The artist and his creation. A wonderful movie, just wonderful. So sweet, kind, touching. Only I didn’t understand, the film is kind of South Indian, but they all spoke pure Hindi, with the addition of English, and the songs are also in Hindi, it is immediately clear. But the actors were YI, that's for sure. Although the director is Bollywood. It seems that the film is still Bollywood, only with South Indian actors.
The story is wonderful. I was tearful. It’s a great theme film that touches on and deals well with the theme of the teacher’s role and the complexities associated with when a student excels. Something this story reminded me of the film "Pride" 1972, with Amitabh Bachchan in the title role. There was a similar situation here. A very talented and famous musician and composer Vikramaditya Singh (Vikram), in one of the villages meets a girl Tina, with an angelic voice, who sings in the local temple. He is fascinated by her singing and decides to take her to the city to make her a star. The girl is 19 years old, trusting and naive, unconditionally trusts her teacher and begins to study at his school. She never studied music, never even saw notes or knew them, and she never held a violin. But she's just a gifted nugget with talent and a sense of rhythm given to her by God. In less than a month Tina surpasses her teacher in everything, record studios begin to chase her, everyone wants to release her album. And Vikram begins to envy her wildly. As such, a girl who never studied music surpassed him, a super talented musician. Such a blow to his ego. He simply cannot survive it, becomes angry and irritable. Tina is forced to leave school and return to the village. That's the plot line. And then there we go. I won’t tell you everything, the film needs to be watched, very emotional and touching to tears.
The chemistry of love in this film is simply hypnotic and fascinating. There was peace and tenderness and incipient trust and even more beyond social rules and meaning. Everything did not go as planned, I think that the characters still did not fall in love with each other, there was only music, love of music, life for the sake of music and the search for a successor. But there was something else, that zest of mixed feelings and emotions. Out of all these situations oozed the unspoken innocence of love. Love is not between a man and a woman, not between a teacher and a student, but rather a platonic love for everything connected with music. Although Tina looked at her teacher with admiring and burning eyes, she sometimes seemed to fall in love with her teacher. But I think the love here was a little different than that of a disciple in front of her Guru, whom she just idolizes. So does the teacher. Sometimes it seemed that he, a man of mature age (he was probably about 40 years old in the film) fell in love with his young student. At least he looked at her with such tenderness and warmth that it seemed that he was now confessing his love to her. But then you realize that love on his part is more like that of Pygmalion who fashioned his Galatea. He created a small masterpiece, brought to light a gifted student and was very happy about it, enjoyed his creation.
The actor who played the main role, Lucky Ali, really liked it. I saw him for the first time (as did all the other actors and actresses, too, except Divya Datta), but he reminded me constantly from one side of Rishi Kapoor (when he was about forty), the same fat, soft, vulnerable. On the other hand - "Bobby Deola" and look, habits and movements, all like "Bobby". Especially the look, right at some points it seemed that I see "Bobby".
The actress, who played the main role, Gauri Karnik, was also "2 in 1", very reminiscent of Kajol, just with all her habits, energy, her slight turbulence, and when she was sideways shown, it really felt like it was Kajol. And moments like Rani Mukherjee, especially when she danced, when she played the violin, when she spoke with breath, just like Rani. In general, such an unusual film. The main characters were composed of several different people.
The tempo of the film is slow, the narrative is calm, despite some tense and emotional moments. The music of the whole film sounds just magical, fascinates from the very first chords. If there is a paradise on Earth, it must be a mountain station near Bangalore with stunning views. They say that Raj Kapoor himself shot the Picnic scene and the song "Oh Mehbooba-Oh Mehbooba" with a triple in a dewy lake, forty years ago, being fascinated by the unearthly landscapes and beauty of these places. I enjoyed this film, it's just bliss for the soul. Glory to Tanuja Chandra for the film!
10 out of 10