Munnabhai's experiment with truth

I saw Lage Raho Munnabhai yesterday for a second time over and ended up liking it even more. How a local goon Munnabhai leaves Dadagiri to adopt Gandhigiri to get back The Second Innings House, an abode for seven old men, from the clutches of a mean businessman Lucky Singh forms the crux of this film. In a very simple way the movie introduces to us the two long forgotten weapons of satya and ahimsa (i.e. truth and non-violence), which Gandhiji used to end the British Raj over India.

I read somewhere that "lying can never save us from another lie". Only truth has the ability of setting us free. But then as Oscar Wilde had once said "the truth is rarely pure and never simple". :) I guess that is one of the reasons because of which we tend to choose the easier road (of lying) kidding ourselves that we won't be instrumental in causing hurt. On a few occasions we even resort to the other extreme remaining silent in matters of importance.

Munnabhai's gutsy confession to Jhanvi, the girl he loves, that he is a crook and not a professor is thus an example to be followed by those claiming to talk about anything under the sun but lacking courage to do so in reality.

As the film progresses our hero following Bapu's advice goes around affecting the lives of many people and propagating them (and us) to walk on the path of truth.

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PS: I'd like to end with the following Elvis Presley quote

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.