In the same light, Arjun, who believes in a certain desire for the west, its technologically driven ‘progressive’ world and seeks to move to US and study there, stands in contrast to what his dad believes to be a “good life/career” by …show more content…
Michael embodies the notion of what Fanon calls “the most urgent thing today for the intellectual is to build up his nation"' and that "'the building of a nation is of necessity accompanied by the discovery and encouragement of universalizing values.” Secondly, the idea of nation as a community brings with it a lot of debate and disagreement over the very idea of a fraternity within the boundaries of the state. The movie tackles this idea by presenting how a local idea of ‘nation-hood’ is formed, no doubt contradictory (Lallan’s views Vs. Michael’s), through the view of the public, students and the rural inhabitants in this