“कोवळे दिवस"-व्यंकटेश माडगूळकर, एक अस्वस्थ अनुभव

Dil Dosti Etc 

Our bollywood movies many times showed us unreal world .If film maker want to show college life then he shows happy go lucky groups with stereotyped characters. (1 stud , 1 diva , 1 nerd , 1 fatso ,1 simple girl,1 tomboyish girl pick up any random movie you will find this characters with or less difference)friendship is also been sweetened by bollywood , 2 or 3 best friends ready to sacrifice their lives singing songs.

In this backdrop some films are exceptionally well .Dil dosti etc is one of them .In this film story has been told by semi narrative way , one character of the story , apurv tells the story of his college life  .He belongs to rich business family , freedom seeking , somewhat introvert , flirtatious , searching meaning in every action that satisfies him.The main protagonist is sanjay mishra character played by shreyas talpade . He is bihari middle class student, some what conservative ,studying delhi university , IAS candidate but interested in college election and general politics .

story revolves around them .story goes like this

Apurva meets sanjay during ragging sessions , got familiar with him later got in to sanjay's close friends circle . Apurv , well in impressing girls , he meets one school girl called kintu in book store and started dating her , he used to go to brothel and later involved in sex worker "vaishali ".On the other side sanjay come across model  cum college student prerna  falls in love with her. Due to middle class values followed by sanjay , rich  modern prerna had fights with sanjay and some what start getting attracted to his friend apurv .Apurv doesnt mind flirting with his friends girl friend.At last when sanjay wins the election he search for his gf prerna and friend apurv . sanjay finds them in a room got shocked ask them reason for doing this sadly and angryly , he goes out and mysteriously found out dead on the streets.

However story deals with mentalities of the people belong from different social strata's . middle class values are always is subject of condemn for rich and vice a versa .I think problem lies here both groups maybe seeking dominance over the society and that's why the struggle is fight for survival .Being a boy who raised in middle class conservative family i can relate my self to sunjay's character not with apurv's character .In this struggle between mentalities , i found sunjay's view was right , i felt apurv's character is only good at exploiting the things and just want to use each and every thing   for personal enjoyment .

Sanjay's honesty in love , his greed for power really impressed me is the effect of the protagonist  portrayal of the role or is the effect of moral values imposed on me by society, still thinking about it