like asking what if I was the boy or what if I was the mother? What would I do? What would I want? Can I see my son like this every living day? then you might consider the same decision his mother has taken. There is a brilliant movie in Hindi named Guzarish (Goo zaarish), that touches on the subject on youth in asia. I am not sure if anyone here had a chance to see the movie or hear about it. But let me warn you it is not an entertaining movie but a very touchy movie which makes you think between a practical or a moral decision in life. For the sake of the audience I have put /narrated the story here in my mail below.. It is really tough to decide or honor such a decision for anyone! Release: 2010 Cast: Hritik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Director : Sanjay Leela Bhansali Synopsis: The movie revolves around the story of a married nurse (Aishwarya Rai) and a quadriplegic, wheelchair-using patient Ethan (Hrithik Roshan), suffering from impairments of the motor and sensory functions of his limbs, with whom she develops an intimate bond. The Story: The story is set in Goa, home to one of the most accomplished magicians of the time - Ethan Mascarenhas (Hrithik Roshan). As fate would have had it, Ethan is severely injured when one of his magical tricks goes wrong, turning him into a paraplegic. Confined in his own wheelchair, Ethan's will power only gets stronger and stronger. He becomes the Radio Jockey of an FM Station called Radio Zindagi. His show spreads magic and hope and laughter through his irrepressible wit and humor to every listener and caller, making it difficult to imagine that this is a man who has been immobilised with a spinal injury for the last fourteen years of his life. Sofia D'Souza (Aishwarya Rai) is his elegant nurse who has been accompanying him like a shadow for the past twelve years. Ethan's life centers on Sofia and they share a silent tacit love which is both beautiful and spirited. However, on the fourteenth anniversary of his accident, Ethan decides to take matters into his own hands and files an appeal to the court for mercy killing. This leaves Sofia in an impasse that challenges their relationship and their love. Ethan takes the help of his best friend and lawyer Devyani Dutta (Shernaz Patel) to support his appeal. Devyani , a very practical person, understands Ethan's appeal and agrees to his reasoning and decides to support him in his cause, as a result of which she is sensed as being callous by others. Surprising everyone with her stance, Ethan's mother Isabel Mascarenhas (Nafisa Ali) also supports him in his petition, backing her son's demand. Though Ethan is consistently persuaded by his physician Dr. Nayak (Suhel Seth), a neurologist, to retract his case, he finally relents to Ethan's appeal when he realizes that the friend in him is much stronger than the medic. Alongside all the confusions, a young man named Omar Siddiqui (Aditya Roy Kapoor) enters Ethan's life with the sole aim of learning magic from this man whom he considers to be the greatest of magicians. Omar is earnest and driven by a passion to learn magic, hyperkinetic, quicksilver in his actions - an antithesis to Ethan's inertness. Impressed by his love for magic, Ethan agrees to pass on his legacy to Omar even as he fights tooth and nail to demand the most basic right to his own life. The scenario takes an unexpected turn when Ethan's past lover, and now a wife and a mother with work of her own, Estella Francis (Monikangana Dutta), to whom her relationship with Ethan is a tragic memory of past, re-enters his life,. She has put her past behind her but is forced to revisit it fourteen years later when she learns about Ethan's decision. The ethics, the morality, the cruelty and the kindness of Ethan's mission causes everyone to be struck by a whirlwind of emotions scaling from rage to sorrow. Any guesses how the story ends? Well, I am not going to give that out to you and leave you to find out on yourself if it really interests you to know. Mujtaba Merchant Bangalore, India Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
