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So now I am wishfully and willfully trying to come out of the alpaviram of blogging, post joining job. Baap re time hi time hai fir bhi nahin milta. For those who know, aaj raam kasam kuch gaane ka man kiya.
I went yesterday to see Road, Movie starring Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik etc.... Since the morning I had been reading reviews from popular critics and websites. It was written all over that that the movie is “Beautifully boring” as the only highlight being the excellent cinematography. Every other critic contributed to the defamation that half my mood to watch it had sunk. Friends too said that the movie is weak on plot and on and on.
Finally I went to catch the flick and as it went forth I found the movie quite appealing at least to me. Post interval the movie was filled half the time with junta comments in the theatre with which I was really getting irritated. People were literally laughing during many scenes which weren’t funny at all, like the one where the girl sang a rajasthani folk at the end. And when the titles came up at the end guys looked at the screen like as if the movie had just stopped 10 mins after starting. An open to interpretation ending is still not received comfortably.
Of course there were things that could have been better but isn’t that the case with nearly every movie. But what I failed and yet fail to understand was whether all this enormous bullshit criticism was really required. I mean is a movie bound to have a complete story, why can’t one experience or a feeling be portrayed in a single movie. And obviously everyone who went to watch it knew that its not going to be another bollywood movie with singing dancing at regular intervals. In fact, that’s become the Oscar formula nowadays, just look at the winner of the best movie of this year “The Hurt Locker” where the barbarism of war is shown turning into a soldiers addiction. “The rush of battle is often potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug”. Didn’t the best of recent movies “Wrestler”, “Reader”, “Blind Side” had a lot unsaid and open to interpretation. I found Road, Movie to be a beautiful portrayal a guy’s life for a week once he decided to roll on out of his boring life.
Whole thing points out to one basic thing (and not to demean any of the critics) that haven’t we had enough of that heavy dose of criticism to every other change which I mean not just in cinema but anywhere around us also. The stir on the mumbai manoos issue, all the reality shows turning round the adult corner, or even the parliament walkout on the 2010 budget. Any attempt to reflect the state of affairs in the current society is shot down like its a hypothetical issue. These things come up only because at least some section of the society is becoming more receptive to change and are also acknowledging that.
There are certain groups of people: those who’re conservative, those who are contemporary and the largest group of those who are confused. Times have changed and so have the perception and presentation. Too much criticism can drive you nuts, Isn’t what you are told not to do; goes straight to the top of your bucket list
My point is that criticism turning cynicism is not helpful at all. Weighing down somebody’s efforts outright is never a good personality trait. I personally hate that and it does no good to anyone.
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