The Otherside of A Gangster : Satya/Raghu/Rahul

 Harihar Muni

Stills from various gangster movies 

I know this above following thing which I will be sharing might look silly for you but, trust me it will start making sense after you read further.

We have seen many gangsters’ drama, biopics, or loosely based stories in all these years but, have you ever felt or sympathized with any character or a gangster story which made you made you think about him, his life, his vulnerabilities I know most of us would hate talking or just ignore it saying how can someone feel bad for any gangster a criminal? You are right also, you are wrong right because, yes who told them to choose crime as life? And aren’t they toddles to differentiate between good and bad. But You are also wrong because you always judged the criminal you know but the person who once a Nobel man you don’t, you know the sins they made, but have you ever asked what made them walk into this path or choose one? Did You? 

• Satya a man who came from nowhere to start a life and make big and survive in Mumbai city, but ended his life in a police encounter at the doorsteps of his beloved. 

• Raghu a man from the Mumbai slums who wanted to earn and stand on his legs so that one day he could make his mother feel proud of her son, but was shot dead by her mother.

• Rahul is a son of a farmer whose father used to work as a security guard in some Big Shot’s bungalow. Due to some issues, Rahul and his family migrated to the city in the hope of making big and getting a good life. But life had other plans for Rahul as he ended his life in a gangster rivalry and he got according to his Karma.

The thing I here wanted to share is we have seen and heard many stories about a gangster's death or some gangster died in one shoot-out. We celebrate or feel happy about the same as they were wrong and they deserved, but we good people always forget the people who died were humans too, No mother would like to raise her children to see someday him dead in an encounter or gang war/ No human is criminal from birth things to make them, the situation takes a roll and ends up everything. If you remember the last scene in the film Vastav where Raghu after running hiding from the police and the people who all are in thirst for his blood, ends up in his mother's lap and just recalls how life was beautiful then before being Raghu the don.

That every single scene made me think that though these criminals consider themselves the most superior and powerful but in reality, they all are too frustrated from this hide and seek game and wish to live a human life like initially. The above-mentioned films aren’t glorifying gangsters as heroes also, no gangster is a hero as said by RGV in Satya: My tears for Satya are as much as they are for the people whom he killed. 

No one at least nor me too would think of them as my role model, but these stories and their horrifying and homicide past would somewhere make the new or next-generation think before they consider being gangsters as a life.