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A soul satisfying movie after a long time. Jessica’s story has been in the sub conscious of almost every news paper reading ordinary run of the mill , you hit me and I say sorry crowd and of course the couch potatoes who were for once stirred into something other than pressing the next channel button on their telly remote. It was easy to expect the routine tear jerker that everybody has read, heard about. I was surprised.
It ought to be the maturity of cinema development which showed restraint where the Manmohan Desai/Chopra Inc could not have conceptualised. Just when you expected an emotional outburst was a cut clip and a statement of what has transpired. Beautifully done was the deglam look of Vidya Balan and the outspoken, bad mouthing, in your face (that’s what the hot shot journos do) Rani Mukerjee. Some guys could have a problem with vernacular abuses but I and a horde from the Hindi heartland don’t. The narrative is understated and based on facts, which brings to the disclaimer of the story being a mix of fact and fiction. Legal issues could have been a factor but I could not identify the fiction apart from the christening of the characters. Hey, even the villain’s father looks very close to Vinod Sharma, the Minister. Of course the dilemma of a delinquent child’s parents could have been more realistic. However that’s a minor issue considering the gravity of the offence. Not to dilute the efforts of the media to highlight the miscarriage of justice I have to give credit to the makers of the movie for giving credit where it is due. Rang De Basanti happened to be released at the relevant time and was largely responsible for generating the public show of sympathy and demand for a retrial. For a change people reacted and the State responded and the rest is history.
The craft of the movie is appreciable but here it is the issue which needs to be procrastinated upon. Do we a need a Jessica to be killed before our collective conscience is roused into action? And do we need the stimulus of a Rang De Basanti to come to the streets over a blatant injustice? Why is it that we nod in acceptance over the daily and ordinary incidents of corruption which gradually dull our sense of righteousness? The end result of the sum of all this acceptance results into an environment wherein we prepare a world where human life becomes a remote entity. Easy to play with and easy to snuff. This is a way to sure disaster. The movie ought to be an inspiration of sorts. The fight for truth and justice has hiccups and trials of patience but the path is true. Pursue what is right. If we believe in the Devil then logically God is there too.
