Just when I thought it would not be too bad if Aishwarya gave up movies after marriage, I saw Provoked. Unarguably Ash's best performance till date. I had not even heard of director Jag Mundhra till I saw the movie but he is quite a veteran film maker I found out from the internet.
I liked everything about the movie. The casting was superb. I realized that Nandita Das should do more movies. Also I realized that Aishwarya should be ever thankful to Jag Mundhra who got such incredible performance out of her. Even in Bhansali's movies Ash looked pretty, danced well, and I always felt they gave her the awards for that ! But as I was watching the movie, in the first 15 minutes I knew Ash has become an ACTOR. See, a lot depends on the director. What was Saif Ali before Dil Chahta Hai? Who would have thought that he would steal away the show in Omkara. I am sure he is working hard but I also think the director is still the man. Ash is so fantastic in that movie that I cannot help but praise her. Cautioned responses, perfect pauses, measured glances, excellent dialogue delivery, superb expressions - she was fabulous.
Apart from ASH, the story line is also compelling. Women get beaten up by men all the time, as wives, in slums as also in star houses (Neetu Singh, remember) or as girl friends. As I am writing this I am reminded of that scene in 'Leaving Las Vegas' where the actress Elisabeth Shue (who plays a hooker) gets beaten up by teenage boys. Men and violence can alone be topic for a separate blog. Anyways....have loads of work...
Watch PROVOKED..
3 comments:
Men and violence can alone be topic for a separate blog.
Well written!! But the comment above is relative.
Men and violence can serve as a heated and profound topics of discussions and blogging, but unless women refuse to accept their lesser gender status we cannot go beyond that that.
As long as we accept being fed by a person who has the right to have sex with us whenever he wishes to, just because he has put a red coloured powder on the forehead and thrust some black necklace in front of our relatives, ...we will remain surprised at 'provoked', and woulnd't be provoked, but would might draw a tad bit of inspiration from 'provoked'.
It's indeed sad that our livelihood and identity depends on how the better gender accepts us, and not how we deal with it.
Very well said Koyel. I think so much of what women get is because women ask for it.
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