Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna was the highlight of today. After reading some extreme reviews about the movie, I was curious to see on which side of the fence I would be after watching the movie. Having witnessed the welcome change in Bollywood over the past some years, I think I will agree with the better reviews. It is certainly a well made movie, with that element of "different" in it (well, for the most part). IMHO if the some unwanted cliches were left out and a couple of songs were deleted, it would have pushed the movie a bit more towards perfection. The movie does a good job of sketching out different types of personalities via the lead characters. It was interesting for me to see the transforming value systems of a society. For all these years our traditions suggested that the institution of marriage is unbreakable. I have seen first hand in the case of many that the two people involved in this relationship never call it quits and cling to whatever they can to maintain it....at what cost and to achieve what....I have yet not figured out. I have also seen first hand the culture in the western world, where this relationship is broken as easily as one changing homes. This movie potrayed both these beliefs in a decent fashion. I have always wondered about the rights and wrongs, the goods and bads, the blacks and whites. It always bewildered me as to which value system is 'better'. On the one hand I have seen people in our country living through hell, trying to keep a dead relationship alive. And on the other hand I have seen the terrible state of society and culture in the western world. We learnt in our pure science classes that the total quantity of chaos in the universe constantly increases, and that every process moves in the direction of this increase in chaos. I believe even our society is moving from a state of harmony (as distressful as it might be) to a state of increasing chaos!
Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna was the highlight of today. After reading some extreme reviews about the movie, I was curious to see on which side of the fence I would be after watching the movie. Having witnessed the welcome change in Bollywood over the past some years, I think I will agree with the better reviews. It is certainly a well made movie, with that element of "different" in it (well, for the most part). IMHO if the some unwanted cliches were left out and a couple of songs were deleted, it would have pushed the movie a bit more towards perfection. The movie does a good job of sketching out different types of personalities via the lead characters. It was interesting for me to see the transforming value systems of a society. For all these years our traditions suggested that the institution of marriage is unbreakable. I have seen first hand in the case of many that the two people involved in this relationship never call it quits and cling to whatever they can to maintain it....at what cost and to achieve what....I have yet not figured out. I have also seen first hand the culture in the western world, where this relationship is broken as easily as one changing homes. This movie potrayed both these beliefs in a decent fashion. I have always wondered about the rights and wrongs, the goods and bads, the blacks and whites. It always bewildered me as to which value system is 'better'. On the one hand I have seen people in our country living through hell, trying to keep a dead relationship alive. And on the other hand I have seen the terrible state of society and culture in the western world. We learnt in our pure science classes that the total quantity of chaos in the universe constantly increases, and that every process moves in the direction of this increase in chaos. I believe even our society is moving from a state of harmony (as distressful as it might be) to a state of increasing chaos!
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