Brother Vivek! The Oddly Familiar Soul

There are some experiences that have the ability to strike the deepest chord with you. You don’t understand when they sneak in, how they sneak in, through which avenue they sneak in. But when they shelter in, they develop a symbiotic relationship with your soul. The character of Brother Vivek, the quirky, lost, rebellious female protagonist from the deliciously contemporary reel called ‘What Are The Odds?’ is one such experience that struck a chord with my heart. I call it an experience because I saw my ‘what-the-f-was-that-phase’ teenage, just-born into-adulthood life play out frame-by-frame in front of me - well almost! Let’s navigate through a couple of these ‘well- almost’ experiences of Brother Vivek that mirrored mine between age 14-22. Brother Vivek questions the status quo of, what she considers, the totalitarian culture of educational institutions. She demonstrates her protest by bunking an exam. In parallel, during a rather woke, ‘we-don’t-need-no-education’ phase of my engin