After many anxious years Heramoni mother of Mukti who had left home to join and an extremist outfit is handed a mutilated bullet ridden body purportedly that of her son. The formal last rite... Read allAfter many anxious years Heramoni mother of Mukti who had left home to join and an extremist outfit is handed a mutilated bullet ridden body purportedly that of her son. The formal last rites are performed. Heramoni however soon receives intimation that his death cannot be confir... Read allAfter many anxious years Heramoni mother of Mukti who had left home to join and an extremist outfit is handed a mutilated bullet ridden body purportedly that of her son. The formal last rites are performed. Heramoni however soon receives intimation that his death cannot be confirmed and knows not how to respond while Biplob, who had left the outfit and is alone, unabl... Read all
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- TriviaIn February 2017, Jaicheng Jai Dohutia was awarded as Best Debut Filmmaker for his film 'The Hidden Corner' in Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, in India.
But one can still add more: the aesthetic point of view in the narrative chosen by Dohutia, who bets on a cinema that is clearly far from industrial conventions, and very concerned about developing the narrative applied to the art of cinema, as some of us want to understand The cinema and not like anything else, although it may exist. The world is a business and the economy, unfortunately, is responsible for all our ills, although paradoxically it brings us all the goods we enjoy.
If to these two values that we find in this film, namely: youth coupled with maturity, and aesthetic risk, we add that it is an opera prima, we not only have to admire ourselves, but to get excited, because in today's world, it is It is increasingly difficult for an artist to be an artist from the very first moment of giving birth to his work.
Lately, I mention the great French director, Robert Bresson, but I can not stop doing it because I want to assume his total and absolute commitment to art and in this case the art of cinema. Bresson says that there are two kinds of cinema: one is the theater of theatrical performance, which brings nothing and serves the laws of commerce nobly; To this form he simply calls it: Cinema; And the second is the Cinematograph, which pretends to be the development and artistic expression of an art that was born from the invention of an object capable of reproducing our reality in moving images. That said, I do not want to insist that (like Bresson) I have nothing against Cinema, but I am not interested as an artist because it serves no independent art form, but the economic dictates of the industry of each country.
And although all this seems to distance me from such an extraordinary film as 'The Hidden Corner', this is not the case, since this film aligns itself and is dedicated to this predicate or this Bressonian religion that we love a great minority in the world.
Precisely, this film has evoked me to Bresson, in a wonderful sequence in which a woman runs behind the camera and throws herself into a lake. Such a tale is irrelevant but told by Jaicheng Jai Dohutia, it is simply dazzling by its simplicity. The viewer knows that the woman has jumped into the water to end her life, but we never see the falling into the water materialize; We hear the sound of a body falling into the water and then we see white aquatic plants that float as if someone wants to pull it and drag them to the bottom of the lake. Shattering beauty to represent the intimacy of the act of taking life that must be modesty and not shameful. It is so intense the purity that is obtained at the end of this brief sequence, that the emotions rise to the top and remain alert to the future of history and its resolution.
'The Hidden Corner' is full of influences of style, but not contaminated by any. She only aspires to be herself, through the soul of her director. And when the soul is transparent, it highlights the beauty, the volume of art is formed and each plane is a direct brushstroke to the white canvas of the screen, which takes its time, which is born in each new brushstroke. And the soul creates the colors, and the complexity of existence comes out, and the tense human relationships in the most extreme situations and in the most atypical societies.
The story unfolds in India, but it looks like another India, an India that forgets the postcard and cliché of so many Indian films that they forget their own diversity as an immense and complex country.
The action takes place in the state of Assam, in the Northeast region of India that is divided into seven states, being this one of the most conflicting in popular uprisings. In fact, the central theme lies in the story of Mukti, an extremist belonging to a group that emerged in the early 1970s, which, he said, was opposed to the entry of undocumented aliens into his region. Mukti is disappeared and is persecuted by the authorities. The film's analysis of this closed and marginal society, which is absolutely rural in nature, is illuminating to study how India has evolved since its independence from the English in 1947, and what the population's journey is in terms of social liberties, Political and cultural from that moment until today.
A great find this young director, telling us the political history of India through another India, perhaps too forgotten by all, but still alive and very repulsive within a huge body that is not satisfied with being only one Arm, or even less.
It is admirable the work of production carried out with very little money, which has achieved a film of great formal beauty, composing its fabric of images through general plans well planned and well interpreted by all its actors, cut from time to time, By disturbing close-ups and smooth camera movements. Also admired is the worked soundtrack (without music) highlighting the sounds of nature, mysterious, daring; Sometimes plagued with terror in the shadows and in the sunlight. We must congratulate ourselves for finding films like this and directors like Jaicheng Jai Dohutia, who make the world advance and us with it.
Miguel Angel Barroso/Cult Critic/CICFF
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- Apr 1, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
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