After
long time there has been an urge to write something, to check out that it is
still alive in me, after reading so much literary history and criticism I'm fed
up of reading now it's time to scrutinize what have you learned. Words are
bubling in the hemisphere, they are racing with each other to come out, through
the veins, to the tip of my fingers and wanted to be black and white at
somewhere. In this write up I'm going to talk about recently released Bollywood
movie MDARI-2016. This movie will inspire you to think, it will melt the
frozen part within you, and for politicians this movie is trial.
Madaari
(English: Puppeteer) is a 2016 Indiansocial -thriller film directed by
Nishikant Kamat. It is produced by Shailesh Singh, Madan Paliwal, Sutapa
Sikdar, and Shailja Kejriwal. The film stars Irrfan Khan, Vishesh Bansal, Jimmy
Shergill , Tushar Dalvi and Nitesh Pandey and was released on 22 July
2016.(Wikipedia)
Though
it is not liked by much of the audience but I found something relavent and
something which I like, from the literary point of view this movie is better as
compare to other movies released this year. Like many other movie this movie
too has theme like of #angryyoungman, #curruption, #politics #Presstitution and
many others. There is always a history behind crime and there is always a
history behind every criminal. Plot of the movie is simple and progressive,
though flash back technique is used where the protagonist goes back into his
past- it answers the question why ?
The
movie begins with the figure of speech,
બાજ ચુજે પર જાપટા ઉઠા લે ગયા કહાની સચ્ચિ લગતી હૈ લેકિન અચ્છી નહિ લગતી
બાજ પર પલટવાર હુઆ કહાની સચ્ચિ નહિ લગતી લેકિન સુનને મેં બડી અચ્છી લગતી હૈ.
બાજ ચુજે પર જાપટા ઉઠા લે ગયા કહાની સચ્ચિ લગતી હૈ લેકિન અચ્છી નહિ લગતી
બાજ પર પલટવાર હુઆ કહાની સચ્ચિ નહિ લગતી લેકિન સુનને મેં બડી અચ્છી લગતી હૈ.
This can be said basic story line of the movie. It occurs two times in movie, First time at the beginning and second time at the end...
The
character of Nirmal(unheroic hero)is well portrayed, what he does, why he is
doing, what his purpose behind doing such activity, viewers are not left with
any kind of confusion regarding him. His character is just life half of the
Indian man(just like Balram Halwai- in The white tiger)
The
film presents the helplessness of a common man, and carelessness of those who
are in power. It also presents how the media houses are operated by power- and
its our irony if we believe in what we see and read on our TV screens. In fact
we do not see what we want but we see only what they want us to show.
The
postmodern aspects in the movie are use of various symbolisms, cunning
dialogues, rustic language, common man's point of view, and memory of
Nirmal where his past is stored in fragments, bits and pieces where we
visit time and again through him. And most important the movie has two
alternative ends- but it is not open ended.
The
title of the movie is very significant 'MADARi' it means Snake Charmer-
traditionally they make snakes and monkies dance at his tune. Here Nirmal
plays the role of MADARI, To his tune all those in power dance.
To
conclude this, I remember the phrase from Animal Farm "All animals are
equal" but "some animals are more equal". It has been more than
70 years we are independent and living in democratic country- where all human
being should be equal without any kind of political, social or any other kind
of differences but it is not possible even after 70 years of democracy and
freedom. We are still ruled by uneducated mindless people- where every
everybody do not get equal opportunity- in fact we do not chose whom to vote
but they chose to whom we have to vote. In the same way this movie suggest that
"All human beings are equal in democracy- but some human beings are more
equal".
