ये पहली बार नहीं है जब ये फ़िल्म मैं देख रहा हूँ। और ये बात तो खैर और ही है कि संजय मिश्रा जी का मैं कायल हूँ। रजत कपूर सर से तो बात करने का भी सौभाग्य प्राप्त हुआ है।
अनुभव। क्या है ये अनुभव ?
[Again, I've picked a blog from the past and working on it. Date: 25th Feb 2018]
This movie was suggested by my love. He's a straight guy and I happened to confess that I love him and from that day, we share a great bond. He's there by my side whenever I need him and I guess he also shares his thoughts with me (as an extreme introvert, it's rare for him). I fancy if he thinks about me, often. It's about last year when I was not happy with my engineering job which I eventually quit in a month after meeting with him and that was the time when he suggested me a few movies (including Into the Wild) and one of them was this, Ankhon Dekhi. As a connoisseur of movies myself (he's a movie-buff as well), I do not know how I missed this masterpiece. And that's how I got to watch this movie.
It's like mid-life crisis which Bauji (Mishra) is having, I guess, but that's not completely that, it's the experience and experiencing reality which is at the heart of this movie. The meaning of our lives which the innocent Bauji is trying to convey from his middle-class background and experiences is that we should accept any theory which we can experience, if do not experience it, discard it.
This idiosyncratic creature lives in the Shahjahanbad (Old Delhi) in a joint family, with his wife, kids and younger brother & his family. His and his family's collective lives are eventful. When you'll begin watching this movie, you'll know that a heavy dose of drama and laughter is on your way but you'll not be ready for the sensitive turn of events with Bauji's evolving behaviour and attitude towards life.
In the beginning of the movie, Bauji dreams of flying and being cut-off from the worldy ties and in touch with his higher self. But as the movie progresses we see same mundane in-house rifts, his nephew bunking school, his daughter seeing a boy who the family thinks is good for nothing but Bauji agrees for the marriage, Bauji involved in gambling and other things.
The truning point in the life of Bauji happens when he goes to see the boy whom his daughter wants to marry. He sees things himself and agrees and arranges for the marriage. When Bauji comes back home he realises something and that is, he'll only going to agree with something from now onwards which he has see else not. He will not believe in what he cannot see. And that's going to change the life of Bauji and others in the movie.
He snatches newspaper from his brother's hand next morning while doing the morning chores and says, "Sab Bakwas hai ye, khabar nahi hai. Khabar wahi hai jo aap ankhon se dekhte ho kano se sunte ho, sab bakwas hai ye, jhooth hai!" [This is all shit, a news is something which can only be believed if see if from your own eyes, hear from your own easr. This is shit. All lies.]
He insisits people to unravel their own truth. To live their truth and everything else which cannot be experienced cannot be believed hence cannot be accepted. Something which you cannot experience, how it can be true; this is his principal argument. He has started believing in subjective reality. One should believe only what one can experience. Anything which I cannot experience myself, I'll not accept it as truth, he declares out loud.
Everyone is sure now that Bauji has lost it, for he is refusing accepting prashad as it is, he says that it's a sweet (Mithai hai Mithai, he says in the movie). Soon after this, a lot of people from the neighbourhood begins to follow Bauji to make fun of him for Bauji has renounced worshipping and when he says that it may happen that Manmohan Singh may be Prime Minister of India, how does he know that and other things of the same sort which Bauji thinks people have adopted out of their own convenience.
And the upcoming turn of events are going to be the test of family ties, little did any one knew; during this tenure of preparation of his daughter's marriage. He fails to accept something which he hasn't seen, Amsterdam and thus quarrels with the customer while booking flights in the office. He expresses the concern to his boss, who for obvious reasons rebukes him, and due to this ideological clash, he quits the job. It can be seen that he's willing to put everything at stake if his ideology is questioned. An angry wife at home welcomes her husband and meekly, like a sweet cat, Bauji is sitting in the cornet and listens to all the rebuke and reprimand.
Somehow, in his own weird sense of responsibilties and making pact with his ideals he does everything related to his daughter's marriage. And after freeing himself from all his responsibilities he takes his wife for a vacation.
Bas yahi sapna mujhe baar-baar ata tha ki mein ud raha hun, akaash me, panchi ki tarah, gagan ko cheerta me chala ja raha hun, chala ja raha hun. Lekin ye sapna nahi hai, vastavikta hai
I always dream this, that I'm flying like a free bird penetrating the sky, I'm going on and on but I know for sure that it is not a dream but reality.
When he says this to his wife, his wife laughs off at him and says that has he forgotten about his own philosophy that he won't believe in anything which he hasn't experienced. Does he know how birds fly? Because he hasn't experience, how does he know that what he is dreaming, is for real.
We see, that the next day, early morning, Bauji jumps off a cliff and is shown flying. He has realised his dream by expriencing it.
I do not know if someone is going to take Bauji as a nut case or not. But I think his character is saying something to us, a logical statement is made when he says that we should work on experiencing reality as it is and that should be our truth. People's truth can differ for they experience things differently, had it not been the truth then there'll be no storytellers. Don't you think? Some believe in accpeting things out of the worldly experiences and some not.
It's subjective reality. Through Bauji's character, the movie is strongly motivating us to actually live and see for ourselves and experience for ourselves. I don't know if this is my favourite movie because of suggestion by my love but I know that I experienced this movie myself and I believe that it's an amazing movie. I watched it by own eyes, listened through my own ears and experienced the effect of this movie, all by myself.
It's real. And it's my truth.
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