Full Video: Movies and Books || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)
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00:00If there are movies that equate engineering colleges with fun clubs,
00:06then this is what the result will be.
00:09An entire generation of youngsters will opt for engineering thinking
00:14that the place will be simply a laughter club,
00:19or chill out with the friends, hang out with girls,
00:23that kind of opportunity.
00:25And that's not going to materialize.
00:27And then there will be frustration.
00:28Engineering colleges, management colleges, all kinds of places,
00:32whether you're talking of professional education or education in humanities,
00:36they're all great places to be in.
00:38I think it transforms, it metamorphoses the child into the man,
00:44the caterpillar into the butterfly,
00:47but obviously not in the way pop fiction or pop movies demonstrate.
00:52So one has to have some maturity to understand that fiction is fiction.
00:57Fiction does not even attempt to be loyal to the truth.
01:01Its primary allegiance is towards worldly success,
01:07the revenue it rakes in, the weekend collections.
01:10So let's not take all that too seriously.