Twenty five thousand students have committed suicide in the last five years owing to educational pressure and every year the situation is just worsening, according to Roshini, the Centre which befriends people with suicidal tendencies. They couldn’t have found a better medium than ‘Hope’ to put their message across with september 10 being projected as the world suicide prevention day.
Filmmaker Satish explains the reason behind making the film. He says, “When my daughter joined intermediate her senior committed suicide within three days of her admission. That triggered my thought process and i transferred the impact on celluloid.”
Most parents have their worldly expectations and will feel a sense of failure or inadequacy if their children do not live upto their expectations. Without a second thought, they encourage and even force their children to work hard and compete for the so-called ‘success’. They impose their value systems on their children who are under pressure to be smart, to be popular and to excel. They are under the impression that success means the ability to compete, conquer and quell.
In Hope…naaku maarpu kaavali, Satish uses Ramanaidu and Kalyani to show the desolation in life as well as the reason to move forward for a brighter tomorrow.
Ramanaidu who makes his debut as a professor ailing with cancer gives a polished yet restrained performance. He opines that there are many loopholes in the eduaction system and it should end beginning with the burden of carrying heavy school bags to burning midnight oil for higher studies. He adds, “I have never been academically brilliant but i consider to be very successful in life and that’s what should matter eventually.”
Kalyani says the film was an eye opener and the actress did a neat job in the film. Beyond such opinion lies unmistakable appreciation for an artistic body of work known for its authenticity and sobriety. Even in some of the most disturbing moments in his movies, Satish seldom allows emotion to turn turbulent and take over restrained approach. He avoids the over-dramatisation of telugu cinema, and of course without sounding preachy and moralistic, gives a beautiful message that “A richer understanding of the beauty of life should help children become more understanding, more compassionate, and appreciative of the beauty of nature and life around them.”
This is why his work remains eminently watchable. It will impact you on multiple levels and strike you as astonishingly daring and contemporary. The filmmaker plans to take this movie and movement to schools and colleges, for it is an undeniable powerful exploration of the the parents and children psychology.
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