KOCHI: After actor Suresh Gopi’s tryst with him before the general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi now gets an admirer from Mollywood, in Mohanlal.
In a post on his blog, titled ‘Ethics in Work, Aesthetics in Honesty’ uploaded a day after a concrete slab of the Sree Sankara Bridge at Kalady broke off, Mohanlal connects Modi’s message on sincerity in performing duty - delivered during his interaction with students on the Teachers’ Day - to the dilapidated condition of the roads in the State.
While praising Modi for his advice, Lal doubts the sincerity and honesty of those who built roads and bridges in the State.
“What wrong did we do to travel six thousand kilometres instead of six hundred kilometres, and to experience hours of traffic jam?” he asks.
He begins his thoughts with a question posed by a student to the PM, “did you ever think as a child that you would become the PM of India, and known all over the world?”
His reply was - “No, I never thought. In school, I did not even fight the election to become a monitor. We should dream, but not to become someone. We should dream to do something”. Lal finds this ‘the best piece of advice that can be given to a generation that grows within no tome, and is forced to imbibe a culture to do anything for becoming someone’.
He terms the answer as unique, which, according to him, could be given only by a poor rustic boy who would have never thought of becoming someone, quickly. “Whatever one does, one should do with honesty and sincerity and must find joy in it. However, many are unable to enjoy their jobs as they neither do them with honesty and sincerity nor do they dream. So, I find Modi’s message the best message that can be passed on to the next generation,” he said. “There should be a culture, wherein everyone does his/her job with meditation. Then only the lives of Malayalis, which are untenable, can be saved,” he concludes.
Two years ago, Mohanlal had invited the wrath of a section of the comrades when he asked, “can these people ever give life to a tiny ant? I feel scared to live in a place where people kill or ‘hire goons’ to eliminate their fellow-beings.” In an emotional post in his blog, he had wondered if Kerala was turning into an asylum, referring to the brutal murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan.