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Thappad (2020)
Thappad- A Sound, not a word.
Kudos to Anubhav Sinha. What is making you closer to perfection? Feel privileged to have a director like you in the industry.
There are three kinds of movies-
1. We expect high, and the movie comes out dull,
2. We expect low, and the movie comes out awesome,
3. We expect high, and the movie comes out amazing.
Thappad belongs to the third one. Story is all about self respect and self love. Slowly and unknowingly, people get habituated to the compromising. One may blame others, but deep down everyone knows that its we who gets accustomed to it.
Movie name is a word "Thappad", but the theme is a sound. It echoes to- be honest, be loving, be kind, and be respectful to yourself and others.
Every actor has done justice to their characters. The storyline is straight, bold and flawless. If you miss this movie, you miss an opportunity to have a conversation with you, about you.
Thanks Maa (2009)
Imperfection is what makes "thanks maa" real !!
Thanks kamal for giving such a brilliant script and direction. No idea, how this movie went unnoticed in 2009. I just started it with the reason time-pass but the time passed away faster than what I had assumed. Movie is all about falling social values, dwelling thinking for different class of societies which they have got against each-other, childhood honesty and increasing traffic of child labor. One thing was clear in the movie- "character can't be determined by the social status value". Although street children's' language are abusive and is full of shits (which obviously because of the environment they get) but at heart they are same as us or in fact better because of less diluteness of the social courtesy. Acting is superb by everyone. Never felt, I'm watching a movie.....it was like its all happening right there, right real. One more admiring thing was bonding between kids. Although they were corrupt because of the environment they get.......but still they were honest as in childhood people use to be. The learning point was that the childhood beggar/thief/pickpocket class should be taken care very carefully by us. Instead of giving money/insult to those kids, we should give something XYZ to mold their character. The XYZ may be anything, I know some (like a little conversation, good books, cloths, affections) but I'm pretty sure you can find better one than mine.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
Here you go Mrs. Minakshi......sorry Mrs. Meenakshi :)
Today morning, I watched the movie- Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Actually someone provoked me to watch it. As usual, I just googled it to its wiki page and IMDb. IMDb gave it 7.9 (a pretty good for Hindi movie, which is always underestimated when compared with Hollywood, in rating), which was the only enough reason to watch it. Moreover, user reviews were also telling it "a must watch movie". Also, the story line didn't seem like the typical good going Hindi movie. Therefore, I downloaded it and watched it at 04:00 AM...ya its in the morning.
Movie was all about a bus journey, where bus was carrying the people of different religions and ethnics of India. Director Aparna Sen plotted the whole story around the Jahangir (a Muslim guy) and Mrs. Minakshi Iyer (a pure Tamil Brahmin). By putting the passengers from different age group, Sen also tried to focus on generation's thought process. In fact, in movie, one very old guy was complaining on the today's dress culture by comparing it from their times that he barely saw his wife's hand on his marriage. As movie proceeds, bus got stuck in a curfew. Later passengers came to know about happening of all this curfew because of the riot going on between Hindu and Muslim. A mob of their respective religion were killing the people and burning the villages of anti- religion. In-between, Minakshi came to know Jahangir is a Muslim. Being a hypo typical Brahmin girl, she hated him first, but later saved his life saying him as her husband and tagged him with the name "Mani". If she hated him, then why she saved his life?........Answer to this question may be because Jahangir helped him before this incident or she wants someone to protect her and her child or might be because of humanity. Whatever it was, afterward this, the whole bus was knowing them as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. Jahangir was shown as an open-minded person opposing to the Minakshi who was always highly concerned about the caste-ism. But, as the story proceeds, she started feeling all this caste-ism a crap and transformed herself into Jahangir's personality. Later both fall in love but don't disclose their feelings except Minakshi saying Jahangir as Mr. Iyer.
And ya one more thing- mind the pronunciation here: Its Meenakshi and not Minakshi as told by Meenakshi in the movie :)
Well, how much I liked it? ..... Answer is in the rating which I'll give it 7 out of 10. Why I gave 7 because movie was a good going and I never felt bored. Apart from this, there was something in the movie which was not ordinary. I can't exactly name it but it may be the kinda different script, unusual and undefined relationship which is itself not sure about its name. Why I deducted 3 because it didn't touch my emotion which I generally expect from movie or may be I overestimated it before watching it.