A prisoner can do anything to keep himself busy, Anything!!

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2008)

This movie is a classic, first of its kind as far as prison breaking idea is concerned, the will of a man to help the prison, the grudge of a man against a corrupt officer and lastly the friendship that starts with two phrases of conversation that lasts forever.
The whole plot revolves around Andy Dufresne who is a prisoner at the Shawshank prison for a crime he hasn't done. He makes friendship with Red, an inmate, who has been prisoned for 20 years and the only person who can get you almost anything from outside world.
Andy, a banker by profession, helps the prison guards to evade Income Tax for free and only demands beer for his fellow inmates thus winning the hearts of his friends, who are ready to do anything for him. Later, he switches his attention to the prison library and totally revolutionizes it by buying good books, music platters, a gramophone, thus making it the best library in the state. He, then switches his attention to Tommy, an illiterate, who has the zest to study and come up in life. He teaches him from A,B,C to everything required for a person to clear the metric exam. He also works for the Warden, a corrupt person who can do almost anything for money.
Andy is a person who likes to keep himself busy, and at day he does all the above things to fulfill it. But, at night when he is idle, he drills a huge hole using a rock hammer and shades it with posters of beautiful women and cases the hammer within the bible given to him.
It so happens that Tommy becomes a witness of Andy for not killing his wife and his wife's lover, but the Warden, kills Tommy just because releasing Andy would stop all the monetary inflow into Shawshank.
After he escapes the prison after 20 years of digging, he unfolds the corrupt warden's crimes to the press and escapes to Mexico without leaving a trail. The Warden, out of embarrassment and fear of being legally sued commits suicide which becomes a major factor for the release of Red a few months later.
Red follows the instructions given by Andy and both later meet in Mexico.