'Mumbai Meri Jaan'

I watched Mumbai Meri Jaan. Its a movie that has tried to capture a section of human psychology.

An idealist corporate, an over ambitious reporter, reborn from her experience to see her own ashes, as she describes it, a confused communal, a frustrated cop, a desperate poor coffee wala and a realist make up the characters that the movie is centered around. The movie is crafted around their experiences with the Mumbai bomb blasts and life in general.

Every actor is perfectly defined, beautifully simple. Everyone has done such a great job.

MMJ shows that human beings are all, ultimately, victims, ironically of each other and their own selves. Describing the movie here would be doing it an injustice, I'd suggest you to watch it and then come back to the post to know what I'm trying to say. It's one of those honest attempts towards making a positive public opinion. I dont know if that was the aim of movie makers, but its definitely achieved.

Of all the characters, Tukaram Patil, played by the unparalleled Paresh Rawal, is the most sensible of all. He simplifies the philosophy of life into watching a movie, but never acting in it. However, he too, towards the end, speculates his life, his rights and wrongs, questions his realism and ultimately displays a desire to have done more, to do more, better, bigger.... Such are humans, always twisted amongst their own justifications.

Such movies make me forget real life. I chant to myself, its just a movie, just a movie, not real life. It's foolish to let such things move me. And yet, a quiet voice inside me says, its not that far from real life either. In fact, real life, is a lot more bizarre.

The movie ends, and yet does not end, symbolising how life moves on, how things that seem to come to an end are actually just transforming into something else. It is beautiful, it's sensible and it's real.

Whatever happens, whatever the drama, I will try to remember what Paresh Rawal says,
"Khali picture dekhne ka, acting nahi karne ka re'
(just watch the movie, no point acting in it.*reacting to it*)