In a world where power is being abused and it keeps rearing its ugly head every day, Skoda Kodiaq reminds us, Power and Beautiful can go together. It reminds us that when you have … read morepower in your hands you always have two roads in front of you. One that misuses that power and other that can make it beautiful.
The film begins with the darkest moment in India's history when British General Dyer opened indiscriminate firing on a crowd of peaceful protestors, including women and children. Thousands died that day cos of one man's ugly use of power. The beautiful side of power is shown in the next sequence where we see a government signboard reserving a plot for children's playground, thereby protecting it from the hands of the real estate mafia that is taking away all the playgrounds and constructing buildings.
The next sequence shows a man in a pot hole, cleaning sewage, as is a common sight in india. This manual scavenging is inhumane and takes away many lives of such workers. But the world around them moves on as if nothing is wrong. The next sequence shows the beautiful power of money as we see a little girl is fitted with a prosthetic leg called Jaipur foot in india, one that runs primarily on donations.
The next scene is about the rising cases of mob violence in india and across the world, showing how the power of a mob can be ugly. The beautiful side of a mob is shown next when a stadium is singing India's national song, reminding everyone of the night when the whole stadium sang in unision to inspire India to win the cricket world cup in 2011.
The fourth sequence shows the two sides of the power of courage. One hints at the ghastly terrorist attack by an armed gunman in mumbai. And the shot that follows shows the historic symbol of courage on part of Gandhiji as he picked up salt to defy the British empire and their unjust Salt Act.
The final sequence shows the acid scarred face of a girl who was attacked by her angry lover and the next one shows the bust of Mother Teresa, who with her power of love, touched so many lives.
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