Dissecting Cyrus
Key things that make Being Cyrus different from most other movies around:1. The director actually spent more time in coming up with the script than in making the movie
2. The movie, for once, trusts the intelligence of the audience and lets them answer a few questions on their own.
3. There is no apology nor rationale given for the extra-marital affairs in the movie. Dimple is no sati-savitri. She has relations with Cyrus and Farookh Sethna, while still caring for Dinshaw. She is in love with the dreamer in Dinshaw( as seen in the scene where he climbs down the well to get some flowers) but she realises that living with him is a totally different proposition. She obviously manipulates Cyrus to do her bidding, but what about her love for Farookh...is it because she wants his property or is it simple cause she is fascinated by him?
4. The ending is not your typical ending. Cyrus/Xerxes does not run away because he is trying to atone for his sins or whatever, he runs away because he wants his freedom and nothing else. Its not about morality, its about being free from all relations and being comfortable with it.
5. First indian movie to use monochrome shots to depict something more than rape scenes :)
There - I have said some of what i wanted to say. The movie is definitely not the best movie that i have seen, nor is it something that remains with me for much after the movie, but the good thing about this movie is that there are no glaring faults with it which make you turn your face away from it in sheer disgust. Nor is it "hatke" or "alag" or "different" just for the sake of being so.
You know how it makes me feel. Like when Arundhati Roy wrote "The God of Small Things". This is a story which when thought of by the storyteller compelled him to tell it to the world. Homi Adajania did not make the movie for the sake of making a movie, he did not create a sappy love story, nor did he rehash a Hollywood also-ran, he made the movie because he had a story to tell. Now, thats what i call refreshing and different in the Indian movie scene. We probably wont hear of Homi Adajania for quite sometime or we might hear of him publishing a book, but thats ok because he made his movie and now wants to tell another story using a different medium. Its his experiment not his profession.
And yes, its unbelievable but i have read reviews for this movie criticising it exactly for the aforementioned reason. Taran Adarsh at indiafm.com says that this movie should be avoided for the very reason that its different. What shit!! Man i cant believe how these people are allowed to guide the views and opinion of a nation of 1 billion. What a pity!
On an unrelated note, i will be making my first real presentation for MS in a couple of days. I will be giving a teeny weeny demo during the keynote speech at the India edition of the Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference( www.medcindia.com) never thought such a day would come but it has... at MS' peril though :). I am sincerely praying to god to keep Mr. Murphy and his laws away from my code. But what this also means is that i will be visiting Bangalore after a helluva long time. Got a ton of people to meet and lots to catch up on.
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posted by Nitish @ 1:29 AM
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