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First Take: Bollywood & its portrait of desolation
FirstpostNothing comparable with Shabana Azmi ’s portrayal of desolation in Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar. All we see is the suffering of the trapped soul, his desperation to get out of that apartment where Shourya is locked away far from civilization though not even a road away from the bustle.Unlike other great survival dramas like Robert Zemeckis’ Castaway or Ang Lee’s The Life Of Pi Trapped is set right in the heart of a swarming city filled with people who ….how do we put this politely?….don’t give a duck about the next person. Manoj Bajpayee’s depiction of human desolation in Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh is the best since Jennifer Kapoor in 36 Chowringhee Lane. In the acutely thought-provoking Aligarh, which is about a homosexual man’s right to privacy, Manoj Bajpayee playing the disgraced professor Srinivas Ramchandra Siras, sits alone in his dingy one-bedroom professor’s quarter, with a drink in hand and a Lata Mangeshkar song by his side. The greatness of Aligarh as a cinematic achievement comes entirely from the way Hansal Mehta captures the eerie stillness of protagonist’s isolation.There is no attempt heighten the pathos of the professor’s predicament.
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