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It will not be suffice to say that Amrish Puri plays only a callous father of Anant Velankar (Om Puri) in the film, Ardha Satya or the film shows him as a cruel father only. It will not do a proper justice to this interesting character. Things are not so simple and straight with this character that we may define his character as a harsh father of AV. Its not possible for Vijay Tendulkar to write a simple character that has been given only one characteristic. His characters have to be completely complex in nature because they belong to real life. His characters are seen in real life. Its not possible for Govind Nihalani to show his characters seized under monotonous behaviour and his characters have to face the volatile conditions and behaviour because life is like that only and prototypes don’t work here. That’s the beauty of films directed …

In continuation with the post Ardha Satya : Silver Jubilee remembrance–Part 1.
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Two things can easily be said about Ardha Satya or by taking clues from Ardha Satya

(1) Fine characterisation is the most beautiful aspect of Ardha Satya

(2) Good director never needs to use harsh back ground music or chanting of shlokas to
introduce a powerful character. Such gimmick is not needed.

It rarely happens that in a 2 hours film, one gets hardly 5-6 scenes consuming not more than 20 minutes, and still his presence is felt all over the film. Rama Shetty (RS) is that character in Ardha Satya and Sadashiv Amrapurkar has played the character with a great command over his craft of acting. Villain always remains an important part in such a story but rarely such a non dramatic villain was presented in the past, who could leave such a deep …

25 years have passed since Ardha Satya, one of the most hard hitting films of hindi cinema, was released and it still possess so lively and relevant presence that if its re-released today then it still may score above many films of present days.

This path breaking movie had paved the ways for several films made in the later years. It has inspired several directors to follow something or other in their films.

Not that nothing has changed in the country or in the world or as such in the life on earth. Advancement has ushered there in every field of life but along with this advancement, especially in science and technology, every field of life has become more polluted also. Even in the field of corruption, we have become more corrupted than the past. Society?s problems and pathos have …

Great and powerful and impressive writers possess one thing for sure and that is the art to present some stories in their own words/ways/manners and though its very much possible that they are taking inspirations from mythology or stories, already told in the past, but they will weave the plot in such a way that theme of their plots will be successful in presenting issues prevalent in the contemporary times.

Great writers have their strong control over observation of the three phases of the time, the past, the present and the future. They have ability to use their own mother tongue, no matter its not recognised world wide, to tell their stories and these stories will have global impact and in some manner will cover human being all over the world. They have deep observation of what has been going on and what may happen in future and they weave …