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iView Author: Mihir Vivekanand Patki (Mumbai , India)

Email: mvpatki [at] gmail [dot] com

Golmaal shouldnt have returned!

I had high hopes from Golmaal returns. Had an argument with my father who wanted to watch fashion but I insisted on going for Golmaal because I wanted to see a film where I can give my brain some rest. So instead of getting into a theatre airing a though provoking Madhur Bhandarkar film, I bought tickets for GR way in advance. But surprise surprise!! You don’t need brains to watch this flick!

I had heard and heard and heard the vacancy song umpteen times on my iPod. The movie opened with the song which was a big let down. The choreography seemed very lethargic and there was no energy at all in the video. Little did I …

How Shyam Benegal has managed to handle such a vast and loosely scattered subject and presented such a fine piece of cinema? How he has managed to present so many differently looking and behaving characters in a single film? How he has managed to give so different physical gestures and psychological understandings to different characters?

As its known he was born in Hyderabad then how he managed to take that kind of performance from Ila Arun, which could be completely alien for a non-hindi speaking person? Vijay Tendulkar was not present in his team, Pt Satyadev Dube was not writing dialogues for this film and still he has managed so well in characterization department. From where comes, his deep and vast understanding about the people?

Socio-political commentary has been an integral part of almost all the films of Shyam Benegal since the time of Ankur. His films could have some …

[random thoughts, totally opinionated rants]

Well lets start with a brief story. Sunday afternoons were a pain for me for the first 12 years of my life. Of all the days, I hated this one the most. Not because it was the one day without school (I hated school too) but the incessant lecturing I used to receive from my uncle on every socio-political issue at that time. He made me read every article in the news that week; scribble down points and made me understand the various aspects. To make it more interesting, or so he thought he used to conjure up fables and stories with moralistic twists at the end. Needless to say I hated it, it was torture. I hated lecturing all my life, hated stories with morals in it, hated those old doordarshan film which we used to watch in our old battered black and white television. …