Week 9 : Time

Faculty – Jai Ranjit

Date – 28/02/2020

Isn’t that fun when you get a project in which you are told to watch movies and that to those movies which your parents grew watching and then you realise where your parents got so much drama from.

Watching legendary movies like Mughal-E-Azam, Apur Sansar, Hawrah Bridge, Naya Daur and Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi were something that our parents always wanted us to watch and explore because these Bollywood movies made so much sense than what we watch today.

Talking about Mughal-E-Azam, many people find it too long to watch, I somehow found it super interesting maybe because of the project I was looking at it in some different perspective, but that really helped me to enjoy the movie and identify the minute details in it.

Mughal-E-Azam is all about pure romance, beauty and bravery of Anarkali, full of Maa ka Pyaar and Baap ki Rajniti. The first thing that catches my mind in the the film was the elaborated hand painted sets, costume and jewellery which appeared beautiful in the black and white screen. At that time getting such resources was not an easy task and all that effort to make end meets was seen in the movie.

Another think that I loved about the movie was that each sentence made so much sense and meaning. Just a line like ‘Kaanto ko murjhane ka khof nhi hota’ a line from the scene where another girl gets a rose and Anarkali gets stem full of thorns from Salim, she finds the beauty in that neglected part of a flower. No doubt even half a century later, a little bit of Salim and Anarkali are still alive in all of us.