MADARi movie review

After long time there has been an urge to write something, to check out that it is still alive in me, after reading so much literary history and criticism I'm fed up of reading now it's time to scrutinize what have you learned. Words are bubling in the hemisphere, they are racing with each other to come out, through the veins, to the tip of my fingers and wanted to be black and white at somewhere. In this write up I'm going to talk about recently released Bollywood movie MDARI-2016.  This movie will inspire you to think, it will melt the frozen part within you, and for politicians this movie is trial.

Madaari (English: Puppeteer) is a 2016 Indiansocial -thriller film directed by Nishikant Kamat . It is produced by Shailesh Singh, Madan Paliwal, Sutapa Sikdar, and Shailja Kejriwal. The film stars Irrfan Khan, Vishesh Bansal, Jimmy Shergill , Tushar Dalvi and Nitesh Pandey and was released on 22 July 2016.(Wikipedia)

Though it is not liked by much of the audience but I found something relavent and something which I like, from the literary point of view this movie is better as compare to other movies released this year. Like many other movie this movie too has theme like of #angryyoungman, #curruption, #politics #Presstitution and many others. There is always a history behind crime and there is always a history behind every criminal. Plot of the movie is simple and progressive, though flash back technique is used where the protagonist goes back into his past- it answers the question why ?

The movie begins with the figure of speech,
બાજ ચુજે પર જાપટા ઉઠા લે ગયા કહાની સચ્ચિ લગતી હૈ લેકિન અચ્છી નહિ લગતી
બાજ પર પલટવાર હુઆ કહાની સચ્ચિ નહિ લગતી લેકિન સુનને મેં બડી અચ્છી લગતી હૈ.

This can be said basic story line of the movie. It occurs two times in movie, First time at the beginning and second time at the end...

The character of Nirmal(unheroic hero)is well portrayed, what he does, why he is doing, what his purpose behind doing such activity, viewers are not left with any kind of confusion regarding him. His character is just life half of the Indian man(just like Balram Halwai- in The white tiger)

The film presents the helplessness of a common man, and carelessness of those who are in power. It also presents how the media houses are operated by power- and its our irony if we believe in what we see and read on our TV screens. In fact we do not see what we want but we see only what they want us to show.

The postmodern aspects in the movie are use of various symbolisms, cunning dialogues, rustic language, common man's point of view, and memory of Nirmal  where his past is stored in fragments, bits and pieces where we visit time and again through him. And most important the movie has two alternative ends- but it is not open ended.

The title of the movie is very significant 'MADARi' it means Snake Charmer- traditionally they make snakes and monkies dance at his tune. Here Nirmal  plays the role of MaDAri, To his tune all those in power dances. 

To conclude this, I remember the phrase from Animal Farm "All animals are equal" but "some animals are more equal". It has been more than 70 years we are independent and living in democratic country- where all human being should be equal without any kind of political, social or any other kind of differences but it is not possible even after 70 years of democracy and freedom. We are still ruled by uneducated mindless people- where every everybody do not get equal opportunity- in fact we do not chose whom to vote but they chose to whom we have to vote. In the same way this movie suggest that "All human beings are equal in democracy- but some human beings are more equal".