Should you live and die for Family or should you live and die for Law? Does Family come above Law or is it Law that comes above Family? It is possible for any man to sometimes fall in a situation where he has to choose between Family and Law. If you are born in a criminal family, would you support your family or would you take resort to Law to bring your own criminal family to book? All these questions are very tricky. While asking these questions I'm reminded of two films which dwelt on this theme. The first film was 'Deewar' in which one brother is shown as a police officer and the other brother is a smuggler. There is a clash between the policeman played by Shashi Kapoor and Smuggler played by Amitabh Bachchan. Ultimately it is the policeman who triumphs over the smuggler. In the end we have the policeman brother killing his own smuggler brother. Thus the film preaches that Law comes above all relations. It teaches that Law is above Family. There was a similar film called Shakti in which Dilip Kumar played the role of Father who is police commissioner. The role of his son was played by Amitabh Bachchan who portrayed a smuggler. In this film too the policeman father kills his smuggler son ultimately. There are some more films based on similar theme and all these films preached that Law comes above all kinds of relations, even family.
There can arise a case where all the relatives, except the immediate family, of a person are criminal. Then what role that particular individual should play? If that person and his immediate family supports Law in finishing all their criminal relatives, the family will be reduced to size considerably. But if they support the criminal relatives they will be betraying the Law and they will be called unpatriotic or traitors. Under such circumstance, wouldn't it be wise to support Law against the criminal relatives? That's all for now. Bye!
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