Yesterday, I just realized how much my priorities are screwed up, I was doing things that border on mundaneness at best...and eventually missed out on something, which as a film buff , I should have done without any intellectual effort whatsoever from my side....How the hell did I miss Swades for so long..
Hats off to Ashutosh for reiterating the power of simplicity...the depth of emotion and the profound it can convey...A classic specimen for those who need a lesson on keeping things simple..
ARR clearly has scored the best bgm of his career in Swades...The title music is unconventional and addictive...typical ARR stuff,...The "village house scenes" are elevated to a higher plane by the BGM...i haven't seen any ARR movie Packed with so much bgm that too so many different moods....The highlight being the BGM that creates a sense of expectation and excitement when the turbine generates power...
Yeh Taara gave me goose pimples and had me crying in the middle...And Shahrukh tellin the class "Main chalta hoon" was a leaf from the mani book...
Understated,Simple,Honest,Purposeful,Clear....A movie Ashutosh has made at his own terms with none of the cliches that continually pull down mainstream cinema from Great to good...The length is a clear indicator of the director's intent and his "no compromises" delivery...Lakshya and now Swades are cases in point of the ineptness of the Indian audience...A dangerous trend that should be bucked at the earliest...Murder,Khwahish...Well..the indian youth prefer lip service of a different kind...but thankfully Ashutosh and Farhan still exist...there lies the hope for indian cinema...
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Has it also got somethin to do with real life paragons like yours truly who might have been the inspiration for ashutosh?
j/k...
btw, you forgot gayatri joshi... however much i admired the movie, i admired her nuances (of expression) too.. :-)
As much as I liked Swades, I felt it lacked the killer punch in it. A powerful subject , but not as powerfully dealt with, as I would have liked it to be. The movie was meant to be understated, but I felt it to be too muted at times..( But my lack of Hindi comprehension might have had a role to play in this, I do admit..) But deftly more than jus a ray of hope. The Hindi industry deftly needs to get out of this rut. kudos to the select few who choose to stand out...
I deftly did like Gayathri Joshi too :)
i wudn't be long behind to join the Ms.Joshi band....wud i? ;o)
Ranga n me actually discussed how Ashutosh made excellent statements with his subtlities... which might have seemed trivial from any other perspective....but yet, as we agreed that day...it lacked the defenitive or mebbe commited 'solution' to the qns the director was posing.
And lookin frm the aspect that the film was to talk abt a NRI and the Indian angle jus to help it, he had scored.... but the Indian angle...if he wanted to say something.. cud have benifited from his view of the soln to the questions the hero posts in the movie.....
But again, Ranga summed it up well in the theatre that day... 'a director to watch out for in future' ! Agreed!
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