Dekh Tamasha Dekh, Hindi Bollywood Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * *
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Dekh
Tamasha Dekh(Hindi) Rating: * * * communal politics and warring religious
communities front this socio-political
satire, which is as such, tone deaf but has enough drama to keep you engaged.
Hindi Film review
Johnson Thomas
Film: Dekh Tamasha Dekh : Ironic and Telling
Cast: Satish Kaushik, Vinay jain, Tanvi Azmi, Sharad
Ponkshe, Dhiresh Joshi, Satish Alekar,Apoorva Arora, Alok Rajawade
Director:Feroz Abbas Khan
Rating: *
* *
Feroz Abbas Khan, the
prolific and noted theatre director who ventured into films a few years ago
with ‘Gandhi My Father’ returns with ‘Dekh Tamasha Dekh’ a socio-political
satire that highlights the demons of communalism and religious fundamentalism.
Based on a play, this Shafat Khan adaptation, works on multiple levels as an
ominous portend of things to come if we allow ourselves to be waylaid by
religion politics.
This film acts as a
pointer to the decay in political discourse today. The over dependence on
aggression and hate-mongering and the conscienceless chipping away at
vote-banks in order to ensure political supremacy. Caught in the midst of this
is a hapless Police officer(Vinay Jain), newly transferred, who has to adjucate
the religious affiliation of a corpse felled by a giant hoarding of
Mitha(Satish Kaushik) , a local businessman and hustler standing for elections
in this volatile coastal township somewhere in Maharashtra. The rabid hindu community wants the body to
be cremated as per Hindu rites while the strident muslim community seeks it’s
burial. The court is drawn into the macabre melee and for want of substantive
proof decides to hand it over to the brother of the deceased, a low-caste
hindu. While riots erupt, the cop manages to steal the body away and hand it
over to the brother who gets it buried, as per the low-caste hindu custom.
Heavy on irony but low
on farce and humor, the plotting also encapsulates a doomed romance between a
hindu boy and a muslim girl (Alok and Apoorva)and casts aspersions on her
mother(A stoic and stunningly poignant Tanvi Azmi) who is the widow of the man
deceased and is deemed to have used her wiles to sway him to the muslim faith.
A historian (Satish Alekar) whose account of history is being burned, tries to
broker sense in the backdrop of confrontational angst while an idealistic
editor(Dhiresh Joshi) is forced to re-examine his values and a constable roams
the streets in search of a bitch who appears to have gone astray.
In an opening that is both loud and obnoxious,
the constable is being instructed by his senior to go in search of the bitch
who got away. Meant to be humorous but pitifully overdone to resemble farce,
this track is the most disappointing and
aggravating of an otherwise lucid and intriguing diorama that is a telling
denouement on today’s politics and politicians. The immersive engagement is due
mainly because of smartly juxtaposed
contretemps which tear-off the masks from the faces, revealing a rot that is
deep seated and bordering on lunacy. The performances are all thoroughly
tangible making the experience that much more intriguing.
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