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the bhagalpur blindings in relation to reports preceding the movie a crucial incident in gangajal was closely based on the real life incident in bhagalpur in 1981 policemen in bhagalpur blinded 31 undertrials in their own police station they punctured the undertrials eyes with bicycle spokes and needles poured acid into them and then covered their eyes with pads soaked in acids the movie depicts the policemen s actions as stemming from frustration and anger at their impotent system what s more the city population holds the police as heroes for having meted out justice to criminals who would otherwise have escaped the law the movie seeks to make the point that people get the police they deserve perhaps the director means to show that a society as violent and degenerate as this ends up being protected by equally degenerate people the movie goes on to show how this sentiment of punishing criminals by blinding them gains wide acceptance and starts being applied wantonly once faith in authority or the rule of law is broken society slips into degeneracy and inhumanity the protagonist ajay devgan speaking as the voice of the director in the final act lectures people on the need to preserve the humane core within themselves that differentiates them from scum represented by a father son politician duo he saves the villains from the frenzied mob arguing that civil society must let the law take its course and must not lose faith in it more importantly he saves people from themselves from turning into demons sp kumar s devgan last lecture jars a bit for being so transparent the five minute monologue as the instrument of educating the movie watcher does not do justice to a movie that thus far has been making its point through dialogue acting and screenplay it s a little like the play in which the narrator tells you exactly what you are expected to take away from what has unfolded in the last couple of hours in the play that however is a question of the movie s aesthetics and the quality of screenplay or direction what really turned me off when i watched the film again recently is what follows the monologue the father son duo slip sp kumar s grip and run into the town he follows them through narrow lanes into a home they fight and in the course of the fighting they are pushed back on to a furrow with many pointed teeth both are stabbed through their eyes and die in an obvious reference to the blindings earlier in the movie now the problem with this ending is that it is a cop out the director wants us to believe we should not take the law into our own hands continue to have faith in it that an eye for an eye has no place in a civilized society yet he feels compelled to show the guilty suffering for their sins through cruel retributive justice just a minute after he has made his point though violence is not the answer to civil society s problems comeuppance for the villains arrives in the form of the very violence society must abjure from touching complex social issues rather deftly in the earlier part of the movie gangajal gets reduced to yet another ordinary movie where the hero must rid people of evil but must at the same time be noble and righteous therefore the villains as a result of their inability to settle at being forgiven and spared by the hero make the mistake of trying to escape and kill themselves in the process by a variety of ways sometimes they fall into gorges and sometimes they end up shooting each other and at other times the police shoots them when they pull a final trick the question of whether they should have been killed in the first place or not is never settled in all these films the explicit message of rising above retribution and trusting the law to bring the villain to justice is subverted by the narrative it is not enough to merely communicate your message in the movie the message if there is one you want to convey must be communicated through the narrative as a whole gangajal is an example of an inconsistent narrative diluting the message and confusing the viewer there are a number of movies that show guns gangsters sex and drugs only to tell us that they re things that bring us to a bad end later on many of them do such a good job of glamorizing the very things they later condemn that the moral message of the film gets lost and the viewer carries back a more glitzy image guns and drugs so many people make the point that it is necessary for them to show certain things onscreen for building the characters and making them believable and so on this is also the argument routinely trotted out by bollywood in response to the health minister s effort to ban smoking in films it calls for a separate post but i think any industry has a social responsibility and seeing their idols smoke in movies is without doubt a major factor in making smoking look cool and hence in children taking up the habit perhaps the answer is to not show people smoking when it can be done without i e in most cases the larger point however is that the narrative should not end up promoting the very things your movie seeks to show as undesirable or bad posted by robert frust at 4 53 pm 8 comments thursday october 02 2008 the man with no name everytime i look at your picture i can always see an arm rest on your shoulder even though i know it s only your hair and the folds of your dress i can never quite resist following the imaginary arm over your shoulder blade through your careless hair around your neck out of the frame the arm that isn t there just like the man with no name posted by robert frust at 1 21 pm 4 comments sunday september 28 2008 once upon a time in the west i saw once upon a time in the west in the afternoon today many reviewers name it as the best western ever made giving it close competition are usually other sergio leone classics i m no expert on westerns it s not my favourite genre and i have watched only a few i liked unforgiven though a western it was made in the 1990s and some parts of the good the bad and the ugly and of course sholay i have seen some films with ennio morricone s music and it s been fantastic at least twice in the good and my personal favourite nuovo cinema paradiso sergio leone is an acknowledged master of westerns and henry fonda and charles bronson good actors all these factors would be wonderful in any other setting but all of them come together so beautifully in this movie that a work of true sublimity is created the movie is memorable almost from the first shot its opening is bold and brilliant nearly 10 minutes of ambient sounds and a long wait by three silent gunmen the mood and the setting is perfectly evoked finally when the train arrives carrying the film s hero also with no name the first of many great moments happens a mysterious man plays the harmonica and charles bronson makes his entry worthy of the hero who s never known uncertainty or fear harmonica you brought a horse for me frank s minion looks back there are three horses for the three minions he he looks like we re one horse short harmonica shakes his head slightly you brought two too many frank played by henry fonda makes an even better entry in one of my favourite scenes a family prepares a feast to welcome the father s new wife a shot rings out the father looks up from the well at the birds flapping about none of them seem to be dropping lifelessly from the sky he turns around in the far distance his daughter teeters and then falls to the ground dead he starts running towards her and gets shot mid stride once then again the older boy gets up from his horse cart and is shot where he stands the camera moves inside the dark home and follows the youngest boy running to the door where he stops transfixed petrified we see his face and then ennio morricone s magic begins one note and we see in the far distance one then another figure in a dustcoat and hat coming out into view from the clump of bushes through the swirling dust we see five figures walk towards the boy clutching his jug of water for dear life in a brilliant shot made all the more memorable due to the music all five converge to the boy the camera comes around his shoulder to show henry fonda and his clear blue eyes and we know we ve seen the man harmonica has come in search of in the next two hours we see the two other characters of the drama the outlaw with a soft core and a sense of humour who strikes an unlikely partnership with harmonica the widow who becomes the unwitting focus of three men all of who have something to do with death all of them act on motivations not immediately clear and slowly get involved in each other s lives in the middle of it all sits harmonica sharpening his piece of wood shooting people when the occasion demands playing the harmonica staring out into space waiting it s precisely this quality of the movie and the genre that gives it its charm the patient viewer gets drawn into the story that unspools through long shots of faces silences that convey nothing and everything eyes that contain behind them terrible secrets and immense capacity for evil and lingering shots of the dust and mountains of the wild west we share frank s curiosity to know what harmonica is after when he saves frank from his assassins we share frank s confusion and slowly like frank we begin to realize there is a deeper current running between them frank is hooked and so are we he may be evil but he s still a member of a rapidly dwindling ancient race he cannot ride off knowing he has a mortal enemy who is driven by such hate that he has to save frank for the showdown his secret deserves and what a showdown the moment of dying is reached we know now we will know what makes harmonica s need for vengeance so great that he cuts down assassins who want to kill fonda explaining that saving him from them isn t the same as saving him it seems even frank is dying to find out the men start moving towards their battleground to take positions just then the music begins again the haunting tune breathes life into the final contest and invests it with all the weight of expectation associated with the revelation of harmonica s identity frank wants to shoot down harmonica he knows if he doesn t he will be shot down yet he knows nothing matters more than knowing why harmonica saved his life only to bring him to this stage he needs to know more than he wants to win he keeps walking when harmonica stops looks to the side looks up to the sky blinks while harmonica s grey eyes follow him unblinking unhurried sure they stop and take position and wait in silence and then the music picks up again and we go back and see the full extent of frank s evil and understand what has been driving harmonica to this inevitable showdown frank draws but harmonica shoots just as well as he plays his journey is over once upon a time has the actors the director the cinematographer and the music director morricone at their very best i wish i could watch it again for the first time wrote this a couple of days back i ve been listening to the showdown tune almost in a loop since then i also cannot count the number of times i ve already watched the last showdown paul newman died yesterday rip cool hand luke posted by robert frust at 10 42 pm 3 comments thursday september 04 2008 worst movie ever made i watched as the title suggests singh is kinng yesterday without beating around the bush i d like to tell you to stay as far away from it as possible if you meet someone you don t know well and you want to know if he has brains or any sense of aesthetics or is worthy of friendship ask him whether he liked singh is kinng if he says yes turn around very slowly and run it s my new litmus test to wean out the unworthy and those who pollute our world the movie sets a new standard in poor filmmaking the plot is wafer thin the characters are cardboard cutouts and the script is a two line scribble i don t know how people like the director scriptwriter etc of this movie ever get the chance to create this drivel as a creative person if one year of my life went into making this i d just retire don t know how or why or even whether this is such a big hit since media has sold out already proof being the positive reviews for the movie reports of it being a big hit might very well be exaggerated but even if i knew it would make me a lot of money i d just feel pathetic at the sheer lack of quality of my creation there are exactly 7 minutes of the movie that are worth watching the first five which fall under the category of so bad it s good cinema which have a sardar called king or kinng with a french beard leaping off a building and parachuting in pursuit of his adversary on a motorcycle catching him and then taking off with him once again i guess if you re a sardar anything is possible or maybe if you re king kinng or maybe if you re in a godawful vipul amratlal shah movie the other two are when the song teri ore plays against the pyramids and katrina kaif does her thing in a black sari the loser that this movie is it doesn t even have the complete song it has some 3 paras and that s it akshay kumar looks like an idiot for most of the movie and for the rest slips into namastey london mode brokering kaif s marriage to her bf who she doesn t quite know whether she loves or not with singh aka kinng s shining star in both her eyes she floats along looking pretty till her marriage where there is a comedy of errors the result of which is that she ends up as singh s wife oops sorry for the spoiler and all is happily ever after jee balle balle phew i also watched rock on the day before should ve watched these movies in the reverse order because rock on is actually a pretty decent movie the music s good quite genuinely rock like the acting s okay and the story s good too true execution could have been better but what the hell it s watchable and doesn t make you come back questioning your faith in movies oh but watch out for the extras in the last concert scene who have absolutely no idea why they re waving their hands at magik that s the band name their expressions are quite priceless as you can see i have a lot of time to watch movies and so on posted by robert frust at 3 11 pm 8 comments about me name robert frust location new delhi india i m yet another resource consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by hollywood and bollywood poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when i m older and stronger view my complete profile links zomato food and much more wikipedia artchive the straight dope imdb rotten tomatoes rediff movies allposters roger ebert orkut blog lines the devil s dictionary superman is a dick the calvin hobbes searchable db blogs i follow maddox inquizzitivegoogle great bong very secret diaries pervy hobbit fancier the dilbert blog ashok banker jabberwock crystal blur em vijayeta aq couch nilanjana mount helicon nil nisi bonum 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