Crossroads

Was watching a film yesterday.... actually a short film made by the students from IIT- Madras. It was a story about 4 roommates/friends in IIT-M, each one of them could be broadly classified as a 'type'of engineer, one who took up engineering in the hopes of changing the world by 'building-up' things, one who had his future planned out- pursuing a bachelor's degree in his favourite discipline in one of India's top engg school, then going abroad to a bigger yet university to complete his higher education and get a fat pay-scale, one who had merely got his discipline (or branch as its commonly known) out of the zillion options he had filled at the time of counselling and lastly the fourth one,who had taken up engineering only to find out that he actually loved one of the basic sciences (physics in the movie), who was so attached to his family that he could not find the courage to tell them that he needed to go abroad in order to pursue his dream subject. Needless to say, neither of them found engineering exactly as they had perceived, in fact, they found it MUCH different. They found themselves at crossroads on various stages of their college life, thus encapsulating perfectly the life of an Indian engineering student, who deals with stress, emotions and fun - all at the same time. The message delivered in the end was "We live in a world where we have to make choices at every step of our life, sometimes it may lead us to the place where we dreamed of... and sometimes into the unknown. On the way to our goals and ambitions, there are some who get stuck in the maze, some pull through to excel, and there are a few who choose the road less traveled. There are teachers who taught you, there are people who showed you the way, once in a while you believed in them, even though some had their own style, but they always had something to teach you.In the four years of engineering, there are somethings we achieved, there are things w missed, but everytime we learnt something and the moments we spent here will remain etched in our memories forever. " What it did was make me think, albeit for a little while, but i did spare a thought on what i'm doing in life.

PS: I think the film's name was 'Silicon Jungle' for those who want to have a break from senseless so-called comedies of bollywood and watch something worthwhile.