Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Is it really Dirty ????

The Dirty picture fails to deliver beyond what the title promises i.e. A Dirty picture. The posters and everything is in Tamil but you may hardly find anything indigenous other than “Nakku Mukka” track which is a symbolic of the 80’s era.
The journey begins on a good note with the early life of Silk where she runs from her traditional home to avoid being married. Silk lands in the male dominated hypocrite society of Chennai where everybody wants to have it but nobody wants to discuss it. Even in Cinemas, male heroes chose meaty roles and scripts revolved around them. There was hardly anything worthwhile for the actresses.
Silk had a bohemian lifestyle; she was neither an optimist, nor a pessimist. In fact she was an opportunist. She stubbornly refused to abide by the existing rules and carved a niche for herself. She gave some real sensuous scenes and there were times when males thronged cinema halls just to have a glimpse of her so called Dirty songs. Such was the enigma of Silk that she could spoil the party of the biggest film critic as well. Director fails to describe or explain the debacle of Silk from one of the top notch item number hottie to an actress without any work. In a sudden scene, Silk fails to deliver a scene and gets into a verbal spat with the Director of the movie. This incident marks the end of her glorious career. How ridiculous!!!!!!
She decides to produce her own film when eternal lover boy of Hindi cinema Emraan Hashmi (Ibrahim in movie) directs a better movie and wins the race. God knows how but he falls in love with Silk and there is a love song even when Silk is in great distress and her house is on the verge of being sold. Our Directors will not show anything depressing in movies because of the age old belief that depressing movies don’t do well with audiences in our nation. Except for the dark circles around Silk’s eyes nothing showed her spiraling downfall and the bad time she was going through. Her unceremonious death was also shown in the wrong light because when I read facts from WIKI it was mentioned that she hanged herself whereas in movie facts were distorted. The movie comes hard on the hypocrite, male dominated South Indian society where actors still rule the roost and there are hardly any worthwhile female centric roles. People love to watch voyeuristic cinema and songs but can’t accept female centric films.
Come on directors; if you really want to depict the sensuality and real life of Silk have guts to show the reality in every scene rather than her cleavage. I would like to appreciate Rajat Arora, dialogue writer of the movie for his impeccable dialogues. Good performances by Naseerudin Shah and Vidya Balan actually gave some life to this otherwise boring movie. Go and watch it if you want to witness a strong performance by Vidya Balan and some earth shaking dialogues by all the characters.

3 comments:

muna 008 said...

I think movie ws running short of tym to show d whole downfall process of silk.it ws basically her loneliness which killed her. i also wonder hw on earth its possible fr Ibrahim to fall in love wid silk.actually Ibrahim was confused...whether it ws love or lust and before he gets an answer,movie ended.

charlatan said...

Very true Muna. Ibrahim's love for Silk was incomprehensible. Anyways, I would term it as distorted presentation of Silk's life facts. We expected a better script.

hari said...

you should watch this:

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html#