The Wheels in Motion
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Some views about this episode...
For me the episode was seething with a
force, words like motion ,energy ,movement, change were racing around in my
mind...ripples and waves were created to break the monotony in the
present stage of Dutta's life who, in the words of Gloucester in King Lear
" stumbled when he saw" ...Also I was reminded of the words of
Pascal ,the French physicist " our nature consist in motion; complete rest
in death...!!
So we behold the pensive Dutta with his sharp moves of shaving a piece
of soft wood into a weapon with a sharp point designed to
maim/damage, he is shifting his internal pressure of energy against his
foe on to his handiwork!!... Naku's request of asking him to place himself on
the chair as opposed to the ground, symbolized her weariness in accepting that
along with other changes in his life, Dutta is also having to live
a life style unfitting a man of his stature... Her moving herself to
the floor highlights either their
initial relationshiplwhen they first met i.e servant /master or the husband
comes before the wife...Dutta's unwillingness to accept both her
motions are grandly shown in the electrifying thrust of the of his
freshly made spear which nails Naku's sari to the door post/wall ...thus
forcefully epitomizing his knee jerk of changing back
to PN without his love Nakku beside him!!
Another moment where movement creates effect is when Dutta expression of
fondness towards Naku gropes for her hand and imprisons it between
his palms...and her sudden, startled move of jerking her hand from his, upon
the approach of Mahadev and Sundari... and Dutta,s gradual move of his
face from Nakku's , as he swallows his embarrassment silently at the
thought of being caught off guard in their tender
moment...certainly unseen waves and ripples were created amongst the
on lookers!
Then comes the move to change Dutta's eye medication... a change we
all welcome I daresay!
Yet follows another move...that of Dutta and Naku moving from their
solitude residence to the colorful ,fabric tented Nomadic village of
Mahadev and Sundari!
The highlight for me is the oscillation
taking place in Dutta, of reverting back to one of the many inherent
strengths of his persona, that of taking a keen interest in the lives of
simple folks around him...his enquiring questions from Mahadev about the day
to day functioning of his people shows us yet again that Dutta is essentially
a people man!!! It is not by accident that he is shown using a
sickle in the start of the episode ... a sickle is a curved, sharp
tool used by farmers to, cut ,thresh their ripened crop at harvest time...
The sickle as we know is also the sign for Communism and Red Star and it
symbolises the Unity of Peasants and workers world wide!...I had already
prepared myself for some big move that Dutta would carry out
today...
Ah yes! he is ready to do his bit ... raise awareness and
self esteem in this simple community of people!! Dutta's intervention in
the Mahadev / Ranga deal is very moving... how he reminds people of
their labour's worth... Dutta empowers the people by his prompt to
them about their existing exclusive
strength they own, that of their knowledge of the handed down by
generations of the medicinal strength of ayurvedics... He repeats to them to move towards acquiring the due
renumeration for their labours...he motions them to value their
worth... He shows his understanding of the general procedures in
place for collecting rural bye products and selling them to urban
traders... Dutta's amazing quiet strength in motivating this people to
be in control of this process of collection, buying ,selling by cutting
the middle man out for greater due financial gain ... not only moves
them towards an ownership of what was theirs in the first place... but
also illustrates another victory for our Dutta when he wins the consensus
of the majority...
Now if this was anything short of a movement, a change, a motion,
a revolution in the hearts and minds of the people, then I don't know what
is???...
And finally, you see the move towards revision of current policy in
place for access to Dutta's power, by a highly strung Sudarshan , and a bemused
but quietly complacent Kala.
Hamlet53~ 28.10.12
ONLY MISHAL IN THE ICONIC ROLE OF DUTTA PATIL!
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Edited by Hamlet53 - 11 years ago
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