HAPPINESS PURSUED!

Film: The Pursuit of Happyness
Director: Gabrielle Muccini
Cast: Will Smith, Jade Smith




Firstly, I would like to thank this movie as it has made me think of what happiness is. Happiness cannot be achieved, but only pursued. Everytime we say that we are happy is may be because we compromise with our aspirations and bargain with our desires. We suffocate our wishes and be content and then we say that we are happy. That is not happiness. Lets not be content and satisfied with small achievements, lets go run behind those dreams of ours which we dreamt. Lets achieve them and then lets say that we are "happy"

Chris Gardener(Will Smith) is not a happy man. He is a street smart fellow and great at heart. He has a small family which includes his son(Jaden Smith) and his wife(Thandie Newton). His wife works in a laundry shop and he is a salesman, a struggling salesman. Set in the year 1981 this movie shows Chris Gardener selling a machine which was double as costly as an X ray machine but was very little more powerful than it for scanning bones.

He struggles in his profession and the immediate effects of it are rising pressure of due taxes, bills, rents and an unhappy wife. The child, a five year old, is kept in a cress where the wall doesnt know the spelling of Happiness...it writes Happyness..along with the F word.

With an annoyed wifes screams and an unsuccesful salesmanship, Chris decides to become a stock broker, which is not a halwa. He after a lot of struggle and pain and after his wife goes away, finally gets a chance for a no salary internship so that he gets a chance to work as a strock broker.

More and more problems strike his life and he under this immense impossibilities and extremities holds on, pretty well and plays the role of a great father, a great learner and a great worker at the brokerage firm.

Director Gabrielle Muccino has beautifully carved the human emotions entangled in this plot and with the brilliance of Will and Jade Smith, the movie has been a complete treat to watch.

Chris works days and nights together. He and his son see bad days, probably the worst of days. They live in a dormitory, he doesnt sleep, keeps studying for his internship exams. This goes on for six never ending months.

Chris tells us about various parts of his life. Sometimes he tells about his running about through the city streets, sometimes about his sorrows, sometimes about his fate. He is told that to be a good strockbroker he needs to be good with numbers and good with people. He was good with numbers and he turned out be great with people.

With unimaginable tenacity to pursue his happiness, Chris actually is able to do the impossible. Against all odds, all possible odds, a man stands out and does what hardly any human could do on this planet. He had set a goal long back and now he has it. He did not compromise with his ambitions. He held on and held on as tightly as possible, shielding his son from all odds(something really similar to Akele Hum Akele Tum) . But he succeded to be the winner, he succeded in getting the job of the strockbroker.

Today Chris tells about another part of his life. A part called Happiness....He is really "Happy"