He (Viren) was treading the desert – traversing its barren lands like the aimless wanderer who knows the oasis isn’t what he is searching. Yet, he moved on, like the purple of the sky that melts inexorably into stygian hues and awaits the incandescence of orange to break its gloom. Feared he was open to open the panes of his life, for the entrant had never been happiness, but despondency had knocked many a time. But when he finally peeped through the slightly ajar window, he saw an angel (Pallavi) dancing in the rains, oblivious of his admiring gaze.Continue reading “Lamhe – a love beyond forever…”
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Chandni : Eternal Moonlight
“Her heart was a secret garden, and the walls were very high“.
-William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Chandni is not just a character from this movie, but she is a character who has been residing in Yashji’s thoughts for a long time. What culminated in this movie was the effect, but the cause of it can be found in his earlier works. Yashji is not a writer, I do know that. And this implies that Chandni is not a character that he has created. And yet, the character kept coming back to him, again and again. It was more like the character found him, rather then he going after the character.Continue reading “Chandni : Eternal Moonlight”
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Darr-The Revisionist Hero
What would you define a Hindi film Hero as? A do-gooder, with the heart of gold. A man with the sexual charisma only found in Kamasutra, the heroism of Greek gods, the strength of a thousand elephants together and the intellect rivaling the best on human minds. He who can do no wrong, for whatever be the circumstances, he is always righteous.He for whom The End is always happy and merry.Continue reading “Darr-The Revisionist Hero”
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Silsila- the unequal harmony
India is a country where people have worshipped everything that they detest in their real lives. The “Khap Panchayat” kills anyone who doesn’t marry according to the norms of his / her society. A duo that elopes to get married is considered outcast.
But when the lord of their myths kidnaps a woman from her wedding and marries her or manages to get his sister to abscond with his best friend, he is considered as the warrior of love and stories are woven around his valiant act of eloping. When a boy on the street whistles at a girl, he is called an eve-teaser; but when a lord picks at the belle of his village, he is considered ‘Saawariya’! “Krishna” is possibly one of the most worshipped gods in India. But if we look at his story closely, we would see that his life was anything monogamous; neither did he seem to profess a stringent belief on the same.Continue reading “Silsila- the unequal harmony”
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