MITWAA!

An unlikely post, after being off the writing scene for 600 plus days.

Unlikely, also because this is not what I personally “expected” to be my “comeback” post.

Mitwa - this film will be special for the reason that it was the first ever movie that I watched on ,my new cell phone that has a wide 5.5’’ screen with AMOLED display. I must say, a good picture print and added sound quality made my viewing experience a happy one.

Just my 5^th ever Marathi movie, third one with the same lead actor, I approached this romantic film with no prejudices.  Because it was a Friday night, and I have been longing to see a film for quite sometime now and watching it on my new phone was a fun way to do it. From the three times, this is the first time, that I actually got to like the lead actor – I never really connected much with the artist in the first two movies.

Now diving into the movie itself – my take is that it lived upto what it portrayed while being promoted - a love story.  If you had to be critical, you could say that there was no other meat in the movie other than the concept of attraction and love between a man and a woman.

Of course, it is always nice watching a happy love story. The nice part of it was even when you thought that the unhappy end was near, the story turns to an unlikely happy end. And in the last five minutes, you are quite curious to understand – happy end or sad end or, both?

In fact it is a bit of both. What I loved most about the movie is, although in many ways it is “just another love story”, it is a modern day one, that captures the imperfections of today’s modern day love. The difficulties of loving, letting go and holding on - the elements of a very 21^st century relationship. And these were depicted rather well.

But like I mentioned – I choose to have an unbiased take here. In a day and age where everything you say or do is under the scanner, when every action you take is seen with scrutiny, and people are just waiting to form an opinion about you, it is nice to be a little less judgmental. It’s an age where you are may be a celebrity opening up about the challenges you face in life, but people only ridicule you. A large number of people, who don’t even know you, think it is alright to use their freedom of expression to judge you and laugh with the rest. An age where you post a feeling, and it backfires in the most unimaginable ways. The world has becoming so unforgiving, and I thought to myself, “why be unforgiving of a love story – isn’t this just a movie that was made for e entertainment, after all? And not for my judgment?”

A realization hit me before I hit the sack: When we approach things with no biases or prejudices, at least once in a while, we can be pleasantly surprised with the outcome. It can be a refreshing experience from the one you were expecting.  So often in life your preconceived notions, an approach to a person or situation is planned, and we can be very predictive of consequences. The realist says 9 times out of 10, we may be right in our prediction of how things will turn out, about how a person will behave. No, I am not disputing that. But if you give anything or anyone a fair chance just once, having an open mind can let you experience people and situations so much better.   

With this, my prejudice of a perfect “comeback post” just changed. Live and let Live – just got re-stamped in my mind again!

P.S.: I want to thank a friend who pushed me to put pen to paper again and  re-discover and re-associate  myself with a big and important side of me that went into a self-induced coma for 600 days. Thanks to you, my “Mitwaa”– it feels good to wake up from the slumber. J