And then every morning I think of a new beginning when in
deep of my hearts, I know there is nothing such to begin with. Where we are so
engrossed in resolving our small trivialities we often come across the harsh
realities like #udtapunjab and overlook them to again let our regular chaos
overtake the big issues.
I am in a regular boring meeting when I am writing this,
people talking and laughing over irrelevant stuff around, discussing over their
sunday vows and shopping tales, waiting for the meeting to begin, I just looked
at each face for a moment and even heard some talking about the abrupt ending
of the movie I watched the previous day. Although among too many informal
meetings and ‘hellos’ to the irrelevant people on a busy Sunday, I didn’t get
time to go deep inside the cruciality of the matter I came across yesterday,
yet I couldn’t get the film and the character out of my mind for a moment. The
most apparent reason for this could be ‘I
am from the same state’ damn man! That’s right. And a thought about it
leaves me drained to the deep inside.
Over the reviews with such an earnest desire, I made plan
with a friend on Saturday itself and so we reported on time for the show. We heard
pre-views of the ramblers outside the cinema hall, some of them were already
feeling gauche due to the overrated reviews regarding the foul language used in
the film. All right guys!!! There is
no foul language in the film first because that is something very common in the
‘sacred’ Punjab. Pun Intended. People
actually talk like that here and I can assure being the native. I am still not
getting something the censor board wanted to put a ban on. I actually went
through the list of 94 effective cuts censor board proposed before the movie
release and felt scared of the left out cinema I were to watch if this would’ve
happened in actual. The censor board wanted to take away the reality of the
characters to leave it to no other than a commoner.
The script is woven with characters so intricately that you don’t
feel any stardom like while watching the film. You just feel that you are
roaming in the streets of Punjab and moving with the lives of the four
characters fighting and trying to understand the system and its faults. You feel
helpless at many times when you see a migrant girl from Bihar gazing at a
street hoarding to lead her fantasies about the holiday at Goa more engraved.
She thinks that a perfect life. You feel determined with Dr. Preet Sahni and a
regular inspector Sartaj to welcome a change by bringing the issue in limelight
and helping the state to get rid of the drug menace. You feel empathize with
Tommy Singh when he portray as someone who didn’t have any idea of the
influence he had made over million lives and ruined them over times. You just
feel to become the part of their journey. You just feel helpless about the
abrupt ending of the movie but somewhere knows that it’s the real Punjab, where
issues like that have been discussed and given a full stop just like that.
This took me almost half the day when meetings are over,
works done, promises made, food eaten, stories shared, reviews shared but the
question is still the same- Where and
when will the change happen? When and how will we put a stop to our regular worries
and realize the gravity of the issue?
Its time for the change. Be the part of it. Support the
cinema like #udtapunjab.
