The films by Asghar Farhadi always have a certain ambiguity, wherein viewers are invoked to have conflicting feelings towards the morality of his characters—something I also experienced from *A Separation *and The Salesman, which makes them more human, I guess. The characters from A Hero are not at all different: one moment you root for them, the second you find them despicable, and then you understand them a little bit more—why they act the way that they do. What a master class in studying the human condition, its frailties and weaknesses. Farhadi never categorizes his protagonists as normatively good or his antagonists as inherently evil. He knows that all of us are capable of being both depending on the situation. Like Rahim, all of us wanted to be seen and heard, to be special, to feel for once that our existence is validated, despite the means.

Buddha once told - "Chaos is inherent in all compound things. Strive on with diligence."  Asghar in the most Asghar way described the word “Chaos” that can come out of a simple act in life. Asghar builds some sort of tension right from the scene one that also cracked me up a bit — The most simplest scene of a panting protagonist climbing a stairs is been prolonged just to show the viewers that the protagonist’s life is about to go haywire and then the title “A hero” comes up on screen. Asghar you beauty 😄. What a master of drama this guy. Proves yet again.  Just a simple act of kindness gives the protagonist a fame, praises, rumours, lies, truth, cover ups and what not.  This is a film that truly made me realise yet again that how people perceive social media, TV channels and newspapers. It’s treated like a certificate for everything. If you want to show a person as liar, share it on…