#####A Monday######

Prelude : see its 12.29 already !! please go on...
Dear Gowri
Well, reading the same novel once again , seeing the same movie all over again , for that matter, reading the text book once again (this should be the first one right ???) makes our understanding much deeper.....and I am not an exception. In fact I have never before seen a movie with so much planning that too for a third time that too with so many other priorities before leaving to new place.....NEver before...even during GUNA which I saw a little more than dozen times and Kaadhal which was just half a dozen....!! I received this movie so well - relatively speaking - with me sitting in front of the screen in my typical yoga erect posture, hands open and receptive above the thighs...as though I am sitting in front of sadhguru for a discourse.....!! Even Anoo could sense the acid in my eyes spilled over her when she moved across the TV screen in her (dis?) graceful slow movement....and did not venture giving a shot back....considering the intensity with which I was watching the movie...I was absolutely still and spoke literally no word....did not try to revind for any missed out dialogue (it was not at all necessary, you know)
Observed both madhoo and Anoo left me alone with my experience....anoo was busy with some chores...while madhoo dozed off within few minutes of the start of the film....
Well, I am putting below few subtle things that I noticed in the film AND few morals / thoughts that came to me during and after the film.....for ......for....nothing...just to vent out and get charged for the next week......!! Hope you understand I am not going by any logic in ordering....big or small....subtle things first and then the morals / thoughts.....and so on....the sentences are as they flow through......!!
(1) the girl (Ladies first.....Pretty girls....first O first) who acted as Naina had depicted an excellent newswoman....The way she got introduced with "this is good....this is good..." on how mechanical (and consciously !!) these girls dress up.....the way she walks upto to the guy to be interviewed....the way she prounces bit too coarsely few of the words just to give a typical reporting style of her creed....the way she utters in a stylish and arrogant manner "who is this ?" when the common man calls her up, the way she revolts in front of IG initially later falling in line...every thing is too good. I like the looks of this girl though it is not so relevant....and particularly was bit touched at the scene when she reconfirms if she heard correctly over phone to common man "did you call me BETE ?".....YES, though the young generations may dress up stylish and look bit out of the world, touch them in right spots, they are capable of receiving the simple and humble virtues....(Hope you dont distort "right spots" and get me correctly !!)
(2) Well, the IG with his simple Pyjama was showing us too many aspects of professionalism in acting.....we discussed most of them when we were together.....But I was observing more and more on the way he walks, turns, speaks and holds the table in helplessness.....and the manner he tells his name AFTER we clearly understand that he has identified the common man....looking straight into his eyes.....
The intense look into the eyes of the common man by the IG made me feel that the individuals in police force was much better than the common man....and though he gracefully (rather without any proof too) left him loose, it was a great insult to the common man that he had been identified.....!!
(4) In general, I felt that the film portrays the brilliance of individuals starting from police till the common man....how the system is some times laughable....(like the police man who comes running out of the police station to take a signature from the visiting inspector.....for maintenance of register)......
(5) Lot of subtle things we were enjoying when we saw the film together, but still I had a feeling that "women" uttered by the boy (hacker) intends to put a guess from our side that it could be a relationship with a senior lady too......he did not say "girls"......!! Am I imagining too much....??
(6) though the camera appears to be very white and blackish.....true to many of the camera men who have asthetic sense (like Madhu Ambat in Anjali)......{Well, do we need this film in colour any way......thats a different question}, my shap eyes could guess that the coffee that N.Shaw was taking was too light (not so strong as I take normally.....and I would be disgusted to share a cup of coffee from his flask) I perceived (or imagined) this a part of his characterization that the common man who does not even take a "strong" coffee.....is getting into such acts.....
(7) Arif Khan in the police dress could have been hugely exploited by the Director.....but how subtly he handles it.....Just two instances to touch upon the religious background....Once when the common man laughs within himself uncontrollably when he hears the name of the police personnel to be used and telling "nothing" to the IG; another one the attempt by the terrorist in the last scene trying to "inspire" the religious sentiments which Arif khan just brushes off with a insulting smile......Well, no "jana gana mana" in the background, not too many dialogues by aarif khan (getting reminded of vijaykanth's famous inspector dialogues......232 schools, 344 hospitals...19700 bedding facility in hospitals..... inspiring roars of claps by our Kudi Makkal !!)...
Leaving things for our imagination and matuity is some thing too nicely done by this new director....He must have been one who was fuming in theatre seeing scores of commercial movie......and I feel this is the way he as a "common" man has responded to his peers....
(8) when the common man goes to the police station for registering a FIR, the way the police man tells the earlier one in front of him "to be quick...people are waiting".....just shows how much these people consider even one person waiting as a "overload" in their work......!! Further, the way he gets irritated with common man when he is bit fast in telling the list of items.....(License thaa.....credit card thaa.....what a nice voice and modulations !!)....and the way the common man repeats the wife's photo once again...not even aware so until the police man tells him about it....showing the deep attachment that a common man has towards his family......!!
(9) the simple and silly manner in which the IG dismisses handling of the "hero's case" with few simple words of instruction....and the way he gets heads ON with Naina on "when did you get the first call"........and the way he uncontrollably slaps the RDX dealer "did I ask you did I ask you"....showing all his rage and upset over the incidents taking the person as his outlet.......!! so much thought has gone behind each and every aspect of the film....NOT just the mainline story, camera, music and dialogues.....To put it in other words, if a human mind (or a team of people) are capable of taking so much care of every little damn things, the bigger things like camera, music, dialogues, actors can be much handled much easier......!!!!isn't it...
(10) Last but not the least, the way the Director has visualised every inch of the story, fortunately or unfortunately, the actual strike in Mumbai got started on "wednesday" within such a short time. (I also recall Kamal's mentioning about "Tsumani" in Anbe Sivam just before we had it as an unforgettable incident in chennai and his humour on "al queda / ulfa...." in dasavathaaram........before the mumbai strikes)
Yes....powerful human minds can bring thoughts into actions in no time......We do have a story of a sivanadiyaar in our sivapuraanam....about "poosalaar Naayanar" who built a temple in his heart so powerfully that Almighty refused to visit the actual temple raised by the local king.....!! We have seen the power of mind and the human potential....earlier in glimpses in few tamil films too ....like the formula of most of the Rajini films which depict rag to riches story....and few specific films like Anniyan, Chandramukhi....and even Indian of Kamal haasan.....!!
The big difference between those films and this one that I saw today was that this is made by a human mind which is above silly commercial considerations and a great heart which cannot get emotional or sentimental for stupid reasons.....!!
Well, here I end...without even thanking the director....whose name too I dont feel like mentioning....and whom I dont even want to honour by uttering his profession (director) with first letter capital and become courteous about the whole thing....
Some times, silence is the way......I am beginning to understand these days.....!!
Thanks for being with me.......
suchoo