Recently I watched the Sonchiriya film on ZEE5. I don't understand why it was an underrated movie, It's a very good movie, I hope you will like it. Sonchiriya starts with a corpse and death ominously stalks almost every one of its frames. It’s in the sound of the bullets, spurting of the blood, in the many, fabulously mounted encounters. Sonchiriya is a rare bird, the metaphorical redemption that everyone is seeking. Apni Apni Sonchiriya, Apni Apni Mukti. It’s ultimately a journey towards finding your bird of salvation.
Chaubey evokes the sense of place by going beyond the arid, stark, larger-than-life landscape. He turns it into a character itself. The sense of place seeps in the Bundelkhandi, the dacoits speak, the risque, and raw humor in the dialogue. It’s in the way they address. It’s in their body language, their mindsets, in their culture and perceptions. It’s in the minutest of details— whether it’s the reference to the guns of the 1962 war or the Special Task Force, the morning cackling of AIR, or Indira Gandhi’s announcement of the Emergency. Then there are nice political potshots that lift it from its specific location and period, to give it a larger universality. It’s like one of the rebels talking about how no one dies from the bullet of the government but by its [false] promises.
Edited by Rajesh8512952 - 5 years ago
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