Parzania - Notepad

Hi...

I thought the movie was .. well.... the kind that should be made tax free and compulsory watching for all Indians. Having said that, I still feel an element of concern.

The movie closes with the voice over that the Central Government lost the elections while conveniently leaving out that the Government at the state was re-elected .. and that kind of `selective' sharing / rendition of events is present throughout the film .... like you say ..... it is a film after all.. but films that position themselves as `presenting the truth' should, in my opinion, present the facts as completely as possible and leave the interpretation to the viewer. As the film itself portrays .. there is no black and white only shades of grey.

Making the film predominantly from, as you put it,, `the Muslim point of view' is likely to leave a section of the viewers with a sense of disquiet that could, in turn, fan the very flames the movie seeks to show as senseless and inhuman.

As for the `white face' in the movie ... i guess it was a convenient mouth-piece / sutradhar .. i felt that his presence and the forays into Gandhian thought were too superficial.

Well.. once again it is time to pray at the altar of the multiplex trend that makes it possible for people such as us to reach movies such as this ......