Parineeta ...

This saturday, my old friend Anu and myself watched the movie "Parineeta".
It was quite some time since I watch a movie this profound. Indeed I must confess I haven't watched Company nor Yuva, and have been left behind in the malayalam filmdom. So I must be quite and more justified in quoting that Parineeta was a fine motion picture.

One of the best factors about this movie, is that the director successfully takes you back in time and the settings, costume, culture, music, lifestyle and mindset represent the 1960s era.
There are many other aspects. Parineeta is one such movie, where the magic in the air, transends you completely from the current. The emotions portrayed are so subtle, yet so powerful. It leaves you with a certain feeling of nostalgia, which is so painful, yet so cherishable, especially if you have had a taste of love in your life. More so, if one has gone through a surge of emotions at some point.
Such was the state of mind, that we got ourselves a personal copy of the original work translated into English.

A brilliant play of emotions, makes you wonder about the basic fundamentals of all relationships we encounter in life. It might not pass for an art movie in the true sense, but yes it very much is a subject of substance.

The story of Parineeta, is in no way complicated, but is very simple yet powerful.
and definitely introspective. Perhaps Dil Chatha hai or even "Mr and MrsIyer", has so much a complex plot than Parineeta.

The icing on the cake is the music and the rich lyrics of every song. Its quite typical, that one would leave the theatre humming away the song "Piya bole" which is extremely melodious and addictive. There is one sentence in the song, which goes as
"lab to na kholuu.n mai.n kholuu.n na lab toparaa.nkho.n se sab kah diya "
This reminded me of the old song from Shubha Mudgal's album,
"Seekhonaa .. naino khi bhaasha piya".
Aahh ... The power of words and the analogies introduced by poetry always remain incomparable.

A second song, is the one with Rekha singing for us the imminent unanswerable question we ask ourselves at some point in life .....
"kaisii pahelii hai yeh kaisii paheli zi.ndagaanii"
(look here for all the lyrics :http://www.bollywhat.com/lyrics/pari_lyr.html)

Kudos to all the artistes. Sanjay is reassuring, SaifAli leaves you spellbound.Vidya Balan (who is Lolita or the protogonist) is highly cherubic and has definitely made a mark for herself (i feel a lil more proud, as she shares my name ;-)). I am more than glad that she graduated to good cinema from advertisements which cite "Maine mechanic kho engineer bana diya, woh bhi, budget mein".

Parineeta is definitely a "must see". Its a moving story. If you`d like to watch "life like" movies from the old hindi collections such as "anand" or "pyaasa" or kannada or malayalam award winning movies, or even recent ones like "raincoat" you'll adore this one and its not in any way depressing.

http://www.parineetathefilm.com/

Parineeta is quite a Pari-puurn movie.