The Power of Content
In an industry like ours where the number of movies being churned out every year is consistently increasing, there is a high probability of some of the better content driven small budget movies getting eclipsed by high budget ones with popular stars. Yet, the power of word of mouth publicity mustn’t be underestimated. Thanks to some superb feedback from those who have watched it, Dasvidaniya is most certainly getting its due.
Dasvidaniya rests on a brilliant thought: how your ‘things to do” list change might change 360degrees if you were to be suddenly told that you have all of three months to live. That is when instead of worrying about getting your geyser repaired, you might want to confess your love to someone you’ve truly loved, yet who doesn’t know of it. That is when instead of sorting out your office files, you might want to take off on a foreign holiday. And that is when you might want to learn music and sort out family issues that would keep your near and dear ones happy after you’ve gone.
Dasvidaniya stands out for two reasons. Certain movies have the power to activate your thinking senses and probe if there is something you need to change in your life. Dasvidaniya does that effortlessly. The other aspect where it scores is in it’s intelligent execution. The basic thought gives you the feeling it would be a sob story. And that is where you are in for a surprise, thanks to a clever script and some fabulous acting. You actually end up laughing quite a lot through the sobs.
Dasvidaniya reinstates the power of content-that good cinema is possible without stars and with limited production values. It makes me wonder, if in this age of re-makes, one has ever toyed with the idea of remaking some of the most fabulous Hrishikesh Mukherjee/ Amol Palekar films of the seventies. I, for one, would love to see a remake of “Rajni Gandha”, which I consider a classic- it’s situations are as relevant today as they were 33 years ago. If I have to think of actors for the same, my preferences would be Abhay Deol(Amol Palekar), Kay Kay Menon(Dinesh Thakur) and Chitranghda Singh.
Talking of content driven films, I’m eagerly looking forward to my friend Onir’s Sorry Brother and Dibakar Banerjee’s Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. Here’s wishing the best to both film-makers and hoping the viewers are in for a real treat.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Your words of encouragement will really boost up the morale of filmmakers…
the promos for sorry bhai are horrendous. . With the sychnchronised dance in white and the hammy sorry bhai song. . Oye lucky seems to be the coolest movie this year from the promos. . .