IS Cinema meant for entertainment or message?
If it’s both or either of them, then how many movies are produced to give
either or both in good terms and fashion? For me, cinema is a story telling and
in the format of entertainment. There could inherently be a message or an
incident or autobiography or an imaginative
story. Well, there are indeed several genres of movies, call it comedy, action,
romance, classic, “mass”, “class” etc. All of them loosely coined and there is
always a never ending discussion on what is art movie and what is commercial
movie. Few film makers like Aamir khan, Ashutosh, Sanjay leela bhansali have
already blurred the distinction between them by making good cinema, which
appeals to all sections, ages and groups.
Essentially
the strength of the medium is seldom exploited and in Indian context it is one
more business model, with huge amount of glamour, mafia, and paparazzi
associated. The success rate of Indian movies in general and telugu in
particular speaks volumes about this fact. Who cares? No , we have to bother, as we all discuss, breathe, live, sit , talk,
walk, movies all the time in some form or the other. But unfortunately we can’t
demand good movies as we are always at the receiving end. Few good creative
people do not succeed in the business, as movies is now a primarily business
venture and most good creative people fail there.
The
above 2 paragraphs is important to understand the life of pi, as much as first
30 minutes of the movie is very important to get the sketch of the character,
the sweety pi. The cuteness of the movie is there to see in the very first
frame. Hence this movie is not just an entertaining piece with abundant subtle
messages of life, but an experience by itself. We can’t give any other name to
the movie except calling it an EXPERIENCE.. Such feelings are hardly got in any
movie. This movie doesn’t make u cry or laugh or doesn’t equally match any
known human emotion but surely makes you introspect, think and look inwards.
And all this without one bit boring, no clichés, or gyan of any kind and
absolutely no cheapish humour, no melodrama also.
What
can we say about the movie? Everyone has to experience, right from the
conception in the novel, to the adaptation, to the casting, treatment,
screenplay, use of technology, cinematography, life drama, ooops, just about
everything is perfect. This is a bible, gita, kuran, and all scriptures for
film making. It keeps everyone engrossed for 135 minutes without a blink,
albeit for different reasons to each one.
Among
everything, i even loved the dialogues and my favourite is pi saying that, fear
of the tiger kept him alive. Obviously can’t recollect exact lines but there
are several of them and one should not miss them. IT brings the smile and
laughter in the soul. The boy who played the protagonist deserves an Oscar. The
background music should get the highest award of the land and so should be to
the director, screenplay writer and everyone associated with the movie.
There
can be no better end to the movie than what is shown and no one can be
displeased about this. What normally seems like an exaggeration in the
adjectives used for any praise will seem under statement for this movie. Like
for all movies, please do not get into minute details of logic, as movies are
never meant to be logical. What’s in logic anyways?
For
people who haven’t seen, it’s the story of an Indian boy (who gets his name
very humorously and finds it hard to get everyone convinced) who is in search
of meaning of religion and god and several tough situations in life takes him
into a journey to discover and experience all that. This is what the movie is
all about. See i failed miserably in narrating the story and so will everyone be, who attempts to tell the story or
scenes or dialogues or anything about the movie. Got to see it and EXPERIENCE
IT.. Yes, once in a life time, we get to watch such GOOD movie....
