Befikre (carefree) crime-romantic-comedy film released on the
9th December 2016 has hit the screens as well as the songs have been
downloaded and listened to repeatedly few months earlier along with its trailer
and banners. A film produced and directed by Aditya Chopra. The movie is a free
spirited, contemporary story of carefreeness and focused on living life to the
fullest. There are reviews and ratings already being flashed. Well, who am I to
criticize or judge the movie…I personally enjoyed watching the movie….but I think
apart from watching the movie…it truly speaks of the culture we are living
today in the 21st century…allow me to use the word carelessness…and
in living my life to the full that means living with no fear, no limits, no
boundaries, no rules, no laws, allow me to add to the list…no morality, no
religion, no God…I think we would run and are actually running the risk of
living a selfish, egoistic, highly motivated yet disillusioned and destructive
lives. I think this movie has much to offer by way of reflection and living our
lives in family, in communities, in society, in the world. Where we need to
love and care, to live for others, to make this world a better place so that we
can really live our lives with Befikre…..with trust, with believe, with
confidence, with love, with courage…
Philosophically reviewing this movie…I think it is
also an invitation to all of us to attain nothingness (in Sanskrit Ṡūnyatā – Nishkama karama, in Japanese mu,
and in Chinese wủ), a realm of
metaphysics where Parmenides (empty world is possible), Rene Descartes (to seek
the existence), St Augustine (why is there something rather than nothing?), Martin
Heidegger (ontological neutrality), Victor Hugo (contrast universal negation
with universal affirmation), Peter Van Inwagen (the infinite lottery), Gottfried
Leibniz (something – universal designer), William James (from nothing there can
being there can be no logical bridge)…How could I ever forget Jean Paul Sartre
who contends that human existence is a conundrum our conscious choices run
counter to our intellectual freedom – the consciousness….Thinking of Creation
out of nothingness presupposes the possibility of total nothingness…now such a
construction seems logically illogical and this is the opening verse of the
literal reading of Genesis 1.1. If the world is created out of nothingness…then
what about the creation? What about the faith and believe and hope which we Christians
base on Love? My thinking has lead me to question even the insights of Blaise
Pascal, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstien, Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow, Lawrence
Krauss. I am reminded of the Bhagavad Gita verse , “Nâsato vidyate bhâvo, nâbhâvo vidyate satah” (the unreal never is,
the real never is not)[2:16]. This once again spells to us: “ex nihilo, nihil fit” (out of nothing
comes nothing). We see from history of philosophy many studying and reflecting
on this phrase of Parmenides to mention one among the many St Thomas Aquinas
who seeks to reason out this phrase through one of his arguments on the proof
of the existence of God. Crossing the boundaries the of nothingness I think
that we do not need to compromise nor confront some truths neither care-a-damn
attitude…
