I am damn frustrated. I have been so since the last evening. As usual the reasons are known but the reason(s) for the aggravated frustness evade me. My very sincere apologies for yet another post starting with me “moaning” about my frustness! Can’t help it! It so happens that I invariably end up writing when I am very frust. Funny that frustness actually provides the activation energy to do something. Whoever said that frustness is worthless (although all its worth taken together is crap!)
I also gladly take this opportunity (presented by me to myself!) to thank all those well wishers who have been very consistently wishing me happy birthday on “Gandhi” Jayanti. I would also like to congratulate Manish here because he is the one (to the best of my knowledge) to have coined the nick Gandhi for me. This is one of the few successes you have had my friend. :P
So, as I was saying, I was very frust (mind the “was”). To get rid of it I watched a movie, “Parinda” directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. And while watching it I decided that I will post a review of the movie. Very true, the movie had been released in ’93 and most of the people reading this must have already watched it before the author. Who cares!
While watching the movie I skipped the evening snacks (I just hate leaving movies unfinished). Just as the movie was about to end I was obviously feeling hungry and it made me think. It made me question this habit of mine (I am extremely proud of it). But then as the end grew near Mr. Vidhu Vinod Chopra removed all these doubts and question marks (believe me one couldn’t do a better job).
The movie depicts the emotional turmoil an ordinary man has to face when he looses his dear friend (who also happens to be his love interest’s brother), when he finds out that his own brother is in someway responsible for his friends death, when he sees for real that all the public servants are corrupt, when he has to become one of the criminals to take his revenge! This is not all by any means. While you feel sympathetic for this ordinary man (by the way this character is played by Anil Kapoor) you can’t help feeling the same for his elder brother (played by Jackie Shroff) who has done all that he could to keep his kid brother away from the dirty world of which he is a part, who had actually taken this route just to make his brother’s life cozy, who can’t accept that his brother is also trotting the same path as himself, who finally fulfills the adhoora sapna of his brother by burning Anna alive. And you obviously feel for Anil’s love interest, Madhuri Dixit, who has lost her brother and is always on the verge of losing Anil. After you have to dig so much of sympathy the director also wants you to direct all your anger towards Anna, Nata Patekar (Anna’s have always been dons in Hindi movies, no one needs to be told this I guess).
Yes it is an excellent movie but still there are moments which may seem a bit weird. Like just after the death of her brother, Madhuri and Anil are happily singing romantic duet (being cheerful in every situation is one thing, but this is a bit too much). Again you have Madhuri mad at Anil a couple of times but then again a couple of lines are all that Anil requires to convince her (smart girl!). Last but not the least in the very beginning the Jackie is introduced in the exact manner so as to give a feel of some Kanti Shah (Gunda fame!) movie.
But despite all these weird things going on Chopra saab very well manages to convey his message. His message against the evils in our society, his message against the dominance of bhailog in Mumbai, his message that it’s the society which creates the crime more often than not!
Finally the things I liked most about the movie. Anil looks very childish before he gets serious about the revenge and later on that child is lost somewhere! The setting sun when Anil tells Madhuri that they would be parting for good. The look in his eyes when Anil returns to Madhuri after killing the last killer of his friend (the eyes convey all the messages!). Lastly the very last scene, where the jingle of the jhoola is the only thing Jackie hears in Anna's screams. You can't help feeling for the brother who has just lost his everything!
