I had kind of given up on Indian movies for a little while. I was, at one point in time, infatuated with movies, especially, Tamil and Hindi. I would watch almost every movie that came out and would be so involved with them.(So much so that ppl at home called me “See Pai” {cinema paitiyam}). Somehow, I just lost interest in movies after a while. Not that I didn’t watch any movies but I really didn’t enjoy them much and if there was an option of doing something else I would resort to that.I consider the reason for this to be movies, recently have been highlighting the underworld, violence and ugly scenes, all in the name of reality! I agree that they do bring awareness about how difficult life is getting these days, no doubt, but they tend to get too realistic sometimes. Actually they kind of leave the audience with sad and negative feelings that tend to haunt them for days! All because they get too realistic! Everybody knows that life is hard and there are many hurdles to face. It is not like these movies bring out solutions to problems or suggest a positive way of looking at life where there is so much fear and uncertainty! There are a few feel good and positive movies like Mozhi and Tare zameen par but there aren’t enough of them. Most of them are either mindless Masala or these wannabe
socialistic films. There doesn’t seem to be much of a choice, is there?!
However, one movie that I watched recently really impressed me! Wednesday – a simple movie with an off beat approach! I liked it because it is not ‘filmy’ but at the same time, there are no gory scenes and dingy or gloomy backgrounds (reality ngra Perla!). There is no angry young man (well, there is, but not the hero!). There is no claim to do super human feats to reform the society! But it has perfectly captured the emotions of a common person who goes about his/her routine just like the next person. At the same time it has a gripping narrative quality that commands the audience’s attention. I wish there would be more movies like it.
