Sunday 3 July 2011

The Season of Love - Veer Zara

One day in the early morning, sun wake up flinging off its gray blanket down and lifting head from its mountain pillow and saw that ‘The Season of Love’ had arrived in ‘The Valley of Heart’.

Myriad flower buds of past moments on the branches of memories started to odor the air. Voiceless, unheard, partly conscious and partly unconscious desires wake up rubbing their eyes and looking around.

Life flows like waves, wave upon wave, every moment new, but nevertheless always the same. Life folds love and grief & meetings and separation. It flows and ripples. While passing from us, it tells that ‘The Season of Love’ has been arrived in ‘The Valley of Hearts’ where on the branches of memory, countless flower buds of past moments have started to odor the air.

- Yash Chopra (An Film Indian Director and Producer, The dialog is translated from his latest love story ‘Veer Zara’.)

"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love." said Leo Tolstoy. Everything is not followed by logics. In our life we take actions without knowing or expecting results. Love stories are always found on this track. Although starts from mind, reaches to hearts and ends there only. Then whatever you do is only for hearts. Mind will not trouble you.

Nothing else can define ‘The Love’ then what this man has described in his great love stories and again one more effort - ‘Veer Zara’. His speech at beginning of movie says a lot. Love is a season that flourishes hearts. Unfortunately story’s characters again meet in a season of love after nearly 22 years. However the love lived in memories and past movement kept lives alive.

Veer is squadron leader, a rescue pilot with the Indian Air Force. Zara is engaged Pakistani girl who comes to India to fulfill her surrogate mother’s last wish. During a way she meets with an accident where Veer saves her life and falls in love with her. But yet no one realizes. At later stage when Veer finds enough courage to confess his love to Zaara, he comes to know about her fiancé. Was it one side love story?

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with. Although Zara returned to her country left her heart in Veer’s country. Probably it is difficult for her to run away or realize love being engaged with someone else. But it is a question of love where you obey your heart.

A shocked Zaara returns to Pakistan and gradually realizes that she too loves him in return. When Veer is made aware of this, he runs to Pakistan to profess his love, a day before her wedding.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. For her family’s respect, he asks her to marry her fiancé. In opposition, her fiancé however demands an imprisonment for Veer if Veer wants to see Zara’s happy life. He suffers there for 22 long years. Reason? As Friedrich Nietzsche says "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." Reason is to see his love’s happy life. Both were now in separation. Does love fail?

J. Franklin comments on failure of love saying, "Love fails, only when we fail to love." Their love was alive even in separation. The soul has now become one looking great lives. He wished ‘Happy Married Life’ for her. She served to complete his wishes.

However Zara spends her later stage life at Veer’s village to serve people and complete Veer’s duties. A young lady lawyer helps both to meet each other again. It proves that ‘Love never dies, it lives for loved one’. In other words ‘With love and patience, nothing is impossible.’

Characters in story do not realize falling in love with each other. In first meeting with Zara, Veer never knew that a lady whom he saved would be his life forever. He saved her life and lost himself. He just walked away after her with no other purpose but to help. We generally deal with first sight love stories. Isn’t it?

Thomas Mann comments on first sight love "This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life."

Well, this is what I found and realized from story. Have a look and watch out movie. Probably I see it as a great story rather just favorite characters those played roles.

I forgot to say something about movie. Nice songs. Listen them to grab story.

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