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Domestic yoga enthusiasts and Indian film lovers are familiar with the Indian Embassy in China at 5 Liangmaqiao North Street in Beijing, where Indian yoga practices and Indian film screenings are held irregularly throughout the year.
On the last weekend before the Spring Festival in the Year of the Pig, the film screened by the Indian Embassy in China was the sports inspirational film "Soul Runner".
The film focuses on the story of Miha Singh, a legendary Indian track and field athlete known as the "Flying Sikh".
Miha Singh experienced the ups and downs of family destruction, partition between India and Pakistan, homelessness, homelessness and theft, and finally overcame all kinds of tribulations to become India's most iconic athlete.
In Douban's Indian films, the film scored as high as 7.7 points, which is comparable to Indian business cards such as "Mysterious Superstar".
It's a blood-boiling film, and in the usual 3-hour length of Indian cinema, Miha Singh moves every audience off-screen with his spirit of self-improvement.
In the bitter winter, let us experience the life of willpower explosion together, and fly against the wind with the "flying Sikhs"!
Please let me run! Running means everything
It's like the ultimate question every climber faces, "Why climb?" "In the same way, every runner faces the same question: Why are you running?
Unlike the climber's standard answer, "Because the mountain is there," Miha Singer has too many reasons to run: to live, to milk, to dignity, for love, to country...
Miha Singh has no choice, even if he is beaten by a competitor before the competition, he will fight for his life to run, because he has no way to retreat.
"Please let me run!" Because running means everything to me. ”
Born in the Punjab and sikh, Miha Singh began his life on the darkest page of his life.
In 1947, the partition of India and Pakistan, the Punjab region was just on the dividing line, and in a short period of time there were fierce conflicts and riots, different sects slaughtered each other, and the young Singer witnessed the massacre of his parents and 8 siblings.
In 1954, Miha Singer enlisted in the army, and he did not know the world, and he ran with all his strength to drink a glass of milk.
With war, love and affection, this Sikh, who never compromised with fate, galloped on the track, and although he carried something extremely heavy and impossible to throw away, he never feared.
There is an episode in the film called "Alive", which is the best annotation to the teenager Miha Singh.
At that time, he was homeless and followed a group of street children to the rivers and lakes. In addition to the law of the jungle, they often steal coal from trains carrying coal to make a living.
"Alive" lyrics to the effect:
If you're still alive
Just put up with everything
Use your feet
Step it into powder
Put that cup of bitter wine of life
Drink it all up
Instead of being tortured day by day
It is better to live a painful life and die a painful death
Coal is born black
Collected from under the mountains
The black surface, the black heart, the inside and the outside, without exception
But it lives up to its name
Why let those illusory dreams stand in your way
Don't hesitate to rush forward freely
Who will regret yesterday and who knows what tomorrow will look like
Just live in the moment
Sing as much as you want
Even if your lips are burning
Even if your wounds are rotting
Just let all the pain become a beautiful melody
In Miha Singh, we feel strongly the greatness of sportsmanship and the self-esteem of runners.
On his figure, there are countless touching and profound screen images: The little Ali in the Iranian movie "Little Shoes" in order to win a pair of white running shoes for his sister; the American movie "Forrest Gump" who overcame intellectual difficulties, ran through thirty years of modern American history, and also ran out of the most unforgettable love of his life; The Jewish Cambridge student Abraham who ran for God in the British movie "Chariot of Fire"; the Olympic champion, prisoner of war in the American movie "Indestructible", the pious Christian Zamberini...
Countless runner figures and Miha Singer's orthodontic figures overlap, and they interpret the greatness of willpower and the sublime of human nature in capital letters "human".
Their bodies have long surpassed the runners on the track and field, but the leaders of the journey of life!
Sikh "Singh": My name is "Lion"
Miha Singh is a Sikh, and the film's account of Miha Singh's life gives the audience a closer look at the religion from India.
Sikhism is a religion that spread in India and Pakistan, and the most iconic costume of its followers is the turban wrapped around their heads.
According to Sikh doctrine, the headscarf is part of the body of the believer, and it is strictly forbidden to take it off the rest of the time unless it is washed at home, because it is blasphemous and disrespectful to the whole religion.
When Sikhism was born, the Mughal Dynasty at that time forbade non-Muslims to wear headscarves, in order to oppose the religious discrimination and oppression of the Mughals, Sikhism strictly stipulated that believers should wear fancy turbans, and the biggest taboo in diet was to prohibit the consumption of halal meat.
According to tradition, Sikh children's turbans are relatively simple, only tied with black cloth in the shape of a bun, Sikhs from childhood to adulthood must grow hair, beard, arm bracelet, wearing a dagger.
Sikhs are mostly Punjabis, generally tall, militaristic, and aggressive.
After the British occupation of India, especially during World War II, the Indian army and police were mostly Sikhs, and this tradition continues to this day.
After joining the barracks, Miha Singh continued the Sikh habit of growing hair, growing a beard, and wearing an arm bracelet.
This is because the Indian government fully respects the habits of Sikhs, and even after joining the army, it can continue to retain its original customs and religious beliefs, as long as the insignia of the service to which it belongs is not on the turban.
Sikh men have names like "Singh", which means lion, and women have names like "Kaul", which means princess.
This is the tenth patriarch of Sikhism, Gobind Singh, who established the "Karsa" (the general term for baptized Sikhs) system, which demanded the elimination of different castes in Hinduism, stipulating that all male believers should use "Singh" as their surname and women should use "Kaul" as their surname.
Partition of India and Pakistan: Fly, only the sky is the end
"Miha, run, don't look back!"
This is the last cry of Miha Singh's father to Xiaomiha a second before being slaughtered.
This scene is related to the red flame marshal Lin Xie's last cry to Lin Shu in "Langya List", "Live!" "How similar.
Do the families who fled the holocaust want to turn back? How to go back? How to face the lost home?
This is one of the few questions I would most like to know when I lived in India.
The sikhs had only three options: converted to Pakistan during the Indian Civil War, the small village where Miha Singh lived as a child had three options: to convert, to flee to India, or to fight to the death against the rulers.
Miha Singh witnessed the brutal slaughter of his parents and relatives and fled alone to India.
The shadow of his childhood has always lingered in his heart, and even if he returns to his hometown as a proud and champion player in India, he will not be able to face the past, "because the blood of my family is floating in the air!" ”
During my residency in Delhi, I have asked Sikhs who have had similar experiences about the same question, and the tears of the family and the tragic past often make them cry and look back.
Perhaps, Miha Singh found his way and answer, in the words of the coach: "He is like flying with clouds!" "Fly!" Only the sky is the end. ”
Like Miha Singh, who has grown a pair of wings, resists the unjust fate of gravity with free will, the wind is carrying him.
Miha's lead actor Farhan Akhtar also dedicated all his blood and sweat to this great character.
It's like hearing Bob Dylan's famous ballad in the wind:
"Blowin' In The Wind"
"In the Wind"
How many roads must a man walk down
How many roads a man has to walk
Before you call him a man?
To be called a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
How much seawater does a white pigeon have to cross
Before she sleeps in the sand?
In order to sleep on the beach
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
How many times do shells fly in the sky
Before they're forever banned?
in order to be banned forever
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer, my friend, is wafting in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
The answer flutters in the wind
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