Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM
There is a scene in the movie “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey” (KHJJS) where the teenage kids try to load bullets into their rifles and they do that painstakingly one bullet at a time. Those were the 1930s, before the era of automatic weapons. True to the spirit of the times, Ashutosh Gowarikar creates a world that transports us to a bygone era in an attempt to tell us a long forgotten story. Unfortunately, his assumption that not just the content but the speed and format of storytelling from the 1930s would work for the current generation with an attention span shorter than the speed of a machine gun totally misfires.
KHJJS tells the story of the revolutionary leader Surjya Sen (Abhishek Bachchan), who along with his comrades inspires a bunch of teenage kids to take up arms against the British in the Chittagong region. Sadly, the mission doesn’t succeed as planned and the gang is forced to beat a hasty retreat into the jungles only to be chased by an unrelenting British army. The way the story pans out, the revolutionaries seem to have achieved very little at the end and the same holds true for the people who made this film too.
KHJJS ends up looking more like a documentary rather than a piece of cinema, the main culprits being the linear characterisation which leaves no scope for any conflict or drama within the characters and the second is the unimaginative use of camera and background music. Barring the Vande Mataram track that plays at the end of the film, no other scene leaves an impact. One can only feel sad for the massive effort the team has put in because the same film in the hands of a more stingy editor and imaginative dialogue writer could have become an instant masterpiece.
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There is a scene in the movie “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey” (KHJJS) where the teenage kids try to load bullets into their rifles and they do that painstakingly one bullet at a time. Those were the 1930s, before the era of automatic weapons. True to the spirit of the times, Ashutosh Gowarikar creates a world that transports us to a bygone era in an attempt to tell us a long forgotten story. Unfortunately, his assumption that not just the content but the speed and format of storytelling from the 1930s would work for the current generation with an attention span shorter than the speed of a machine gun totally misfires.
KHJJS tells the story of the revolutionary leader Surjya Sen (Abhishek Bachchan), who along with his comrades inspires a bunch of teenage kids to take up arms against the British in the Chittagong region. Sadly, the mission doesn’t succeed as planned and the gang is forced to beat a hasty retreat into the jungles only to be chased by an unrelenting British army. The way the story pans out, the revolutionaries seem to have achieved very little at the end and the same holds true for the people who made this film too.
KHJJS ends up looking more like a documentary rather than a piece of cinema, the main culprits being the linear characterisation which leaves no scope for any conflict or drama within the characters and the second is the unimaginative use of camera and background music. Barring the Vande Mataram track that plays at the end of the film, no other scene leaves an impact. One can only feel sad for the massive effort the team has put in because the same film in the hands of a more stingy editor and imaginative dialogue writer could have become an instant masterpiece.
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
IIPM Mumbai Campus
IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri
Kapil Sibal's voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill
IIPM Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri on For Salman Khurshid, it is a big challenge ahead; and I personally look forward to a revolutionary couple of years ahead!
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