Shaym Benegal is a sweetheart from the time I, sorry, we (started watching TV was a group activity then), used to watch 'Bharat ek khoj' with kurta clad Nehru ...and later shyam banagal took me to new heights of adoration after his "mammo"...happened to see this film on one serendipetous afternoon on TV... and realised the lasting effect of a good cinema on ones mind and opinion and so on ....
Last weekend, picked Sajjanpur over much hyped 'Kidnap' and (plz...dont judge me!) 'Drona'..and needless to say I throughally enjoyed it... at prasadz it was like a private screening...in out metros such movies can survive with such medium and small size theatres only... It was less of a movie more of a folk-lore told in a similar fashion. This story touches so many interconnected aspects of our not-so-urban areas and unlike Swades, it gives a full justice to it without being unmindfully preachy about it. Some characters stand out and some shots still bring the smile on my face and make me realise how can the director bring humor in so subtel way.... One such instance was "Baithiyeee Mamaji..!!" ... there was nothing funn about it but it was all adding up. The shot when Ila Arun comes and steals the show is , I think, the high point of the movie. If possible catch this movie with a Bihari on your side, as some words are better understood at that very moment and there are a lot of the words from rural dialect. Omkara tried this and here again we are trying to go back to where the real stories are.
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