What a treat and refreshment for the eyes, mind, soul and the heart…! Amazing film…simply amazing… great and a simple story full of soul and told even more simply with no gimmicky stuff, no crazy sub-plots, nothing.
When the film was released, I never thought of watching it, but now I realize, what would have been missed. I guess I got lucky as the director of the film Amol Gupte, came to our institute FTII and brought the film along-with him and I among all the students got a chance to see the film here. Hats off to Amol Gupte for writing the film, directing it and doing justice to the "khadoos" character by playing the role himself and making the audience laugh with him, hate him, pity him yet not losing him.
The film is about Stanley, a boy in IV-F who does not gets a dabba for himself at school and has a different excuse daily for that, his friends share the food with him daily but khadoos, a teacher, objects to that as he himself wants to have the food the students get and by doing so he kicks Stanley from class until he gets his own dabba.
Moving towards the technical path… Deepa Bhatia (Editor) did an amazing job while editing the film and was equally supported and enhanced by the background score of the film…its great, it keeps you in it throughout. Camera work was also good, some angles were really unique and different, especially the one (if u hav seen the film u wil knw) where the kids checkout the reflection of khadoos on the back to the tiffin box.
This film tells you and makes you understand one thing that one can never tell how a kids mind will work in any given situation, like Stanley is an orphan, ill-treated by his uncle, survives at school by just drinking water or sharing food, kicked out of class by a teacher, still he never gives up, he has the zest to learn and do things, he has got such a great imagination (u can tel by listeneing to his excuses for not getting his dabba J). Bearing all this he still lives his life to the fullest, strong hearted, street smart…it gives us a lesson that everyone or anyone just requires an opportunity and support and he/she can prove it to the world.
All in all a very very good film, in all aspects, story wise, technically, acting wise, in all possible manners. Great job done…and glad to have seen it.
In the end it also highlights a social issue of child labour, but this post in not about that and I am probably not the right person to talk about it too, we know its one of the biggest taboos of our society which is eating away our country from within and hopefully someday soon we will walk the path of free will to work.
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