Saw Golconda High School, in Telugu. It's at one level, a formula sports film, about a school cricket team that finds a coach who inspires them back to winning ways, in the process also saving the school ground from being auctioned off. Good performances from the kids, and a tightly edited script keeps you engrossed, aided by some upbeat background music and songs. The heroes for me are the young cricketers and the school Principal who shows courage in adversity, and is willing to stake his job for a cause he believes in.
But it has a deeper meaning if you care to look for it. It points a finger at all of us who don't do enough to achieve what (we say) we want in life. From a cricketing victory, to personal goals of different types, we want a lot, but we don't necessarily do the needful. Sometimes, due to our own immaturity or unpreparedness or lack of knowledge, we may need a guide, a coach, a sounding board, so to speak. At other times, knowing fully well what is needed, we are just too lazy. But in either case,a sincere effort from our side is needed-even if it is just to find a mentor. Perhaps that was also the hidden meaning in all our stories about a king or a commoner doing "tapasya" to get a boon. The boon and the penance probably represent the achievement and the goal-oriented hard work, respectively.
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