Just got over watching Mumbai Meri Jaan. Liked the movie and surprisingly enough I put in the category of movies like Crash of Oscar fame and some more (forgive my memory lapse and do get used to it). Interestingly enough, it goes on to show that a movie of social concern can effectively drive home the message without having to indulge in P3P glitter and skin show that enables me to place it a notch above the sizzlers from the Bhandarkar assembly lines.
Off late several factors have curtailed my indulgence into newspapers save for the editorial pages and off late the sports section; for which the appetite like most other Indians is already over. And it doesn’t take a polished brain to understand that it was all about the hype around the Bindrold (Bindra’s gold) and the two bronzes and a missed one making the medal tally an impressive ‘almost four’ in the Beijing Olympics.
Movie reviews are one thing that I have part knowingly and part due to time constraints, stopped reading altogether. Creativity and Criticism are two things that are way too subjective and at the most a movie review can do, is give you a possible perspective of the scores of possibilities. For once I am glad I dint read the reviews and kept considering it a brethren of Black Friday that essentially revolves around the story of the Bombay blasts (the hearing became India’s largest criminal case) and the way the people involved were brought to justice.
This prejudice probably explains a part of the appreciation for Mumbai Meri Jaan, as it restrains from exploiting the visual agony that comes from showing excessive blood and burnt and loose limbs. The ‘two minute’ condolence was moving and was a shot in the arm of humanity and goes on to show the possibility of humanity to co exist with the pace of life.
Off late several factors have curtailed my indulgence into newspapers save for the editorial pages and off late the sports section; for which the appetite like most other Indians is already over. And it doesn’t take a polished brain to understand that it was all about the hype around the Bindrold (Bindra’s gold) and the two bronzes and a missed one making the medal tally an impressive ‘almost four’ in the Beijing Olympics.
Movie reviews are one thing that I have part knowingly and part due to time constraints, stopped reading altogether. Creativity and Criticism are two things that are way too subjective and at the most a movie review can do, is give you a possible perspective of the scores of possibilities. For once I am glad I dint read the reviews and kept considering it a brethren of Black Friday that essentially revolves around the story of the Bombay blasts (the hearing became India’s largest criminal case) and the way the people involved were brought to justice.
This prejudice probably explains a part of the appreciation for Mumbai Meri Jaan, as it restrains from exploiting the visual agony that comes from showing excessive blood and burnt and loose limbs. The ‘two minute’ condolence was moving and was a shot in the arm of humanity and goes on to show the possibility of humanity to co exist with the pace of life.
I am no film critic, lashing out theories on cinematography and camera skills. However, I do feel that Mumbai Meri Jaan sends out a message without being didactic, that violence, terrorism and violations against human rights, all form a circle together, where one paves way for the other, making it a never ending circle. As Paresh Rawal points out, if a Muslim pushes a Hindu, there will be two more Hindus beside the Hindu and there will be three more Muslims standing beside the Muslim and the pushing and bullying continues without end.
As Black Friday sums it up through Mahatma Gandhi’s words, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
As Black Friday sums it up through Mahatma Gandhi’s words, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
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