Saw Baabul today !! Given the show we were slated to watch got cancelled and we had to wait for 3 hrs to catch the last show and also since i have not really liked previous ravi chopra movie - baghban much, so when the trailers finally got over and the movie started I was a little apprehensive that I might be going back at 3 in the night from the hall cribbing abt the movie. But I actually ended up liking the movie....No it's not a great movie but still a nice one....and apart from few minutes in the middle where it got a little ordinary and inspite of entirely predictable storyline it was a good watch. But no i won't be reviewing the movie here....that's for everyone to decide on their own. if they got their money and time's worth.
What interested me in the movie was teh central theme of rigidity of traditions that has plagued our society for years. Now many of the people who would watch this movie would say that this movie don't belong to this era. After all, teh youth today is not really bound by rituals and traditions of yore isn't it? Agreeed.
And so am sure that if i ask them so you think widows should get remarried? 99 outta 100 people gonna reply " Do I look like I care if they do or they don't ? " And that's why I think the movie pretty much belong to our era. Because what I see around me is not a breaking freee form rigid traditions but just turning one's face the other way. It's not the sympathy but apathy which keeps people away from raising any noise about these things. We are turning into an apathetic society....coz " Do we look like we care a damn ? " and problem is No, we don't look like that we care ?
But what if someday we have to ? What if someday we can't brush all these questions under carpet ? Will we see see the cruelty and insenstivity of lot of our rituals and traditions then....What if our apathy is shaken off......Will we be sympathetic ? What if we can't look the other way?.....Will we look into eyes of those traditions and tell them they are wrong ?
And what this movie do is try and phrase such questions for us ..... i said 'phrase' and not 'ask' coz to be frank the movie was a commercial one and it never tried to unlayer the emptiness of a widow's life and futility of traditions, it just penned down the question and stuck it somewhere in the corner of a collage of all bollywood masala.
Now it's for each one of us to pick that question and check if we have a answer. And even if we don't have - no prob- something tells me when u look for an answer for a question at the right places...u generally end up finding the right answer.
-sid
PS: Don't go to movie with high expectations, I walked in with none so I kinda liked it. But of 5 people i know who have seen it ....apparently I am the only who have liked it ;-)
What interested me in the movie was teh central theme of rigidity of traditions that has plagued our society for years. Now many of the people who would watch this movie would say that this movie don't belong to this era. After all, teh youth today is not really bound by rituals and traditions of yore isn't it? Agreeed.
And so am sure that if i ask them so you think widows should get remarried? 99 outta 100 people gonna reply " Do I look like I care if they do or they don't ? " And that's why I think the movie pretty much belong to our era. Because what I see around me is not a breaking freee form rigid traditions but just turning one's face the other way. It's not the sympathy but apathy which keeps people away from raising any noise about these things. We are turning into an apathetic society....coz " Do we look like we care a damn ? " and problem is No, we don't look like that we care ?
But what if someday we have to ? What if someday we can't brush all these questions under carpet ? Will we see see the cruelty and insenstivity of lot of our rituals and traditions then....What if our apathy is shaken off......Will we be sympathetic ? What if we can't look the other way?.....Will we look into eyes of those traditions and tell them they are wrong ?
And what this movie do is try and phrase such questions for us ..... i said 'phrase' and not 'ask' coz to be frank the movie was a commercial one and it never tried to unlayer the emptiness of a widow's life and futility of traditions, it just penned down the question and stuck it somewhere in the corner of a collage of all bollywood masala.
Now it's for each one of us to pick that question and check if we have a answer. And even if we don't have - no prob- something tells me when u look for an answer for a question at the right places...u generally end up finding the right answer.
-sid
PS: Don't go to movie with high expectations, I walked in with none so I kinda liked it. But of 5 people i know who have seen it ....apparently I am the only who have liked it ;-)
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