Did not get time (or company :)) to catch a movie this weekend in the theatres - so here's a review of a movie I caught on TV instead - Swades!
Mohan is a NASA engineer, suddenly feeling nostalgic about his des! He comes down to India, in search of his nanny, and falls in love. The question is - does he fall in love with his nanny, with India, it's problems or his childhood sweetheart Gitli? Well, he fights for the village school, lectures the folk on caste and corruption, and the system, and then builds a 6*6 foot tank from a trickle of water to generate hydel power for the village! Silly? You bet it is! And then he goes back to pardes, waits for his favourite satellite to be blasted into space, and then finally figures swades is the place for him to be! And catches the next Air India flight straight back to his watan...
But it's a good movie. The caravan song is fantastic - especially if you soak in the relationship between SRK and the hitch hiker, and watch the colors of India seduce the NRI. Watch SRK break into his "unchoreographed" jig, then dancing in tandem with his partner. Feel the passion in his thoughts when he catches the boat ride... and get carried away by "Yeh Jo Des Hai Mera...."
I did.. and it inspired my previous post too :)
2 comments:
I liked the movie for some reasons and did not like it for many reasons.
But yes, my final impression about the movie is, its one of the very good movies made in recent times, contentwise.
The most important thing about the movie was that it made lot of people think and act in constructive manner.
BTW, there is this hydro power plant in Nandurbar district. The real story of the same has inspired the director to do the movie.
I personally liked the movie. Because it happens to be one of the few movies in which SRK has acted really well, amazing controlled and constrained acting.
Yes, what he does with the hydro power plant is difficult to believe, especially with so less water. But, I think it is important to get the gist and the feelings behind the movie in the right manner.
The section of the movie where SRK tries to convince the village folk about sending their kids to school, the caste differences, the song "yeh tara woh tara" when he pulls the curtain down and makes everyone dance together - there are many such moments in the movie that are worth thinking about, or rather that make you think.
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