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This question of good, bad and grey is a tricky one. Consensus is somewhat impossible. All one can do is put forward his/her point of view. What is passion, what is ambition and what is the relation and power equation between the two is a complicated issue, but for the sake of practicality a rough estimate can be made.

In a way, no one person is actually good or bad. Divinity resides in everyone - right from a spiritual guru to a cold blooded assassin. There is a dark side to the guru and there is a divine aspect to the assassin. Yet, one would call the guru a ''good'' man, and the other a ''bad'' man, because there is a greater manifestation of any one of the two aspects (divine and dark) in both the persons.

Similarly, there is passion and ambition. Both are present in everyone. We say, we are passionate about this and that. And there is ambition too, which is largely a question of self esteem and prestige and pride etc. In Shubhro's case, in my opinion - apparently we see a passion in him - for films. We call it passion because of his initial convictions. Later on, though, the ambition to succeed preponderates over the passion. You would probably say that he was indeed passionate about films, but later his ambition warred and the latter won. I wouldn't agree. I'd say, his passion for films was fake. There was passion in him, but it wasn't films. He was passionate about 'success.'

Taking the larger picture into account, it is abundantly clear that ambition got the better of Shubhro's passion in his very first creative attempt. His Very first. Had films been a passion (or anything more than an inherently weak one), ambition would not have swallowed it so easily. Here, the defeat is so easy that one could call it a walkover for ambition. This shows his passion for success (in whatever way, be it films or otherwise) was the true reason for this emphatic victory. Films were'nt actually his passion, but just an instrument through which he sought success, which he misconstrued as his 'passion.' It is probably a case of self-induced illusion. Your argument would have been strong had the same culmination been seen in Shubhro's 5th, 6th or 7th film, and not his very first.