No, this is not a dated movie review. Neither is this a rant about how I absolutely adore this piece of cinematic brilliance. This is merely a record of an observation I had made some time back (after having watched the movie, perhaps, 30 odd times), and was motivated to share when I downloaded and watched it one more time a few days back.
For those who have seen the movie, you would remember Aamir Khan (Sanjay), Mamik (Ratan), Ayesha Jhulka (Anjali), Ratan's interest Kalpana, Ramlal ji, Shekhar and his gang of friends, and ah! an overtly fashionable Pooja Bedi, as the central characters in the movie. Not to forget sidekicks Deven Bhojani, Asrani, et al.
Keeping these in mind, it strikes me that there is no woman character in the movie! Yes, there are college-going girls. However, no mothers, no aunts. Moreover, even if you run a glance at the town crowd scenes, you cannot spot any over 30 female in the vicinity. The only exception (which was pointed out by a person I mentioned this to, and I thank her for completing my information) is the scene where Aamir Khan visits business tycoon Thapar's house to return the car keys. There, in the party, one can spot certain middle-aged women eating away at the party.
I just wonder whether this was pure chance. Or, a subliminal message thrown in by the director. Or, some idiosyncratic whim of the director (ala MF Hussain, who never drew a female face as his mother had died during his infancy). One can only wonder!
Well, if the above looks alien to you as you haven't seen this movie... Run! Go watch it! Now!
2 comments:
What!! That is strange man!! But..has to be matter of chance man. I mean, if there were no female characters at all, then yeah, the message might have been quite obvious and the movie not very straight!
MF Hussain??? You saw the movie 32 times and you still don't know the director???
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