Alternative Climax To Dil Se - Could Amar And Meghana Survive?
Sixteen years after release, Dil Se has become synonymous with a genre of movies that narrate a story of painful, impossible, yet immaculate love. The movie is a rollercoaster ride through an exceptional love story, so perfectly scripted and presented, that you virtually start seeing through the eyes of the characters and start sensing the pain deep inside your hearts, only to end in absolute agony. Movie left me speechless.
I'm immensely hurt by the ending. The excellence of the narration is in keeping you gripped through every frame of the movie wondering will anybody die? Will Meghana leave behind her terror community, her vengeance, her own dismantled past, and accept the love of Amar, marry him and lead a happy life together? Will a brave Amar avert the bombing planned on Republic Day? I'm certainly sure that everybody hoped it would be a "Yes" to the second question. But, the movie breaks a million hearts. Could the story have an alternative ending?
Let us try some alternate directions to pull the story along and find whether Amar and Meghana would survive for a happy ending.
Possibility 1: In the scene where Amar attempts to strip Meghana, what if he had succeeded? He would have handed over the bomb gear worn by Meghana to the police, while she protects her modesty herself. In a fit of rage, Amar would forget that exposing her truth to the police would only kill the love and he would forever be hated by her. The police may get the whole terror knot opened and they would even avert the Republic Day bombing. While Meghana may have to serve a life term, Amar would wait indefinitely for her.
Possibility 2: On the Republic Day, while Meghana is being prepared for the suicide bombing, Amar would break into the terror camp with a gun and stop her from wearing the bombs. He would then singlehandedly encounter the terror outfit and in an emotional climax, he may succeed in freeing Meghana out of her terrorist clutches and a lovely reunion of the two. But this setting is less likely, given the astute determination of her siblings to wreak havoc.
The climaxes in both the possibilities could be a happy one, but, a lot of questions would be left unanswered. Neither of them are as perfect as the original. But did it have to be so painful? Can there be alternatives to the climax?
I call upon everyone to write your own twists and turns to the story. Bring in your ideas to make Amar and Meghana live.
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Let us try some alternate directions to pull the story along and find whether Amar and Meghana would survive for a happy ending.
Possibility 1: In the scene where Amar attempts to strip Meghana, what if he had succeeded? He would have handed over the bomb gear worn by Meghana to the police, while she protects her modesty herself. In a fit of rage, Amar would forget that exposing her truth to the police would only kill the love and he would forever be hated by her. The police may get the whole terror knot opened and they would even avert the Republic Day bombing. While Meghana may have to serve a life term, Amar would wait indefinitely for her.
Possibility 2: On the Republic Day, while Meghana is being prepared for the suicide bombing, Amar would break into the terror camp with a gun and stop her from wearing the bombs. He would then singlehandedly encounter the terror outfit and in an emotional climax, he may succeed in freeing Meghana out of her terrorist clutches and a lovely reunion of the two. But this setting is less likely, given the astute determination of her siblings to wreak havoc.
The climaxes in both the possibilities could be a happy one, but, a lot of questions would be left unanswered. Neither of them are as perfect as the original. But did it have to be so painful? Can there be alternatives to the climax?
I call upon everyone to write your own twists and turns to the story. Bring in your ideas to make Amar and Meghana live.
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