Did the title of our blog surprise you? Well, let me give you a few examples to prove my point. Most of you must be watching Bollywood films, right? True, many typical Bollywood hits are really stupid, right? They have stunts that defy gravity, for instance. We do understand that all these shenanigans are nothing but camera/editing/animation effects, and yet the hero's often monkey like antics are adrenaline-pushers. Wonder why that happens? That is because there is a viable villain who needs to be beaten up!
Films like "Don" or "Jawan" and many others of this variety are therefore superhits because they give a voice, a face to this human need to bash up the baddy. On the contrary, a good film like "Swades" with an idealistic message feels wishy-washy to many! Wanna know why? Yes, you guessed the answer right. It hath not a villain!
Want yet another convincing example? Compare and contrast an india-Pakistan cricket match with an England-Bangladesh cricket match. The second one may be better cricket. Yet the first one is high on decibels, grabs more eyeballs. Wanna know why? Yep, you said it! It has a villain to be pummelled up, black-n-blue at that!
Hence the title of our blog today. The villain is the real focal point of any narrative, right? Have you noticed that, to lead normal, typical lives, many people create a villain where none exists! To each his/her own villain/vamp! At times, it could be the boss, a colleague, a mother-in-law or a daughter-in-law! People's lives lack spice if there is not any such opposition!
Personally though, I find such a narrative a little dangerous because this need for the villain makes us dependent on 'others', right? One stops being self-sufficient. The graver danger in my opinion is that thus you start creating villains where there might be none which can complicate relationships, right?
Much worse still, you may develop the habit of opposing for the sake of opposing. You get so drunk then on this idea of opposition that you may make villains out of heroes, and laughing stock clowns of yourselves. In the process, a relatively impartial observer may start empathising with your villain which absolutely defeats your purpose, right? Just look around and you would find umpteen examples of this reverse procedure!
Yet again hence I would like to get back to Milton, and say that the mind is in its place, and makes a villain of a hero, and vice versa!
Pratima@ Opposition for the sake of opposition makes us illogical, ridiculous, forgetful of the focal issues, in brief, the real villain of the piece who is a laughing stock, a buffon!
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