Reviews of movies are written by critics and intelligent people who can think. Perhaps I am not very intelligent. Cannot think at all......And criticism....hahahaa......Let me put that on an altogether new platform. If I said Abosheshey made me think, I'd be comparing myself to people who can intellectualize. However, the film made me do another think----quite distinct from thinking....I shall call it 'feeling'. It made me feel--not caring even if it did go on to win Roopa Ganguly's national award, success at London Film Festival and Keral Film Festival winner.
And I am so scared because the concept has stirred feelings in me that I never knew existed before.
Ravi had told me that he was able to subscribe to Abosheshey, but it had been kept off for some or the other reason. I managed to watch it today and since past 5 hours, I haven't spoken a single word.
The film has some great highlights which I'd like to talk about:
1. Good films make you think, best films make you feel
It has been years: I don't remember myself being into 'emotions'. Every week my colleague Tony McAvoy and I re-visit the same sentence ''We don't do emotions at all''. But today, I would beg to differ from the rest of the world because I have been put to silence.
I was under the impression, that I am a very strong person because I have fought and lived through harsh times. Nothing can ever weaken me. I could never have bothered because there was nothing worth living for..........Never once had it crossed my mind that there are existing relationships and probable ones that are worth living for. The character Suchismita's life (ironically death) spoke volumes about what I am trying to state here.
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| Attaboy!!! Movie making in progress.....Men & women at work! |
2. Great acting needs no drama
Indian movies are well-known for using melo-drama to express emotions. It has infact become a trade-mark. In a way, over the years we have learnt to appreciate it and consider it ''cute''.
However, there are actors of a cadre who put the word ''acting'' to great shame because whatever they do comes out absolutely natural. How effortlessly their performance can make you gape with mouths wide open!
Many people and even media have said that Roopa Ganguly is a great actress. I'd always use the word artiste for her. The reason is that natural glimpses from personality make their way to screen. In all the performances, Roopa Ganguly has only portrayed, performed and displayed and established.....which proves that we are proud to own as a nation, one of the finest and highly celebrated performers of our times.
May Maa Saraswati bless such eminent talents of our country.
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| Artistes in the quieter canopies |
3. In good films: The term 'Romance' is much beyond valentine-hood!
In films, romance has been a very narrowly used term. Romance means love, longing, attraction and maybe courtship. Suchismita's character planted romance into life.....and even more so, into death.
Another aspect for which I must give a standing ovation to Roopa Ganguly is for choosing the film with a great concept. Even though, directors and people behind the screen have created a magical character, Suchismita, Roopa Ganguly has justified it on screen. It is what an artiste brings to the screen......something that is a part of her soul.
Nandini, portrayed by Raima Sen and Soumyo by Ankur Khanna have played very atypical roles. What possibly could be the relationship between you and your deceased neighbour's son --all but based on pure humanity and lending a helping hand at soul-searching.
Suchismita romanced life----A very great reminder to me of my grandpapa who I lost 11 years back. Life has gone on since then, but Suchismita's interest in everything ranging from painting to singing and rallying reminds me so much of Grandpapa with whom I explored India, learnt how to enjoy good music, read stories from Ukraine to China and from Japan to Indonesia.......Since he died, I have done nothing.......Not even touched a game of chess till 2 days back, never touched an old German camera or learnt about plants......It just made me realise that someone's death has shut all doors of life for me, but life moves on......not negatively, but positively.
4. Excellent rendering
A very interesting event.......After comming to know about the two National Award winning songs, I was determined to listen to them. Unfortunately, they weren't available till recently. However, it was Rabindra Sangeet, so I thought, let me just fish out the old man's songs and make some meaning out of them.
Out of both the songs, I liked the lyrics of ''Aaji bijan ghore'' because I stay in a ''Bijan'' (lonely) house myself. However, when I saw the renderation on screen, I laughed at myself.......almost so mockingly, because it made me realise that nights are as such very difficult to spend if you do stay in a ''bijan''' house!!!
''Dure kothaaye'' was great as well. Both these songs deserved a National Award, because performance hadn't limited itself only to on-screen performance. Only a performer and a good singer knows which emotions to put in to garnish her songs! Well done!!
If anyone wants to visit my ''Bijan'' house tonight to give me company in coffee drinking, I'd be very happy. Monday to Friday pass very quickly. The ''Bijan-ness'' comes every weekend when there's no University work! But the song has captured me as of now......!!
5. Surprise!!!!!
How many will actually believe me if I say I was able to notice the fluency of relationship between an artiste and the director. I almost feel it must have gone like an easy game of chess where you have director Aditi Roy as a game director making the first move, and artiste Roopa Ganguly quickly catching on to the subtleties of the clues and bringing an amalgamation point where Roopa Ganguly blends into Suchismita and Suchismita blends into Roopa Ganguly.
Ankur Khanna, Raima Sen and the rest of the team have caught onto the clues in the same way. Team work is not just a group of heads coming together----it is the group of heads with brains inside them!!! Pardon my sarcastic statements, but this sarcasm wasn't meant to project bitterness. It's funny how one can be sarcastic in one of the most satisfying moments
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| Strategists in action |
6. My mother
The first person who came to my mind while thinking about Suchismita's character was my own mother. I have been away from her so long.......The only advantage being she has seen me quite often in these many years.
Would my mother have missed me so much because I was far away from her?
My mother's friends told me about how lonely and teary she was ever since she left me here....all by myself.
She lives on memories.....
But to her advantage and mine, we both are very much alive......I am comming over to see her and have decided to be with her for a very very long time......As long as she wants me to be there because a mother's love exceeds a child's longing. Children say they miss their mother's food, their mother's talks, their mother's scoldings--but when a mother misses her child, she misses all of him/her....not just parts. A mother is never conditioned to be limited in her love.
I might not give a crap to anyone else's caring, but when I got an insight into a mother's world, I was shattered---so shattered that even tears wouldn't come out. Thanks a lot for bringing to angle that part of life which I needed to know about the MOST.
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| Can never fathom a mother's love......And that's my God over the years. One and only, my mom |
7. Abosheshey......At the end of it all
At the end of it all, I would only say that I have only briefly written about the complex association of Abosheshey with my own understanding. I cannot expect that much of intelligence from my stupid self.
Need to enter my world as you did Suchismita's world. But the difference between my world and Suchismita's world is that, there are chances of developing a basic comprehension into Suchismita's world.........because she maintains her sanity and goodness despite everything.
At the end of it all, we are all humans, I am as much human as anyone else. Why should my stupidity refrain me from understanding the movie? I never needed to understand the movie, all I needed to do was feel it.......!!!!
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| ACTION!!! Already performed! |
