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Who doesn't wants to be successful, right? But very few understand the importance and need for success in their lives. I know everyone succeeds in some or the other way in their lives, but I believe that every one of us once in a while dreams of being as successful as Elon Musk or any other famous personality. We keep hearing all the wonderful stories from the lives of famous and successful personalities, we fancy their lifestyle and in doing so often set ourselves on the wrong path. Dreaming big is a good thing, but let's be practical here, we dream only the success, never the hard work that needs to be put on to achieve that. A famous person once said that passion is just an idle person's idea, successful people just give their everything to a particular idea and if the number of hours put into that is sufficient, success will be achieved automatically. Biggest hurdles Before we move towards the dark side of success, let's talk about the herd mentality. We often becom...

The other day I was talking to a friend of mine about the kind of songs we produce in our country, most of the Bollywood songs revolve around one single topic,  LOVE . No matter the subject of the movie, it is almost impossible to find a movie without an angle of romantic love. I'm pretty sure that Bollywood directors would have forced a love story even in a movie like 'Man who knew infinity'. We've got so obsessed with love that we've forgotten about the other virtues of human life. Countless movies have been produced over the years in which love is the integral theme or the part of the narrative, love has been the most recurring theme in Bollywood movies. No matter how much we deny but these narratives have shaped our understanding of love and unfortunately this has ruined love for our generation. The way we love   today, to an extent is a direct consequence of the misguided ideas propagated in our movies.  Theory of Romanticism So, to understand how Bollywood rui...

Difference between plot and story Let me tell you an extremely simple story, "The king died and then the queen died" let's take a look at another story "The king died and then the queen died because of grief" . The difference between the two stories is, former on is just some events placed in a timeline but the latter is a story with a plot, it consists of a cause and that drives the plot of the story, here GRIEF  is the plot that drives the story. But it's not just the plot that drives the story, its characters also play a fundamental role in the advancement of the story. So, here's the big question, what is more important in a story, plot or its characters? Different people hold a different opinion about the issue, for instance, Robert Mckee says that at the heart of the storytelling, both plot and character are one and the same. On the other hand, Martin Scorsese says that people often forget the plot of the movie and remember the character in far gr...