Madras Cafe: My review
Director Shoojit Sircar made an excellent movie in the back drop of Sri lankan civil war. This movie made me feel deeply connected to the scenes and made me rethink on things generally taken for granted.
I had been seeing, reading, listening about the Eelam struggle since early 80's this might be one of the reasons I instantly got connected to the movie.
During and after the movie, I was involuntarily thinking about..
- Ideologies vis-a-vis innocent civilians
- Foot soldiers vis-a-vis top brass
- Human desires, emotions Vis-a-vis system, its fallacy and exisitance of a country
- Shock-waves set after moves made by phantom capital forces
Albeit I know its a movie, watching it is more like a NatGeo documentary. I felt an emotional upsurge on multiple scenes of the movie. Screenplay at times, shook my thought process. Made me think in the lines of ... how connected we are in this global world, how petty human life is, how few powerful people run these geo-politics, how Capital-polity-intelligence community- media-security forces-human life are tightly intertwined.
Did I like the movie ? I do not know. Do I want to watch the movie again? No. Is the movie made well? Damn good. It has shaken my conscience like a good book.
Conclusion: Cinema is still a very powerful media. I felt, this movie has raised the bar of "quality of movie" in Bollywood.
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