It wasn't ages back so, I assume
you remember the awe-inspiring times of Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen, Govind
Nihlani, Saeed Akhtar Mirza and lots more, when Indian cinema discovered the
term of new-wave parellel cinema aka meaningful cinema [Alas, we could access
that on Doordarshan primarily either on Sunday afternoons or in late night
slots] to reinvent- rekindle their conscientiousness to play a pivotal role in
showing not the dreamy-saucy world of lies but the gloomy- depressingly dark
world of dead reality. In today’s times, the same kind of liability and
movement is being lead by Mr. Anurag Kashyap and his extremely passionate team
of new-age indie filmmakers!
SHORTS is, in principle, a nicely
conceived & designed bouquet of 5 award-winning short films by 5 potential filmmakers
of tomorrow. Now, you can find many more short indie films swarming on social
networking sites and on video sharing sites like YouTube but these 5 are the
best of the bests…and comparatively bigger & better than the most of usual
Friday releases.
Directed by Shlok Sharma,
SUJATA is a hard-hitting tale of an intrafamilial sexual abuse victim who has
been in such painful state for years and is now left with no other option but
to rebel & react. Huma Qureshi thrives in hitting every chord just right in
every moment she’s in.
THE EPILOGUE by Siddharth Gupt
creates a modern-age thriller, innovatively conceptualized with striking amalgamation
of interesting visuals & sound cuts. You won’t find any dialogues here but
a suggestively haunting giggles and chuckles of Richa Chaddha, playing a wild,
aggressive, unstable, unreal lover to a man confined & restrained to his
own. This film leaves a lot unanswered to challenge you to interpret.
Impressive!
Anirban Roy’s AUDACITY is about
a free-spirited girl trapped into her own house with a father who spends his
nights playing card-games with friends from neighborhood and a mother who’s
always into cooking and ‘poojas’. This portrayal of typical Bengali
middle-class family routine is pleasantly ended with reasonable suggestion of a
way out.
MEHFUZ by Rohit Pandey starts
with Gulzar saab’s ‘Maut tu ek kavita hai, mujhse ek kavita ka waada hai milegi
mujhko’, lines getting lived by a dead faced man, missing an alive warmth of companionship
while sincerely taking care of unidentified-unattended dead bodies. The pain of
longing and the unmoved, hard-to-shake almost dead emotions are beautifully
enacted by Nawazuddin. Romancing with the dead!
& lastly, Neeraj Ghaywan’s excruciatingly
real SHOR that shows the troubled times in life of a North Indian dysfunctional
family of working wife, unemployed husband and an unreasonable mother, in the
city of dreams Mumbai. Vineet singh outshines along with Ratnabali Bhattacharjee
to evoke an emotional outburst that starts on a very sore, stinging and discomforting
level but ends up with lumps in your throat, tears in eyes & a smile with a
hope that everything will be settled after.
Beautifully shot, brilliantly
executed concepts, perfectly created tone to suit each story differently and
accordingly! This presentation is an actor’s delight, filmmaker’s pride and
viewer’s choice. If you see cinema as an art, this is for you. If you see
cinema as a medium of expression, this is for you. If you see cinema as a
serious business or a career option, this is definitely for you. I just wish I could
see a time when every Friday I have something like this. Overwhelming Experience! ****[4/5]
No comments:
Post a Comment