Panddoorraa

It happens rarely in your life that you behold a dream with open eyes. It rarely happens when the reality is more beautiful than a dream, you wish it never stopped.

Avataar is an experience that can only be seen, not told.
A magician has oozed and squeezed all his magic in a utopian saga and a pure spectacle. A movie has been eccentric by not being just a stereotyped sci–fi where massive destruction (2012, Independence Day, matrix) had been the modus of entertainment. This has been a story of construction, of connection of getting back to where we belong. Nature. Our roots.
Technology, Science, Ambitions have taken us really far away from our roots. And for inscrutable reasons we are strangers to our planet, confounded on where we actually belong, perhaps the only species to have inflicted so much damage to its only abode in the universe. And the antagonistic nature is reacting, tsunamis global warming. The kind of rift between nature and its kin cannot be sustained; we are like the pariahs being thrown away from their mother’s lap.

Avataar is like Ozzy Ozzbourne’s mama I am coming home. Nature has accepted us, taken Jack (representing us) in her tutelage. Singing lullabies of adventure, exploration and the Connect! Canvassing the miracles and phenomena of Pandora.
Pandora is an exaggerated Earth. Exaggerated conspicuously and consciously to elucidate the oneness of our being. Where wishes have wings, a genie at one’s disposal to fulfill all one can desire. You may become a part of the mightiest bird and presumptuously rule the skies or ride muscular beast, you might just melt in the glowing waters or get cozy in the branches. You may make the mountains float or fall from a cliff with your head high. You could be humble even after killing someone and die peacefully & live eternally with Eva. You may fall in love with the Gods testifying it.

Our body contains 90% bacteria, viruses and the most basic of cells. Our airs and grace are definitely apparent in our affective demeanor, but we are just a congregation of the most elemental form of life; the origin of life (amoeba). Not us but everything that breathes on this planet is just a manifestation of the original 5 elements.

But why then their fate is at our mercy. Why are we not living in the lap of nature? Why do we need to take a holiday to experience Ladakh or feel the serene waters of Kerela? Why do our children learn about nature in their books or a discovery channel but not through experience?
And why in spite of us living on the planet of grand snow capped Himalayas, exotic wild life, Amazon forests and magnificent oceans, royal Bengal tigers and blue whales, polar ice caps and the tropical forests crave to be in Pandora?

They are all what we are not! They have everything what we don’t! They have a home unconfined, without any proverbial boundaries, they are free.

Freedom, aren’t we free too? No we aren’t I say. We are not in control of our lives. We are bounded by comparison with our peers. We are answerable to our own ambitions and expectations. We are guilty of not gratifying because of our schedules. We long to meet someone, but cannot take a leave. We cannot answer back at our bosses’ dogmatic behaviors. We live in a society build more with dogmas and less with experimentations.

But I am grateful that there is one thing that is consistent in Na’vis and us. That is Love. And with Love there is hope, of being liberated like them.