Review By: Priya Chaudhary
Bollywood Aaina Rating: 4.5/ 5 (FOUR & HALF STAR)
Banner: UTV Motion Pictures
Producer: Sohum Shah,Mukesh Shah,Amita Shah
Director: Anand Gandhi
Artist: Adia Al-Khashef,Neeraj Kabi,Sohum Shah
Music Director: Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor,Rohit Sharma
What’s good? : The movie gives you a different insight to the complexity of human life. It is a different kind of cinema,more like a moving art with its deep thoughts.
What’s bad?: It could seem a bit stretched and long to some.
Watch or Not?: Is a must watch. Finally a movie which tells you good cinema still exists.
Running time :143 minutes
Distributed by: UTV Motion Pictures,Fortissimo FIlms
Bollywood Aaina Business Verdict: Below Abrage
STORY
Blind photographer has to undergo cornea treatment and her new found sight affects her identity in ways unimaginable as she feels the edginess of her art diminishing.An animal rights activist and monk is fighting against animal testing and when he is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, he has to justify the reason for refusing medication that uses animals as testing means!
The third story is that of a stockbroker who gets entrapped oddly in a case of organ tourism and then delves into the intricacies of this trade further. The three stories intersect to pluck at the emotional, philosophical and spiritual strings of a thinking mind.
STARCACT
Aida El Kashef is vivid is her role. Her mirth is inescapable as she positively adapts to her disability with utmost vibrancy. She is mesmeric in her work and in every frame she drips passion and joy. Her glee is intoxicating and that’s what stays the most about her role.Sohum Shah is an obviously great performer who brings across his helplessness on screen with a magical bafflement. He is beyond adequate in his well enacted role.
But perhaps the actor who commanded most respect was unfailingly Neeraj Kabi. As a man torn between his reality and his beliefs, he renders to his role an overtone of emotional conviction. His struggle is what will remain with you the most even as other characters might begin to wither away a little later! His eventual resignation filled me with both a sense of loss and relief.
Direction / Music / Lyrics /Editing / Camera:
Anand Gandhi brings up to us a very fascinating idea that intricately sews different stories with a common philosophical thread. Harping on the debatable concept of the Ship of Theseus, the film flaunts its intellectualism with élan. Of all the stories, it is the conscientious Maitreya whose sensibilities penetrate the deepest in our minds. The story has its fair share of humor and wit but despite its drooping pace, the film never loses on its lucidity. The film’s ambience is humane and the anguish of the characters extremely relatable that you can almost empathize with their complexes and dilemmas. Gandhi’s theatrical background is evident from the impromptu intellectual humor and aroma that doesn’t fall flaccid at any point and is executed with inexplicable ease. Cinematographer Pankaj Kumar deserves applause for creating the right notes in the film and the dialogues are so well scripted that the film oozes sheer profound beauty. The film’s crux can be equated to the idea that has often been borrowed from classic Japanese film, Rashomon that defines the idea that truth isn’t singular. Similarly Ship Of Theseus poses to us a similar idea, justice and morality both thrive on multiplicity of ideas and its circumstantial framework.
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