“One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest” - Well Almost!
Produced and released in 1975, based on the book by the same name, ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest’ is considered one amongst the Greatest films ever made. It finds a place in the American film Institute’s ‘100 years… 100 movies’ list. Call it tragedy, comedy, drama or anything that you may please, it is a thriller that one must find time to watch. I watched it many years ago. But one question haunts me still. Who was the cuckoo? Was it the lively Randle McMurphy, a convict and pretender who encouraged other inmates to discover their strength within and turned tables on Milldred Ratched, the head nurse or was it the Native American “Chief” Bromden, the pretender deaf-mute, who smothered a lobotomized McMurphy to death, before escape? Though there is nothing even remotely linked, I was reminded of the movie when I read the recent news of a person who went missing from the government nominated ' team of farmers ’ from Kerala who went to Israel on a, government sponsor...