A bright Sunday morning. A bright morning and I have completed the quota of the weeks pending sleep and I am fully relaxed. Also kind of free since recently completed a major work and I am in a really relaxed mood.
Had found a theatre close by, almost equally placed between home and office. So here I drive directly to the theatre quite in time, got the ticket of balcony and the ticket collector let me inside for a memorable two and a half hour. Let me navigate your thoughts a little bit. Memorable not just for the movie, but for what I got to watch or experience in addition to the movie! Probably the latter which forced me to write this blog! Now please don’t get ideas about what I am intending to write! I was sitting in the front second row and just next to the central stairs. So I am not aware of what happened backseat! Sorry to disappoint you!
And it is not the movie alone and it’s not the movie review. Being from Shimoga, Sudeep is like our guy. Raghu Dixit music and some good camera work. Just enough for me to be entertained. Of course the movie was good with quite different treatment totally. For Kiccha fans and Raghu Dixit fans, it’s a must watch. [I hope Sudeep will reading this and will pay me some remuneration for doing publicity for his movie!]. That’s the end of what I am going to say about the movie.
Now let’s come to the topic!
So imagine a movie which you want to watch...
This is from one of your favourite director and music director...
Movie turns out to be different and interesting...
Some good work at the camera department...
AND!
Some unknown person sitting next to you is watching the movie for the second time!
This is going to be a really irritating affair if you like the movie and unfortunately it happened!
The script and the storyline had a good suspense factor to keep the attention. Probably that was the storytelling method which the director wanted to experiment with. But it was almost a disaster to me thanks to the guy next seat!
Every curious moment he couldn’t control telling his friend what will happen or break the suspense streak! I did try to ignore but when it got really unbearable, I requested him ‘not to tell the story’ which he politely agreed confirming he was actually purposeful in what he was doing!
Take an example!
The protagonist gets angry with the heroin for some reason and here our hero back seat shouts “mukhak ondu kodu guru!” meaning slap on her face! It’s interesting to note that the so called good components gets ignored or get diluted by some silly timely joke by some body-less person and when it gets violent, bad, cruel, the crowd starts rejoicing the same.
I am not talking about the multiplex audience as I found it too mechanical. May what happen, people will almost sit as dead and watch! I sometime feel are they really interested in the movie! That’s another extreme of being too polite and suppressing all the feelings.
The one I experienced is more a single screen stuff. Take for example, if there is some obscene scene or reference, you can get the maximum applause and shouts! Last year I remember watching probably the most unbearable movie which was so called the modern day bold version of classic Devdas. I guess the best part which made it a hit was its boldness, slang obscenity or whatever people want to call it! I know these will sound too traditional to the ‘modern’ generation.
I started writing about what I experienced today in the theatre which is probably an expression of the mobs response and feed backs of what they cannot do in the real life and in daylight. May be that’s what makes a movie what it is for them!
I recently had a chat with one of my very good seniors and friend, where he mentioned he had to pick up fight with the audience when he stood up for the National anthem which was part of the movie. I admire his sensibilities and feelings. By the movie was AB and SK starer KJ direction movie about loving our parents!
It also creates a slight discomfort in heart for the kind of audience coming to theatres these days. Gone are the days when movies such as ‘Do aankhe barah haath’ ‘Purab aur paschim’ and ‘Prahaar’. I have not seen those days. But I can comfortably feel the respects for those works in that generation.
We do have movies such as ‘Rang de basanti’, ‘Swades’ and others. But are we really watching them to understand the true sensibilities of the message?
Any ways, it’s just a time pass stuff isn’t it? Moral stories and values are just for the kids to study in their kindergarten!
