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I was angry and on the side of hero. Very angry and related to him and intellectually I found what it is about to fight across traditions and bring a change in thought process...how across time, we are forced to give in to traditional thought, no matter how avant-garde we are. That was more of me.
Produced by Tarachand Barjayta, Directed by Hiren Nag, Story and Screenplay by Madhusudhan Kalelkar and Sharad Pilgaonkar (He is Sachin's father). I was barely 2 years old when this film was released.
This story is about a young boy...coming of age Teen, Youngster, who can't stand the idea of being bound in marriage. He feels suffocated at that thought and leaves the place when he gets to know that people are trying to get him married without even asking him as he is such a docile and a good boy, eligible from all angles. Everyone blames him that he broke their trust, but no one even once says, we did not even ask the boy if he wants to get married, we just asked him if he likes Radha.
To me intellectually it was so suffocating that I was revolting and needed a vent. Then I remembered by childhood and all that suffocation, when me too did not want to get married because that is the natural course. And the only way to run from that confirmed end to my existence was keep away from it as much as I can. But eventually as the eldest daughter, I did bow to traditions and got married. Yeah I come from that generation, where without possible cause, girls or boys cannot say, we want to enjoy and explore our life being spinsters or bachelors. Eventually we needed to marry as it was our Dharm. If we refused, we were committing Adharma. So when watching Sachin cringe at his losing independence and hearing everyone blame him, I was all pained.
Compared to that age, we now live in an age, where parents are okay to have their children remain unmarried...though seeing from my mother's eyes, it is still sinful. We cringe at her thought process but that's what it has been...a fight between her traditional principles and our fight on our rights to our shaping of our existence as it makes meaning. That is why a lot of struggles in our family are more on intellectual ground as the stance we took was to beat the regular course and go for NEW thinking which is individualistic breaking traditions...even if it has to hurt our mom's sentiments...as we believed that somewhere there has to be a change...and why not begin at our home. So we became the difficult children to a hapless woman who just wants to be ordinary like all other women of her age with material comforts of extended family. We al;ways were a match to Mom's religious argument and eventually she had to give in and this was her grudge that she had to give in...but it was our grudge too that we had to give in to her demands. So our saga of fight between principles...change acceptance will continue.
Geet Gata Chal was a run away Hit. But if you see it now...you can say its a Classic. Any filmographer will analyse how the story writers blended the new age thinking into traditional thinking, where tradition wins and yet that winning is suspect ...as the boy does not give into elders voice of Dharm and Ethics...the boy gives in as he realizes Her Love for Him and hence the meaning of bonding for him...and all this is shown by removing all Censuring Voices in the story and just keeping people who make him realize meaning of love and yearning; and the girl he left behind.
Now that is what I call subtle story telling...making a commercial success by making traditions win and yet retain something for an intelligent viewer to see modern thinking germinating within an innocent boy who grew up quite independent devoid of family values and who just believed in humanity and individual embarking on his life journey through a gusto for adventure on the way.
I was angry and on the side of hero. Very angry and related to him and intellectually I found what it is about to fight across traditions and bring a change in thought process...how across time, we are forced to give in to traditional thought, no matter how avant-garde we are. That was more of me.
Produced by Tarachand Barjayta, Directed by Hiren Nag, Story and Screenplay by Madhusudhan Kalelkar and Sharad Pilgaonkar (He is Sachin's father). I was barely 2 years old when this film was released.
This story is about a young boy...coming of age Teen, Youngster, who can't stand the idea of being bound in marriage. He feels suffocated at that thought and leaves the place when he gets to know that people are trying to get him married without even asking him as he is such a docile and a good boy, eligible from all angles. Everyone blames him that he broke their trust, but no one even once says, we did not even ask the boy if he wants to get married, we just asked him if he likes Radha.
To me intellectually it was so suffocating that I was revolting and needed a vent. Then I remembered by childhood and all that suffocation, when me too did not want to get married because that is the natural course. And the only way to run from that confirmed end to my existence was keep away from it as much as I can. But eventually as the eldest daughter, I did bow to traditions and got married. Yeah I come from that generation, where without possible cause, girls or boys cannot say, we want to enjoy and explore our life being spinsters or bachelors. Eventually we needed to marry as it was our Dharm. If we refused, we were committing Adharma. So when watching Sachin cringe at his losing independence and hearing everyone blame him, I was all pained.
Compared to that age, we now live in an age, where parents are okay to have their children remain unmarried...though seeing from my mother's eyes, it is still sinful. We cringe at her thought process but that's what it has been...a fight between her traditional principles and our fight on our rights to our shaping of our existence as it makes meaning. That is why a lot of struggles in our family are more on intellectual ground as the stance we took was to beat the regular course and go for NEW thinking which is individualistic breaking traditions...even if it has to hurt our mom's sentiments...as we believed that somewhere there has to be a change...and why not begin at our home. So we became the difficult children to a hapless woman who just wants to be ordinary like all other women of her age with material comforts of extended family. We al;ways were a match to Mom's religious argument and eventually she had to give in and this was her grudge that she had to give in...but it was our grudge too that we had to give in to her demands. So our saga of fight between principles...change acceptance will continue.
Geet Gata Chal was a run away Hit. But if you see it now...you can say its a Classic. Any filmographer will analyse how the story writers blended the new age thinking into traditional thinking, where tradition wins and yet that winning is suspect ...as the boy does not give into elders voice of Dharm and Ethics...the boy gives in as he realizes Her Love for Him and hence the meaning of bonding for him...and all this is shown by removing all Censuring Voices in the story and just keeping people who make him realize meaning of love and yearning; and the girl he left behind.
Now that is what I call subtle story telling...making a commercial success by making traditions win and yet retain something for an intelligent viewer to see modern thinking germinating within an innocent boy who grew up quite independent devoid of family values and who just believed in humanity and individual embarking on his life journey through a gusto for adventure on the way.
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