What is Freedom to you?
Is it stepping out of your home for a night out with your friends?
Or is it as little as getting to buy whatever you want from the money you got from your relatives?
The word 'FREEDOM' has different meanings and different stages depending upon a person's environment. It can be as small as a decision to choose between your favorite sweets or as big as choosing your life partner.
Most countries tag themselves as a free country but, are they really what they show?
Taking the example of my country- INDIA.
We have the most variant culture, language and traditions as there are fishes in the ocean, each having their unique characteristics. And still people believe in superstitions to the roots of their daily life such as the Taboo of a menstruating woman, a woman on top, a molestation victim can only be a woman not a man, and so on.
Scene I:
In the remote areas of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh- the girls are not permitted to choose their life goals, even the option of schooling is not into their hands. Baalika Vadhu is still prevalent in those states under the supervision of wise people. The young girls are married to older men at a mere age of 12 (or when they first receive their menstruation cycle) and have to worship them as their only God. She is then not allowed to have any connections with her parents until the husband says so. She becomes a slave to her husband and in-laws, only to be used as per their discern.
What do you think Freedom means to the young girl?
Scene II:
In a 10*10 room, a dalit family of six resides- a mother, a father, 3 daughters and a son. The gram panchayat doesn't allow anyone from their creed for education or worshiping. Being a construction labor and the sole earner of a family of six, the father has never made his family short on any luxury they have asked for. On one ominous day, the youngest son started coughing blood with no end to his sufferings, the father pleaded the Head Panchayat for help to which a strange condition was placed. He asked for his youngest daughter to become his bride. The girl has just turned 16 and the Head Panchayat was married with a son of the same age. The father was in dilemma whether to choose his dying son or his precious little daughter. He was cursing himself, only if he had more money or if he hadn't been born a dalit.
What do you think Freedom means to the miserable father?
Scene III:
A young girl, having a dream of earning good money to buy her family all the comforts they deserve, travels to a bigger city. She is accompanied by the 'sabka bhaiya' of their locality in promise of getting her a job with high earnings. After getting off from the train, they take a taxi and reach a crowded area. All kinds of sultry music is playing from various houses, women in sarees, young girls in those tight skirts could be seen waving hands to call the men passing by. With a raced heart beat and a hope to be not betrayed, the girl enters a building covered with all sort of women and men. A nightmare strikes her when she hears about her being sold in the red light area. She would be earning highly, can give luxurious life to her parents back in the village but, at a cost.
What do you think is Freedom to the girl with hopes?
Scene IV:
A young ambitious women just got her first job as a Marketing Executive at an MNC, right after she got her degree in MBA (Sales & Marketing) at a top University. Her family has never pressurized her for anything, they respects her decisions and accepts them with a warm heart. A year passes by and she gets close to one of her male colleagues and they saw their whole life in each other's eyes. After a couple of months dating and meeting their parents, they finally tied the knot. A young bride is welcomed in the new family with affection and care just as her parents'. A few months passed by and her in laws started to find faults in her absenteeism due to her job. Her husband convinces her to resign for the time being and look after his parents. Soon afterwards, they get blessed with a baby and the whole family dives in the call for celebration. Again 3 years passed by and the new mother is busy in feeding and cleaning after her infant. It's been two whole years and nobody has asked her to restart her career, nobody even cared to ask her thoughts. Her baby is getting ready for the first day of school, the proud parents were talking about which school to join, which stream to choose, the college, hostel life, the father emphasized more on their baby's decision and that they are never going to force their baby for anything. The mother was taken back from the those words, wasn't she pressurized to resign and stay at home?
What do you think Freedom means to an ambitious woman?
Scene V:
'The Boy Next Door' title is shining brightly for a new sensation in the Film Industry. A star is born, the public's favorite, an unstoppable tiger, a young male artist is crowned with all sorts of flashy titles the crowd can think of. At a mere age of 23, the actor has given 4 blockbusters and got a chance to work with his childhood crush as his opposite. He bagged the 'Most wanted artist' (male category), 'The Debutante of the Year', and so on. While working on his fifth movie the actor falls for his co-actor, who is a man in his 30s. He has an aura that the young artist has difficulties in avoiding. By the intermission part, both of them got to know that they share the same interest and started hanging out together. At first, the Public was drooling over their two 'Handsome Hunks' being Best of Friends but as the time passed by and their relationship started blooming, people noticed the 'maa ka laadla bigad gya' couple and couldn't accept the pair. The young actor was asked to withdraw from the incomplete movie along with all the upcoming projects and was also made to stay away from his co-actor if he wants to save his career.
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