Expense Account, Mint
I’m watching Jolly LLB (and if you write columns as a profession, you can’t just watch anything without the brain firing away and looking for raw material to chew on for future work) and as the movie me-lords its way to the end, where the small town guy wins against the corrupt five-star lawyer and against his own initial lower morality, I thought I saw a pattern. The last few years have seen several movies with this theme—the moral choices faced by an average guy in a country where the elite are complicit in a deeply corrupt nation—of choosing between staying with middle class values or joining the system of corruption. Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year was about doing business the right way against the established system of cheating the customer and bribing to get corporate business. Do Dooni Chaar was about a lower middle-class teacher overcoming temptation to do the right thing.