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If you ask me whom I loved the most in the show I would say Iman. Yes Sid intrigued the analyst in me, but the man I enjoyed watching was Iman and Satyadeep did full justice to this role.
If you ask me among the POWs who had the most desire to live, I would say that person was Iman. He loved life. He loved everything about life. Please note that before going for Kargil war he was a happily married man with a loving wife, adorable daughter and expecting his second bundle of joy. He had a loving brother and a dotting mother. If you ask me he was the man who is cup of joy was full and overflowing.
But the most interesting thing about Iman was also this beautiful perceptions. It was the perceptions he created for the audience and it was also about the perceptions he lived in. If you ask me the journey of Iman Khan was from perceptions to reality. A bitter reality that is summed up there is not a man who is as alone as him, there is not a man who has lost as much as him. Yes the life he so very much wanted finally becomes a lone battle for him. A second chance which only he has got among the 3 POWs. So let me trace the journey of Iman.
So this guy Iman comes back home after 17 years of prison. A prison in which he was tortured in such a way, no one can come and tell let us behave normal. If you see Sartaj his behaviour was the real normal after such a torture and what happened with them in the prison. If you see Marega ya Marega doesnt come much to Iman, it comes mostly to Sartaj. Reason is the action was done by Sartaj and beneficiary was Iman. Between Sid and Iman, Sartaj chose Iman. Iman was the observer of that action than the one doing the action himself. So he just wants to put behind the fact that one soldier has killed another soldier to save a fellow soldier.
But somewhere it did linger in Iman that yes they did something which is not very right, something which they dont want the world to know. It reflected in his body language which Vikram caught on as something anti -Indian plot.
As we progress what we see is each of the perceptions of this man coming down. First his daughter who gives him a rough shake up telling she cant see him as her father. Iman when faced with reality doesnt run away. He stands and fights, and finally wins over his daughter's love.
Once again Iman is bought back to the perceived normal. He is happy. Everyone arranges for the second nikah of him and Naz. Then breaks his another perception. One Naz has accepted him after reading the letter he has left for her, another Naz is still in love with him. It was a very hard truth for Iman to know that his brother and wife has fallen in love. Again a difficult choice is kept on him. But Iman takes it. He leaves his wife telling a lie he wanted to divorce her so that in front of the society her choice to move ahead with Salim is not questioned. But Naz is shocked at all levels. She let go of both men, talks about divorce. Iman moves away from the perfect family. But still this man believes another perfect will come. His kids are there and if his brother gets his love well and fine.
But that perception of Iman is also short lived. his past come calling in the form of Lala where Salim suffers an accident and he is asked to do anti India operation. Once again this man is asked to choose between family and nation. Seeing the terrible condition of his brother he chooses family and goes to betray nation. But then his family comes to him telling him they are there with him and he shouldnt take any wrong decision. Iman comes back from making a wrong choice. He talks to Vikram avert the disaster with the help of Sartaj. But then Sartaj tells him they are not yet free. Finally Iman makes the choice of telling the truth. They tell Vikram about Sid, meet Shobha and once again the perceived normal comes.
Then comes the most shocking perception breaking. Sid is alive. I loved the scene where Iman reacts to this news. Reason is it is that time Iman realizes the impact of Sid being alive. As he was the real beneficiary of Sid's death. Without doing any action, without making any difficult choice he got a second chance. Again it is Vikram asks Iman can Sid change. Iman tells he cannot. Now what follows for Iman is a series of events where this perception is broken at multiple level ending with the line from Sid " Who told you escaped, I made your release possible". It was correct metaphorically, symbolically and physically. It was below the belt for Iman. It was like telling him you got everything without actually doing anything. So what Iman gets in the end, a truth that his life is a gift which he got where his one brother died a soldier and other brother died a terrorist. What is he going to do about this second chance. Actually Sid tells the way forward for Iman indirectly. Army men are dying. What is happening to their families. When people die for you, are you looking at their families. You are a man who is a soldier, who is also a family man. You are a person who has seen and practiced the ethos of your motherland, yet you are a man who also knows how the people use the good things written in your Holy Book to brain wash people and use them for selfish purpose. In short you have seen lot, you have experienced lot, you have risen above perceptions. Life is a gift that involves sacrifices, freedom is not absolute, use it the right way. Knowledge has come through difficult experience, use it to light the path of others. Never squander away the chance that you got at the cost of other lives. Be a Karma yogi. Make a choice. Fight. Become a light. It is not just to Iman, but it is to each one of us who is living. If you are living that means you have to do actions. Someone bought you till here, it is time you take next generation to something better. Life is normal is only a perception. It is full of choices, rise above perceptions and make them.
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